Tales Of Chinkapin Creek
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Tales Of Chinkapin Creek Volume Ii
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Author : Jean Ayer
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-06-01
Tales Of Chinkapin Creek Volume Ii written by Jean Ayer and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-01 with Fiction categories.
Tales of Chinkapin Creek, Volume II, continues to follow the Wister family, their employees, neighbors and kin shortly after the turn of the 20th century. A collection of short stories set in the fictional community of Chinkapin Creek, West Virginia, its main character, young Nellie Wister, is the daughter of prosperous farmer, James Wister, and his extraordinary wife Carrie. Young Nellie's world is vividly peopled by such characters as Amos Wister, a cousin who marries Opal, a Cherokee; Mr. Bumphrey, the organ tuner who, though blind, has nearly extra-sensory perception; Cora Flood, a widow faced with the challenge of salvaging stepsons who were ruinously beaten by their father; the almost crippling superstitions of Ola Smith; Levi Eads, member of a pacifist cult who was driven to fight and kill for his homeland; Mama's sister Lily whose death by lightning causes Mama to question her faith; Robert E. Lee Kilgore, the blacksmith whose violent temper leads to tragedy; the shallow-minded Aunt Edith, for whom being a doctor's wife is all show; young Andrew Waybright, trapped in this small village with his eyes on the stars; Em Clayton, Wister's laundress, who refuses to touch the new washing machine. “I cain't git men's shirts clean without work,” she insists; Jonah Smith, the painfully shy farm hand with the glorious tenor voice and Ben Eliot, the devious piano salesman. In addition to the characters that color Nellie's life, there are events typical of that period: hog butchering, which was the way Southern sympathizers spent Thanksgiving, a day President Lincoln designated as a national observance; annual holiday visits from belsnicklers, comically clad Christmastime visitors; and the awkward adjustments to modern plumbing. These stories join to build a picture of an America not long gone.
Tales Of Chinkapin Creek
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Author : Jean Ayer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Tales Of Chinkapin Creek written by Jean Ayer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A collection of stories about what life was really like growing up on a working farm in rural West Virginia in the early 1900's. For young Nellie Wister, life was rich and meaningful among the people of Chinkapin Creek, a small Appalachian community, stirred by changing times, but held together by a distinct West Virginia spirit that rural Americans will recognize today. Tales of Chinkapin Creek illuminates an aspect of the American character rarely explored: the attitudes and temperament of a state with a burr under its saddle. Broken off from Virginia in the Civil War, West Virginians occupied the neglected counties west of the Shenandoah mountain. Their largely Scots-Irish and German Heritage made them a self-sufficient, often stubborn and unpredictable people. For Nellie, each denizen commands a special place in her open heart. These include the morose Uncle Edward; the seemingly erudite Levi Harman; the turtle-toting Wilse Strickland; the feeble minded Bean Kimball; the sequestered, speech-impaired Millie Flood; Nellie's suitor, the tippling Dr. John Echols; the pushy fertilizer salesman Ben Moomaw, and other intriguing real-life characters.
The Silent Appalachian
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Author : Vicki Sigmon Collins
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2017-01-11
The Silent Appalachian written by Vicki Sigmon Collins and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
Appalachian literature is filled with silent or non-discursive characters. The reasons for their wordlessness vary. Some are mute or pretend to be, some choose not to speak or are silenced by grief, trauma or fear. Others mutter monosyllables, stutter, grunt and point, speak in tongues or idiosyncratic language. They capture the reader's attention by what they don't say.
Stories Of The Trade River Valley I
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Russell B. Hanson
Release Date :
Stories Of The Trade River Valley I written by and has been published by Russell B. Hanson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with categories.
Tidewater Tales
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Author : William Care Garnett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1927
Tidewater Tales written by William Care Garnett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1927 with Essex County (Va.) categories.
Tall Tales Of The Kentucky Mountains
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Author : Percy MacKaye
language : en
Publisher: Greenwood
Release Date : 1973
Tall Tales Of The Kentucky Mountains written by Percy MacKaye and has been published by Greenwood this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with Fiction categories.
God Dr Buzzard And The Bolito Man
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Author : Cornelia Bailey
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 2000
God Dr Buzzard And The Bolito Man written by Cornelia Bailey and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"In this memoir, Sapelo Island native Cornelia Walker Bailey tells the history of her threatened Georgia homeland." "Off the coast of Georgia, a small close-knit community of African Americans traces their lineage to enslaved West Africans. Living on a barrier island in almost total isolation the people of Sapelo have been able to do what most others could not: They have preserved many of the folkways of their forebears in West Africa, believing in "signs and spirits and all kinds of magic."" "Cornelia Walker Bailey, a direct descendant of Bilali, the most famous and powerful enslaved African to inhabit the island, is the keeper of cultural secrets and the sage of Sapelo. In words that are poetic and straight to the point, she tells the story of Sapelo - including the Geechee belief in the equal power of God, "Dr. Buzzard" (voodoo), and the "Bolito Man" (luck)." "But her tale is not without peril, for the old folkways are quickly slipping away. The elders are dying, the young must leave the island to go to school and to find work, and the community's ability to live on the land is in jeopardy. The State of Georgia owns nine-tenths of the land and the pressure on the inhabitants is ever-increasing." "Cornelia Walker Bailey is determined to save the community, but time will tell whether the people of Sapelo will be able to retain the land, and the treasured culture which their forebears bestowed upon them more than two hundred years ago."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Tall Tales Of Arkansaw
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Author : James Raymond Masterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
Tall Tales Of Arkansaw written by James Raymond Masterson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with American wit and humor categories.
A Treasury Of North American Folktales
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
A Treasury Of North American Folktales written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Legends categories.
This collection of anonymous stories and yarns, legends and myths, distills the collective experience of mankind.
Wintu Texts
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Author : Alice Shepherd
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 1989-01-01
Wintu Texts written by Alice Shepherd and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-01-01 with Social Science categories.