In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
told by R.M. Ward and his kindred in the Beech Mountain section of Western North Carolina and by other descendants of Council Harmon (1803-1896) elsewhere in the Southern Mountains ; with three tales from Wise County, Virginia
Ward, R. M.
2003
Presents retellings of eighteen folk tales from the mountain country of North Carolina, featuring Jack, an Americanized version of the fairy tale hero.
On cover: Ministers, church members, revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage.
a year in the vanishing wilderness : radical strip mining, and the devastation of Appalachia
Reece, Erik
2006
Erik Reece chronicles the year he spent on Lost Mountain in Appalachia, and the economic and environmental devastation the strip mining industry caused in the region.
The author tells how she and her family relocated to southern Appalachia from Arizona in order to live a simpler life, grow their own food, and live among a community of local organic growers.
