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Dot Moore worked on this book for more than twenty years, spurred on by her own memories and encounters with the late Mayhayley Lancaster while she was growing up in Heard County, Georgia. She is a retired educator and political activist, and lives in Montgomery. This is her first book. Katie Lamar Smith is a writer, editor, and photographer who lives in Auburn, Alabama. |
Mayhayley Lancaster was many things through her interesting life: lawyer, schoolteacher, political activist, fortune teller, numbers runner, and self-proclaimed "oracle of the ages." In this new volume of creative nonfiction, the people who knew her reflect on her personality, her politics, and her passions, offering the reader a chance to delve fully into Mayhayley lore and legend. Oracle offers strange and often hilarious stories of the poor Georgia South in the post-Depression era, and how the eccentric Mayhayley's charisma and mysterious powers cast a spell on all the people who knew - and inevitably misunderstood - her.
Mayhayley Lancaster is the seer who figured
prominently in the regional best-seller,
Murder in Coweta County.
If you have ever wondered what the real Mayhayley Lancaster was all about this is the book to buy. "Not even June Carter Cash's outstanding film characterization of the extraordinarily complex Mayhayley Lancaster can compare to Dot Moore's bare-knuckle portrait of a lonely woman who lived her life amid swarming pleas for her attention, a brilliant woman who amassed a fortune and lived as a pauper - a truly gothic figure whose paranormal gifts kept her treading on the brink of madness." -- Deb Knowles, Editor, Newnan-Coweta Magazine.
Order your book now through: New South Books, Montgomery, Alabama. www.newsouthbooks.com . or through www.amazon.com .
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