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Sto caricando le informazioni... Cabins in the Laureldi Muriel Earley Sheppard
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. This is an interesting blend of history and folklore about Western North Carolina, specifically Yancey and Mitchell Counties. While Sheppard does not cite her sources in many of the historical portions, it is clear she has read court files concerning many of the incidents she describes. Much of the folklore portion is told through the form of ballad. In fact, one of the ballads and incidents it described was the basis for Sharyn McCrumb's The Ballad of Frankie Silver. Most readers from Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina will recognize the author's accomplishment in storytelling. Even though it is older, it has held up well because of this. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley -- an isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains. Sheppard began visiting her neighbors and forming friendships in remote coves and rocky clearings, and in 1935 her account of life in the mountains -- Cabins in the Laurel -- was published. The book included 128 striking photographs by the well-known Chapel Hill photographer, Bayard Wootten, a frequent visitor to the area. The early reviews of Cabins in the Laurel were overwhelmingly positive, but the mountain people -- Sheppard's friends and subjects -- initially felt that she had portrayed them as too old-fashioned, even backward. As novelist John Ehle shows in his foreword, though, fifty years have made a huge difference, and the people of the Toe River Valley have been among its most affectionate readers. This new large-format edition, which makes use of many of Wootten's original negatives, will introduce Sheppard's words and Wootten's photography to a whole new generation of readers -- in the Valley and beyond. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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