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Nostalgia Prize Package

Are you the type who never tires of listening to your grandparents talk about early days? The books in the Nostalgia prize package will feed your yearning for such stories. Peopled with dignified people living often difficult lives, these books are uplifting. Note: we also offer a Foxfire Prize Package. Please note that for your information we have included a price for both paperback and hardcover when both are available, but the prize package will include the paper back edition.


Cabins in the Laurel
by Muriel Earley Sheppard
Photographs by Bayard Wootten

In 1928, New Yorker Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her husband to the Toe River Valley, an isolated pocket in North Carolina between teh Blue Ridge and Iron mountains. Her account of life in the mountains was published in 1935, with photographs by B ayard Wootten. This large-format edition introduces this classic work to a new generation of readers.

"This work is an important contribution on Appalachian culture, and this new edition is very fine indeed."--Southern Folklore

$34.95 hardcover
$22.50 paperback



The Picture Man
Photographs by Paul Buchanan
Edited by Ann Hawthorne
Introduction by Bruce Morton

The Picture Man was Paul Buchanan (ca. 1910-1987), an itinerant photographer who, on foot, on horseback, and by car, wandered four North Carolina mountain counties from 1920 until about 1951. He had stopped making pictures for more than thirty years wh en Ann Hawthorne, a photographer living in the mountains, heard about Buchanan and went to see him.

"Here is proof that photographs of humble origin have stories to tell well worth all the effort of their preservation."--Southern Exposure

"A small miracle of a book. . . . A stunning record of the people of North Carolina's mountain counties."--Washington Post

$27.50 hardcover
$14.95 paperback



Talk about Trouble
A New Deal Portrait of Virginians in the Great Depression
Edited by Nancy J. Martin-Perdue and Charles L. Perdue Jr.

"Talk about Trouble is a remarkably moving testimonial. No other first-person collection reveals as much about how ordinary Virginians, and by extension southerners and other Americans, confronted the palpable threats raised every day by the Gre at Depression."--Edward D. C. Campbell Jr., The Library of Virginia

"A collection of superb oral histories recalling the harsh reality of surviving during the Depression years."--Roanoke Times

$59.95 hardcover
$24.95 paperback


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