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Appalachian Mountain Humor
Presents a collection of jokes and stories from Appalachia dealing with such topics as animals, city folks, politicians, religion, and old age....
This volume is an encyclopedia of country music performers who have used comedy as a central component of their presentation. Loyal Jones offers a con...
Southern Mountain Humor
"Packed with humorous jokes, anecdotes, poems, riddles, and songs ... this collection is thick with artifacts of Southern wit."--Back cover....
Jones attacks what he sees as the historical dismissal of mountain religious life, as supported by nineteenth- and twentieth-century missionary moveme...
The Story of Bascom Lamar Lunsford
It is said that Bascom Lamar Lunsford would "cross hell on a rotten rail to get a folk song"—his Southern highlands folk-song compilations now const...
Tales and Tale-Spinners from Appalachia
We were going down the road, and we came to this house. There was a little boy standing by the road just crying and crying. We stopped, and we heard t...
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Appalachian Values is a series of essays written to counter the persistent negative stereotypes about Appalachian people. The stories used to illustra...