Dorothy's World by Dorothy Howard (1977, Hardcover, Illustrated)

The author of this book is writing in the first person, describing her own life, times, family, and community with clarity, humor, and detail. As an adult specializing in the theory of education, she delves into her own childhood experiences, interviews surviving relatives and neighbors, records their memories of events that may differ from her own, preserves the rules of games, words of songs and talents of their singers, descriptions of dress.... Her recall of detail and nuance is amazing; a native of east Texas myself, but born there forty years later, the flavor of the land and it's people is unmistakable.

Highly recommended as an ethnographic study. Just as good for a cozy evening by the fire.