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Yesterday in the Hills (Brown Thrasher Books)
Watkins, Charles, Watkins, Floyd
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Description for Yesterday in the Hills (Brown Thrasher Books)
Paperback. Recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s to World War II, recording vanished folklore. This title is built on experience and memory, but its characters and narrative transcend reminiscence to depict life as it really was. Series: Brown Thrasher Books. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; 3JJG; HBJK; HBLL; HBLW; HBTB; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best—seen from the inside and mediated though the heart. Yesterday in the Hills is built upon the bedrock of experience and memory, but its sharply drawn characters and beautifully proportioned narrative transcend reminiscence and realistically depict hill country life as it once was.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
Brown Thrasher Books
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820321936
SKU
V9780820321936
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About Watkins, Charles, Watkins, Floyd
Floyd C. Watkins (Author) FLOYD WATKINS, author and editor of a several books and articles, is a professor emeritus of English at Emory University. Charles Hubert Watkins (Author) CHARLES HUBERT WATKINS farmed and taught school in Ball Ground, Georgia, and also served as its mayor.
Reviews for Yesterday in the Hills (Brown Thrasher Books)
Authentic, flavorful chapters about oldtime hill people of North Georgia, their backbreaking field work, their song and play, their courtship, their neighborly exchange of help with the chores, their homemade remedies for illness and homemade practically everything else, their humor and their individuality.