After no one met her at the train station, Christy stayed overnight with Mrs. *Christy arrived at El Pano in January 1912. *While at Montreat during summer 1911 Christy volunteered to teach for the American Inland Mission, founded by Dr. *Christy attended the Asheville city schools and is the most famous fictional student of Flora MacDonald College in Red Springs, North Carolina. She shopped at the Bon Marché department store.
*Christy attended the historic downtown First Presbyterian Church. *Christy, the eldest of two children, was born circa 1892 to upper middle class parents in Asheville, North Carolina, and lived on Montford Avenue. Shy and reserved, she likely felt underdressed and out of place in the hustle and bustle of Pack Square. En route to El Pano, she wondered why her parents hadn’t told her “that such awful conditions existed within a day’s train ride from Asheville, right in our mountains.” Leonora made infrequent trips to Asheville. She honored her parents’ service at Ebenezer Mission, and, from their stories, created the timeless characters we readers know and love.īut important differences exist between the fictional character, Christy Rudd Huddleston, and her real-life counterpart, Leonora Haseltine Whitaker.Īlthough both women were born and raised in Buncombe County, North Carolina, sheltered Christy knew little of rural life. In writing Christy, Catherine Marshall wove elements of fact and fiction, mystery and humor, grief and joy.
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