Brownie on the Orange Crate

Biographies & Memoirs

Smith, Bernell Warren

Community & Culture

Creative Arts Book Company

A child in a family of modest means, Bernell Warren Smith received the down-to-earth wisdom of parents who knew how to appreciate even the smallest gifts that life could offer. Wherever they lived, from Big Creek in the Sierras to coastal Santa Barbara, the author's mother would record the history of her family, whether grand or humble, with her Kodak Brownie camera, perched upon an orange crate for stability. These moments, many of which are included in a photo section, provided Ms. Smith with a sort of template for her wide-eyed, picturesque worldview, and a vivid, engaging style of relating her life's tales. Poetic, but not somber, amusing, but never facile, Bernell Warren Smith's memoir reads like a wonderfully descriptive novel, which the reader will be reluctant to put down.

Memoirs

Creative Arts Book Co.

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Brownie on the Orange Crate

Brownie on the Orange Crate