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New Fire From Ashes by Roxie Milam Wallace

New Fire From Ashes

Growing-up on a Southern Farm

by Roxie Milam Wallace

Pages: 274

Dimensions: 6 x 9

Category
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY - Historical

Type : Paperback

ISBN : 9781545621912

Price : $17.49


Recounts the experiences and beliefs of Roxie Milam Wallace as she grew up in the Mid-20th Century, revealing the obstacles she had to overcome due to a tragedy her father faced before she was born. Additionally, it displays the good to be found in the old ways of living before progressive technology changed everything about living in the USA.

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About the Author
Roxie Milam Wallace was born and reared in Decatur County, Tennessee. After graduation from Decatur County High School, she moved to California. While there, she attended a satellite of the University of Southern California at La Crescenta. After three years, she returned to Tennessee and studied at Memphis State University, earning a B. A. degree in English and Spanish in 1968. Later, she received both a masters’ degree and a doctorate in Educational Supervision and Business Management from the University of Memphis. Dr. Wallace taught in the Memphis City Schools System’s Special Program for Intellectually Gifted Students (CLUE), and as an adjunct instructor at the University of Memphis, retiring after thirty years.
Today, she lives in Memphis, Tennessee with her husband Roger Holder. She likes to visit with her sons, Lee, Jeffrey, and Chip Wallace and do things with her relative, adopted, and bonus grandchildren who live in Tennessee, Mississippi, and Florida. She enjoys: being active in church work at Berclair Baptist Church, writing (articles and musical concert reviews), gardening, reading, and going thrift-store shopping.

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