Publisher Description
Matchbox Mountain is a collection of stories told by the author about one year in her life in 1952 when she was ten years old. Living in the mountains of western North Carolina in a house with no electricity, no running water, and no close neighbors, the author shares stories of how she and her siblings made their own world with little but creativity.
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About Amy Ammons Garza
Amy Ammons Garza is a native of Jackson County, North Carolina. The storyteller in a duo known as the Ammons Sisters, she tells mountain stories while her sister spontaneously illustrates them. The two are cofounders of Catch the Spirit of Appalachia, Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping heritage alive through the arts by conducting workshops within the schools.