Gallery of Lovie Photos

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Lovie Shelton, ca. 2000. Photograph by Lisa Yarger.

Lovie unloading food for her geese, ca. 2000. Photo by Lisa Yarger

Lovie & Eli, 2001. Photograph by Lisa Yarger.

The sign I made for Lovie’s tree to protect her beloved bullfrogs from neighborhood boys. After her son-in-law hung the sign, the boys left the frogs alone, and Lovie felt sure our sign had made the difference.

Lovie and Rusty, ca. 2000. The little cart is actually the bottom half of a baby buggy that Lovie bought at a garage sale for her grandchildren. When the grandchildren grew up and the top of the buggy fell off, Lovie started using the bottom half to ferry firewood and gardening tools and to collect pinecones for kindling. It also gave her something to lean on when her hips started acting up. Photograph by Lisa Yarger

Lovie at about age 12, with one of her father’s mules. Lovie’s sister Octavia told me she would never have consented to have her photo taken with a mule: “I would have been trying to look glamorous.” Photograph courtesy of Octavia Bowman.

Lovie leading Gus the mule, with Rusty following, ca. 2000. Photograph by Lisa Yarger

Lovie showing Lisa her midwifery equipment, 1997. Photograph by Shanna Marie Shaffer.

Lovie, Gus and Rusty, ca. 2000. Photo by Lisa Yarger.

The "At the End Meet God” sign described in Chapter 3.

I snapped this photo of Lovie in her yard probably in 2000. I seem to remember that the wagon as well as the metal trellis were the remains of one of Lovie’s “displays."

Lovie on her Nash County farm, ca. 2000. “I always had a lot of pleasure with the land,” Lovie told me once. “Everything else goes away.” Photograph by Lisa Yarger

Lovie, third from left, with other midwifery pupils in front of the Edinburgh District Nurses Home, 1949. The woman in the white cap is probably a sister tutor. Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Ellison.

Norfolk General Hospital School of Nursing, class of 1947. Lovie is in the back row, second from the left. “Believe me,” Lovie said of her time at Norfolk General, “there’s never been a period in my life when I tried any harder than I did during my nurses’ training.” Photograph courtesy of Carolyn Ellison.

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