Southern Appalachian Storytellers

Southern Appalachian Storytellers

Author: Saundra Gerrell Kelley

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0786462124

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To be from Appalachia--to be at home there and to love it passionately--informs the narratives of each of the sixteen storytellers featured in this work. Their stories are rich in the lore of the past, deeply influenced by family, especially their grandparents, and the ancient mountains they saw every day of their lives as they were growing up.


Ray Hicks

Ray Hicks

Author: Robert Isbell

Publisher: UNC Press Books

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 9780807849620

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Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where


Foxfire Story

Foxfire Story

Author: Foxfire Fund Inc

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2020-04-28

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 0525436324

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Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for countless readers all around the world. In Foxfire Story, folklorist (and Foxfire director) T.J. Smith collects some of his favorite stories from the archives to illuminate the oral traditions that have been part of the culture of the mountains for centuries. Here are instances of mountain speech, proverbs and sayings, legends, folktales, anecdotes, songs, and pranks and jests, along with ghost tales and accounts of folk belief, as well as stories from half a dozen of the region’s finest storytellers. Through these examples, Smith examines the role storytelling plays in the Southern Appalachian community, identifying the rich traditions that can be found in the region and exploring how they convey a sense of place—and of identity.


Grandfather Tales

Grandfather Tales

Author: Richard Chase

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780618346905

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The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been handed down for generations and have been enjoyed by grownups and children alike.


Daughters of the Appalachians

Daughters of the Appalachians

Author: Linda Goodman

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 68

ISBN-13: 9781570720987

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The author introduces six unique women, each of whom offers a rare glimpse of a culture that is fast fading away. As you share their joys and sorrows, these women will touch your soul and live in your heart.


Appalachian Young'un Shenanigans

Appalachian Young'un Shenanigans

Author: Donald L. Turpin

Publisher:

Published: 2022-01-28

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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This book of short reads is very possibly the most complete accumulation of authentic examples of humorous childhood experiences in education, dialect, religion, customs, health, witchcraft, superstitions, recreation, and survival in Appalachia during the World War II era ever written.


The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity

The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity

Author: Todd Snyder

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-06-04

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 147661623X

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In this work the various ways that social, economic, and cultural factors influence the identities and educational aspirations of rural working-class Appalachian learners are explored. The objectives are to highlight the cultural obstacles that impact the intellectual development of such students and to address how these cultural roadblocks make transitioning into college difficult. Throughout the book, the author draws upon his personal experiences as a first-generation college student from a small coalmining town in rural West Virginia. Both scholarly and personal, the book blends critical theory, ethnographic research, and personal narrative to demonstrate how family work histories and community expectations both shape and limit the academic goals of potential Appalachian college students.


The Most They Ever Had

The Most They Ever Had

Author: Rick Bragg

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 0817356835

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In spring of 2001, across the South, padlocks and logging chains bind the doors of silent mills, and it seems a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill survived. In these real-life stories, Pulitzer Prize winner Bragg brilliantly evokes the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill.


The Winnowing Season

The Winnowing Season

Author: Cindy Woodsmall

Publisher: WaterBrook

Published: 2013-04-02

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 0307730050

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New York Times bestseller The tornado that devastated Kings’ Orchard pushed Rhoda, Samuel, and Jacob to make a new start in Maine. Are they strong enough to withstand the challenges of establishing an Amish community—and brave enough to face the secrets that move with them? On the eve of their departure to begin a new Old Order Amish community outside of Unity, Maine, Rhoda Byler is shocked to discover that choices made by her business partner and friend, Samuel King, have placed her and her unusual gifts directly into the path of her district’s bishop and preachers. She is furious with Samuel and is fearful that the Kings will be influenced by the way her leaders see her, and not what they know to be true—that Rhoda’s intuition is a gift from God. Jacob King won’t be swayed by community speculation. He loves Rhoda, believes in her, and wants to build a future with her in Maine. But when the ghosts of his past come calling and require him to fulfill a great debt, can he shake their hold before it destroys what he has with Rhoda? Samuel has a secret of his own—one he’ll go to great lengths to keep hidden, even if it means alienating those closest to him. Throwing himself into rehabilitating the once-abandoned orchard, Samuel turns to a surprising new ally. Book 2 of the Amish Vines and Orchards series asks: can the three faithfully follow God’s leading and build a new home and orchard in Maine? Or will this new beginning lead to more ruin and heartbreak?