Appalachian heart
By: Lynn Coffey
Publisher: Quartet Books
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Charlottesville, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9780615774541
Subjects: Social life and customs; Appalachians (People); Oral history; Manners and customs
Other titles: Oral histories of the mountain elders
Description: This book contains "the current oral histories of 19 native people still living in the Virginia highlands where the author makes her home. The material is new, fresh and full of rich history taken from those who can remember what life was like before electricity, telephones and indoor plumbing; before technology became a household word. It was a time when survival depended on how well the crops and gardens grew.  A time when the labor was hard but brought an inward satisfaction to those living the old way. When the last generation of mountain folk are gone most of the knowledge of the rugged culture that nourished and sustained them will be gone as well." --From author's website.
Table of contents: title: D. Devereaux Davis; title: Lila Lee Wilson Campbell; title: Lowell Humphreys; title: Mary Bridge Wright and Martha Bridge Ramsey; title: Ted Hughes; title: Agnes Duncan Thompson; title: Glenn Allen; title: Madeline White Grant; title: Clemon Lee Lawhorne; title: Lorean Falls Painter; title: Buck Harris and Lura Coffey Steele; title: Frances and Mary Cash; title: Icem Lawhorne; title: LaRue Fauber Wilson; title: William Henry Coffey; title: Ruby Nannie Coffey; title: Poem : The chimney still stands.