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Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: august house
Published: 2005-12-13
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780874834116
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Packed with humorous jokes, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and songs ... this collection is thick with artifacts of Southern wit."--Back cover.
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: august house
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780874830323
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA DELIGHTFUL COLLECTION OF YARNS TOLD SIMPLY AND ELOQUENTLY BY MOUNTAIN FOLKS FOR WHOM HUMOR IS A WAY OF LIFE.
Author: Helen Matthews Lewis
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012-03-14
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 0813134374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOften referred to as the leader of inspiration in Appalachian studies, Helen Matthews Lewis linked scholarship with activism and encouraged deeper analysis of the region. Lewis shaped the field of Appalachian studies by emphasizing community participation and challenging traditional perceptions of the region and its people. Helen Matthews Lewis: Living Social Justice in Appalachia, a collection of Lewis's writings and memories that document her life and work, begins in 1943 with her job on the yearbook staff at Georgia State College for Women with Mary Flannery O'Connor. Editors Patricia D. Beaver and Judith Jennings highlight the achievements of Lewis's extensive career, examining her role as a teacher and activist at Clinch Valley College (now University of Virginia at Wise) and East Tennessee State University in the 1960s, as well as her work with Appalshop and the Highland Center. Helen Matthews Lewis connects Lewis's works to wider social movements by examining the history of progressive activism in Appalachia. The book provides unique insight into the development of regional studies and the life of a dynamic revolutionary, delivering a captivating and personal narrative of one woman's mission of activism and social justice.
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: august house
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780874830835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a collection of jokes and stories from Appalachia dealing with such topics as animals, city folks, politicians, religion, and old age.
Author: Anthony Harkins
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781946684790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2008-10-08
Total Pages: 450
ISBN-13: 0252033698
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a conversational and informative biographical sketch of each performer, often including a sample of the musician's humor, a recording history, and amusing anecdotal tidbits. In an entertaining style, Jones covers performers throughout the twentieth century, from such early stars of vaudeville and radio barn dances as the Skillet Lickers and the Weaver Brothers and Elviry, to regulars on Hee Haw and the Grand Old Opry, continuing to current comedians such as the Austin Lounge Lizards, Ray Stevens, and Jeff Foxworthy.
Author: Loyal Jones
Publisher: august house
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780874830873
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA surprisingly reverent collection of religious humor clean enough to be used in the pulpit. St. Peter jokes, mock sermons, church bulletin misprints and age-old denominational rivalries are all here. Illustrated.
Author: Wendy Welch
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2020-08-26
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1476682267
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStories from doctors, nurses, and therapists dealing on a daily basis with the opioid crisis in Appalachia should be heartbreaking. Yet those told here also inspire with practical advice on how to assist those in addiction, from a grass-roots to a policy level. Readers looking for ways to combat the crisis will find suggestions alongside laughter, tears, and sometimes rage. Each author brings the passion of their profession and the personal losses they have experienced from addiction, and posits solutions and harm reduction with positivity, grace, and even humor. Authors representing seven states from northern, Coalfields, and southern Appalachia relate personal encounters with patients or providers who changed them forever. This is a history document, showing how we got here; an evidenced indictment of current policies failing those who need them most; an affirmation that Appalachia solves its own problems; and a collection of suggestions for best practice moving forward.
Author: Jim Marsh
Publisher:
Published: 2010-10-15
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9781931672610
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFolk Tales delighted and instructed children five hundred years ago. We believe that they can still delight and inform the children of today.
Author: Paul Lepp
Publisher: august house
Published: 2006-01-10
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780874835779
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of tall tales by Paul and Bil Lepp, two repeat winners of the West Virginia State Liars Contest.
