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Sto caricando le informazioni... Don't Go Up Kettle Creek: Verbal Legacy of the Upper Cumberlanddi William Lynwood Montell
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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 oral history of the Upper Cumberland region that covers a number of counties in Tennessee and Kentucky. This was particularly interesting to me because three of my grandparents came from this region and a number of relatives still live there. Montell includes many of the interviews he collected in the '70s as well as a map, photos, and folklore of the region. Additionally, there is a great deal of history that I never knew about: steamboating on the Cumberland, logging, the local "gangs' creating mayhem through the Civil War, and the livestock drives. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Don't Go Up Kettle Creek is a historical portrayal of a river and the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries. Drawing upon the personal recollections and oral traditions of longtime residents, William Lynwood Montell describes a century and a half of life in the Upper Cumberland. Montell organized his material according to the topics that dominated his tape-recorded conversations with residents of the area-farming, logging and rafting, steamboating, the Civil War-topics that the people themselves saw as important in their history. In reconstructing the past, the author also illuminates the relationship between geographic and economic factors in the region; the prolonged affects of a cataclysmic event, the Civil War, on the isolated area; and the impact of modernization, in the form of "hard" roads and cheap, TVA-supplied electricity, on the traditional ways of people. First published in 1983, this book is now available in paperback for the first time. Included with this edition is a new foreword in which Montell and Mary Robbins, executive director of the Tennessee Upper Cumberland Tourism Association, describe changes in the area that have occured since the book's initial appearance. The Author: William Lynwood Montell, now retired, was coordinator of programs in folk and interculturual studies at Western Kentucky University. His numerous books include Ghosts along the Cumberland and The Saga of Coe Ridge. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)976.8History and Geography North America South Central U.S. TennesseeClassificazione LCVotoMedia: Nessun voto.Sei tu?Diventa un autore di LibraryThing. |