Book description
While Olivia deBelle Byrd was repeating one of her many Southern
stories for the umpteenth time, her long-suffering husband looked at her
with glazed over eyes and said,“Why don't you write this stuff down?”
Thus was born Miss Hildreth Wore Brown-Anecdotes of a Southern Belle. If
the genesis for a book is to shut your wife up, I guess that's as good
as any. On top of that, Olivia's mother had burdened her with one of
those Southern middle names kids love to make fun. To see “deBelle”
printed on the front of a book seemed vindication for all the childhood
teasing. With storytelling written in the finest Southern tradition
from the soap operas of Chandler Street in the quaint town of
Gainesville, Georgia, to a country store on the Alabama state line,
Oliviade Belle Byrd delves with wit and amusement into the world of the
Deep South with all its unique idiosyncrasies and colloquialisms. The
characters who dance across the pages range from Great-Aunt LottieMae,
who is as “old-fashioned and opinionated as the day is long,” to Mrs.
Brewton, who calls everyone “dahling” whether they are darling or not,
to Isabella with her penchant for mint juleps and drama. Humorous
anecdotes from a Christmas coffee, where one can converse with a lady
who has Christmas trees with blinking lights dangling from her ears, to
Sunday church,where a mink coat is mistaken for possum, will delight
Southerners and baffle many a non-Southerner. There is the proverbial
Southern beauty pageant, where even a six-month-old can win a tiara, to
a funeral faux pas of the iron clad Southern rule-one never wears white
after Labor Day and, dear gussy, most certainly not to a funeral. Miss
Hildreth Wore Brown-Anecdotes of a Southern Belle is guaranteed to
provide an afternoon of laugh-out-loud reading and hilarious enjoyment.
While Olivia deBelle Byrd was repeating one of her many Southern stories
for the umpteenth time, her long-suffering husband looked at her with
glazed over eyes and said,“Why don't you write this stuff down?” Thus
was born Miss Hildreth Wore Brown-Anecdotes of a Southern Belle. If the
genesis for a book is to shut your wife up, I guess that's as good as
any. On top of that, Olivia's mother had burdened her with one of those
Southern middle names kids love to make fun. To see “deBelle” printed
on the front of a book seemed vindication for all the childhood
teasing. With storytelling written in the finest Southern tradition
from the soap operas of Chandler Street in the quaint town of
Gainesville, Georgia, to a country store on the Alabama state line,
Oliviade Belle Byrd delves with wit and amusement into the world of the
Deep South with all its unique idiosyncrasies and colloquialisms. The
characters who dance across the pages range from Great-Aunt LottieMae,
who is as “old-fashioned and opinionated as the day is long,” to Mrs.
Brewton, who calls everyone “dahling” whether they are darling or not,
to Isabella with her penchant for mint juleps and drama. Humorous
anecdotes from a Christmas coffee, where one can converse with a lady
who has Christmas trees with blinking lights dangling from her ears, to
Sunday church,where a mink coat is mistaken for possum, will delight
Southerners and baffle many a non-Southerner. There is the proverbial
Southern beauty pageant, where even a six-month-old can win a tiara, to
a funeral faux pas of the iron clad Southern rule-one never wears white
after Labor Day and, dear gussy, most certainly not to a funeral. Miss
Hildreth Wore Brown-Anecdotes of a Southern Belle is guaranteed to
provide an afternoon of laugh-out-loud reading and hilarious enjoyment.
