The life and times of Ray Hicks
Subtitle: keeper of the Jack tales
By: Lynn Salsi.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781572336216
Subjects: Hicks, Ray, -- 1922-2003; Storytellers -- North Carolina -- Biography; Folklorists -- North Carolina -- Biography; Tales -- North Carolina; North Carolina -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Once upon a mountain; title: Livin' like Jack; title: Up agin it; title: Work, not play; title: The gift of medicine; title: Jack of all trades; title: Pick britches; title: Big footprint; title: The two-room school; title: What it was to be Baptist; title: Stone Mountain; title: The goin' was rough; title: A taste of shine; title: Gettin' a ride; title: Takin' the lead; title: Depression days; title: Left behind; title: Never pass this way again; title: Courtin'; title: Married life; title: The worst of it; title: Storytellin' for a little pay; title: Row yore own boat.