IV Biscuits’ Enunciation: Mama Keeps the Rules
BISCUITS IV: ENUNCIATIONAudrey Ward Illustration by Elizabeth Whybrow LeedsA Biscuits’ Lesson on Enunciation from young Audrey, the voice of Hidden Biscuits: Mama Keeps the Rules. “Down a liberry’s wher a foun it…” Now don’t those words look as if they’d sound all soft and sweet? When I say them, I think...
III Biscuits for Fred Brenning Craddock: 30 April 1928 – 6 March 2015
III BISCUITS FOR FRED BRENNING CRADDOCK:30 APRIL 1928 to 6 MARCH 2015Audrey Ward He saw through our pretensions, compelled us to go deeper,and used small words and stories to deliver stunning revelations.Dr. Fred Craddock, born on a farm in East Tennessee, came to inhabit theworld of higher education with astonishing...
ll Biscuits to Live By
BISCUITS TO LIVE BY Audrey Ward As I explored in Hidden Biscuits…tales of Deep South revivals told by heart, many of the Appalachian people of the Deep South “got free” in the Spirit when they were in the church and gave themselves over to a language of their heaven. As a child...
I. BISCUITS TO GROW ON
Audrey Ward My memoir (Hidden Biscuits…tales of Deep South revivals told by heart) tells of a late 1940s–50s childhood traveling in an 18’ trailer through the Deep South. Running water? No, unless you count the creek that ran alongside some red dirt roads. Electricity? We did park next to the church and...
