<p>The story of the South is not finished. The southeastern states of America, the old Confederacy, bristle with storytellers who refuse to be silent. Many of the tales passed down from generation to generation to be told and re-told continue to change their shape to suit their time, stretching elastically to find new ways of retailing the People's Truth. Travelling back and forth, from the Carolinas to Louisiana, from the Appalachians to Atlantic islands, from Virginian valleys to Florida swamps, and sitting before bewitching storytellers who tell her tales that hold her hard, Pamela Petro gathers up a fistful of history, and sieves out of it the shiny truths that these stories have been polishing over the years. Here is another America altogether, lingering on behind the fa ade of the ubiquitous strip-mall of anodyne, branded commerce and communication, moving to other rhythms, reaching back into the past to clutch at the shattering events that shaped it and haunt it still</p>

Sitting Up with the Dead

Travel

Pamela Petro

Travel Writing

Flamingo

<p>ns in America for discerning travelers features information on lodgings, restaurants, cultural sites and events, plus a special section on beach cottages and Block Island. Part of the Great Destinations series.</p>

The Newport & Narragansett Bay Book: A Complete Guide With Block Island (Great Destignations Series)

History

Vipassana Publications

The Newport & Narragansett Bay Book: A Complete Guide : with Block Island (The Great Destinations Series)

Reference

Berkshire House Publishers,U.S.

The Long Field

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

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