A Fruitful Year.

It was the final day of the season for the Fallins' roadside produce stand and Mae Fallin was ready to close up.

For three months Mae and her husband, Vern, had stood behind their tables of melons and corn and apples and squash. Thousands of their homegrown tomatoes and watermelon and peppers passed through their hands this long, hot summer.

Continued at... A Fruitful Year

by Michael Hofferber. Copyright © 1994. All rights reserved.
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Travels with Foxfire

The Foxfire oral history project delivers another compendium of the collected wisdom of artists, craftsmen, musicians, and moonshiners in Southern Appalachia. In this volume we learn the secret origins of stock car racing, the story behind the formation of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and how to gather wild ginseng.

More than thirty essays include the recipes of an award-winning cookbook writer along with profiles of bootleggers and bear hunters, game wardens and medicine women, water dowsers, sculptors, folk singers, novelists, record collectors, and even the world’s foremost “priviologist.”

Travels with Foxfire

Stories of People, Passions, and Practices from Southern Appalachia

by Phil Hudgins and Jessica Phillips

University Press of Kentucky, 2018

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