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The Folks in the Woods focuses on Mary Ann Ackerson, 1904-91, in an isolated French village located in southeast Missouri. When she was seven years old, her parents--Daly and Sarah Ackeson--died of typhoid fever on successive days in 1911. Because Missouri was not yet a state, there were no adoption procedures for Mary Ann and her two brothers and one sister. The author's maternal great-grandfather and great-grandmother, Zeno and Sarah Osia, took Mary Ann to live with them. She grew up with their son--Joseph, who died at the age of seventeen two years later--and their daughter, Margaret--the author's maternal grandmother--who was a few years older than Mary Ann. Mary Ann became a feminist before feminism was invented. At her time in history, she entered a man's world and adopted it instead of maintaining the customs of a woman's world. This is her story and the stories of other folks who lived near her in the woods.

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""Boyer's compelling narrative invites us to remember our own family members and how those memories might help us understand the way our own world works. Kudos, Mark, for pulling back the curtains of Brown Hollow!"" --Vernon Meyer, retired pastor, United Church of Christ ""Memories pave roads from one's past into one's present. While we cherish our personal stories, another's may deepen our own. In Mark Boyer's The Folk in the Woods, meet Mary Ann Ackerman, a remarkable woman, certainly ahead of her time. Mary Ann was Boyer's 'parent-mentor.' Her life in southwest Missouri's Brown Hollow paved the road into Boyer's own future."" --Robin Zeka, retired teacher

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Mark G. Boyer, a well-known spiritual master and retired New Testament professor, has been writing books on biblical, liturgical, and devotional spirituality for over fifty years. He has authored seventy-nine previous books, including two books of history, one novel, and a book of poetry. This, his eightieth book, a memoir about reaching adulthood in the Missouri woods, is his thirty-ninth Wipf and Stock title.

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