Mary on Horseback

We've been reading "Mary on Horseback" as part of Elena's Sonlight curriculum. It's a book about Mary Breckenridge and her team of mounted nurses that go through the backwoods of Kentucky doing medical work. Overall, very good stories (and, of course, it helps that they're true). We mark key points in Elena's Book of Time, and we note locations on her Markable Map. But that's not what prompted me to write. It's the food! It's not just the chicken gizzard sandwich. Here's the meal that really stopped me in my tracks: "Their mother mixes old coffee with hot bacon grease and pours it over biscuits and fatback." Wow.