My Life in Brasstown by Eleanor Lambert Wilson

In her retirement, she has traveled abroad and frequetly visits her four children and six grand children. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for MY LIFE IN BRASSTOWN: AN APPALACHIAN MEMOIR By Eleanor Lambert Wilson at the best online prices at eBay Free shipping for many products Skip to main content. Ellie Wilson divides her time between the farm in Brasstown and her home in Kentucky. Ellie attributes her love of people and of life to having interacted with a wide variety of people through her many activities in Western North Carolina. Ellies enduring sense of wonder and love of God make her a joyful student of the Bible.Now semi-retired, she lists among her hobbies 'learning new skills and appreciating them in others,' no doubt an indispensable quality for a grandmother of six. In 1955, she and Monroe were founding members of Hayesvilles Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. Rare Eleanor Lambert Wilson / My Life in Brasstown An Appalachian Memoir 1st ed 2009 - Fairview: Bright Mountain Books, 2009. Her spirit of advocacy led to her involvement in establishing several community service agencies. She received a masters degree in non-school counseling in 1979. During their marriage of fifty years, they raised four children: Danny, Anne, John, and Florence.Ellie honed her listening and writing skills while employed as a teacher, social worker, and psychiatric counselor. After World War II, Ellie married Monroe Wilson, with whom she had fallen in love at the Folk School, and in 1949, the Wilsons bought a dairy farm in Brasstown. Campbell Folk School in the tiny Appalachian community of Brasstown, North Carolina. Her sense of adventure led her to leave the conventional society of her youth to take a job at the John C. Eleanor Lambert grew up on Long Island and graduated from Vassar College in 1941.

My Life in Brasstown by Eleanor Lambert Wilson