'Furriners' in Appalachia

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532095368
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis 'Furriners' in Appalachia by : Marjorie U. Conder

Download or read book 'Furriners' in Appalachia written by Marjorie U. Conder and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thrust from a university campus into the coal mining country of Eastern Kentucky in the 1950s, the young author faced many challenges. She and her mining engineer husband found themselves foreigners when they arrived; the mountain people, who had been isolated from the rest of the country for several hundred years, were suspicious of strangers. It wasn’t until World War II, only ten years earlier, that the U.S. needed Kentucky coal for the war effort and built roads into the area, bringing electricity and other modern ideas. During their four year stay, the couple experienced shootings, a coal mining tragedy, floods and unfamiliar language, but they also discovered the joys of new friends, caring people, delicious Southern cooking and gorgeous scenery. The author and her husband learned to appreciate the unique qualities of Appalachia and its residents as they grew in understanding of the mountain ways.

Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English

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Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469662558
Total Pages : 3218 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English by : Michael B. Montgomery

Download or read book Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English written by Michael B. Montgomery and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 3218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is a revised and expanded edition of the Weatherford Award–winning Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, published in 2005 and known in Appalachian studies circles as the most comprehensive reference work dedicated to Appalachian vernacular and linguistic practice. Editors Michael B. Montgomery and Jennifer K. N. Heinmiller document the variety of English used in parts of eight states, ranging from West Virginia to Georgia—an expansion of the first edition's geography, which was limited primarily to North Carolina and Tennessee—and include over 10,000 entries drawn from over 2,200 sources. The entries include approximately 35,000 citations to provide the reader with historical context, meaning, and usage. Around 1,600 of those examples are from letters written by Civil War soldiers and their family members, and another 4,000 are taken from regional oral history recordings. Decades in the making, the Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English surpasses the original by thousands of entries. There is no work of this magnitude available that so completely illustrates the rich language of the Smoky Mountains and Southern Appalachia.

Encyclopedia of Appalachia

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Publisher : Univ Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1852 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Appalachia by : Rudy Abramson

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Appalachia written by Rudy Abramson and published by Univ Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Encyclopedia details subjects traditionally associated with Appalachia - folklore, handcrafts, mountain music, food, and coal mining - but goes far beyond regional stereotypes to treat such wide-ranging topics as the aerospace industry, Native American foodways, ethnic diversity in the coalfields, education reform, linguistic variation, and the contested notion of what it means to be Appalachian, both inside and outside the region." "Researched and developed by the Center for Appalachian Studies and Services at East Tennessee State University, this 1,864-page compendium includes all thirteen states that constitute the northern, central, and southern subregions of Appalachia - from New York to Mississippi. With entries on everything from Adventists to zinc mining, the Encyclopedia of Appalachia is a one-stop guide to all things Appalachian."--BOOK JACKET.

Christy

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Publisher : Evergreen Farm
ISBN 13 : 1683701275
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (837 download)

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Book Synopsis Christy by : Catherine Marshall

Download or read book Christy written by Catherine Marshall and published by Evergreen Farm. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The train taking nineteen-year-old teacher Christy Huddleston from her home in Asheville, North Carolina, might as well be transporting her to another world. The Smoky Mountain community of Cutter Gap feels suspended in time, trapped by poverty, superstitions, and century-old traditions. But as Christy struggles to find acceptance in her new home, some see her — and her one-room school — as a threat to their way of life. Her faith is challenged and her heart is torn between two strong men with conflicting views about how to care for the families of the Cove. Yearning to make a difference, will Christy’s determination and devotion be enough?

