There were to be eight offspring in all the couple completed their family when their third girl, Nancy Alice, was born in 1935. This six mile hike on a Christmas Eve of 1933 became the inspiration for his son's novel The Homecoming which was to become the well loved Christmas Special by the same name.
He stayed in a boarding house in Waynesboro through the week and every week-end took the bus to Charlottesville and then transferred to another bus which took him to Hickory Creek and then a six-mile walk on home. found work across Afton Mountain in Waynesboro, Virginia, as a machinist at a Du Pont factory, some 33 tortuous highway miles away. During the Great Depression, the Alberene Stone Company was forced to close. Earl claims he knew he was going to become a writer from that day. His poem, "My Dog," was published on the Children's Page of the Richmond Times Dispatch when he was six. He was writing his numbers at the age of two and reading at four. became interested in writing at an early age. Doris and Earl strongly encouraged all the children in their growing family to excel, and Earl Jr. Their "library" consisted of the Holy Bible, the King James Version, and A Manual of Bee-Keeping. Moneywas short, andbookswere aluxurythey couldnot afford.
worked there when their first child, Earl Jr. In the beginning, Schuyler was a company town centered around the New Alberene Stone Company which mined and milled soapstone. Today it is home to "The Gathering," a group of disciples of the psychic Edgar Cayce. In the early 1900's The Hamner family moved from its James River tobacco farm to the town of Schuyler-named for its first postmaster- on the eastern slope of the Blue Ridge. The Hamner family came to Virginia from NorthernWales where they had been well established for over a thousand years. Ironically, the first Earl Henry was named for his mother, Susan Henry Spencer Hamner-whose father wanted a boy. Earl proved his worth, and reconciliation took place. Eventually, however, Ora Lee saw that the marriage was a good one. When he and Doris married, Ora Lee Giannini swore she'd never speak to her daughter again. But Earl was a persistent suitor, and he was in love. When a descendant, Doris Marion Giannini, at the tender age of 16 was courted by Earl Henry Hamner, Sr., four years her senior, and known to be a wild young man, her devoutly Baptist mother, Ora Lee, forbade her to see him.
His mother's people, the Giannini's, came to America from the village of Lucca, Italy, to help Thomas Jefferson set up vineyards at Monticello. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:įEATURED AUTHOR-EARL HAMNER A Journey That Continues to Ennoble George Brosi Earl Hamner's roots run deep in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains.
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