A collection of fiction and non-fiction writing that represents and reveals the culture of Appalachia, while attempting to show the literature of the region in the context of the American and human experience.
Description: The famous family feud between the Hatfields and McCoys took twelve years, twelve deaths and one Supreme Court decision before it ended. Historians and family descendents help separate fact from fiction and explain how each side tried to obtain satisfaction through legal means.
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
The lives of twelve-year-old Lou and her younger brother, Oz, change forever in 1940 when an accident involving their parents results in their being uprooted from their New York City home and moved to live with their great-grandmother in the mountains of Virginia.
In 1940, tragedy forces Lou, her little brother Oz, and their invalid mother to move to the mountains of southwestern Virginia to live with their great-grandmother, but a courtroom battle could determine the fates of the entire family.