Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
"A haunting portrayal of the hardscrabble lives of Appalachian women and a tale of heartbreak and unending love . 'Maizee Hurd was an easy target for hard times,' according to Burdy Luttrell, the town healer. Burdy is a Melungeon woman with striking features and mysterious ways. She owns the land the Hurds leased following their marriage on June 3, 1940. Maizee moved upriver at the age of ten after tragedy struck, and she was sent off to be raised...
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
ix, 421 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and...
6) Songcatcher
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When musicologist Doctor Lily Penleric is passed over for a prominent teaching position, she decides to leave the city to visit her sister in the rugged mountains of Appalachia. Here she discovers a wellspring of emotional tunes passed down from the original Irish and Scottish immigrants who settled in the area. Determined to document the history of the songs, she immerses herself in mountain life, falls in love with a local musician, and is profoundly...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Request an item not in the catalog. Submit Request