The Heart of Happy Hollow

The Heart of Happy Hollow features sixteen short stories that provide rare glimpses into the lives of African Americans after the Civil War. Through characters ranging from schemers to preachers, Paul Laurence Dunbar crafted a rare snapshot of long-lost communities and their poignant sensibilities.An author who achieved remarkable versatility, he draws on language that is by turns folksy and formal, putting forth controversial vernacular dialects as easily as he delivers a hauntingly poetic scene. In this collection, readers meet an influential entrepreneur who must navigate a treacherous political landscape; a Southern spiritual leader who must learn to accept the mores of his son, who was educated in the North; a reporter who restores hope in Santa Claus to a A Collection Of Stories The Scapegoat One Christmas At Shiloh The Mission Of Mr. Scatters A Matter Of Doctrine Old Abe's Conversion The Race Question A Defender Of The Faith Cahoots The Promoter The Wisdom Of Silence The Triumph of Ol' Mis' Pease The Lynching Of Jube Benson Schwalliger's Philantropy The Interference Of Patsy Ann The Home-Coming Of 'Rastus Smith The Boy and The Bayonet