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Book Review: ‘Beyond the Briar Patch: Affrilachian Folktales, Food and Folklore’

With a conviction that storytelling should be a shared family experience, Lynette Ford selects stories for children and adults.

November 6, 2014 Food industry / Regional food / Tennessee / Writers

Book Review: “Buttermilk and Bible Burgers”

Fred Sauceman has gathered a collection of stories that provide an accurate portrayal of the reverence of a good meal in the region.

Studies Building across Lake Eden, Black Mountain College campus

November 4, 2014 Colleges & Universities / North Carolina / Writers

Book Excerpt: ‘Black Mountain College’

Black Mountain College, founded 1933 by John Andrew Rice & Theodore Dreier, aimed at a liberal arts education that developed the whole student.

waiting in line with plates deep dream generator

October 15, 2014 Coal mining / Kentucky / Oral histories / Writers

Book Excerpt: ‘Memory of a Miner’

The story of an old-time coal miner in “bloody Harlan” (Harlan County, KY) in the early to mid 1900s, told in his own words and dialect.

The Remarkable Stokes Collection book cover

October 2, 2014 Tennessee / Writers

Family Makes Treasure Trove of Early Chattanooga Photographs Available for Book

A treasure trove of Chattanooga photographs that have been passed down in the Stokes family for generations has now been assembled in an upcoming book

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