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Songs of Life and Grace / / Linda Scott DeRosier



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Autore: DeRosier Linda Scott <1941-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Songs of Life and Grace / / Linda Scott DeRosier Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Lexington, Kentucky : , : The University Press of Kentucky, , 2008
©2003
Edizione: Paperback edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (280 p.)
Disciplina: 976.9/1043/092
Soggetto topico: Appalachians (People) - Kentucky - Social life and customs
Soggetto geografico: Kentucky Biography
Appalachian Region, Southern Biography
Appalachian Region, Southern Social life and customs
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
Titolo autorizzato: Songs of Life and Grace  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8131-9407-5
0-8131-5989-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910814437603321
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