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Book Synopsis Upper Cumberland Country by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Upper Cumberland Country written by William Lynwood Montell and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1993 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland by : Michael Birdwell
Download or read book Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland written by Michael Birdwell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2004-12-24 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars uncover fascinating stories and personalities from the Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, but seen here as having a far richer history and culture than previously thought.
Book Synopsis Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Grassroots Music in the Upper Cumberland written by William Lynwood Montell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays by various authors detailing the richness of music that has emanated from Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee and Kentucky since the 1700's.
Book Synopsis Don't Go Up Kettle Creek by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Don't Go Up Kettle Creek written by William Lynwood Montell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Don't Go Up Kettle Creek is a historical portrayal of a river and the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries. Drawing upon the personal recollections and oral traditions of longtime residents, William Lynwood Montell describes a century and a half of life in the Upper Cumberland. Montell organized his material according to the topics that dominated his tape-recorded conversations with residents of the area-farming, logging and rafting, steamboating, the Civil War-topics that the people themselves saw as important in their history. In reconstructing the past, the author also illuminates the relationship between geographic and economic factors in the region; the prolonged affects of a cataclysmic event, the Civil War, on the isolated area; and the impact of modernization, in the form of "hard" roads and cheap, TVA-supplied electricity, on the traditional ways of people. First published in 1983, this book is now available in paperback for the first time. Included with this edition is a new foreword in which Montell and Mary Robbins, executive director of the Tennessee Upper Cumberland Tourism Association, describe changes in the area that have occured since the book's initial appearance. The Author: William Lynwood Montell, now retired, was coordinator of programs in folk and interculturual studies at Western Kentucky University. His numerous books include Ghosts along the Cumberland and The Saga of Coe Ridge.
Book Synopsis Tourist and Recreation Potential: Upper Cumberland Lakes Area of Tennessee. A Reconnaissance Report of the Tourism-recreation Potentials of the Upper Cumberland Lakes Area of Tennessee (Clay, De Kalb, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Smith and Warren Counties), with Special Emphasis on Identifying Specific Tourism-recreation Development Opportunities Within the Study Area by : United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Download or read book Tourist and Recreation Potential: Upper Cumberland Lakes Area of Tennessee. A Reconnaissance Report of the Tourism-recreation Potentials of the Upper Cumberland Lakes Area of Tennessee (Clay, De Kalb, Jackson, Overton, Pickett, Smith and Warren Counties), with Special Emphasis on Identifying Specific Tourism-recreation Development Opportunities Within the Study Area written by United States. Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Tennesseans and Their History by : Paul H. Bergeron
Download or read book Tennesseans and Their History written by Paul H. Bergeron and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The authors introduce readers to famous personalities such as Andrew Jackson and Austin Peay, but they also tell stories of ordinary people and their lives to show how they are an integral part of the state's history. Sidebars throughout the book highlight events and people of particular interest, and reading lists at the end of chapters provide readers with avenues for further exploration."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Water-powered Mills of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania by :
Download or read book Water-powered Mills of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Country People in the New South by : Jeanette Keith
Download or read book Country People in the New South written by Jeanette Keith and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the Tennessee antievolution 'Monkey Law,' authored by a local legislator, as a measure of how conservatives successfully resisted, co-opted, or ignored reform efforts, Jeanette Keith explores conflicts over the meaning and cost of progress in Tennessee's hill country from 1890 to 1925. Until the 1890s, the Upper Cumberland was dominated by small farmers who favored limited government and firm local control of churches and schools. Farm men controlled their families' labor and opposed economic risk taking; farm women married young, had large families, and produced much of the family's sustenance. But the arrival of the railroad in 1890 transformed the local economy. Farmers battled town dwellers for control of community institutions, while Progressives called for cultural, political, and economic modernization. Keith demonstrates how these conflicts affected the region's mobilization for World War I, and she argues that by the 1920s shifting gender roles and employment patterns threatened traditionalists' cultural hegemony. According to Keith, religion played a major role in the adjustment to modernity, and local people united to support the 'Monkey Law' as a way of confirming their traditional religious values.
Book Synopsis The Prince of Tennessee by : David Maraniss
Download or read book The Prince of Tennessee written by David Maraniss and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rise of Al Gore.
Book Synopsis Ghosts Along the Cumberland by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Ghosts Along the Cumberland written by William Lynwood Montell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating collection of ghost stories, tales of the supernatural, death beliefs and death sayings that remain as a vestige of the part in south central Kentucky's "Pennyrile" region. "This unique and extremely valuable book adds considerably to the area of folklore studies in the United States. The material which Montell obtained in his field work is superb." --Don Yoder. "This book is to be recommended to both folklorists and those non-folklorists who read folklore for enjoyment alone. It makes an important contribution to the study of deathlore and, it is to be hoped, will draw added attention to this multi-generic subject area." --David J. Hufford, Tennessee Folklore Society Bulletin. "Professor Montell's book can well be viewed as a standard of excellence: a direct, articulate and cataloged approach for future study and implementation in the fields of folklore and oral history." --Joan Perkal, Oral History Association Newsletter. "The book gives fascinating accounts of death beliefs, death omens, folk beliefs associated with the dead, and in the major section, ghosts narratives. A fine combination of scholarship and chilling narration to be relished by firelight in an old deserted house in the hills." --Book Forum. "Professor Montell has arranged beliefs and experiences about death of a particular group of people in such a way that a whole new aspect of the people's lives comes to focus." --Loyal Jones, The Filson Club HIstory Quarterly.
