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Appalachian Consortium Pr

Down to Earth: People of Appalachia

Murray, Kenneth

Published in 1982, The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible tells the colorful history of a remarkable American cultural institution. Opened by native Virginian Robert Porterfield in 1933, the Barter Theatre offered the people of Abingdon, Virginia, and the surrounding area entertainment and a much-needed escape from their Depression-era working lives. It became the State Theatre of Virginia in 1946 and it is where the likes of Gregory Peck, Ernest Borgnine, Patricia Neal, Ned Beatty, and Hume Cronyn got their starts. Mark Dawidziak, a journalist from New York who spent much of his twenties in Appalachia and grew to admire the theater, tells the improbable story of the Barter Theatre, which remains one of the last year-round professional resident repertory theaters in the country.

The Barter Theatre Story: Love Made Visible

Dawidziak, Mark

Minstrel of the Appalachians: The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Biographies & Memoirs

Jones, Loyal

Arts & Literature

Paul Fink's Bits of Mountain Speech is a dictionary of "folk speech." In this work Fink has provided a glossary of terms that are often considered the language of the less educated people of the mountains of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee. They are sometimes archaic, sometimes quaint, and almost always idiomatic. The language Fink examines is a holdover of earlier times when the Scots, Irish, and Welsh settled the region, therefore many of the pronunciations are reminiscent of Celtic languages. Not only does he list unusual words that he has come across, but he also uses them in sentences in order to interpret the word or phrase and clarify its meaning.

Bits of Mountain Speech

Fink, Paul

Only When They're Little: The Story of an Appalachian Family

A fictional account of an actual family whose Scotch-Irish ancestors immigrated to western North Carolina in the early nineteenth century, Only When They're Little is an authentic tale of Kate Pickens Day's family life near Asheville, North Carolina. Published in 1985, this book combats the stereotype of the impoverished mountain people by presenting a new narrative. A middle class family living in a fictional town near Asheville named "Tarpley," the book centers on an energetic and well educated woman named Cora Barker. Devoted to helping each of her family members excel in their chosen activity, this book is filled with drama, hardship, and the importance of being a good person.

Day, Kate Pickens

Literature & Fiction

A story of youth and coming of age in the Appalachian Mountain region.

United States

Western North Carolina: Its Mountains & Its People to 1880

Blackmun, Ora

Blue Ridge Parkway: The First 50 Years

History

Jolley, Harley E.

Americas

Cabin, a Mountain Adventure

Hallowell, Barbara

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