Come Go Home with Me Stories by Sheila Kay Adams

Name: Come Go Home with Me Stories by Sheila Kay Adams
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ISBN: 9780807845363

ISBN-10: 0807845361

ISBN-13: 9780807845363

Edition: 1995

Authors: Sheila Kay Adams

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Sheila Adams has been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for over twenty years. A native of Madison County, North Carolina, she was introduced to the tale-telling tradition by her great-aunt "Granny,'"well-known balladeer Dellie Chandler Norton. This collection of Adams's stories provides a rare portrait of a distinctive mountain community and charts the development of an artist's unique voice. The tales range from stories of heroic, sometimes fierce, mountain settlers to the comic adventures of local drifters and tricksters, from magical childhood encounters to adult rites of passage. We meet Bertha and the snake handlers, local preacher Manassey Fender (who "looked like a…

Book details

List price: $23.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 9/11/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 136
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.32" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



Foreword



Preface


It's a Sign


Marking a Trail


Grubbing Out the Stump


Granny Cloe


The Easter Frock


Traitor


George Foster and the Haint


The Ghost Dog


The Christmas Miracle


Taking Jete Home


When Ma Died


You Best Not Nod Off to Sleep


A Special Dance


Minnie Laws and the German Police Dog


Waterfalls and Rainbows


Come See the Kittens


Breaddaddy and the Furriner


The Mysterious Language of the Lord


Little Corrie and Otis


Briar's Baptism


Anything to Save a Soul


Bertha and the Snake Handlers


Whatever Happened to John Parrish's Boy


Off to Ivydale


A Ballad by a Different Name


Cherry Goes to a Party


Nellie's Trip to D.C.


In the Works


Answers to Life's Questions


Granny's Birthday


Ending Granny's Story


Weather Breeder


Afterword


Acknowledgments