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978-0-9654911-0-5
0-9654911-0-2
$35.95 hardcover
978-0-9654911-1-2
0-9654911-1-0
$25.95 paperback
8 1/2" x 11"
320 pages,
color and black-and-white photographs, maps
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Warren Moore's
affections and respect shine through every sentence, every photograph.
She reveals to us the luminous as well as the shadowed. Her book is an
engaging and perdurable treasure. --Fred Chappell, author and
poet
In this remarkable volume,
Warren Moore documents life in the Southern Appalachians. For five years
she lived and worked among the mountain people of North Carolina,
photographing their daily lives and recording thousands of hours of oral
history.
In these pages mountain
people tell us how they till the soil, marry, survive floods, make
moonshine, hunt bear, carve wood, make quilts, raise barns, build roads,
put up food, make brooms, gather herbs, keep bees, cut timber, run
country stores, settle disputes, pray together, and bury their dead.
The 180 contributors
represent a wide cross section of the mountain population--farmers,
homemakers, carpenters, coon hunters, lawyers, college professors,
mountain musicians, ministers, craftspeople, and Cherokee Indians. These
strong, self-reliant people tell us, with great force and clarity, how
they see themselves and their world.
about the author
Warren Moore, a native of North Carolina, has returned to these
mountains all her life--first as a "summer person" and later
as a writer and photographer. She made many friends while interviewing
people for this book. As she says, "I hope it reflects their
warmth, sincerity, intelligence, and vitality." Moore now lives in
New York City, where she works as an educational consultant and
photojournalist.
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