My Flovilla for Christmas

To our children and grandchildren,


This little book, My Flovilla, describes the world in which our grandfather/great grandfather grew up - affectionately referred to as the village of flowers or "Flovilla."  The anecdotes were written by his sister, Eugenia Talitha Linch, known to her descendants as Aunt Genie.


The book was first published by our cousin, Harriet Stovall Kelley, in 1988, and has long been out of print.  If you have a copy of that first edition, be sure to keep and treasure it.  But enjoy this Second Edition that we have been priveleged to make available.  Actually it's the same as the first, just reproduced using newer technology.


The stories are real treasures.  They allow glimpses into what our grandfather/great grandfather, Thomas Osborn Linch, and grandmother/great grandmother, Harriet Ann Smith Linch, were like in their younger years.  We never knew him and remember her only as an "old lady."  Also, we learned a lot about my father's siblings, my aunts and uncles, but mostly about life in a small middle Georgia town in the early 20th century.


Love, 


BaaBee - and DanDan, too