| Historic Tales of Highlands: Looking Backward Contributor(s): Hill Norris, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 1467149454 ISBN-13: 9781467149457 Publisher: History Press OUR PRICE: $19.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 19th Century - Social Science | Sociology - Rural |
| Dewey: 975.698 |
| LCCN: 2021934139 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.80 lbs) 160 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Helen Hill Norris grew up in Horse Cove, perched high in the Southern Appalachians outside Highlands, North Carolina. For a decade starting in 1958, she wrote a weekly column for the Highlander called Looking Backward. Drawing on her childhood and the tales her elders would tell around the fireplace, Norris conjures a bygone frontier world of covered wagons, gold miners, traveling peddlers and headstrong shopkeepers. Witness a harrowing Civil War encounter with the notorious Kirk's Raiders. Come along as a six-mule wagon carries a Steinway grand piano across the treacherous Chattooga River. Watch two uncles go to extremes to settle an argument over whether moles have teeth. Evocative, richly detailed and often laugh-out-loud funny, these stories reveal Norris to be one of the finest unsung storytellers of the American South. |