... A Right Good People / / Harold F. Warren.

• VerfasserIn: Warren, Harold F.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boone, N.C. : : Appalachian Consortium Press,, 1974.
• Year of Publication: 1974
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (129 pages)

A collection of true stories gathered from the Southern Appalachian people, this book echoes the folkways and values of another era. Published in 1974, the stories collected in " ... A Right Good People" were originally published in the ###Charlotte Observer, # the largest newspaper in the Carolinas in the 1970s. These stories were written with the intention of illustrating the heritage of the Appalachian people and letting them speak about their culture and traditions for themselves.

Table of Contents

Foreword / Loyal Jones -- Selections from the Appalachian photographs of Doris Ullmann -- Selections from the photographs of Warren Brunner -- Bascom Lamar Lunsford: the squire of South Turkey Creek -- The winds of change murmur up the little laurel -- Dewey Harmon: mountain humor and gee-haw-whimmy-diddles -- Rev. Charles A. Keyes: "the parson of the hills" -- "A man's friends is all he's got" -- Pride, independence and buckets made of tree bark -- A scholar in overalls: he loves the mountains and great books -- Aggie Lowrance, a late-blooming wildflower -- Horse-tradin' over fool's gold -- A foot-stomping jam session in the old gas station -- "All the signs were wrong for pig-butchering ..." -- An Appalachian frontier homestead -- The "little war": Cherokee Indian stickball game -- The Daniel Boone wagon train -- Dr. Gratis Williams: a lament for Appalachia -- Photographic selections from Down to earth, people of Appalachia, by Kenneth Murray -- Photographic selections from Tennessee hillfolk, by Jesse Stuart and Joe Clark, H.B.S.S -- Afterword / Cratis Williams.