Goin' Up Shootin' Creek by Gladys Edwards Willis is a heartwarming account of growing up during the Depression in the Blue Ridge Mountains in western Franklin County, Virginia. She captures the essence of a place and a people leaving behind a way of life largely unchanged for two hundred years and entering the modern world of radios, telephones, electricity, motion pictures, indoor plumbing, and paved roads. This memoir is not only a moving personal story, it is a significant contribution to Appalachian literature.