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Download or read book Gone Dollywood written by Graham Hoppe and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolly Parton isn’t just a country music superstar. She has built an empire. At the heart of that empire is Dollywood, a 150-acre fantasy land that hosts three million people a year. Parton’s prodigious talent and incredible celebrity have allowed her to turn her hometown into one of the most popular tourist destinations in America. The crux of Dollywood’s allure is its precisely calibrated Appalachian image, itself drawn from Parton’s very real hardscrabble childhood in the mountains of east Tennessee. What does Dollywood have to offer besides entertainment? What do we find if we take this remarkable place seriously? How does it both confirm and subvert outsiders’ expectations of Appalachia? What does it tell us about the modern South, and in turn what does that tell us about America at large? How is regional identity molded in service of commerce, and what is the interplay of race, gender, and class when that happens? In Gone Dollywood, Graham Hoppe blends tourism studies, celebrity studies, cultural analysis, folklore, and the acute observations and personal reflections of longform journalism into an unforgettable interrogation of Southern and American identity.
Download or read book Gone Dollywood written by Graham Hoppe and published by New Approaches to Appalachian. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Country music superstar Dolly Parton's Dollywood is a 150-acre fantasyland that hosts three million people a year. What does it tell us about the modern South, and in turn what does that tell us about America as a whole? Hoppe blends tourism, public history, and personal reflection into an unforgettable interrogation of Southern American identity.
Book Synopsis I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive by : Lynn Melnick
Download or read book I've Had to Think Up a Way to Survive written by Lynn Melnick and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2022-10-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving memoir exploring how a poet found support and revival through Dolly Parton's music and story.
Download or read book Weedeater written by Robert Gipe and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-18 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A finalist for the 2019 Weatherford Award in Fiction, Weedeater is a contemporary story of love and loss told by a pair of eastern Kentucky mountaineers: Gene, the lovelorn landscaper who bears witness to the misadventures of a family entangled in drugs, artmaking, and politics, a family beset by both environmental and self-destruction; and Dawn Jewell, a young mother searching—for lost family members, lost youth, lost community, and lost heart. Picking up six years after the end of Robert Gipe’s acclaimed first novel, Trampoline, in Weedeater, the reader finds Canard County living through the last hurrah of the coal industry and the most turbulent and deadly phase of the community’s battle with opioid abuse. The events Gipe chronicles are frantic. They are told through a voice by turns taciturn and angry, yet also balanced with humor and stoic grace. Weedeater is a story about how we put our lives back together when we lose the things we thought we couldn’t bear losing, how we find new purpose in what we thought were scraps and trash caught in the weeds.
Book Synopsis The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell by : Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
Download or read book The Food We Eat, the Stories We Tell written by Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blue Ridge tacos, kimchi with soup beans and cornbread, family stories hiding in cookbook marginalia, African American mountain gardens—this wide-ranging anthology considers all these and more. Diverse contributors show us that contemporary Appalachian tables and the stories they hold offer new ways into understanding past, present, and future American food practices. The poets, scholars, fiction writers, journalists, and food professionals in these pages show us that what we eat gives a beautifully full picture of Appalachia, where it’s been, and where it’s going. Contributors: Courtney Balestier, Jessie Blackburn, Karida L. Brown, Danille Elise Christensen, Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, Michael Croley, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, Robert Gipe, Suronda Gonzalez, Emily Hilliard, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Abigail Huggins, Erica Abrams Locklear, Ronni Lundy, George Ella Lyon, Jeff Mann, Daniel S. Margolies, William Schumann, Lora E. Smith, Emily Wallace, Crystal Wilkinson
Book Synopsis Unlikely Angel by : Lydia R. Hamessley
Download or read book Unlikely Angel written by Lydia R. Hamessley and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dolly Parton's success as a performer and pop culture phenomenon has overshadowed her achievements as a songwriter. But she sees herself as a songwriter first, and with good reason. Parton's compositions like "I Will Always Love You" and "Jolene" have become American standards with an impact far beyond country music. Lydia R. Hamessley's expert analysis and Parton’s characteristically straightforward input inform this comprehensive look at the process, influences, and themes that have shaped the superstar's songwriting artistry. Hamessley reveals how Parton’s loving, hardscrabble childhood in the Smoky Mountains provided the musical language, rhythms, and memories of old-time music that resonate in so many of her songs. Hamessley further provides an understanding of how Parton combines her cultural and musical heritage with an artisan’s sense of craft and design to compose eloquent, painfully honest, and gripping songs about women's lives, poverty, heartbreak, inspiration, and love. Filled with insights on hit songs and less familiar gems, Unlikely Angel covers the full arc of Dolly Parton's career and offers an unprecedented look at the creative force behind the image.
