Typescript memoir by Pedro T. Slone of Franklin County, Virginia, titled "The Way of Life in Turner's Creek Valley Sixty Years Ago." The memoir was written in February 1943 and chronicles the way of life in Franklin County, Virginia during the late 19th and early 20th century. Information is given on the housing, furniture, farming, social and religious practices, and politics in rural Franklin County. There is a brief genealogy of the Slone, Hale, and Via families.