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Oracle of the Ages: Reflections on the Curious Life of Fortune Teller Mayhayley Lancaster

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Category: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Lawyers & Judges
Format: Trade Paper, 162 pages
Pub Date: Spring 2007
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-60306-008-0
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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. Oracle of the Ages was the 2002 winner of the Lilla M. Hawes Award for the best book in Georgia county or local history.

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