Jesse Jefferson Jackson

The Willow Place Jesse Jefferson Jackson

It all begins on a warm Halloween evening in 1936 in Moundville, Alabama-the time and place of the author's birth. These stories are all true, but, then again, they are all stories. A fascinating portrait of a disappeared world, The Willow Place plunges the reader into the hopes, dreams, and fears of a child becoming an adult during a turbulent, disorienting era. Professor of history at the University of Montevallo for over three decades, Dr. Jackson spent his boyhood and youth in the town of Greensboro in the heart of Alabama's Black Belt.