Miracle Mountain:A Hidden Sanctuary for Children, Horses, and Birds Off a Road Less Traveled
By Richard McKenzie.
Description
Orphanages of an earlier era, say, before the 1960's are widely believed to have been hell holes that cruelly worked and starved the children in their care, as portrayed in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. To this day Dickensian images of orphanages continue to throttle the public debate over to how best care for children of deprivation, neglect, and abuse. Richard McKenzie, spent much of the fall of 2011 embedded in a self-proclaimed modern-day orphanage, The Crossnore School, which is home for close to a hundred children in a remote corner of North Carolina's Appalachian Moun...
ISBN(s)
1880741121, 9781880741122
