num_pages: 126
description: Four well-known experts on the folkways of the Shenandoah Valley have combined their talents. Folklorist John Heatwole considers many fascinating aspects of local folklore including witches and hexing. Local historian Nancy T. Sorrells brings a view of the role of cattle in the Valley life including cattle drives and Valley cowboys. The importance of crafts, especially pottery and basket making is the theme Scott Suter, authority on material culture of the Valley. Food historian Danielle Torisky offers foodways of the Civil War days, including local recipes that were comfort food to the Valley folk.
language: English
title: Portals to Shenandoah Valley Folkways
publisher: Lot's Wife Publishing