Category: SOUTHERN FOLKS

Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill. Traversing from Murphy to Manteo, these fifteen essays demonstrate the importance of North Carolina's continually changing folklife. From decoy carving along the coast, to the music of tobacco chants and the blues of the Piedmont, to the Jack tales of the mountains, Arts in Earnest reflects the story of a people negotiating their rapidly changing social and economic environment.Personal interviews are an important element in the book. Laura Lee, an elderly black woman from Chatham County, des...
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BACK ROADS AMERICA

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Seller ID: 117355

ISBN: 281BZE1007804

Binding: Hardcover

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BEST OF BEST FROM TENNESSEE COOKBOOK

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Seller ID: 74588

ISBN: 281BZE1003720

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BLUE RIDGE COUNTRY MAGAZINE

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Seller ID: 135885

ISBN: 281BZE1010349

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BLUEGRASS & BACKROADS SEASON 4

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Seller ID: 65819

ISBN: 281BZE1003331

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BON APPETIT Y'ALL

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Seller ID: 74487

ISBN: 281BZE1003712

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CHASING WHITE DOG

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Seller ID: 88589

ISBN: 281BZE1005729

Binding: Hardcover

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Etta, Granny Nichols: Last of the Old-Timey Midwives

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Publisher: Professional Press

Seller ID: 251684

ISBN-13: 9781570873638

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Georgia Stories: Major Georgia Short Fiction of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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Publisher: Peachtree Publishers : October 1992

Seller ID: 129809

ISBN-13: 9781561450671

Binding: Trade Paperback

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When we think of the Old South and its literature, we think of romance--of moonlight and magnolias and courtly cavaliers dueling and battling for fair and fiery maidens fluttering from the balconies of their mansions. In his introduction, editor Ben Forkner explains that most nineteenth-century southern novels fostered this romantic image in the form of great sweeping sagas with larger-than-life heroes and heroines. However, countering this tradition are the short gems of Georgia, which represent a frontier culture and a pioneering literature that was "vigorous and vivid and enduring at a time...
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Growing Up in the South (Signet Classics)

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Publisher: Signet : November 2003

Seller ID: 250802

ISBN-13: 9780451528735

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Something about the South has inspired the imaginations of an extraordinary number of America's best storytellers--and greatest writers. That quality may be a rich, unequivocal sense of place, a living connection with the past, or the contradictions and passions that endow this region with awesome beauty and equally awesome tragedy. The stories in this superb collection of modern Southern writing are about childhood, adolescence, and young adulthood--in other words, about growing up in the South. Flannery O'Connor's "Everything That Rises Must Converge," set in a South that remains segregated ...
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HEE HAW COLLECTION DVD

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Seller ID: 77799

ISBN: 281BZE1003919

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Life in the Slow Lane: Tales of Covered Bridges Written by and for the People Who Love 'Em

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Publisher: Country Store Reiman Pubs : January 1999

Seller ID: 95777

ISBN-13: 9780898212402

Binding: Hardcover

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The country charm and allure of old covered bridges inspired thousands of Reiman Publications magazine readers to send us their stories and photos for our new book, Life in the Slow Lane.We selected the best of the best and put together this handsome volume full of gorgeous pictures, personal recollections and heartfelt memories. Life in the Slow Lane looks at covered bridges from a what they meant to us point of view -- spanning the countryside with stories written by people who fondly cherish these noble, sheltered links to the horse drawn past.Life in the Slow Lane lets you sit back and enj...
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Mothers and Strangers: Essays on Motherhood from the New South

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Publisher: University of North Carolina Press : April 2019

Seller ID: 144858

ISBN-13: 9781469651675

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In this anthology of creative nonfiction, twenty-eight writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time. Whether their formative experience was the Great Depression or the upheavals of the 1970s, their lives reflected their era and influenced how ...
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New Stories from the South 1997: The Year's Best

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Publisher: Algonquin Books : January 1997

Seller ID: 99840

ISBN-13: 9781565121751

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The twelfth volume of the annual anthology is packed with nineteen entertaining stories. From a cautionary tale about the difficulties of loving a space alien to a new twist on a young Southerner's struggle in the wilds of Manhattan, these stories range from the hilarious to the poignant. The preface, by Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Robert Olen Butler, looks at what fiction is: "Fiction is, at its heart, the art form of human yearning." The authors in the 1997 edition of New Stories are Gene Able, Dwight Allen, Edward Allen, Robert Olen Butler, Janice Daugharty, Ellen Douglas, Pam Durban, C...
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New Stories from the South 2003: The Year's Best

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Publisher: Algonquin Books : July 2003

Seller ID: 115603

ISBN-13: 9781565123953

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Many famous writers later (James Lee Burke, Barbara Kingsolver, Larry Brown, Tony Earley, William Gay), Ravenel still combs through over one hundred journals and magazines, regional and national, large and small, in search of the most talented authors coming out of the South. She still tracks down the newest voices before their breakouts, collecting the best renditions of the short-story genre. New Stories from the South has become sine qua non in creative-writing classes, in Southern-literature classes, for any serious writer following the competition, and above all, for any lover of Southern...
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OUR FAVORITE RECIPES BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB MORRISTOWN

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Seller ID: 73222

ISBN: 281BZE1003655

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Category: SOUTHERN FOLKS