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Up Cutshin and Down Greasy : Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family /
Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River -- Cutshin and Greasy creeks -- folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination. For half a century they had preserved the traditional ways of their forebears -- the farming methods, the h...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
The University Press of Kentucky,
[1988]
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River -- Cutshin and Greasy creeks -- folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination. For half a century they had preserved the traditional ways of their forebears -- the farming methods, the household arts, and the games, ballads, dances, and tales that were their chief entertainment. In Up Cutshin and Down Greasy, brothers Dave and Jim Couch, born about the turn of the century, recall clearly their childhood days on Sang Branch of Greasy and Clover Fork of Big Leatherwood. Dave, a prof. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. Originally published in 1959. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (176 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780813158488 |