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" ... A right good people" /

A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in " ... A Right Good People" were originally published in the ###Charlotte Observer, # the largest newspaper in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Warren, Harold F.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boone, N.C. : Appalachian Consortium Press, [1974]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / Loyal Jones
  • Selections from the Appalachian photographs of Doris Ullmann
  • Selections from the photographs of Warren Brunner
  • Bascom Lamar Lunsford: the squire of South Turkey Creek
  • The winds of change murmur up the little laurel
  • Dewey Harmon: mountain humor and gee-haw-whimmy-diddles
  • Rev. Charles A. Keyes: "the parson of the hills"
  • "A man's friends is all he's got"
  • Pride, independence and buckets made of tree bark
  • A scholar in overalls: he loves the mountains and great books
  • Aggie Lowrance, a late-blooming wildflower
  • Horse-tradin' over fool's gold
  • A foot-stomping jam session in the old gas station
  • "All the signs were wrong for pig-butchering ..."
  • An Appalachian frontier homestead
  • The "little war": Cherokee Indian stickball game
  • The Daniel Boone wagon train
  • Dr. Gratis Williams: a lament for Appalachia
  • Photographic selections from Down to earth, people of Appalachia, by Kenneth Murray
  • Photographic selections from Tennessee hillfolk, by Jesse Stuart and Joe Clark, H.B.S.S.
  • Afterword / Cratis Williams.