Ellis Credle (Townsend) 1902-1998, authored and illustrated DOWN DOWN THE MOUNTAIN, a 1934 picture book published by Thomas Nelson And Sons.
It is a story plucked from her own growing-up years in North Carolina, telling a deeply spiritual tale about two children from the hills.
Their riches are measured in a bounty of familial love, shucky beans, cornmeal mush, bright red peppers and hand-stuffed sausages but they are missing one heart's desire.
Beautiful, Shining, Creaky, Squeaky Shoes!
Watch them spend a busy growing season chopping weeds, hauling water and chasing away worms, bugs and grasshoppers from their cash crop of fine, big turnips.
Then watch them give those same prized turnips away to every needy stranger they meet, going down, down the mountain to a nearby farmer's market.
Instead of purchasing shoes with the monetary profit from their hard labor, Providence steps in and repays their generous souls with a much happier and unexpected turn of events.
Enjoy this morality play intended for all of us learning to walk the Giving Way.
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