Adams voice as a known storyteller and balladeer is clear and simple in these short glimpses into her early life growing up in the community of Sodom in Madison County, North Carolina. Funny and heartwarming, we come to know many of her kinfolk and neighbors. The story of Old Christmas Eve with her Breaddaddy will leave you with a warm feeling and you'll understand her Granny best by her phrase "my hand print is all over the raising of that one." Sheila Kay Adams is a North Carolina treasure. ( )