A collection of eleven traditional songs and three folk tales from Appalachia, including "The Frog He Went A'Courting, " "I Gave My Love a Cherry, " and "Jack and the Bean Tree.".
Complete with instructions, diagrams and photographs, this is a collection of directions for playing indoor and outdoor games and making dolls, homemade board games, and other toys.
Worried that Little Boy will be frightened if she fails to return home before dark, an old woman enlists the aid of some passing animals to coax her new pig across the bridge.
Twelve-year-old Emma Graham becomes obsessed with the story of Mary-Evelyn Devereau--a girl just Emma's age who drowned in Spirit Lake forty years earlier. In the course of her investigation, Emma learns secrets best left untold and must make some grown-up decisions about right and wrong.
Gives a brief history of the folk culture and crafts in the Appalachian region and discusses their present-day revival by introducing contemporary craftsmen and their work.
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.
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.
