Backroads
Subtitle: plain folk and simple livin'
By: Lynn Coffey
Publisher: Quartet Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9780615312231
Subjects: Country life; Social life and customs; Biography
Other titles: Plain folk and simple living
Table of contents: title: John Massie Coffey; title: Butchering hogs; title: Rendering lard; title: Digging ginseng; title: Mountain recipes; title: Ethna Fauber Seaman; title: Signs and superstitions, remedies, and cures; title: Chair caning; title: Making a kraut mallet; title: Homemade sauerkraut; title: Oscar Randolph Fitch; title: Churning butter; title: Beekeeping; title: Foxfire; title: The Love Post Office; title: Early mountain schools; title: Diary of a mountain schoolteacher; title: Later schoolteachers; title: Teressie Fitzgerald Coffey; title: Riving wooden shingles; title: Burial practices; title: Grave digging; title: Handmade coffins; title: Preserving fruits and vegetables; title: Guy Willard Hewitt; title: Horsepower on the family farm; title: Spring sheep shearing; title: Rural route carriers; title: Sallie Rittenhouse Phillips; title: Logging in western Virginia; title: The Blue Ridge Parkway; title: Poem: Backroads.