Doing the Possible - The Story of Cane Creek, a Pioneer Church

Doing the Possible tells the life-story of an early Primitive Baptist church in the wildness of northeast Alabama, a late-blooming area of the state that was a sanctuary for Cherokee Indians being pushed toward extinction. White settlers--prominent among them the family of William (Billy) Edwards who gave his name and a tract of land to the new county seat--established in the inhospitable hills and hollows a thriving church and community. They built a warm fellowship that was often disrupted by theological controversy as they set a course quite different from the "mainstream" church--and once the community was shocked by an act of physical violence, murder in the churchyard. And there are glimpses of the backwoods enterprise on which a few members depended heavily, the profitable conversion of corn into the moonshine for which the area is noted. But mostly it is a story of plain, hardy people living and loving together.

Product details

• Authors: Joseph M Jones, Joseph M. Jones
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.11.2004
• EAN: 9780595334872
• ISBN: 978-0-595-33487-2
• No. of pages: 100
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 6 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous