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Foxfire? The students chose the name; it is a tiny phosphorescent organism that gleams on old stumps and logs in shaded glens. In Foxfire the anthology, Lon Reid, a grizzled, quiet-spoken mountaineer, demonstrates how to make a tall-backed wooden chair, altogether by hand, just as he learned from...
He operates in a kind of social-literary tradition that includes figures as diverse as James Agee and Plutarch. Most of his work is devoted to giving a forum to the voiceless; The South Goes North, like his other works, is the transcribed conversations he has had with hundreds of...
?Mountaineer in the North
Mountaineers do not look to welfare as a solution. "I can tell my wife to say I've deserted her, and she'll get money from the city, but I couldn't swallow my pride that way. My wife says she tried to say it, just to herself, and she...
The ancient songs and ballads of England, Scotland and Ireland had survived oral transmission through many illiterate generations, and the mountain man added to these stories and songs about his own life--about coal mining, about the wailing freight trains, about home and family, and about his God. The religion...