Born in 1903, Julie Lyon, sister of Old Time fiddler Tommy Jarrell, lights up this gem of a film as she spins tales of her Appalachian childhood in North Carolina—and her first romance. In telling stories of her life, from her midwife grandmother riding horseback through ice storms to deliver babies to her proper but whimsical courtship of her husband, Julie evokes in an inimitable way a world of times gone by: of the memories that lie behind a patchwork quilt or a yellowed daguerreotype.