Seeking a future, the Carter families move from their bootlegging home in the mountains to middle Georgia. By 1946, they expand their enterprises to include murder, bootlegging, cattle rustling, election fraud, and interracial affairs. Revenge for attempted rape is best served up by two women: "-they'll git in his hay. Atter they git paid, you and me, we'll git him back. We'll light a Lucifer to his hay barn. That'll learn him." Filled with loneliness and hunger for love, Penny, at fourteen, uses her sexuality to satiate the hungers and generates problems for herself and her family. The men reach for the top rail, unmindful of what or whom they step on-neighbors, benefactors or strangers. THE BOTTOM RAIL's characters are as decadent as Faulkner's Snopes family and as driven as Flannery O'Connor's.

This book is a collection of articles Susan Myrick wrote over the years about her friend Peggy Mitchell and Gone With the Wind, both the book and the movie, and contains three feature articles about survivors of the War Between the States. The title article was prepared in 1983 by the editor from Sue's diary and from her notes on an article she had begun. Except for the title article, the stories about Mitchell and GWTW are given in chronological order. There is some repetition, especially in the two reviews of Richard Harwell's book Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind Letters. All articles are included in full because, in spite of the repetition, each one stands alone and contains some information written (or delivered) for different audiences.

Lindsley puts forth a classic book of Christmas poetry in this illustrated collection. Family friendly reading includes "A Deer with Funny Feet and 20 other poems to brighten anyone's holiday.

Susan Myrick was the technical consultant to preserve the authenticity of the Southern culture in the making of the movie "Gone With The Wind." This book reveals the Susan Myrick that she hid from the world and recorded only in her diary. You will feel her anguish at the loss of love. You will feel her own fear at the prospect of having to face down David Selznick over the realities of the South's customs, agriculture, and other matters. You will also get a look into the private letters she wrote Peggy Mitchell, and learn about her ever-changing opinions of Hollywood personalities...and learn about the behind-the-scenes activities on the GWTW set.

Myrick Memories brings together in happy harmony the voices of four sisters, Tippie, Sue, Allie and Lilas who tell the family stories of life in rural middle Georgia in the first half of the 20th Century. Although each of the sisters were prominent in their community and made an impact on education and medicine, Sue Myrick became the best known throughout the state and beyond as a journalist with The Macon Telegraph. These stories are reminiscences of simpler days long gone, yet they strike notes that sound faintly familiar to many generations of Georgians. -- Mary Ellen Brooks, Rare Books & Director, Emeritus, Hargrett Library, University of Georgia. Sue Myrick was a consultant in the filming of "Gone With The Wind."