Yesterday in the Hills
Title Details
Pages: 200
Trim size: 5.500in x 8.500in
Formats
Paperback
Pub Date: 03/02/2000
ISBN: 9-780-8203-2193-6
List Price: $25.95
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Related Subjects
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Other Links of Interest
• Learn more about Georgia folklife at the New Georgia Encyclopedia
Yesterday in the Hills
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Yesterday in the Hills recalls life in North Georgia from the 1890s until World War II and records vanished and vanishing folkways of the region. Here is folklore at its best—seen from the inside and mediated though the heart. Yesterday in the Hills is built upon the bedrock of experience and memory, but its sharply drawn characters and beautifully proportioned narrative transcend reminiscence and realistically depict hill country life as it once was.
Authentic, flavorful chapters about oldtime hill people of North Georgia, their backbreaking field work, their song and play, their courtship, their neighborly exchange of help with the chores, their homemade remedies for illness and homemade practically everything else, their humor and their individuality.
—Publishers Weekly