Oh! Ye Jigs and Juleps

Lee Hadden writes: “Virginia Cary Hudson was only ten years
old in 1903-1904 when she wrote a series of essays of her life. One of
these essays was on the local public library.
These essays were collected by her teacher in an Episcopal boarding
school, and turned eventually into a book published in 1962, entitled “Oh!
Ye Jigs and Juleps.” You can read her essay on the public library and enjoy
life and people as seen through the eyes of a pre-adolescent at
turn-of-the-century America. Hudson had “a refreshing lack of reverence”
for life around her.
Read more about it at: Here, The Library is covered in Chapter 7

September 11, 2003 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. Anonymous Patron says:
    September 11, 2003 at 11:17 pm

    Virginia Cary Hudson
    I’ve always loved this little book. Virginia’s father was with the railroad, and for a while, they lived in Cloverport, Kentucky, where she was a childhood friend of my grandmother’s. My grandmother had a copy of ‘O, ye Jigs’ and would often tell us about the mischief the two of them got into ‘way back when’.

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