The complete online text of Down the Ravine by Mary Noailles Murfree.

Mary Noailles Murfree's writing career spans almost fifty years. During that period she wrote eighteen novels and six volumes of short fiction on a variety of distinctly American subjects: polite Southern society, the Civil War, colonial history, and Mis...

Most of the fifty short stories that Mary Noailles Murfree wrote in a career of almost fifty years were about the mountaineers of East Tennessee; but the dominant theme of all her fiction is, as she stated in her first published story, "The Dancin' Party...

It was late-morning rush hour yesterday along northbound Interstate 95 in Howard County when trucker Dorek Chris Miles saw a woman walk onto the busy highway, he told police. He swerved his box truck left to avoid hitting her, and, within seconds, his truck...

AT HOME WITH DAN WARD Ravine beauty Compact River Hills home retains '50s charm, drama Sunday, February 2, 2003 River Hills -- The first time Jamie Ward saw the house her soon- to-be-husband wanted to buy, she asked, "Why is...

The Philippine national police chief ruled out the involvement of communist rebels in the disappearance of a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer, saying Tuesday the woman may have fallen off a cliff while hiking alone more than a week ago.Police director Oscar Calderon said there is...