My mountains, my people. / Native flower sketches by Dorothy Luxton Parris.
Record details
- Physical Description: 259 pages. : illustrations. ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Asheville, N.C. : Citizen-Times Pub. Co., [©1957]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | A heartbeat of molded time -- A century of golden memories -- Burning logs whisper secrets -- Pinchin' times -- The old grindstone -- A mountain wind blows a long, long mile -- Autumn is time for apple butter -- Soap-makin' art lives on -- The old ones know the signs -- King of the square dancers -- Rockin' chairs and lemon juleps -- Granny Donaldson and the cow blanket -- Living symbols of a lost cause -- Everlastin's settin' chairs -- Encyclopedia of superstitutions -- The vittles is fittin' -- Tiffany of the hills -- Loafins gettin to be a lost art -- Greatest tracker in all the land -- The patient weaver -- Good coffee ought'a have a bite -- Light-'n-hitch -- Mighty peart woman with a skillet -- December in the hills -- Nothin' like battlin' stick for noise -- In Huckleberry time courtin's a pleasure -- Artist with ax handles -- How Molly got her ear bobs -- Maybe the ground hog knows -- Last of a shoemakin' clan -- Pipe-maker to the Cherokee -- Autumn's rainbows aglow -- Lullaby of buckeye -- A mountain man and his hound dog -- The Gillespie rifle-gun -- Grandma's cooking -- She shore loved her man -- Loggin's days and loggin' ways. First Indian republic -- A frontier gypsy -- Of an angel and a giant of a man -- Mountain balladeer singing reporter -- Potlikker and corn pone -- And that's to say Buncombe -- Charming old lady makes fine moonshine -- October's a mountain prophecy -- "Pucker mouth" -- A tear for a by-gone era -- Give me a good corn-cob pipe -- Old chimney monument to past -- Gritted bread -- Ballad singers becoming scarce -- When anvil-shottin' rocked the hills -- Frog rains mighty common -- Never cuss a man's hound dog -- June's a whippoorwill a-callin' -- Rustic imagery disappearing -- Old way of life dying -- No cause to be lonesome -- Johnny Holsclaw gets a ballad -- Mineral of the rainbow -- My mountain woman -- He rightly knowed b'ars -- Tell weather by rhododendron's curl -- Sword of a preacher -- Ole-time shape-note singing still lives -- The Fasola singers of Dutch Cove -- November's full of hound music -- Day of the rived shingle -- Pine resin made finest chewin' -- Valley of rubies -- Missing buckeye causes crisis -- Grandma smoked a clay pipe -- Groun'-hawg meat's good eatin' -- Whittlin', swappin', and throwin' -- Now, talk about freezin' weather -- Handlebar mustache and shavin' mug -- Always money in Galaxin' -- There's he-holly and she-holly -- Ghostly choir of Roan Mountain -- Of the chimes and the gift of life. |
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- 37 of 40 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Marion Library | NC REF398 PAR (Text) | 37810998108814 | Local History Reference | Available | - |
Old Fort Branch Library | 917.56 PAR (Text) | 37810435334551 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |