During the post-great Depression and pre-and-post World War II years, Sylvia Nickels lived a nomadic life, along with her seven brothers and sisters. Their sharecropper father moved the family from one tenant farm to another in rural Georgia and Alabama. She recounts with a light touch the years of deep poverty, with their mix of joy and sorrow, which forged an enduring bond between the siblings. That they not only survived, but thrived, she credits to the bedrock support of parents and extended family.
_Sylvia Nickels paints a vivid portrait of family life during the depression. I highly recommend Eight Miles of Muddy Road._
—Donna Alvis, Editor publisher The Puzzler
_Sylvia Nickels’s stories of growing up in rural Georgia tap into a universal theme, the connection of family and home which stays with us throughout our lives._
—Betty Koffman, Kingsport TN writer
<p>During the post-great Depression and pre-and-post World War II years, Sylvia Nickels lived a nomadic life, along with her seven brothers and sisters. Their sharecropper father moved the family from one tenant farm to another in rural Georgia and Alabama. She recounts with a light touch the years of deep poverty, with their mix of joy and sorrow, which forged an enduring bond between the siblings. That they not only survived, but thrived, she credits to the bedrock support of parents and extended family.</p>
<p><em>Sylvia Nickels paints a vivid portrait of family life during the depression. I highly recommend Eight Miles of Muddy Road.</em><br />—Donna Alvis, Editor publisher The Puzzler</p>
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