Sand in My Shoes

A romantic vision brought Katharine Ball Ripley & her dashing, ex-army-officer husband, Clements, to North Carolina's Sandhills in 1921. "I could see a long, low house with a terrace wall, & a saddle-bred horse, & me standing there ready to put my foot in the stirrup. Later summer afternoons, & Clem & me galloping down a sand road together...'Work in the Fields.' Doesn't it sound romantic? AA pale yellow smock, a big sunhat, & a basket of red peaches worth -- well, maybe not quite their weight in gold -- swinging on my arm." It just didn't work out that way. But this "entertaining...breezy" book, as the New York Times proclaimed it, did come from the seven years the Ripleys spent trying to get rich growing peaches. After abandoning the peach farm for Charleston, Ripley wrote two more books, SAND DOLLARS & CROWDED HOUSE. Her husband became a popular novelist & Hollywood scriptwriter.Ripley, Katharine B. is the author of 'Sand in My Shoes' with ISBN 9781878086402 and ISBN 1878086405.