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Audiobooks. Ballads. bibliography biography Country Country. Domestic fiction. Guidebooks. Hymns. Interviews.Summary: "A work of cultural anthropology and a fascinating exploration of the vanishing oral traditions of Southern Appalachia"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, A Division of Random House LLC 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.2 FOXKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2007
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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 641.0973 KINKingsolver, Barbara.
Summary: When Kingsolver and her family move from suburban Arizona to rural Appalachia, they take on a new challenge: to spend a year on a locally produced diet, paying close attention to the provenance of all they consume. "Our highest shopping goal was to get our food from so close to home, we'd know the person who grew it. Often that turned out to be ourselves as we learned to produce what we needed,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.0973 KingsSummary: "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 FOXDabney, Joseph Earl.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cumberland House 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5974 DABMorgan, Robert
Summary: A novel on the harsh life in the Appalachian Mountains at the turn of the century. The heroine is Julie Harmon whose work load includes hauling water, butchering a hog, rendering lard, plucking a turkey, baking and preserving--all described in detail.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORMcCrumb, Sharyn
Summary: Four sons--a car salesman, a soldier, a naturalist and an actor--gather in Tennessee to build a coffin for their dying father. The novel describes their conflicts as they decide on the future of their farm, which has been in the family since 1790 and which a real estate developer wants to buy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCCHudson, Patricia L.
Summary: A presentation of American historic sites and museums in the Carolinas and the Appalachian states. Features up to date site information which includes location, visiting hours, phone numbers and fee information. Maps and illustrations are included.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.5 CAROLINAS HUDWilkinson, Crystal
Summary: "A lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden stories of Black Appalachians through powerful essays and forty comforting recipes from the Poet Laureate of Kentucky. Years ago, when O. Henry Prize-winning writer Crystal Wilkinson was baking a jam cake, she felt her late grandmother's presence. She soon realized that she was not the only cook in her kitchen. There were an abundance of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2024
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5975 WILLundy, Ronni.
Summary: "Victuals is an exploration of the foodways, people, and places of Appalachia. Written by Ronni Lundy, regarded as the most engaging authority on the region, the book guides us through the surprisingly diverse history--and vibrant present--of food in theMountain South. Victualsexplores the diverse and complex food scene of the Mountain South through recipes, stories, traditions, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter/Publishers 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 LUNContents: Called to the foreign field ; I am bound for the promised land ; Where we'll never grow old ; When they ring the golden bells ; To the work ; Do not wait 'till I'm laid beneath the clay ; The days of my childhood plays ; We shall be reunited (Alfred G. Karnes) -- Crossed old Jordan's stream (Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers) -- I am on my way to heaven (Hill Brothers with Willie Simmons) -- Music...
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Publisher / Publication Date: JSP Records 2005
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RELIGIOUS MOUWatson, Doc
Contents: My dear old southern home -- The ship that never returned -- Your lone journey -- My friend Jim -- No telephone in Heaven -- Dream of the miner's child -- Wreck of the Number Nine -- Grandfather's clock -- Don't say goodbye if you love me -- Sleep baby sleep -- Signal light -- That silver haired daddy of mine -- Life is like a river.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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Summary: Since 1972, the Foxfire books have preserved and celebrated the culture of Southern Appalachia for hundreds of thousands of readers. In Travels with Foxfire, native son Phil Hudgins and Foxfire student Jessica Phillips travel from Georgia to the Carolinas, Tennessee to Kentucky, collecting the stories of the men and women who call the region home. Across more than thirty essays, we discover...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 975 HUDContents: Wandering boy -- Guide me o thou great Jehovah -- False true lover -- Listen to the roll -- The day is past and gone -- Home over yonder -- Johnny -- Rich old Jade -- Feather dove -- Unquiet grave.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK HOUSummary: Traces the history of "Foxfire" magazine from 1966 to the present, exploring the magazine's philosophy of simple living, ideas for creative self-sufficiency, and efforts to preserve the history and culture of Appalachia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 FOXDeRosier, Linda Scott
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kentucky 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.914 DERSummary: First published in 1972, The Foxfire Book was a surprise bestseller that brought Appalachia's philosophy of simple living to hundreds of thousands of readers. Whether you wanted to hunt game, bake the old-fashioned way, or learn the art of successful moonshining, The Foxfire Museum and Heritage Center had a contact who could teach you how with clear, step-by-step instructions. Today, Foxfire's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.5 FOXKossoy Sisters
Contents: Bowling Green (2:10) -- I never will marry (2:45) -- I'll fly away (2:29) -- The Darby ram (2:53) -- In the pines (3:16) -- The banks of the Ohio (3:17) -- The wagoner's lad (3:32) -- Poor Ellen Smith (2:25) -- Single girl (2:13) -- What will we do with the baby o (1:43) -- Down in a willow garden (2:33) -- Little birdie (2:50) -- Willie Moore (3:02) -- Engine 143 (4:14).
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Tradition 1997
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD COUNTRY KOSSmith, Hobart
Contents: The devil's dream -- Drunken hiccups -- The cuckoo bird -- Banging breakdown -- Arkansas traveler -- Railroad Bill -- Claude Allen -- Hangman, swing your rope -- Wayfaring stranger -- Sourwood Mountain -- Going down the road feeling bad -- Pateroller -- Chinquipin pie -- Last chance -- Jim along -- Two brothers (The little schoolboy) -- Ellen SMith -- Graveyard blues -- K.C. blues --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rounder Records 2001