appalachian region

A boy growing up in his grandparents' house in the Appalachians learns about the town and the people around him, their habits, stories, and lore.

Several years after Fontana dam flooded the town where they were born, Ingledove and her brother Lang go wandering in the southern Appalachians, where they encounter their mother's peculiar people, the Adantans, and an evil being who charms Lang.

Collection of trail diaries, poems, and essays reflecting the meaning of the Appalachian Trail across both time and geography by both well-known and anonymous authors including Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and Thomas Jefferson.

Two brothers, Moody and Muir Powell, handle the difficulties of life in the Appalachian Mountains in very different ways with Moody turning to moonshine and gambling, and Muir leaving to seek a calling that matches his directionless ambition.

In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.

Story of a family who settled in America's eastern frontier told in the voices of three generations of mountaineer storytellers.

Describes the geographical and historical background of the Appalachian Mountains, the life of the people today, and the legends of the area.

Southern folk pottery from pug mills, ash glazes, ground hog kilns to face jugs, churns, and roosters; mule swapping and chicken fighting.

A family living in the Appalachian Mountains in the 1930s gets books to read during the regular visits of the "Book Woman"--a librarian who rides a packhorse through the mountains, lending books to the isolated residents.