Author : Robert Elkins
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
ISBN 13 : 9781570723056
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Book Synopsis Watchin' the Bluegrass Grow by : Robert Elkins
Download or read book Watchin' the Bluegrass Grow written by Robert Elkins and published by The Overmountain Press. This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cane Bottom, this book's fictional Appalachian town, boasts an assortment of made-up crusty characters who get into a story-telling contest at the depot one night—with the twist that their tales and anecdotes are pieces of real American folklore. The narrator's authentic first-person colloquialisms and comments on the progress of the evening's entertainment provide a portrait of mountain social life around 1950, still moving at a snail's pace even as the rest of America gets on the move. The second part of the book is a collection of prose poems that describe the goings-on in Cane Bottom when its residents suddenly have to cope with a religious conversion, a baptism, a wake, a funeral, and some difficulties surrounding snake handling.