North Carolina: departure and return
A very young teacher
I think I must write a book
Principal of the State Normal School at Fayetteville
Stenographer, lawyer, author
George W. Cable and the Open Letter Club
Family interlude
An absorbing and profitable business
Educating the children
Chesnutt and Walter Hines Page
The wife of his youth
The conjure woman
Going into the author business
A choice of publishers
The house behind the cedars
Living at high tension
The marrow of tradition
Business and social life in Cleveland
Chesnutt and Booker T. Washington
The colonel's dream
Mark Twain's birthday dinner
Chesnutt's family in Europe
The everlasting problem
Honored citizen of Cleveland
A summer abroad
Family and civic affairs
Racial tension in the First World War
The Chesnutt home a mecca
The passing years
The Spingarn Medal
End of a rich, full life.