The Climb from Salt Lick

<p>In the mid-1970s Nancy L. Abrams a young photojournalist from the Midwest plunges into life as a small-town reporter in West Virginia. She befriends the hippies on the commune one mountaintop over rents a cabin in beautiful Salt Lick Valley and falls in love with a local boy wrestling to balance the demands of a job and a personal life. She learns how to survive in Appalachia--how to heat with coal and wood how to chop kindling plant a garden and preserve produce.<br /><em>The Climb from Salt Lick</em> is the remarkable memoir of an outsider coming into adulthood. It is the story of a unique place and its people from the perspective of a woman who documents its burdens and its beauty using words and pictures to tell the rich stories of those around her.</p>