| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 178 pages) : illustrations |
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Interview / Laura Lee -- Sayings. In the haystack ; Heaven high and hell deep ; Sparking material ; At the dinner table ; Critters -- Mountain horse sense ; Weather ; Superstitions ; Politics ; Moonshine ; When the world fell in ; Just a selling job ; The nature of man ; Rooted and grounded in the word ; Yarns ; Tales ; Chewing the cud -- "I love my rooster" -- "Heritage." |
| Summary |
After keeping school for six years at the forks of Troublesome Creek in the Kentucky hills, James Still moved to a century-old log house between the waters of Wolfpen Creek and Dead Mare Branch, on Little Carr Creek, and became ""the man in the bushes"" to his curious neighbors. Still joined the life of the scattered community. He raised his own food, preserved fruits and vegetables for the winter, and kept two stands of bees for honey. A neighbor remarked of Still, ""He's left a good job, and come over in here and sot down."" Still did sit down and write -- the classic novel River o |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-178) |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Still, James, 1906-2001 -- Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc
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Still, James, 1906-2001 fast |
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Still, James, (1906- ) -- Notes, esquisses, etc. ram |
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Popular culture -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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Americanisms -- Appalachian Region, Southern
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Americanisms
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Popular culture
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Américanismes.
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Appalachian Region, Southern -- Literary collections
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Appalachian Region, Southern -- Quotations, maxims, etc
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Southern Appalachian Region
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Appalaches (États-Unis) -- Citations.
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Appalaches (États-Unis) -- Culture populaire.
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Literary collections
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Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc.
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Quotations
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Electronic book
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| LC no. |
90022978 |
| ISBN |
1299154905 |
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9781299154902 |
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9780813143736 |
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081314373X |
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9780813143743 |
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0813143748 |
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