Books of Appalachian Region
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Death and Dying in Central Appalachia: Changing Attitudes and Practices
By James K. CrissmanFlorence Reece , “ Which Side Are You On ? " in A. Lomax , W. Guthrie , and P. Seeger , Hard Hitting Songs for Hard - hit People ( New York : Oak Publishers , 1967 ) , 176 . 84. Gene Autry's “ The Death of Mother Jones ” was recorded in ...
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Appalachian Childhood: Memories of Growing Up in Rural Southern Ohio During the Mid 20th Century
By Marilyn Thornton SchraffCarlos married Carrie Gruber and they had three children , young Carlos ( married Barbara Stanley ) , Joanne ( married Howard Payne ) , and Juanita ( married Bob Linn ) , Johnny Bob's mother . Carlos was also a good checker player and ...
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Voice Lessons: Essays from Appalachia
By Karen Salyer McElmurrayThe essays are arranged in four major sections: early years and experiences of faith; the work of hands and the work of classrooms, paralleling her mother's diagnosis of Alzheimer's; writing and academia and the mother, disappearing into a ...
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Moonshine: Illicit Spirits in the Appalachian Hills of Rural Southern Ohio
By Marilyn Thornton SchraffThomas G. Kelly obtained donations for the materials and built a Freewill Baptist church on Campbell Drive in Ironton during his spare time , with a little help from some volunteers . There was an article in The Ironton Tribune ...
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Appalachian Whitewater, the Central Mountains
By Ed GroveROCK FAS AD 3160 BUCKS KNOB STATE CROSSING AOAD Wolfden North Short Prong nyum STATE RIVER Crooked FOREST STEYER Kearney GORMAN 50 2 50 8 50 WESTERNPORY Bloomingti 1 HILL WILDLIFE Lakle Jenkins MANAGEMENT Lake AREA.
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Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company, 1910/1945
By Geoffrey L. BuckleyChristine M. Rosen, “Costs and Benefits of Pollution Control in Pennsylvania, New York, and New Jersey, 1840–1906,” Geographical Review 88 (April 1998): 219–40. In reference to a similar case that was playing out in Maryland, ...
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Wildlife, Wildflowers, and Wild Activities: Exploring Southern Appalachia
By Jennifer A. Bauerremember that moss grows primarily on the outside , where the sunlight can reach it . Moss will not thrive inside the darkness of the log . Use your thread to make small spider webs inside and on the log . Short pieces of thread can be ...
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Appalachian Mountain Religion: A History
By Deborah Vansau McCauleyRandolph , Corliss Fitz . A History of Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia ; Including the Woodbridge and Salemville Churches in Pennsylvania and the Shrewsbury Church in New Jersey . Plainfield , N.J .: American Sabbath Tract Society ...
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Spring Girls
By Karen KatchurShe's the only one who survived...and the only one who can help find the killer.
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A Walk in the Woods
By Bill BrysonAn instant classic, riotously funny, "A Walk in the Woods will add a whole new audience to the legions of Bill Bryson fans.
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Glass Towns: Industry, Labor and Political Economy in Appalachia, 1890-1930s
By Ken Fones-WolfExploring a path not taken in Appalachian economic development--one that might have led away from underdevelopment
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The Story Keeper
By Lisa Wingate" When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take ...
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The Borrowed World: A Novel of Post-Apocalyptic Collapse
By Franklin HortonThousands of travelers become stuck after ISIS attacks the United States, leaving the nation's physical, electrical, and technological infrastructure in tatters.
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Signs, Cures, & Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore
By Gerald MilnesThe various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs of the German immigrants that settled in the Appalachian frontier are described in this study that draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia.
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Appalachia in Regional Context
By Dwight B. Billings, Ann E. KingsolverDrawing on cultural anthropology, sociology, geography, media studies, political science, gender studies, ethnography, social theory, art, music, and literature, this volume furthers the exploration of new perspectives on one of America's ...
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Appalachian Whitewater: The Central mountains, the premier canoeing and Kayaking streams of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia
Appalachian Whitewater: The Central mountains, the premier canoeing and Kayaking streams of Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia
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A Bestiary
By Richard Hague... dwelling that we call our consciousness , goes down into unsuspected Aladdin's caves . - Joseph Campbell , The Hero With A Thousand Faces SINU nepali This one PACP - QJU - 94EW A Bestiary ᏤᏤᏤᏤᏤᏤᏤ WYT More . O , concure ...
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Mitchell Tolle: American Artist
By Garry Barker, Mitchell D. TolleTo quietly follow in these distant footprints, to honor whatever slice of ordinary humanity which once was here, is to re-live an almost personal history, to feel what those people once felt, to share their time and lingering presence on ...
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Appalachian Cultural Competency: A Guide for Medical, Mental Health, and Social Service Professionals
By Susan Emley KeefeRural Community in the Appalachian South . Lexington : University of Kentucky Press . Crissman , James K. 1994. Death and Dying in Central Appalachia : Changing Attitudes and Practices . Urbana : University of Illinois Press .
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Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women's Studies
By Elizabeth Sanders Delwiche EngelhardtAunt Alfreda stares straight toward me, above the tangle of apple peels mounding up above the big gray granite pan in her lap.“Never to give up or make excuses.” But they're dead set on keeping control of the conversation when Mrs.