Book Synopsis Another Day, Another Story by : Cherie Bright
Download or read book Another Day, Another Story written by Cherie Bright and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-10-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Glances into the daily life of Holly Homemaker/ Mommy Extrodinaire Cherie Bright and her bumbles along the way.
Book Synopsis Out at the Library by : San Francisco Public Library
Download or read book Out at the Library written by San Francisco Public Library and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James C. Hormel is a native of Austin, Minnesota.
Book Synopsis Music for Centauri by : Donald Krueger
Download or read book Music for Centauri written by Donald Krueger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-10-20 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shawnis is beautiful, she is brilliant, and she is a senior educator at the Centauri University in Atlantis. She is married, she is sinuous and the perfect age to have children but to her disappointment, she cannot. She is not alone. Natural pregnancies no longer exist on the planet Centauri. The species is being kept in existence through cloning. Shawnis is the unchallenged master at cloning embryos for implanting in females. She is on the board of several clinics that have that purpose only. But the population is declining at an alarming rate and she is not the only one concerned. A small but elite council has been formed to seek a solution. She is honored to be one of the six. If these, the best minds on Centauri fear their genus will be extinct in three thousand years. An ancient expedition discovered that the planet Centauri is a twin of a distant planet called earth. Centauri is far more advanced yet the populous of earth is expanding almost too fast. Perhaps an answer lies four light years away.
Book Synopsis Rancher's Hostage Rescue by : Beth Cornelison
Download or read book Rancher's Hostage Rescue written by Beth Cornelison and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his girlfriend’s murder, a Colorado rancher is determined to protect her sister from a deadly enemy in this suspenseful contemporary romance. Lilly Shaw is left reeling after her sister Helen’s murder. Traumatized and grieving, she done giving people second chances, including her sister’s former boyfriend, Dave Giblan. The handsome ranch hand didn’t realize how special Helen was until it was too late. But now Lilly finds herself closer to Dave than ever—in a desperate plan to stay alive. After spotting Lilly at the local bank, Dave’s bumbling apology is interrupted by a deadly criminal who takes them both hostage at gunpoint. As they race against the clock, Lilly and Dave must put aside their differences and save one another once and for all.
Book Synopsis Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels by : Fannie Flagg
Download or read book Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels written by Fannie Flagg and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-08-12 with total page 1192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fannie Flagg has enchanted readers with her warm, wonderful, and witty books for nearly forty years. Now this delightful eBook bundle showcases three of her classic novels—full of heart and smart and refreshing as sweet tea on a hot summer day. FRIED GREEN TOMATOES AT THE WHISTLE STOP CAFE “It’s very good, in fact, just wonderful.”—Los Angeles Times Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale Mrs. Threadgoode tells is also of two women—of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth—who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder. And as the past unfolds, the present—for Evelyn and for us—will never be quite the same again. . . . CAN'T WAIT TO GET TO HEAVEN “Funny and utterly charming.”—The Miami Herald It’s the strangest thing. One minute Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs in Elmwood, Missouri, and the next thing she knows she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet. Meanwhile, back in Elmwood Springs, Elner’s high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold cloth on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch; and the entire town is thrown for a loop. In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something wonderful. I STILL DREAM ABOUT YOU “Undoubtedly [Flagg’s] wisest book, comic and compassionate.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch Meet Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others, Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a successful agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t help but wonder how she wound up living a life so different from the one she dreamed of as a child. But just when things seem completely hopeless, and the secrets of Maggie’s past drive her to a radical plan to solve it all, Maggie discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems, has at least one little secret. Praise for Fannie Flagg “A born storyteller.”—The New York Times Book Review “What [Flagg] writes about, time and again, are the touching, terrifying, heartbreaking, hysterical, extraordinary, everyday things that make us human.”—Southern Living “Courageous and wise.”—Houston Chronicle, on Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “A thoroughly entertaining comic novel.”—Newsday, on Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe “The characters are endearing, the story is engaging. . . . A comforting and sometimes thought-provoking read.”—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, on Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven “A fun and rollicking Nancy Drew mystery for grown-ups.”—The Birmingham News, on I Still Dream About You
Book Synopsis The Culture of Nature by : Alexander Wilson
Download or read book The Culture of Nature written by Alexander Wilson and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2019-10-10 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson’s innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature. His work was one of the first of its kind to investigate the ideology of the environment, to critique the future according to Disney, and illustrate that the ways we think, teach, talk about, and construct the natural world are as important a terrain as the land itself. Extensively illustrated and meticulously researched, this edition is exquisitely revised and reissued for the Anthropocene.
