Yesterday in the Hills
1st Edition
Published on 27. October 2016
143 pages
978-1-78720-194-1 (ISBN)
Description
Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best-seen from the inside and mediated through the heart.Yesterday in the Hills is built upon the bedrock of experience and memory, but its sharply drawn characters and beautifully proportioned narrative transcend reminiscence and realistically depict hill-country life as it once was."e;Authentic, flavorful chapters about old-time hill people of North Georgia, their backbreaking field work, their song and play, their courtship, their neighborly exchange of help with the chores, their homemade remedies for illness and homemade practically everything else, their humor and their individuality."e;-Publishers Weekly"e;A gentle, humorous personal recollection of real people and the way they lived and worked."e;-Celestine Sibley
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- PREFACE
- THE HOPKINSES
- 1-THE ONE-ROOM SCHOOL
- JAUNY LOOMIS
- 2-SHARP MOUNTAIN CHURCH
- BEDNEY HOLCOMB
- 3-THE HUDGINS FAMILY (As Remembered and Told by Jess Hudgins)
- THE HOLCOMBS AND THE MOSSES
- 4-FIELD WORK (As Remembered and Told by Jess Hudgins)
- THE FINDLEYS
- 5-FARM ANIMALS
- BUD WHEELER
- 6-GOOD NEIGHBORS AND GOOD TIMES
- DOC JONES
- 7-SICKNESS AND HOMEMADE REMEDIES
- BLUE BOLING
- 8-SIGNS AND MYSTERIES
- THE NEGROES-THE JORDAN FAMILY
- 9-THE GREAT WORLD COMES TO THE HILLS
- DICK AND DOCK HARVEY
- 10-TWO WORLDS MEET
- AUNT CORA WHEELER
- REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER
