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The Foxfire 45th Anniversary Book Singin', Praisin', Raisin'

Foxfire Fund, Inc.; Green, Joyce; Best, Casi
ISBN-10: 0307742598
ISBN-13: 9780307742599

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"The bestselling Foxfire series returns with a loving tribute to Appalachian culture, this time with a focus on preserving and passing down the music, the lore, and the "how-to" wisdom of earlier generations"--
Banjo Ringing Loud and Clear, Mountain Music in the Air
Introduction
"People will forget our past if it isn't recorded."
Foxfire's History
A Beautiful Life
In the Good Ol' Days
"Praise the Lord, Sammy's quit smoking!"
An interview with Sammy Green
"Don't you ever stop by my house again asking for whiskey!"
An interview with Madge Merrell
"So that's pretty well my eight-nine years."
Jack P. Nix tells us about his career
"But he was a stinker, that boy of mine."
An interview with Lillie Billingsley
"He had his head stuck up, and Mama shot him."
Memories from David "Lightnin'" Callenback
"I don't feel like I'm Republican; I know I am."
An interview with Carlee Heaton
"Most of the toys I had was homemade."
Coyl Justice shares childhood memories
"The first airplane … we thought is was the Lord a-comin'."
An interview with Vaughn Billingsley
"You either moonshined or you sold corn to moonshiners."
Memories from Allen English
"Castro, he invited me to come see him."
Tommy Irvin on forty years as ag commissioner
Knoxville Girl
Crime Close to Home
"A ripple of dramatic emotion swept over the courtroom."
The 1939 murder of Grace Bingham Brock
Hell-Bent and Whiskey Bound: A Scaly Mountain Murder
As told by Lillie Billingsley
"Well, now, this is a true story."
A story of birth and death from Melissa Rogers
Last words, in a choked voice: "Good-bye, men."
The hanging of Will Brown
"Yeah, that stuff's a-growin' wild up there."
Life and times of former sheriff Marley Cannon
"Machine Gun Bandits Hold Up Bank of Clayton"
1934 bank robbery as recalled by Huell Bramlett
"I ain't made no liquor in a long time."
Bass Dickery, "the Wild Russian"
"Let me tell you about Bass."
Bill White says, "We hit it off good"
"Oh, Lord, if you won't help me, don't help them."
The legend of the Moccasin gang
A Legacy Lives On
Sam McMahan on the loss of the Woodards
Barbara Allen
Tales and Legends
"This happened on a cold, windy winter night."
Family ghost stories from Melissa Rogers
"Our cemetery is haunted. Did you know it?"
Louise Tabor relates a tale for Halloween
"If you believe in spirits at all, like I do …"
Bob Justus talks about the "little people"
The Legend of the Deer and the Witch
Lillie Billingsley's "talk that my daddy told me"
"You may not believe this, but they say …"
Numerous Rabun legends from several people
"These old mountains have lots of magic."
Fairy tales and folklore from Clyde Hollifield
"I wasn't hallucinating."
Greg Stancil's true encounter with the devil
Echoes
Mountain Music Fills the Air
"We went to the Grand Ole Opry in 1960."
Curtis Blackwell
"I like the ol' brother-style duet stuff."
Wallace "Josh" Crowe
A Story and a Song
David Holt
"It's been real, and it's been fun, but it ain't been real fun!"
LV and Mary Mathis
A Family Tradition
Mountain Faith
Fishers of Men
The Primitive Quartet
A Band Is Born
George Reynolds and The Foxfire Boys
"Because He Loved Me"
Morris Stancil and his son, Greg Stancil
The Banjo Can Also Touch the Heart
Dale Tilley
"I'm a musician."
Gary Waldrep
"Emergency services pronounced me dead at the scane."
Young Harmony
Daddy Was a Farmer
School Farm Families
Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School Farm Family Program
Dr. Karl Anderson
"I think it was the people that made it so special."
Frances Fry Deal
"Jack Acree … washed my mouth out with soap!"
Jimmy Deal
"What I've got now, I picked up from Rabun Gap School."
James Adams
Farmer's Daughter
Jo-Anne Stiles Hubbs
"You just enjoyed living."
J. T. Coleman
"Mama ordered one hundred little biddy chickens."
William Thurmond
"Life was hard, but there were fun times also."
Harold Thurmond
"Being on the school farm was a wonderful thing!"
Doug Nix
"I knowed there wasn't nobody else for me."
Lucy Webb and her daughter Mary Webb Kitchens
"Raise 'em, feed 'em, and kill 'em."
Doris Carpenter and here son Jim Carpenter
"I can remember in the fall of the year …"
Bobbie Dills Carter
"They provided the house, and we provided the labor."
Marjorie Robinson and here son Morris Robinson
"It was really a blessing for us."
Tommy and Emma Chastain
Cotton Gins and Sawmills
The Jordan Family
With His own Two Hands
We'll Tell You How
Tying a True Lover's Knot
Research by Lee Carpenter
The Adaptable Five-in-One Sled
Kyle Bolen
Building an Oak Shaving Horse
With Claud Connell
Chair Bottoming with Poplar Bark
Harriet Echols, Elvin Cabe, and Nelson Cabe
Raising Native Azaleas from Seed
Coyl Justive
Forging a Traditional Drawknife
Barry Stiles
Braiding a Leather Bullwhip
Frank Vinson
The Past Meets the Present
A Closing Letter from Foxfire President Ann Moore
Experiencing Traditional Music
Southeastern Bluegrass and Gospel Festivals
Editors and Staff
Contributors
Joyce Greenis Canada Research Chair in Aboriginal Canadian Studies at the University of Manitoba.


List price: $21.50
Edition: 2011
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 528
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.43 lbs.
Language: English

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