Out of the Black Patch : : the autobiography of Effie Marquess Carmack, folk musician, artist, and writer / / edited by Noel A. Carmack and Karen Lynn Davidson.

• Superior document: Life Writings Frontier Women
• Author: Carmack, Effie Marquess, 1885-1974.
• TeilnehmendeR: Carmack, Noel A.,; Davidson, Karen Lynn,
• Place / Publishing House: Logan, Utah : : Utah State University Press,, 1999.; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 1999
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Life Writings Frontier Women
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (398 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Effie Marquess Carmack (1885-1974) grew up in the tobacco-growing region of southern Kentucky known as the Black Patch. As an adult she moved to Utah, back to Kentucky, to Arizona, and finally to California. Economic necessity primarily motivated Effie and her husband's moves, but her conversion to the Mormon Church in youth also was a factor. Throughout her life, she was committed to preserving the rural, southern folkways she had experienced as a child. She and other members of her family were folk musicians, at times professionally, and she also became a folk poet and artist

Table of Contents

Contents; Foreword / Maureen Ursenbach Beecher; Preface; Introduction; 1. Pictures of Childhood; 2. Ponderous Milestones; 3. Raised in a Patch of Tobacco; 4. A One Horse Religion; 5. Dear Home, Sweet Home; 6. Bitterness and Sorrow Helped me Find the Sweet; Epilogue: The Outskirts of a Desert Town; Appendix One: The Song and Rhyme Repertoire of Effie Marquess Carmack; Appendix Two: Things to Accomplish; Appendix Three: Henry Edgar Carmack; Bibliography; Index