Book Synopsis The Social Origins of the Urban South by : Louis M. Kyriakoudes
Download or read book The Social Origins of the Urban South written by Louis M. Kyriakoudes and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2004-07-21 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, millions of black and white southerners left farms and rural towns to try their fate in the region's cities. This transition brought about significant economic, social, and cultural changes in both urban centers and the countryside. Focusing on Nashville and its Middle Tennessee hinterland, Louis Kyriakoudes explores the impetus for this migration and illuminates its effects on regional development. Kyriakoudes argues that increased rural-to-urban migration in the late nineteenth century grew out of older seasonal and circular migration patterns long employed by southern farm families. These mobility patterns grew more urban-oriented and more permanent as rural blacks and whites turned increasingly to urban migration in order to cope with rapid economic and social change. The urban economy was particularly welcoming to women, offering freedom from the male authority that dominated rural life. African Americans did not find the same freedoms, however, as whites found ways to harness the forces of modernization to deny them access to economic and social opportunity. By linking urbanization, economic and social change, and popular cultural institutions, Kyriakoudes lends insight into the development of an urban, white, working-class identity that reinforced racial divisions and laid the demographic and social foundations for today's modern, urban South.
Download or read book Gracie's Babies written by Beth Durham and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-10 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Gracie Berai accompanies her grandmother on a neighborhood visit she learns a skill that will change her life when they unexpectedly deliver the young woman's baby. Gracie is terrified as events spin around her but Grandma Elmore immediately recognizes that Gracie has a gift for midwifing. Gracie continues to learn from her grandmother and when she moves to Martha Washington with her new husband word quickly spreads and her help is sought again and again. Is this really the role God would have for a newly-married girl?Soon Gracie has a thriving practice. She's happy to serve God and her community in this way; however, her own dream of a large family is not materializing. She struggles with the Lord and feels His promise that He will bless her with children if she will obey him. She never doubts God will be faithful to his word, but how long must she wait?As you walk with Gracie among her mountain people, you will see her own faith grow as she shares God's love and healing with her family and neighbors.
Book Synopsis Killings by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book Killings written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ÒA woman was sitting on the witness stand, and the lawyer asked her, ÔDid you, or did you not, on the night of June 23rd have sex with a hippie on the back of a motorcycle in a peach orchard?Õ She thought for a few minutes, then said, ÔWhat was that date again?ÕÓÑfrom the book Lawyers have long been known as master storytellers, and those from Kentucky are certainly no exception. Veteran oral historian and folklorist Lynwood Montell has collected tales from dozens of lawyers and judges from throughout the Bluegrass State, ranging from the story about the tough Jackson County judge who fined himself for being late to court to unwelcome dogs in the courtroom. Recorded just as they have been told for generations, these stories are sometimes funny, sometimes sad or frightening, sometimes raw and harrowing, but always remarkable. Far more than collection of lawyer jokes, Tales from Kentucky Lawyers recounts the most insightful, entertaining, and occasionally heartbreaking stories ever told by and about Kentucky lawyers and their clients, covering the spectrum from arson to homicide, domestic disagreements to sexual abuse, and everything in between. Tales from Kentucky Lawyers is a valuable resource for folklorists as well as an entertaining and vivid account of the often-surprising legal world.
Book Synopsis Congressional Record by : United States. Congress
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Book Synopsis The Saga of Coe Ridge by : William Lynwood Montell
Download or read book The Saga of Coe Ridge written by William Lynwood Montell and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1981-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few black groups in the United States carry with them the romance, the gripping history, the pathos, the indestructible spirit of the Coe Ridge colony during the ninety years of its existence. ". . . a new and long needed departure in American historiography. . . . This is in every way an impressive book. It contains detailed accounts of the informants, tables of folklore motifs, genealogical charts, a prologue and epilogue explaining authoritatively the hypotheses of oral traditional history, and handsome photographs of the Coe Ridge area." --Richard M. Dorson, Journal of American History. "Lynwood Montell has written an invaluable book for all those interested in the use of oral tradition as a tool in the reconstruction of history. . . . This is a book worthy of being on any folklorist's shelf." --Richaed A. Reuss, Journal of American Folklore.
Book Synopsis Flowering of the Cumberland by : Harriette Simpson Arnow
Download or read book Flowering of the Cumberland written by Harriette Simpson Arnow and published by MSU Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 806 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harriette Arnow’s search for truth as early American settlers knew it began as a child—the old songs, handed-down stories, and proverbs that colored her world compelled her on a journey that informs her depiction of the Cumberland River Valley in Kentucky and Tennessee. Arnow drew from court records, wills, inventories, early newspapers, and unpublished manuscripts to write Seedtime on the Cumberland, which chronicles the movement of settlers away from the coast, as well as their continual refinement of the “art of pioneering.” A companion piece, this evocative history covers the same era, 1780–1803, from the first settlement in what was known as “Middle Tennessee” to the Louisiana Purchase. When Middle Tennessee was the American frontier, the men and women who settled there struggled for survival, land, and human dignity. The society they built in their new home reflected these accomplishments, vulnerabilities, and ambitions, at a time when America was experiencing great political, industrial, and social upheaval.
Download or read book Soil Conservation written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-08 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: