Floyd C. Watkins

Yesterday in the Hills (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

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 through 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."e;Authentic, flavorful chapters about old-time 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."e;-Publishers Weekly"e;A gentle, humorous personal recollection of real people and the way they lived and worked."e;-Celestine Sibley

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Golden Springs Publishing
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787201941
• Artikelnr.: 46916988

Autorenporträt

FLOYD C. WATKINS (April 19, 1920 - May 7, 2000) was the author of more than one hundred books and articles primarily about Southern authors, Southern literature, and life in the South. Born and raised in Ball Ground, Georgia, he attended Georgia Southern College (B.S., 1946), Emory University (M.A., 1947), and Vanderbilt University (Ph. D., 1952). He began a teaching career at Emory in 1949, and was named Charles Howard Candler Professor of American Literature. He died in 2000. CHARLES HUBERT WATKINS (February 23, 1897 - September 21, 1974) and his son Floyd were natives of Ball Ground, Georgia, the locale of their 1936 book Yesterday in the Hills. Charles Hubert Watkins farmed and taught school in Ball Ground and also served as its mayor. He died in 1974.