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My Appalachia : A Memoir /
"Sidney Saylor Farr grew up in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, the eldest of ten children. Her devotion to her family led her to accept heavy responsibilities from a very young age: at three, she remembers being put in charge of her baby sister while her parents worked in the cornfield....
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
2007.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Beginning; 2 A Way of Life; Sulfured Apples and Northern Lights; Superstitions; 3 Oral History; Haints and Other Mysteries; Dad's Early Days; The First Trains of London; Going to Virginia; Uncle Milt Simpson; 4 Satisfy Hunger, Tickle the Funny Bone; Reunions; Having Fun Together; The Power of Riddles; 5 Decoration Day; 6 Growing Years; School Days; Games We Played; The Cure for Freckles; Reading and Writing; 7 It Was So Ordered; It Was So Ordered; Wilburn Saylor (1911-1966); 8 Honeybees and Birch Trees.
- Birch Sapping in JuneBirch Sap Candy; Bloodroot; Special June Days and July a Delight; Blackberries; Dog Days of Summer; 9 Transition to Harvest; Jarflies; Predictions of the Weather; Heritage Seeds; Rachel Saylor (1909-1986); Brother Jeems's Green Thumb; 10 Sweet and Meat; Molasses: Amber Magic; Butchering Time; Winter's Counsel; Hearing Colors, Making Wreaths; 11 Winter's Hunger and Cold; Irish Potatoes; Corn to the Gristmill; The Old Moon in February; 12 Family and Friends; Beloved Maple Tree; Brother Fred; Appalachia-Alaska Connection; Marijuana in the Mountains; 13 Foods We Loved.
- Chicken and DumplingsDried Apple Stack Cake; Roasting Ears; Johnnycakes and Hoecakes; Gritted Cornbread; Spoonbread; Blackberry Dumplings; Spring Greens; Mountain Morels; Shuck Beans; 14 Moonshine and Celebrations; Moonshine Whiskey; First Christmas Tree; 15 Snake-Handling Saints; 16 Marriage and Life after That; First Marriage; 17 Missionaries and Books; 18 Love for a Child and a Man; 19 Endings and Beginnings; 20 There Was Grant; 21 Going to London Town; 22 Tom Sawyer; 23 The Art of Writing; 24 As the Sun Goes Down.