Tangled Tales

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663247315
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Book Synopsis Tangled Tales by : Ann Port

Download or read book Tangled Tales written by Ann Port and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last two weeks have been a whirlwind, Victoria Morgan, reflects as she approaches the ancient ruins of Ephesus, Turkey. I’m putting my humdrum life behind and embarking on a new, hopefully, exciting path. The only remaining question is, where will that path lead? As the weeks progress, Tori’s hoped-for exciting summer adventure morphs into a tale of mystery, danger, and romance when she, her long-time friend, Mark, a theologian, and their two roommates, an archeologist and an historian, set out to solve the mystery of a 2000-year-old local legend. As they seek clues to uncover the truth about Flavia, a patrician Ephesian girl, and her slave, Junea, Tori’s tale becomes tangled with that of her first-century heroines. Like Flavia, whose life hangs in the balance in 56 A.D, Tori, faces a life-threatening situation in 2022. Was Flavia, with Junea’s help, be able to escape death? Will death be Tori’s fate? In this well-researched historical novel, the reader is transported back and forth between the once magnificent Ephesus of the first century and the city that lies in ruins today. As Tori and Flavia walk their separate paths, the reader comes to realize that life’s challenges can be similar for women of every century. Beautifully illustrated with many photographs of the Ephesus ruins as they are today and some of Ephesus as it would have looked during the first century, Tangled Tales presents an unforgettable story of Ephesus then and now.

Back Talk from Appalachia

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813143349
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Back Talk from Appalachia by : Dwight B. Billings

Download or read book Back Talk from Appalachia written by Dwight B. Billings and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2013-07-24 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia has long been stereotyped as a region of feuds, moonshine stills, mine wars, environmental destruction, joblessness, and hopelessness. Robert Schenkkan's 1992 Pulitzer-Prize winning play The Kentucky Cycle once again adopted these stereotypes, recasting the American myth as a story of repeated failure and poverty--the failure of the American spirit and the poverty of the American soul. Dismayed by national critics' lack of attention to the negative depictions of mountain people in the play, a group of Appalachian scholars rallied against the stereotypical representations of the region's people. In Back Talk from Appalachia, these writers talk back to the American mainstream, confronting head-on those who view their home region one-dimensionally. The essays, written by historians, literary scholars, sociologists, creative writers, and activists, provide a variety of responses. Some examine the sources of Appalachian mythology in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literature. Others reveal personal experiences and examples of grassroots activism that confound and contradict accepted images of ""hillbillies."" The volume ends with a series of critiques aimed directly at The Kentucky Cycle and similar contemporary works that highlight the sociological, political, and cultural assumptions about Appalachia fueling today's false stereotypes.

The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature

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Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821415093
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)

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Book Synopsis The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature by : Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche Engelhardt

Download or read book The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature written by Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche Engelhardt and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Elizabeth Engelhardt finds in the work of four women writers from Appalachia, the origins of what is recognized today as ecological feminism - a wide-reaching philosophy that values the connections between humans and non-humans and works for social and environmental justice.

Smoky Mountain Voices

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183944
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Smoky Mountain Voices by : Harold F. Farwell

Download or read book Smoky Mountain Voices written by Harold F. Farwell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stingy man "won't drink branch water till there's a flood," and it is "a mighty triflin' sort o' man'd let either his dog or his woman starve." Some places are "so crowded you couldn't cuss a cat without gettin' fur in your mouth." For almost thirty years Horace Kephart collected sayings like these from his neighbors and friends in the area around Bryson City, North Carolina. Kephart, a librarian with an interest in languages and in the American Frontier, left his career and his family in midlife to settle in what was at the turn of the century the wilds of the Great Smokey Mountains. An assiduous collector and observer, he compiled twenty-six journals of notes on the folkways and speech of the Southern Appalachians at a time when the region was still largely isolated. Smokey Mountain Voices is a dictionary of Southern Appalachian speech based on Kephart's journals and publications; it is also a compendium of mountain lore. Harold Farwell and J. Karl Nicholas have compiled not only quaint and peculiar words, but jokes and comic exchanges. Many of the "ordinary" words that comprised an important part of the language of the mountaineers are preserved here thanks to Kephart's meticulous collecting. The editors have incorporated the original quotations with Kephart's definitions and explanations to create a rich source for the study of southern mountain speech. And within the echoes of these Smokey Mountain voices exists some of the joy and fullness of life that Horace Kephart shared and recorded. Smoky Mountain Voices will be of interest to dialectologists, historians of American English, students of regional literature, scholars of folk life, and laypersons interested in Southern Appalachia.

