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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Banjo Ringing Loud and Clear, Mountain Music in the Air: Introduction
“People will forget our past if it isn’t recorded.”: Foxfire’s History
A Beautiful Life: In the Good Ol’ Days
“Praise the Lord, Sammy’s quit smoking!”: An interview with Sammy Green
“Don’t you ever stop by my house again asking for whiskey!”: An interview with Madge Merrell
“So that’s pretty well my eighty-nine years.”: Jack P. Nix tells us about his career
“But he was a stinker, that boy of mine.”: An interview with Lillie Billingsley
“He had his head stuck up, and Mama shot him.”: Memories from David “Lightnin’ ” Callenback
“I don’t feel like I’m Republican; I know I am.”: An interview with Carlee Heaton
“Most of the toys I had was homemade.”: Coyl Justice shares childhood memories
“The first airplane … we thought it was the Lord a-comin’.”: An interview with Vaughn Billingsley
“You either moonshined or you sold corn to moonshiners.”: Memories from Allen English
“Castro, he invited me to come see him.”: Tommy Irvin on forty years as ag commissioner
Knoxville Girl: Crime Close to Home
“A ripple of dramatic emotion swept over the courtroom.”: The 1939 murder of Grace Bingham Brock
Hell-Bent and Whiskey Bound: A Scaly Mountain Murder: As told by Lillie Billingsley
“Well, now, this is a true story.”: A story of birth and death from Melissa Rogers
Last words, in a choked voice: “Good-bye, men.”: The hanging of Will Brown
“Yeah, that stuff’s a-growin’ wild up there.”: Life and times of former sheriff Marley Cannon
“Machine Gun Bandits Hold Up Bank Of Clayton”: 1934 bank robbery as recalled by Huell Bramlett
“I ain’t made no liquor in a long time.”: Bass Dockery, “the Wild Russian”
“Let me tell you about Bass.”: Bill White says, “We hit it off good”
“Oh, Lord, if you won’t help me, don’t help them.”: The legend of the Moccasin gang
A Legacy Lives On: Sam McMahan on the loss of the Woodards
Barbara Allen: Tales and Legends
“This happened on a cold, windy winter night.”: Family ghost stories from Melissa Rogers
“Our cemetery is haunted. Did you know it?”: Louise Tabor relates a tale for Halloween
“If you believe in spirits at all, like I do …”: Bob Justus talks about the “little people”
The Legend of the Deer and the Witch: Lillie Billingsley’s “tale that my daddy told me”
“You may not believe this, but they say …”: Numerous Rabun legends from several people
“These old mountains have lots of magic.”: Fairy tales and folklore from Clyde Hollifield
“I wasn’t hallucinating.”: Greg Stancil’s true encounter with the devil
Echoes: Mountain Music Fills the Air
“We went to the Grand Ole Opry in 1960.”: Curtis Blackwell
“I like the ol’ brother-style duet stuff.”: Wallace “Josh” Crowe
A Story and a Song: David Holt
“It’s been real, and it’s been fun, but it ain’t been real fun!”: LV and Mary Mathis
A Family Tradition: Mountain Faith
Fishers of Men: The Primitive Quartet
A Band Is Born: George Reynolds and The Foxfire Boys
“Because He Loved Me”: Morris Stancil and his son, Greg Stancil
The Banjo Can Also Touch the Heart: Dale Tilley
“I’m a musician.”: Gary Waldrep
“Emergency services pronounced me dead at the scene.”: Young Harmony
Daddy Was a Farmer: School Farm Families
Rabun Gap–Nacoochee School Farm Family Program: Dr. Karl Anderson
“I think it was the people that made it so special.”: Frances Fry Deal
“Jack Acree … washed my mouth out with soap!”: Jimmy Deal
“What I’ve got now, I picked up from Rabun Gap School.”: James Adams
Farmer’s Daughter: Jo-Anne Stiles Hubbs
“You just enjoyed living.”: J. T. Coleman
“Mama ordered one hundred little biddy chickens.”: William Thurmond
“Life was hard, but there were fun times also.”: Harold Thurmond
“Being on the school farm was a wonderful thing!”: Doug Nix
“I knowed there wasn’t nobody else for me.”: Lucy Webb and her daughter Mary Webb Kitchens
“Raise ’em, feed ’em, and kill ’em.”: Doris Carpenter and her son Jim Carpenter
“I can remember in the fall of the year …”: Bobbie Dills Carter
“They provided the house, and we provided the labor.”: Marjorie Robinson and her son Morris Robinson
“It was really a blessing for us.”: Tommy and Emma Chastain
Cotton Gins and Sawmills: The Jordan Family
With His Own Two Hands: We’ll Tell You How
Tying a True Lover’s Knot: Research by Lee Carpenter
The Adaptable Five-in-One Sled: Kyle Bolen
Building an Oak Shaving Horse: With Claud Connell
Chair Bottoming with Poplar Bark: Harriet Echols, Elvin Cabe, and Nelson Cabe
Raising Native Azaleas from Seed: Coyl Justice
Forging a Traditional Drawknife: Barry Stiles
Braiding a Leather Bullwhip: Frank Vinson
The Past Meets the Present: A Closing Letter from Foxfire President Ann Moore
Experiencing Traditional Music: Southeastern Bluegrass and Gospel Festivals
Editors and Staff
Contributors
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