After 40 years writing on behalf of other people, Barbara Elliott is free at last to write whatever the heck she wants in her quirky Accidental Mountaineer column in the Greenbrier Valley Quarterly. A decade's worth of her essays are contained in this volume, accompanied by delightful illustrations by Sally Cooper. In these pages you will learn the deep, dark secrets of Barbara's perversely happy childhood as a UK (Undertaker's Kid) in Smithfield,...