All the Things We Didn't Say

Marion Garrard Barnwell is professor emerita of English at Delta State University. She is editor of A Place Called Mississippi: Collected Narratives; coauthor of Touring Literary Mississippi; and coeditor of Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist, all published by University Press of Mississippi. Her fiction has been published in the edited collections Mad Dogs and Moonshine, Christmas Stories from Mississippi, and On the Way Home; and her essays have appeared in magazines such as Delta Magazine and Portico. She is a board member and past president of Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters and Jackson Friends of the Library. Mary DuBose Trice Clark (1879–1967) was born on Christmas day in Okalona, Mississippi. Her father was a bookkeeper and owned a mercantile business. Her mother was a teacher and later a principal when the family moved to Tupelo. After high school, she attended Belmont College in Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated in 1897 with a degree in music. In 1900, she married Robert Baker Clark, a banker who would become president of the Federal Landbank of Tupelo and later president of the Federal Landbank in New Orleans. Over her long life, Clark taught music, worked as a switchboard operator for the first telephone company in Tupelo, ran a dress shop, and raised five children.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface ProloguePart I. Ganny’s MemoirPreface Chapter 1. Ganny’s MemoirChapter 2. Signs and SilencesChapter 3. Her LegacyChapter 4. She BloomsChapter 5. Her Marriage and BeyondChapter 6. Gandaddy ClarkChapter 7. Angel in the HousePart II. My MemoirChapter 8. An Idyllic ChildhoodChapter 9. Garrard ForebearsChapter 10. Rosemary 000Chapter 11. Those absentChapter 12. "Politest Boy in School"Chapter 13. "Flapper, Yes, She’s One of Those"Chapter 14. Love LettersChapter 15. The Delta, Part OneChapter 16. The Delta, Part TwoChapter 17. "Nothing Gold Can Stay"Chapter 18. On Barberry LaneChapter 19. How Did She Do It?Chapter 20. ReprieveChapter 21. Scribbles on ScrapsChapter 22. Accident?Chapter 23. Cathedral DaysChapter 24. New Orleans (by way of Columbia, Missouri)Chapter 25. Why Did She Stay?Chapter 26. MarriageChapter 27. Late for SupperChapter 28. MotherhoodChapter 29. Endings, BeginningsChapter 30. Love, Work, and FriendsChapter 31. 1981Chapter 32. End of an EraChapter 33. The Delta, Part ThreeChapter 34. DorothyChapter 35. Annie’s TimeChapter 36. The UnveilingEpilogueAddendumNotesBibliography