Chinaberries and Beyond: A Teacher's Childhood Journey

Patricia is born during WWII when racial segregation is a way of life, particularly in the south. A few years earlier in the small cotton mill town her father's poor judgment forces her parents and eventually their eight children to live in a crude, unpainted, three-room dwelling located in an isolated area of four houses for African Americans. They have no electricity or running water, and a stonecovered spring in the woods becomes a special place for mischief. A single tree, a chinaberry,...