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To be from Appalachia--to be at home there and to love it passionately--informs the narratives of each of the sixteen storytellers featured in this work. Their
Ray Hicks
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Authors: Robert Isbell
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Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chr
Foxfire Story
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Pages: 338
Authors: Foxfire Fund Inc
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-04-28 - Publisher: Anchor

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Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for countless readers all around the world. In Foxfire Story, fol
Grandfather Tales
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Richard Chase
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The only people who can tell these stories better than Richard Chase are the folks in North Carolina and Virginia who told them to him. These stories have been
Daughters of the Appalachians
Language: en
Pages: 68
Authors: Linda Goodman
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
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The author introduces six unique women, each of whom offers a rare glimpse of a culture that is fast fading away. As you share their joys and sorrows, these wom