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Cold Sassy Tree by Olive Ann Burns
Monday, April 15 through Friday, May 17, 2024
Read by Karl Schmidt.
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around—fast. When Grandpa Blakeslee announces one July morning that he’s aiming to marry the young milliner, Miss Love Simpson—a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward—the news is served up all over town. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and follows its progress with just a smidgen of youthful prurience. A timeless, funny, resplendent novel – about a romance that rocks an entire town, a boy’s passage from childhood into adolescence, and how people lived and died in a small Southern town at the turn of the century.
(Mariner Books; ISBN-10: 0618918716)
Theme: “Miniatures”, Williams Grant Still for flute, oboe and piano, Crystal Records
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Latest Episodes
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Cold Sassy Tree 15 of 25
Will faces repercussions for telling an outrageous lie about Aunt Loma. Will’s daddy, Hoyt, decides to take Mary Willis on a business trip to New York City, but there’s a […]
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Cold Sassy Tree 14 of 25
The battle lines have been drawn in Cold Sassy — between those who like Miss Love and those who would like to see her run out of town. Predominate in […]
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Cold Sassy Tree 13 of 25
On the ride home with Miss Love’s racehorse, Will fabricates a ridiculous story to divert his friends’ attention away from talk of Miss Love and Grandpa Blakeslee.
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Cold Sassy Tree 12 of 25
Grandpa Blakeslee sends Will to pick up a horse for Miss Love. The trip involves a night for camping with his friends.
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Cold Sassy Tree 11 of 25
Following Mr. McAllister’s departure, Grandpa Blakeslee decides to put the cowboy’s “wedding gift” of a silver saddle to good use.
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Read by Jim Fleming.
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