Lessons from the Big House

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Lessons from the Big House is written by Frye Gaillard and published by . It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1878086359 (ISBN 10) and 9781878086358 (ISBN 13).

When Frye Gaillard was nine, his grandfather, Palmer Gaillard, summoned him to the front porch of the Big House, the family home near Mobile. The grandfather handed the boy a small book he had written & began to tell him stories of family lore, stories that demonstrated how this prominent & prestigious family's identity had been forged by challenge & hardship. Even at that age, Gaillard knew that hiss grandfather had chosen him to pass on the heritage of his Huguenot family to ensuing generations. Gaillard has fulfilled that obligation with this book, which begins in the Low Country of South Carolina with his great-great-great-grandfather, Captain Peter Gaillard, a soldier who began the Revolutionary War on the side of the British but switched with the death of his Tory father to fight in the ranks of his neighbor, Francis Marion, known as the Swamp Fox. Gaillard goes on to trace his slave-owning family through all the other tumultuous events of Southern history -- the Civil War, Reconstruction, & finally the Civil Rights revolution, in which Gaillard found himself standing against his own heritage. "An affectionate yet thoroughly honest account of a family whose history is woven into the fabric of the South," says novelist & screenwriter Robert Inman. No other writer I know understands better the special joy & burden of being Southern, nor tells of it with such grace & eloquence."