Twelve Corners — The Refuge of My Youth

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By Ruby Allee Wright

Ruby Allee Wright’s memories of her childhood in the Ozarks in the 1920s provide a window into a rural world lost to living memory. In an unadorned style she tells stories of humor, tragedy, and sadness. |But most stories simply relate the adventures and happiness of two little girls blessed with good parents in a countryside jst as beautiful and awe-inspiring as the Twelve Corners Church. Shining through them all is the good heart and common sense of Ruby Allee Wright. — Brooks Blevins, historian and author of the A History of the Ozarks books.

With her introductory sentence: “[V]oices from the past call me from the present back to my childhood,” Ruby Allee Wright indeed takes me with her in, Twelve Corners — The Refuge of My Youth, to a beautiful country church in the rural Ozarks named |Twelve |Corners, where several denominations worship, to a preacher, and a teacher, named “Moneymaker”, to the harrowing adventure of Ruby and her family getting lost and sleeping in a abandoned blood stained cabin. Expressed in clear, concise language, and sprinkled with love, laughter, and tears, Mrs. Wright takes the reader on a poignant one hundred year old ride, so simple and realistic that one cqan almost smell the “Sweet William” and hear the “meadowlark out-sing any of the songbirds”. This work is a tribute to the author and the times of her youth. — Todd Parnell, author, retired banker, and former President, Drury University. Missouri Writers Hall of Fame, 2012