{"id":32137,"date":"2017-03-02T13:31:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-02T18:31:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=32137"},"modified":"2017-03-15T11:56:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T15:56:02","slug":"author-share-friendship-first-nurse-midwife-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2017\/author-share-friendship-first-nurse-midwife-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Author to share of friendship with first nurse-midwife in North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author and Munich bookstore owner Lisa Yarger will visit Eastern Mennonite University March 14 as part of the Writers Read series. She\u2019ll read from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uncpress.org\/book\/9781469630052\/lovie\/\"><em>Lovie: The Story of a Southern Midwife and an Unlikely Friendship <\/em><\/a>(University of North Carolina Press, 2016), a book 20 years in the making. The event begins at 7 p.m. in Martin Chapel in the seminary building.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone interested in rural health care, women&#8217;s economic empowerment, race relations in the southern United States, female friendship or theological angst will find this book compelling,\u201d said Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/me437\">Marti Eads<\/a>, who first met Yarger as an undergraduate student at Wake Forest University.<\/p>\n<p>In 1996, Yarger began interviewing an aging nurse-midwife to inform an exhibit at the North Carolina Museum of History, where she worked as a folklorist. An interview became a series of visits which became a \u201cpeculiar, lopsided sort of friendship,\u201d as she told <a href=\"http:\/\/magazine.wfu.edu\/2016\/12\/12\/when-lisa-met-lovie\/\">Wake Forest Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lovie was the first nurse-midwife in North Carolina, and delivered around 4,000 babies from 1950-2001. After years of chats, reflection and writing, Yarger published <em>Lovie <\/em>to tell the health pioneer\u2019s story and Yarger\u2019s experience of their interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Lovie begins the story: \u201cGod gave women this wonderful functioning system &#8230; He put the baby in there, and I fully believe he\u2019s capable of getting it out. And here menfolks who\u2019ll never have a baby have taken all the rightness out of it. They took all the naturalness out of it and turned it over to men and insurance companies \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yarger takes over the narration as the reader\u2019s guide to learning more about an almost larger-than-life woman who lived \u201cwith the absolute certainty that she was doing the work she had been put on earth to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yarger grew up in North Carolina, and has worked as a museum curator, oral historian, journalist and editor. She graduated from Wake Forest in 1989, then earned her master\u2019s in folklore from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. In 1999, she met her future husband John Browner in a bookstore in Durham. Six years later, they packed up their lives and four-month-old daughter and moved to Germany.<\/p>\n<p>In Munich, Yarger and her family run an English-language secondhand bookstore, where she organizes children\u2019s and social justice events and writing workshops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author and Munich bookstore owner Lisa Yarger will visit Eastern Mennonite University March 14 as part of the Writers Read series. 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