Recently, the gifted class of Washington Wilkes Comprehensive High School read How Curious A Land in order to find out more information about our home and the territory around our home, which is Wilkes County. We are awfully close to Greene County and it was decided that events that happened in Greene County would be mirroring events that occurred in Wilkes County. Many of the students found the book to be highly satisfying and informative. My opinion of the book confirms theirs totally. I feel that How Curious A Land was very informative and that it colorfully and very intellectually describes the institution and escalation of the expansion in our area. It fully describes the lifestyle of both African-Americans and Caucasians who lived in the area before our time. I enjoyed the book to a suprising extent. At times I didn't devote my full attention to the book. That's probably what happened to the other students and it affected their judgment.My conclusion is that How Curious A Land is a good book and I would recommend it to other people.

How Curious a Land, was a book that increased the knowledge of my high school class at Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School. The book taught us about the life of many groups of people before, during, and after the Civil Wa in Greene County, Ga. The book allowed me to feel as if I was a participant of the time in which the book is set The most appealing part of this book is its first hand accounts of the people who either lived through the times described.. If you choose to read this book, be prepared to absorb a great amount of American history.

While working on family history a friend recommended I read this book as some of my family are from Greene County. It was not at all what I expected. The story of how the Civil War changed the county was very well done, but even better was the story of blacks and whites during Reconstruction. This is a very different story from the one I learned 40 years ago in school. The bravery of the blacks and the failure of their struggle is fascinating and very moving. If you are interested in the South read this book!