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Mountain echoes / a Collection of Articles by Edie Hutchins Burnette.

Burnette, Edie Hutchins, (author.).

Summary:

"Mountain Echoes is a compilation of stories, all results of a sifting through the history of Haywood County in Western North Carolina. Some are specific to the setting while others capture the essence of most anywhere in the Southern Appalachians. Taming a wilderness and transforming it into a called home is a tough job that requires people of strength, foresight, ingenuity, and wisdom. The reader will meet some of them here. Look for beauty in the physical surroundings, joy in square dancing and mountain music, humor in "Pulpit Crashers" and superstitions, compassion in "Mountain Girl," cruelty in "Captain Kirk," desperation in "Nance Dude," uniqueness in "Popcorn Sutton," and determination and pride everywhere."-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781939289827
ISBN: 1939289823
Physical Description: ix, 418 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Publisher: Johnson City, TN : Jan-Carol Publishing, Inc, 2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Haywood County is my Home, my Mountains, My People -- You People Sure Talk Funny -- Early Leaders -- Civil War Excerpts -- Old-timey Medicine a Mixed Bag -- Way it Was -- Grist Mills -- A Stitch in Time -- Paper Mill Grows, Nurtures a Town -- Readin', Writin' and 'Rithmetic -- Good Samaritans -- Just Meanderings -- Canton, Clyde, Hazelwood, Lake Junaluska, Maggie Valley, Waynesville -- Communities -- Forces of Nature -- Lenoir Plantation -- I-40 Through Haywood County -- Various and Sundry Stories -- Men and Women to Match the Mountains -- Popcorn Sutton, Mountain Moonshiner -- Mountain Born and Bred -- More Meanderings -- Mountain Music and Dance -- Folkmoot USA, North Carolina's International Folk Festival -- Bits amd Pieces.