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...interrelated vignettes, starting from the opening scene in which the father. Nathan Lee (Paul Winfield) and David Lee are involved in one of the basic struggles in life--the search for food. Despite the aid of their hunting dog. Sounder, the two are unsuccessful in their search for a coon. The family goes to bed hungry. Alone with Rebecca, Nathan Lee curses his existence, but she says "We've been through these hard times before, Nathan Lee and we've made it." "But made it to what," he asks, in a remark that captures the spirit of the evaluation blocks...

Author: By Henry W. Mcgee, | Title: Depression Life in the South | 1/22/1973 | See Source »

...Coon Valley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 1, 1973 | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...Coon Rapids, Minn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 7, 1972 | 8/7/1972 | See Source »

...realize that many Americans revere the shortened word form, but unfortunately the word "Abo," referring to Australia's Aboriginal Embassy [March 13], is received by Australian aborigines with about the same amount of enthusiasm as the word nigger or coon by Negro people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 17, 1972 | 4/17/1972 | See Source »

Andrea Burrell gets her grandmother to show how to make soap from lye and lard. U.G. McCoy tells how to skin and cook a coon. There are home remedies, snake lore, weather signs, quilt patterns and stitches, faith healing and mountain recipes: carrot pudding, a century-old recipe for gingerbread, even fried pumpkin and Spanish blossoms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mountain Ways, Plain | 3/27/1972 | See Source »

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