Word: lightwood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some of this Fleming has now translated into The Lightwood Tree. George Cliatt, fortyish, teaches history at Fredericksville Academy, while his brother is fighting in the Pacific. At a football game where a minor ruckus develops, a friend of Cliatt's adds to the confusion by yelling "To hell with the Home Folks Party." The friend is arrested on orders of the boss...
...LIGHTWOOD TREE (378 pp.)-Berry Fleming-Lippincotf...
Small politics usually make small novels, and The Lightwood Tree is no exception to the rule. Yet from the politics of his home town, Berry Fleming of Augusta, Ga. has succeeded in distilling enough of the historical essence of U.S. freedom and civil liberties to give The Lightwood Tree a realistic urgency rare among Southern novels outside the field of the race problem. The explanation is easy: large, balding Berry Fleming is a successful political operator himself. He was the intellectual sparkplug of a daring and determined revolution in Augusta...
Brainard Cheney follows his Lightwood (TiME, Oct. 30, 1939) with a book which puts him high among the strictly regional novelists-a book so good (when it is) that its weaknesses are doubly deplorable. Through the career of Hero Rutliff ("Snake") Sutton, Cheney tells the history of raftsmanship along Georgia's Oconee and Altamaha Rivers, and describes the business of lumbering in Darien, on the Georgia coast, toward the end of the last century...