Mountain Born, Mountain Molded

by MORGAN LARRY G

• ISBN13: 9781887905695
• ISBN10: 1887905693
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

The author describes his growing up in Nantahala region of western North Carolina. He describes social conditions such as housing, education, and religion of the mountain folk.

Table of Contents

Maps	viii,ix
Foreword	xi
One Mountain Homes	1	(18)
Those Old Houses
A Year On The Lam
Home Again, Home Again
How We Kept From Freezing To Death
Those Magazines and Books Can't Be True
Furnishings of Our New House
A Painful Lesson in the Yard
Electricity, You Say?
Two Tablefare, 1944-1955	19	(8)
Simple, Same, and Plentiful
The Best Breakfast Ever
Chicken! Chicken! Chicken!
R.C.® Cola and a Moon Pie
Three Our Mountain Religion	27	(24)
Regular Sunday Worship
Buying a Piano
Nothing to Laugh About!
What a Difference!
The Day the Sparks Flew!
Uncle Phillip
Decoration Day
Homecoming Sunday
Four Mountain Medicine	51	(8)
Cures Worse than the Ailments
Home Remedies, Measles, and "Dr Dorothy."
"Get Away From Me With That Needle!"
Five Mountain Food Production	59	(22)
Plowing and Planting
Hoeing Corn
Picking, Stringing, Breaking and Canning Beans
Diggin' Taters
Harvesting Corn
Carrying Up Punkins
Thanksgiving and Gathering Corn
Hog Killing
Sugarcane: Growing and Enjoying
Making Molasses
University of Camp Branch
Six Holidays In The Hills	81	(18)
July 4th
Easter
Halloween
Valentine Day
Birthdays
Christmas: Fireworks, Serenading, and Gifts!
Seven Homemade Toys and Nantahala Games	99	(20)
Homemade Toys
Games We Played
Watching The Cow and Shooting Bad Men
Hardwood and Baskets
Gone Fishing, Chewing and Smoking
Swimming Ponds
Forbidden Games
Eight Mountain Funerals	119	(4)
Gone, But Not Forgotten
Nine Parent/Child Relations On Camp Branch, Circa 1950	123	(6)
Lost Opportunities
A Few Things Our Parents Did Right
The Best Sex Education Is No Sex Education
Ten Home Entertainment And Pleasures	129	(4)
Was There Life Before Television?
Eleven Education In Nantahala, 1945-1955	133	(12)
School "Daze"
Tough Times at School
Twelve This And That	145	(16)
That Last Haircut
Cow Patrol
Old Whitey
Guines Book: Youngest Pulpwood Cutters
Matters of Self-Image
Strange Things
Epilogue	161	(5)
Afterwords: Death of a language: The Rise of Mountainese	166