What I Needed Was Nourishing Food, Not New Dishes

land, "The Extension of Democracy in Virginia , 1850-1896," Ph.D. dissertation, Princeton University, 1934, 40; Henry T. Shanks, The Secession Movement in Virginia , 1847-1861 (Richmond: Garrett and Massie, 1934): 6; Documents Containing Statistics of Virginia (Richmond: William Culley, 1851): Document 13, 1-3; Message of the Governor of Virginia, and Accompanying Documents, 2 vols. (Richmond: William F. Ritchie, 1861): Document 5, 73-75; U.S. Bureau of the Census, Population of the United States, 1860 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1864): 516-518; U. S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical View of the United States (Washington: Beverly Tucker, 1854): 320-326. ^Documents, Document 13, 1-3; Message, Document 5, 73-75; Population, 516-518; Statistical View, 320-326.»Shanks, Secession, 148-160, 207-209; Proceedings ofthe Virginia State Convention of 1861 (Richmond: Virginia State Library, 1965): 1:49-53, 131-133, 586-588, 657-659, 697-699; 2:566-571, 580; 3:676; 4:24, 52, 144, 788-791. ^Debates and Proceedings ofthe First Constitutional Convention of West Virginia, 1861-1863, edited by Charles Henry Ambler , et al. (Huntington, WV: Gentry Brothers , 1939): 73-223. "Ibid., 1:315. 12Ibid., 1:244. "Ibid., 1:282-283. 14Ibid., 1:409. 15IMd., 1:415; 2:24. What I Needed Was Nourishing Food, Not New Dishes I was reared on the classic blue cups, handleless, chips hungrily bitten from the rim. Until I finally cracked, too, around the lips and hands. And people who loved me were always trying so hard to give me thingsnew things, new experiences, new feelings, new dishes, from Harrod's, so delicate I could see dirough diem in the light and they made die sound fine china was supposed to make when gently struck with silver. I wonder what tiiey would have diought if they could have seen me piling blue dishes full of pinto beans and mashing the corn pones with flat steel forks, die thick golden steam rising warm, softening old cracks. -Bonnie Roberts 35 ...