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Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published:
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 9781455610051
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this version of the famous poem, Santy pays an Ozark family a visit on Christmas Eve with his pet raccoon and gifts of musical instruments for a fine backwoods jig.
Author: Miller Barton; Cash; Lynxwiler
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781597893428
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. K. McNeil
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 9781604738179
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Angela Drake
Publisher: Creative Dreams Press
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781732805309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the moment he sees Stephanie across the crowded restaurant, Brendan Keane knows he has to have her
Author: Robert K. Gilmore
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1990-01-01
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780806122700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ozark Baptizings, Hangings, and Other Diversions is about the people of a unique corner of America and how they entertained themselves at the turn of the century. In the years from 1885 to 1910 most Ozark communities were still relatively isolated from the outside and from each other. Thus they had to rely on their own resources for diversion from the difficult and often solitary business of everyday living. The most popular of their entertainments were those that brought some "theater" into their lives. They especially delighted in "literaries," debates, mock trials, closing-of-school programs, suppers, picnics, brush-arbor revivals, and baptizings. Then there was the occasional hanging that for audience attention was rivaled only by the political rally. The hanging took on all the flavor of high drama, even to the impassioned farewell address by the condemned, who was carried away by the excitement of it all. By their entertainments shall we know them, and this account of Ozarkers' diversions reveals them in all their independence, conservatism, sense of place, humor, dedication to learning, love of the spoken language, and religious and political intensity. No "come-here" (an Ozarker's term for a newcomer), Robert K. Gilmore grew up on an Ozark farm, reared by grandparents who were young in the era described in this book. Years later he went back to the rural Ozarks and encouraged the people to recall the early days for him. They described the entertainments of their youth with a special clarity of recall. The files of the Ozark weeklies also proved richly rewarding. The editors and their rural "correspondents" delighted in describing the local entertainments in vivid reportage loaded with editorial comment. This book, illustrated with rare photographs of turn-of-the-century diversions celebrates the centennial of an era.
Author: Vance Randolph
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2017-04-15
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1610756088
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vance Randolph was perfectly constituted for his role as the chronicler of Ozark folkways. As a self-described “hack writer,” he was as much a figure of the margins as his chosen subjects, even as his essentially romantic identification with the region he first visited as the vacationing child of mainstream parents was encouraged by editors and tempered by his scientific training. In The Ozarks, originally published in 1931, we have Randolph’s first book-length portrait of the people he would spend the next half-century studying. The full range of Randolph’s interests—in language, in hunting and fishing, in folksongs and play parties, in moonshining—is on view in this book that made his name; forever after he was “Mr. Ozark,” the region’s preeminent expert who would, in collection after collection, enlarge and deepen his debut effort. With a new introduction by Robert Cochran, The Ozarks is the second entry in the Chronicles of the Ozarks series, a reprint series that will make available some of the Depression Era’s Ozarks books. An image shaper in its day, a cultural artifact for decades to come, this wonderful book is as entertaining as ever.
Author: Fred Pfister
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2009-08-25
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 076275625X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by a local author, this guide is filled to the brim with insider information on everything from the top fishing sites to seasonal festivals and the best places to eat, sleep, and play.
Author: Aaron K. Ketchell
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2007-09-20
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 0801886600
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"But there is more to Branson's fame than just recreation. As Aaron K. Ketchell discovers, a popular variant of Christianity underscores all Branson's tourist attractions and fortifies every consumer success. In this study, Ketchell explores Branson's unique blend of religion and recreation. He explains how the city became a mecca of conservative Christianity - a place for a "spiritual vacation" - and how, through conscious effort, its residents and businesses continuously reinforce its inextricable connection with the divine."--BOOK JACKET.