" ... 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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Boone, N.C.
Appalachian Consortium Press
1974, [1974]
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Table of Contents:
- 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