Explore Miracle In The Hills Invented By Mary T. Martin Sloop Available In Paper Copy

memoir about life in earlythcentury North or was it South Carolina, A little slow at the beginning, but the tone of the woman whose memoir it is is quirky and hilarious, I really liked this story! This courageous couple set outyears ago and through sheer grit vastly changed and bettered the life of everyone in their remote part of North Carolina.
A fairly poorly edited story about some very amazing people, True grit, leadership, faith, and persistence,

Marvelous account of dedicated doctors bringing good medical practice and opportunities to a rural NC hill community, Full of interesting people and honest but no whining about the many challenges, The tale starts with her efforts to become a doctor, then marrying, then creating a clinic and then school, Written in first person it has a lot of "and this happened and this happened, " I found this a little annoying however the story is so interesting that I could overlook the style, This is the true story of Dr, Mary Martin Sloop and her husband who dedicated their lives to the mountain people of North Carolina in the early's, They went to this area at first to provide medical care to the underserved area and found themselves doing much more than that, Their efforts resulted in running out moonshiners, building a modern school, teaching the people how to farm, as well as building a church and better roads.

The book was very interesting and gave me a better understanding of what life was like during this time in rural areas, but most importantly it taught me that one person really can make a lasting difference in this world.
This book is fascinating, but a little slow in the beginning, Once you get past the first few chapters it's easy to get sucked in to a point where you can't put it down, Of a certain time, still going, Connections late and early. Some family mention, back when, This book was terrible. Whoever edited this needs to go back and do it over and over again, The typos were so distracting that I could hardly focus on the story, and when I could, the theology was just as bad, Not to mention the fact that these people said they were missionaries, but they didn't really do any evangelizing, Most of the book was spent focusing on THEIR medical practices and THEIR accomplishments, That doesn't fall into the category of 'missionary' for me, Dr. Sloop and her husband began their lifelong dedication to the mountain people when they rode horseback into the remote hill region of North Carolina in, The conditions they encountered were shockingly primitive, The people had neither doctors,nor schools and were suspicious of medicine and "larnin', " Electricity and running water were unheard of, roads were rough mountain paths and the diet consisted of "hog meat, greens and grease, " The main industry was moon shining,
Dr. Sloop declared a personal war on moonshiners, tracking down hidden still with a reluctant sheriff in tow, She fought against child marriages and in a region where girls often married at the age of fourteen, With the help of the mountain people, she reinvigorated the weaving trade, built a church and a modern well equipped hospital, Her spirited support of education resulted in a modern twentyfivebuilding school, I grew up hearing a lot about Dr, Sloop and her husband because my family is from Avery County, I loved reading about them becoming small town mountain doctors and growing the community of Crossnore into what it is now today, Excellent read! This is an autobiography of the life of Dr, Mary Sloop and her husband also Dr, Sloop and there life in the mountains of North Carolina, Dr. Sloop speaks of all the advancements that they helped come about in the town of Crosnore such as electricity, higher education, better medicine, agriculture and many more things.
The life of this woman is very amazing, This book is not like any other biography that you have ever read, I was hooked on the first page, I laughed and cried and was amazed by the wonderful mountain people in this book, A must read for anyone, Told in the first person, this little history of a little town and its most interesting citizens is quite a gem, You're bound to learn something you didn't know, Dr. Mary Sloop through stamina and a will of steel, founded Crossnore school in the North Carolina mountains, It was the turn of the century when Mary and her husband, both doctors, settled in Crossnore and began a medical practice, Mary decided that the children there must have education, eventually resulting in a huge boarding school complex an amazing feat, It is still used today and is considered an excellent school for children with problems, I'm not sure

how interesting this book will be to those who do not know about Crossnore School, I live about an hour's drive from there, so found the story fascinating, A beautiful narrative on a life of service to others, One of the best reads offor me! Memoir/biography the Doctors Sloop, their medical practice, and the founding of Crossnore schools at Crossnore, Avery County, North Carolina, coveringyears until.
Any book that mentions Mount Holyoke is a fine one in my mind! But, even had it not, this small book recounts a great woman who changed a lot in just one corner of the world as a doctor and educator.
She is quite inspiring, seeing what needs to be done and not allowing any obstacles to stop her, I loved, too, the colorful tales of the mountain people she encountered and worked with, Definitely and enjoyable book. I cannot believe this book was published in the earlys, This woman should be taught about in schools so forward thinking, She was really an inspiring and progressive individual,
This does read more like an interview than a story but its truly fascinating to learn about the “mountain people” of the earlys and how progressive they became.
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