Book Synopsis I Wouldn't Live Nowhere I Couldn't Grow Corn by : Patty Smithdeal Fulton
Download or read book I Wouldn't Live Nowhere I Couldn't Grow Corn written by Patty Smithdeal Fulton and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 103 of the author's best works, this book covers everything from friends and family to health, laundry, growing old, and tapioca pudding.
Book Synopsis FROM PHARAOH'S HAND by : Cynthia Green
Download or read book FROM PHARAOH'S HAND written by Cynthia Green and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-05-18 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jackson, Tennessee had its share of murders every year. Drug deals gone sour, botched robberies, full blown domestic disputes, and crazed jealous lovers were nothing new. Even the gang violence which was once foreign to this rural town in the Bible belt had bullied its way in, and despite law enforcement's best efforts, seemed to be here to stay. Still, it was big news around town when 17 year-old Elizabeth Merriweather, came up missing. No one ever wanted to get used to having their sons or daughters disappear into thin air. No one could fathom what kind of evil, sick being lurked in their neighborhoods, parks, and parking lots of their stores. And everyone prayed that she had simply run away and would come home soon. But no one knew for sure. Especially after her backpack floated ashore at the Perryville bridge.
Book Synopsis Harlequin Romantic Suspense July 2019 Box Set by : Geri Krotow
Download or read book Harlequin Romantic Suspense July 2019 Box Set written by Geri Krotow and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-07-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking for heart-racing romance and breathless suspense? Want stories filled with life-and-death situations that cause sparks to fly between adventurous, strong women and brave, powerful men? Harlequin® Romantic Suspense brings you all that and more with four new full-length titles in one collection! COLTON’S MISTAKEN IDENTITY The Coltons of Roaring Springs by Geri Krotow Posing as her twin is easy for Phoebe Colton until she meets sexy Prescott Reynolds, whose dangerous action roles in films become too realistic when a stalker comes after Phoebe and forces them onto a dangerous cross-country road trip. COLTON 911: COWBOY’S RESCUE Colton Search and Rescue by Marie Ferrarella A sudden hurricane shakes up more than just the buildings in and around Whisperwood, Texas. A long-awaited wedding is put on hold, and as Jonah Colton rescues Maggie Reeves, the bad girl home to make amends, a devastating flood reveals a body—and a serial killer is on the loose! SPECIAL FORCES: THE OPERATOR Mission Medusa by Cindy Dees She’s an American Special Forces soldier; he’s an Israeli commando. On a covert mission in Australia, they have two weeks to stop a terror attack at the Olympics…and fall in love. Let the games begin! RANCHER’S HOSTAGE RESCUE The McCall Adventure Ranch by Beth Cornelison When Dave Giblan and Lilly Shaw are held hostage by an armed man, they must overcome personal heartaches and grudges to survive the ordeal…and claim the healing of true love.
Book Synopsis The Themed Space by : Scott A. Lukas
Download or read book The Themed Space written by Scott A. Lukas and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Themed Space: Locating Culture, Nation and Self is the first edited collection focused on the subject of the themed space. Twelve authors address a range of themed spaces, including restaurants, casinos, theme parks and other spaces like airports and virtual reality ones. The text is organized into four sections-theming as authenticity, theming as nation, theming as person and theming as mind.
Download or read book Big Daddy written by Pepper Worthington and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
