{"product_id":"cabins-in-the-laurel-9780807843284","title":"Cabins in the Laurel","description":"In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley -- an isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains. Sheppard began visiting her neighbors and forming friendships in remote coves and rocky clearings, and in 1935 her account of life in the mountains -- \u003ci\u003eCabins in the Laurel\u003c\/i\u003e -- was published. The book included 128 striking photographs by the well-known Chapel Hill photographer, Bayard Wootten, a frequent visitor to the area.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe early reviews of \u003ci\u003eCabins in the Laurel\u003c\/i\u003e were overwhelmingly positive, but the mountain people -- Sheppard's friends and subjects -- initially felt that she had portrayed them as too old-fashioned, even backward. As novelist John Ehle shows in his foreword, though, fifty years have made a huge difference, and the people of the Toe River Valley have been among its most affectionate readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new large-format edition, which makes use of many of Wootten's original negatives, will introduce Sheppard's words and Wootten's photography to a whole new generation of readers -- in the Valley and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSheppard, Muriel Earley:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Muriel Earley Sheppard (1898-1951) was born in Andover, New York. She is also the author of \u003ci\u003eCloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50328626626834,"sku":"9780807843284","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_7c48937a-726e-4574-b33c-143a3c9e0b3e.jpg?v=1727745962","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/cabins-in-the-laurel-9780807843284","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}