Summary: "Ministers, church members, revivals, baptisms, shaped-note and gospel singing, faith healing, camp meetings, footwashing, snake handling, and other traditions of mountain religious heritage."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Press/Doubleday 1982
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 FOXKephart, Horace
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Tennessee Press 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 KEPSummary: Appalachian Reckoning is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow Hillbilly Elegy has cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Hillbilly Elegy to allow Appalachians from varied backgrounds to tell their own diverse and complex stories through an imaginative blend of scholarship, prose, poetry, and photography. The essays and creative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: West Virginia University Press 2019
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Summary: Steven Stoll offers a fresh, provocative account of Appalachia, from the earliest European settlers, through crucial episodes such as the Whiskey Rebellion and the founding of West Virginia, and the arrival of timber and coal companies that set off a devastating "scramble for Appalachia."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2017