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Tomato sandwiches. Tobacco barns. Cooking collards. A shopping list left on a desk for 40 years at a deceased grandparent's house. Traditions that die as families age. What it means to "be country." Pig pickins'. Splitting firewood. Minor league baseball. Redneck snow days. Places that you can't go back again-sometimes good, sometimes not. All of these nostalgic and not-so-nostalgic stories from a rural upbringing are colliding with the New(er...

The story of an ordinary North Carolina farmer reluctantly drawn into the Civil War and thrown into a fight for survival that included serving both the Union and the Confederacy, dodging certain death at Gettysburg, surviving a prisoner-of-war camp, and a hometown murder.

Michael Brantley has the eyes of a camera and the soul of a poet. His memoir "Memory Cards" is a gentle and memory-jogging visit to a time and a place just down the road that is fading all too quickly." -Dennis Rogers, columnist and author of Second Harvest"Michael Brantley is that rare thing these days, a writer with a true vocation. He's a born storyteller." -Emily Fox Gordon, author of Book of DaysMemory Cards is a journey down a dusty rura...