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From From This Fertile Valley...
| In her new autobiography, From This Fertile Valley, Perritti features many family photos. Pictured here is the newly married couple, Martha Lou and Frank Perritti, Jr on their marriage day in 1962. | |
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Across from the title page of From This Fertile Valley, is this picture of Martha Lou at age 4 when she lived in the valley of the Caddo Mountains in Alabama. |
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A proud day for a young Martha Lou in 1961 — she stands before her very first car. (Photo featured in From This Fertile Valley) |
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Author Martha Lou Perritti presents her novel, Standing against the Wind, based on her Cherokee heritage, to The Smithsonian’s National Museum for the American Indian. (L-R) Leonda Levchuk, Smithsonian Public Affairs; Martha Perritti; Christopher Turner, Resource Center, The Smithsonian. (September 2006) |
From Standing against the Wind...
| Martha’s aunt Mattie holds one of the roses on the bush next to her home. It grew from a clipping from the family bush in the Bankhead National Forest | |
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Actual tin type copy of Martha’s great grandmother-- (Rhoda Henderson in the novel) |
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Martha’s cousin Nila (L) with Martha’s mother Velvie looking at the massive wild rose bush from the family homestead in the Bankhead National Forest. It flourishes today |
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Martha (L) with sister Mildred looking at the rose bush planted from a clipping of the family rose bush in the forest. In the novel, Rebekah planted it by her son’s grave stone |
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A Tribal Land sign in the Bankhead National Forest |
