Stories I Lived to Tell
eBook - ePub

Stories I Lived to Tell

An Appalachian Memoir

  1. 152 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Stories I Lived to Tell

An Appalachian Memoir

About this book

Stories I Lived to Tell is more than a selection of stories from revered mountain storyteller Gary Carden—it is a testimony of a distinguished culture, sense of place, and spirit of community that connects the Appalachian past to its present. This memoir-in-stories invites the reader to move beyond stereotypes to experience the scenes, characters, and community of the author’s childhood and formative years, intersecting with the regional folktales and mythologies that fired his imagination. It is not only a fascinating window into an Appalachian community in the middle of the twentieth century but also an insightful reminder of who that community is today, in spite of the external changes.

Featuring an introduction by documentarian Neal Hutcheson, this book is a moving, often funny, collection by a talented storyteller who cuts through cliché and sanctimony with his powerful words.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction: Gary Carden, Storyteller
  9. Half-Title Page - 1
  10. Dedcation Page 2
  11. Mother's Visit
  12. Memory
  13. Dear Miss Sadie
  14. Mason Jars in the Flood
  15. The Raindrop Waltz
  16. The Drowned Babe
  17. Jack Frost
  18. Uncle Albert
  19. Charlie's Funny Books
  20. Bad Blood
  21. Abner, the Wild Monkey of the Smokies
  22. Grandfather's New Dodge Pickup
  23. The Green Fly Café
  24. Gall Lake
  25. Jiggs, My Little Red Rooster
  26. Ode to the Sylva Coffee Shop
  27. Things Have Been Bad, But …
  28. The Pink Radio
  29. Billy Condon
  30. Sadie Womack
  31. Booger
  32. My Grandfather and Jesse James
  33. Gun Trade
  34. Mountain Water as Religion
  35. Coffins in the Flood
  36. The Hanging of Bayless Henderson
  37. Blow the Tannery Whistle!
  38. Tiny
  39. Christmas in Cowee
  40. The Rhodes Cove Grinch
  41. The Lucky Strike Hit Parade
  42. Dr. Blosser's Cigarettes
  43. The Kingdom of the Happy Land
  44. Love's Field
  45. Outside, Looking In
  46. The Green Tsunami
  47. Valentino
  48. Midnight on Freeze Hill
  49. The Bootlegger's Turn
  50. The Hoyle House
  51. Uncle Frank
  52. Vernon Cope
  53. What This House Remembers