How we talked
Subtitle: and, Common folks
By: Verna Mae Slone ; foreword for How We Talked by Michael B. Montgomery ;  foreword for Common Folks by Sidney Saylor Farr ; illustrations by Len Slone.
Contributors: Slone, Len.; Slone, Verna Mae, 1914-
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky; The University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington, KY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780813192093
Subjects: English language -- Provincialisms -- Kentucky; Knott County (Ky.) -- Biography; Knott County (Ky.) -- Social life and customs; Pippa Passes (Ky.) -- Biography; Pippa Passes (Ky.) -- Social life and customs
Genres: Biography
Other titles: Common folks.
Description: Contains two books, including "How We Talked," a memoir that depicts the daily life in Caney Creek, Kentucky through Appalachian expressions and their meanings, and "Common Folks," the author's autobiography documenting her life in Pippa Passes, Kentucky.
Notes: First work originally published: Pippa Passes, Ky. : Pippa Valley Printing, 1982; 2nd work originally published: Pippa Passes, Ky. : Writers and the Appalachian Learning Laboratory, Alice Lloyd College, 1979.