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House Of Purple Cedar, Anne M. Giangiulio
House Of Purple Cedar, Anne M. Giangiulio
Anne M. Giangiulio
Book cover, author signed book plates, and interior template I designed for 'House of Purple Cedar' by Tim Tingle, published by Cinco Puntos Press. "The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we spoke of Skullyville." Thus begins House of Purple Cedar, Rose Goode’s telling of the year when she was eleven in Indian country, Oklahoma. Skullyville, a once-thriving Choctaw community, was destroyed by land-grabbers, culminating in the arson on New Year's Eve, 1896, of New Hope Academy for Girls. Twenty Choctaw girls died, but Rose escaped. She is blessed by the presence of her grandmother …