Appalachia

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I'm having such great luck getting all my questions answered on this forum, I thought I'd try again. I'm looking for books on Appalachian culture, food, lore, etc., etc. I've got a lot of the well-known stuff, like the Foxfire series, but now I'm looking for the ones that were published locally or just never made it big in the marketplace. All of the stuff you don't know is out there unless someone else tells you about it. Any suggestions on authors and titles would be greatly appreciated.

-- Julie (rjbk@together.net), July 23, 2000

Answers

contact fofire, they have a website,, ask them

-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), July 23, 2000.

Hi Julie, I live in East Tenn. and I have a cookbook called "Smokehouse Ham, Spoon Bread & Scuppernong Wine" that is great! It's by Joseph E. Dabney, ISBN # 1-58182-004-6. It not only has great recipes, but story after story of the folks that live in the Appalachians and how they use to and still do things. It's really like a cookbook/novel. It's got some great pictures of some of the mountain folk he writes about. It's not an old book, just published in 1998, so you should be able to get it still. We also have a large regional section at the Books A Million. Is there something really specific you're looking for? I could check them out for you and let you know more details.

-- Annie (mistletoe@earthlink.net), July 23, 2000.

You may also be interested in The Mountain Laurel and B ittersweet

-- Don Armstrong (darmst@yahoo.com.au), July 23, 2000.

You might want to try OverMountain Press, a publisher of regional books concerning the southern Appalachins. You can order off their website or buy them through Books-A-Million.

http://www.overmtn.com/

-- Steve in TN (lynswim@mindspring.com), July 24, 2000.


Check out author Jesse Stuart. There is a foundation in his honor in Greenup County Kentucky. I used to live in that area, but cannot locate the address right now. I'll look for you. Also, an EXCELLENT read is Caney Girl. Humorous and downright fun. I've loaned my copy out and can't recall the author, but it was published in hard back and should be fairly easy to find. Good luck.

-- Jennifer (KY) (acornfork@hotmail.com), July 25, 2000.


Shenandoah National Park carries a number of books in their gift shops that contain firsthand accounts of the people that lived there before the park came in. You might try their website. Also, there is a Museum of Appalachia in East Tennessee, see if they have a website or write them for a book list. They would have a large selection, I'm sure. Lastly, there is a "Heartland" video series. We saw it in Oak Ridge, TN science museum (at the nuclear power plant). A little pricey, but great documentaries showing authentic Appalachian people, their stories and their skills and crafts.

-- alana (lester@erols.com), July 29, 2000.

Dear Julie,

You might be interested in my new book about Southern Appalachian entitled approriately enough "Appalachian Genesis: the Clinch River Valley from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Frontier Era" (Overmountain Press, 2001, TN). It'll be available on the Internet sometimes before Xmas, bugt can be ordered now from the publisher at 423/926-2691. It's a detailed story -- everything from ice-age paleo- Indians to Spanish Conquistadors to Cherokee & Shawnee warriors to Longhunters to Daniel Boone to Indian battles & massacres to French & Indian War battles to the slaughter at Fort Loudon to the Battle of King's Mountain and more. Pardon me for for plugging it but you know how it is -- I wrote it and would really like to make folks aware of rich and exciting is the history of SW VA & eastern TN. Thank you for your time and attention. Respectfully, Richard Lee Fulgham.

-- Richard Lee Fulgham (rlfulgham@hotmail.com), September 19, 2001.


Hi Julie, it's that Fulgham guy again. Thought you might weant to check out my new book site at www.geocities.com/rlfulgham, where my book "Appalachian Genesis: The Clinch River Valley from Prehistoric Times to the End of the Frontier Era" (Overmountain, 2000, TN) ISBN 1570720886, is described in detail -- early history of Southeast North America; early history of United States; early history of Southern Appalachia; early history of Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee; nature writing about prehistoric ice-age North America, esp. Southwest Virginia; ice-age Paleo-Indian hunters; early history of lost "Xulan Empire" described by Conquistadors following Hernando de Sota through Clinch River Valley; early Cherokee history; Cherokee beliefs and weapons and lifestyles; Shawnee history & beliefs; battles between Cherokee and Shawnee nations; English explorers of SW VA; "Long-hunters", French trappers in SW VA (southern tip of Allegheny Mountains in Appalachia); pioneers in early Virignia; pioneers in early Tennessee; English settlers in Southwest Virginia and Eastern Tennessee;French & Indian vs. British Colonial Wars in Southwest Virignia; George Washington during French & Indian War; Daniel Boone in Virginia and Cumberlands; killing of Daniel Boone's son by Shawnee and Cherokee renegades; Indian massacres, graphically described in detail; retalitory wars of Virignian militia vs. renegade Cherokee; attempt by U.S. government to destroy all Cherokee (genoide of Cherokee) so they couldn't fight against USA during Revolutionary War; detailed account of Cherokee "Trail of Tears" . . . and more! All this packed in less than 200 pages for fascinating reading, even for those of us with short attention spans. Illustrated, to boot. Took me 3 years to research; 1 and a half to write. Order from any major bookstore, in person or online. Or call my publisher, Overmountain Press, at 423-926-2691.

-- Richard Lee Fulgham (rlfulgham@hotmail.com), December 17, 2001.

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