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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814437603321

Autore

DeRosier Linda Scott <1941->

Titolo

Songs of Life and Grace / / Linda Scott DeRosier

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2008

©2003

ISBN

0-8131-9407-5

0-8131-5989-X

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

976.9/1043/092

Soggetti

Appalachians (People) - Kentucky - Social life and customs

Kentucky Biography

Appalachian Region, Southern Biography

Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface: Creeker-And Then Some; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Opening  Act; Individual Heritage Chart of Eliphus Jay Preston; Individual Heritage Chart of Grace Mollette; 1. The Overture; 2. The Early Verses; 3. Life's Background Ballads; 4. Grace's Background Ballads; 5. Mining Camp Melodies; 6. The Family Chorus; 7. Two-Mile Tunes; 8. Songs of Life; 9. Songs of Grace; 10. Songs of Sister, Sister; 11. Tears, Tombs, and Reunion Tunes; Afterword: In a Different Voice

Sommario/riassunto

On a muggy, late August afternoon in 1936, somewhere along the banks of Greasy Creek, Life found Grace -- walking the dusty mile between work and home in a brand new pair of leather kitten-heeled pumps, blond curls bouncing in the sun. Two weeks later, Lifie Jay Preston and Grace Mollette married, a union that lasted until their deaths fifty-eight years later. There was something about them, their daughter Linda would discover, a kind of radiance and love of living that would mark them in the memories of every person they encountered -- a song that resonates years after their passing. Songs of