W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786409273
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (92 download)

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Book Synopsis W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman by : Ralph E. Lentz II

Download or read book W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman written by Ralph E. Lentz II and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2000-12-29 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W.R. Trivett (1884-1966), a farmer born in Watauga County, North Carolina, was also a self-taught professional photographer who left behind an invaluable collection of more than 400 glass plate negatives taken between 1907 and the late 1940s in the Beech Mountain community of neighboring Avery County. Along with the photographs (105 are reproduced herein), a collection of Trivett's personal papers survive, revealing very enlightening information about his life in the mountains. This work--the fourth in McFarland's continuing series of Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies--carefully examines Trivett's life and photographs, comparing his work to that of contemporary outside photographers who often produced stereotypical images of mountain people. Through Trivett's images we can, by contrast, see the everyday reality for most people in rural Appalachia.

John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786484586
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author by : Bill York

Download or read book John Fox, Jr., Appalachian Author written by Bill York and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2010-07-27 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fox, Jr., was one of the first writers to use the mountains of southwestern Virginia and eastern Kentucky as a backdrop for his stories and novels about a people whose culture faced extinction. Writing was not a profession he chose quickly or painlessly--he was well into middle age when he made the decision and he struggled with his choice for a long time after--but he made quite a name for himself through his work. This work is a biography of Fox. It draws from personal and family correspondence and covers his entire life, from his birth in Stony Point, Kentucky, in 1862, to his death from pneumonia in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, in 1919. His early life and education at his father's school, his two years at Transylvania University in Lexington, his transfer to Harvard and graduation in 1883, his work for the New York Sun and Times and smaller newspapers, and return home in the mid-1880s to work with his half-brother in the coal mines are all documented. It was also around this time that he began his first novel, A Mountain Europa, and over the next thirty years he wrote dozens of short stories and nine novels from the family home in Big Stone Gap, including Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come (his first to gain the status of bestseller) and The Trail of the Lonesome Pine.

Murder on the Mont

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Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1663219494
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Book Synopsis Murder on the Mont by : Ann Port

Download or read book Murder on the Mont written by Ann Port and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What I hoped would be my great adventure has become more exciting than even I could have imagined, Sydney Blanchett ponders as she stands outside the magnificent abbey of Mont Saint-Michel in Normandy France. I joked that while I studied the history and architecture of the monastery, I would solve the Mont’s many ancient unsolved mysteries. How could I have known I’d be helping to solve a real-life mystery, one that’s complicated and possibly life-threatening? After a murder occurs on the Mont, Sydney, along with the monks and nuns who inhabit the monastery; her professor, Armand Toussaint; and a police inspecteur, Marcel Caron; set out to identify the killer. As they uncover clues, Sydney faces terrifying encounters that could make her the next person to be murdered on the Mont. From beginning to end, Ann Port’s ninth novel, Murder on the Mont, is a page-turner that challenges the reader to figure out “who done it.”

Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture

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Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9780870498664
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (986 download)

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Book Synopsis Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture by : W. K. McNeil

Download or read book Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture written by W. K. McNeil and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of articles and essays from the past 130 years on the character and spirit of Appalachian culture, organized according to four major periods in the awareness of Appalachian culture. Essays covering Kentucky feuds, moonshining, handcrafts, dietary habits, and religion include introductions and editorial commentary. This second edition includes an article on the cultural ramifications of "Appalachian" television programs.

