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The Little Professor of Piney Woods
The Little Professor of Piney Woods
Author: Beth Day
The Little Professor of Piney Woods is the true history of a singularly beautiful life. — On a lazy, sun-drenched spring day in 1909, Laurance Jones, a boyish, handsome young Negro...strode into the backwoods of southern Mississippi...(and)...walked into almost fifty years of history-making dedication. — The Little Professor of Piney Woods is an a...  more »
ISBN: 152033
Publication Date: 1955
Pages: 192
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Publisher: Julian Messner Inc.
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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I really enjoyed this book. I'd never heard of Laurance Jones before reading this account, and that is a shame because he was a truly extraordinary man of great courage and vision, and he should be more celebrated today. He founded the Piney Woods Country Day School in 1909 with little more than a vision, unending patience and kindness, and that school is thriving today. This book was published in 1955, and so also reflects the life and times of our country in a very different era. I am posting this book only because I hope the story of Laurance Jones will be read by others! Part of me really wants to keep it on my own shelf!
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