appalachian region, southern

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appalachian region, southern

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the cycle of low literacy
  • Purcell-Gates, Victoria
1995

Southern Appalachia

  • Libal, Joyce
2005
Describes the history, culture, and traditions of Southern Appalachia and presents numerous recipes from the region, also providing cooking tips.

Growing up in a holler in the mountains

an Appalachian childhood
  • Gravelle, Karen
1997
Presents a description of contemporary life in the Appalachian Region of Kentucky while focusing on the home and activities of ten-year-old Joseph Ratliff and his family.

Appalachian folk tales

  • Jones, Loyal
2010
A collection of folk tales and stories based on traditional tales that have roots in the stories American settlers passed on to younger generations before the United States became a nation.

Foxfire

animal care, banjos and dulcimers, hide tanning, summer and fall wild plant foods, butter churns, ginseng, and still more affairs of plain living
  • Wigginton, Eliot
1975
Interviews and essays describe the way of life and crafts of pioneer America still surviving in the Appalachian region.

Animal, vegetable, miracle

a year of food life
  • Kingsolver, Barbara
2008
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.

Something's rising

Appalachians fighting mountaintop removal
  • House, Silas
2009
Describes the plight of of the people who oppose mountaintop removal mining in the Appalachian Mountains, and examines the physical destruction of the land, and how it also affects the local cultures and societies.

Pioneer children of Appalachia

  • Anderson, Joan
1986
Text and photographs from a living history village in West Virginia recreate the pioneer life of young people in Appalachia in the early nineteenth century.

The Jack tales

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.
1993
Eighteen Jack tales drawn from the folklore of the North Carolina mountain country.

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