Carolyn Stradley Summary and Analysis

The final article in the book is about a woman named Carolyn Stradley. She owns her own paving company in spite of a hard life as an orphaned girl. Carolyn grew up in the mountains of Blairsville. As a young child, her family moved back and forth to Atlanta often as her father worked many jobs. By her sixth grade in school, the family still did not have electricity. She remembers always being responsible for things such as gathering water, feeding animals, and other chores as her mother was often very ill with heart disease. She died when Carolyn was only eleven. Carolyn admits her father was an alcoholic and that her father remarried less than two weeks following her mother's death. He moved to Atlanta with his new wife and left his children alone in the mountains to...