Jack tales and mountain yarns
Subtitle: as told by Orville Hicks
By: transcribed and edited by Julia Taylor Ebel ; illustrated by Sherry Jensen.
Contributors: Ebel, Julia Taylor.
Publisher: Parkway Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boone, N.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933251646; 9781933251653
Subjects: Hicks, Orville; Jack tales; Tall tales
Description: "Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures the voice of the master storyteller in more than twenty transcribed stories, paired with lively pencil sketches. Having grown up in a hollow, he knows the mountain setting and his clever character Jack"--Provided by publisher.