THE MASTER OF SCARE HOLLOW

by Manly Wade Wellman ‧ RELEASE DATE: Aug. 19, 1964

19-year-old Gideon Hunter carries his carpetbag of books and clothing into Scare Hollow, a valley in the North Carolina mountains, in 1882. His boxing enables him to begin teaching in the community which had seen its last three schoolmasters run out of town. Much bad feeling in the town can be traced to a feud between two local families, each of which had fought on opposite sides in the Civil War. Fire in the school, skulduggery in transfer of a deed, and the joint raising of a new school building combine excitement with examples of good teaching under conditions that would be appalling today but were common in that era. Vintage librarians (like vintage reviewers) will be reminded of the still in-print and circulating Hoosier Schoolmaster by Eggleston or Jesse Stuart's autobiographical Thread that Runs so True. The period setting allows an excellent frame for the ideals of teaching to be put across in a way acceptable to an audience of boys.

Pub Date: Aug. 19, 1964

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Page Count: -

Publisher: Ives Washburn

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Aug. 1, 1964

Categories: FICTION