Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction xiii
The Way It Was 3
The Family Farm 5
The story of Mama & Papa Hudgins
Moonshining Days 15
Stories from James Speed's life making illegal liquor
How Stock Car Racing Started 23
Dawson County folks talk about the precursor to NASCAR
Drive-in Movie Theaters 32
An American icon, reborn
Water Dowsers 39
The ancient art of finding underground water
Outhouses 45
An interview with "priviologist" Mary Frazier Long
Appalachia on Television 50
The story of Heartland
Georgia: First in Flight! 57
The story of Micajah Clark Dyer
Arts And Herbs 63
Doctoring with Herbs 65
The story of Eve Miranda, Medicine Woman
Wild Ginseng 75
Interviews with four men who still hunt it the right way
How to Turn Junk into Art 81
An interview with Jane Taylor
Artist, Flint Knapper, Fiddle and Banjo Player, and Naturalist 92
An interview with Joseph "Doc" Johnson
Food Fit To Eat 101
Dishin' Up Love 103
Interview with Lazell Vinson
Joseph Dabney 108
Winning the James Beard Cookbook of the Year Award
Peach Grower Dori Sanders of South Carolina 123
Recipes from her cookbook
A Sense Of Community 135
On Artistry, Ancestry, and African Americans 137
An interview with Ann Miller Woodford
Keeping the Land and the History 148
Stories from Wayne County, Kentucky
Forming the Great Smoky Mountains National Park 158
The story of Glenn Cardwell of Pittman Center, Tennessee
The Lone Commissioner of Lumpkin County 166
The life of B. Jones
The Great Outdoors 175
Catching Violators of Game and Fish Laws 177
Stories from Calvin Stewart
Turkey Hunting 186
The turkey-hunting tales of three Georgians
Legendary Bear Hunters from the Old School 195
Tales of bear hunting in Rabun County
Where Music Dwells 211
Music in Southern Appalachia 213
Bluegrass, country, and shape note singing
Grounded in Folk Tradition 226
The story of Hedy West
Lillie Mulkey West 235
Inspiring a new generation of folk singers
John Jarrard and Bruce Burch 238
Writers of country music
Southern Gospel Singing 247
Still afavorite for many
Lighter Moments from Gospel Groups 254
The Lord's work is serious business, most of the time
Stories And Their Tellers 261
Inventing a Time Machine and Other Adventures 263
Emory Jones, the great storyteller
Passing Down Memories 273
The story of author Dori Sanders
Dr. C. B. Skelton of Winder, Georgia 278
Practicing medicine and sharing humorous stories
In Pursuit Of "Hobbiness" 289
Eighteen Thousand Long-Play Albums 291
Jerry Kendall and his record collection
Tractors and Trucks 296
Carl "Feel Bad" Davis
Snaking Logs Through the Kentucky Woods 301
Mollis Thrasher and his mules
Family History 308
Jerry Taylor on tracing other peoples genealogies