The life and times of Ray Hicks : keeper of the Jack tales / Lynn Salsi.
"Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Best known for his traditional storytelling and also for saving the original Beech Mountain Jack tales brought to the Appalachian Mountains by his ancestors as early as 1776, Hicks was conscious of the role he played in the preservation of oral storytelling. Many of those stories are included in The Life and Times of Ray Hicks." "Born in 1922, Ray lived his whole life in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. (Although it finally got a refrigerator and electric lights, Ray's place never did get a telephone, indoor plumbing, or a radio or television.) It seems he knew everything there was to know about living off the land and about his family's history. A lot of what he knew is in this new book." "Hicks made his public storytelling debut in 1951, when a local schoolteacher invited him to her class. In 1973, Ray performed at the very first International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He appeared at every one until he became too weak to attend. He died on Easter Sunday in 2003." "Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and visits, painstakingly pieced together by Lynn Salsi, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks comes as close as possible to capturing the way Ray talked. Part memoir and part biography, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks presents, sometimes in Ray Hicks's own words, the most important part of his long, colorful life-a life scarcely less interesting than the Jack Tales he told so well."--BOOK JACKET.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781572336216
- ISBN: 1572336218
- Physical Description: xx, 206 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, [2008]
- Copyright: ©2008
Content descriptions
General Note: | Includes index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Once upon a mountain -- Livin' like Jack -- Up agin it -- Work, not play -- The gift of medicine -- Jack of all trades -- Pick britches -- Big footprint -- The two-room school -- What it was to be Baptist -- Stone Mountain -- The goin' was rough -- A taste of shine -- Gettin' a ride -- Takin' the lead -- Depression days -- Left behind -- Never pass this way again -- Courtin' -- Married life -- The worst of it -- Storytellin' for a little pay -- Row yore own boat. |
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Alleghany Public Library | 398.2092 SAL (Text) | 30664100181806 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Alleghany Public Library | 398.2092 SAL (Text) | 30664100171831 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Ashe County Public Library | B HICKS (Text) | 50503011040229 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Avery County Morrison Public Library | NCB Hicks (Text) | 31111002363933 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Canton Library | NC B Hicks (Text) | 33115006723321 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Forsyth Central | NC B Hicks, Ray (Text) | 0112518364305 | North Carolina Collection | Noncirculating | - |
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Leath Memorial Library | 398.2092 (Text) | 58198000750318 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
Lenoir Library | LHR Biography HICKS Ray Sa (Text) | 50669012001187 | Local History Reference | Available | - |
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