Family Ties

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ISBN 13 : 1663232504
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Family Ties written by Ann Port and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After weeks of prodding by her cousin and best friend Sarah Abbot, Elizabeth Barrett agrees to submit a DNA sample to Ancestry.com. Never in her wildest dreams, could Lizzie have imagined how her life and the lives of those she loves would change with the arrival of the test results. Instead of providing sought after answers, additional questions are raised, long-hidden secrets are revealed, and unexpected relatives are discovered. Searching for the truth about her grandmother’s hidden past, Lizzie and Sarah travel from Arizona to the Czech Republic where they’re confronted with the horrors of the past, a time when, under Nazi rule and later Soviet oppression, Prague’s Jews were forced to make life-altering decisions that still impact their lives almost eighty years later. Family Ties will keep you on the edge of your seat as you join Lizzie and Sarah in their efforts to solve the many mysteries of Lizzie’s family history and, at the same time, make important decision about their own futures. Throughout the book, you will learn about the history and experience the sights of Prague. As well, you’ll be immersed in the ups and downs and the joys and disappointments of an ever-growing family with whom you’ll find an instant connection.

Frontier Nursing in Appalachia: History, Organization and the Changing Culture of Care

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030200272
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Book Synopsis Frontier Nursing in Appalachia: History, Organization and the Changing Culture of Care by : Edie West

Download or read book Frontier Nursing in Appalachia: History, Organization and the Changing Culture of Care written by Edie West and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a historical analysis of the Frontier Nursing Services in the Eastern Appalachians of the United States, as well as a review of the oral history tradition of former frontier and non-frontier nurses. The data was gathered from 2003 to 2007, and the historical part covers the years 1900 to 1970. The objective of the study presented here was to conduct interviews with former frontier and non-frontier nurses in order to better understand their family and personal relationships, and the experiences that motivated their career choices. These interviews also give a voice to the working and middle-class women of the FNS. The emerging themes include moral inhabitability in work/education environments, the generational mix, nurse-physician and male-female relationships at the workplace, the role of technology, humanitarian versus financial rewards, and the public image of nurses. In addition, the book examines how the FNS shifted from a community/grass-roots structure to the corporate/business model of healthcare delivery employed today. In closing, it stresses the importance of explorig past nursing in order to better grasp present nursing. It also represents a testament to the professional work and vital contributions of frontier nurses.

Dear Appalachia

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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813140110
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Book Synopsis Dear Appalachia by : Emily Satterwhite

Download or read book Dear Appalachia written by Emily Satterwhite and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much criticism has been directed at negative stereotypes of Appalachia perpetuated by movies, television shows, and news media. Books, on the other hand, often draw enthusiastic praise for their celebration of the simplicity and authenticity of the Appalachian region. Dear Appalachia: Readers, Identity, and Popular Fiction since 1878 employs the innovative new strategy of examining fan mail, reviews, and readers' geographic affiliations to understand how readers have imagined the region and what purposes these imagined geographies have served for them. As Emily Satterwhite traces the changing visions of Appalachia across the decades, from the Gilded Age (1865--1895) to the present, she finds that every generation has produced an audience hungry for a romantic version of Appalachia. According to Satterwhite, best-selling fiction has portrayed Appalachia as a distinctive place apart from the mainstream United States, has offered cosmopolitan white readers a sense of identity and community, and has engendered feelings of national and cultural pride. Thanks in part to readers' faith in authors as authentic representatives of the regions they write about, Satterwhite argues, regional fiction often plays a role in creating and affirming regional identity. By mapping the geographic locations of fans, Dear Appalachia demonstrates that mobile white readers in particular, including regional elites, have idealized Appalachia as rooted, static, and protected from commercial society in order to reassure themselves that there remains an "authentic" America untouched by global currents. Investigating texts such as John Fox Jr.'s The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1908), Harriette Arnow's The Dollmaker (1954), James Dickey's Deliverance (1970), and Charles Frazier's Cold Mountain (1997), Dear Appalachia moves beyond traditional studies of regional fiction to document the functions of these narratives in the lives of readers, revealing not only what people have thought about Appalachia, but why.

Appalachian Outlook

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (3 download)

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Appalachian Journal

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
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Download or read book Appalachian Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A regional studies review.