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From: Montgomery Michael <ullans at yahoo.com>
Subject: LL-L "Resources" 2008.09.12 (06) [Ap/E/S]

To those of Appalachian ilk and others besides,

If I might be immodest in making recommendations, I'd point to my
_Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English_ (U of Tennessee Press, 2004), which
is an 800-page historical work chock full of quotations from southern
Appalachian literature.  Some Jack tales are more authentic than others, but
just about all are highly stylized (that is, larded with artificial
dialect).  My favorite of the genre is Charles Taylor Adams' _Grandpap Says_
(1993).  For a remarkable collection of macabre stories, read Mildred Haun's
_The Hawk's Done Gone_ (1945, but reprinted much more recently by the Univ
Press of Kentucky).  I would also point listers to a website on Appalachain
speech I have created at www.cas.sc.edu/engl/dictionary.  It has half a
dozen papers I've written on mountain speech, but no doubt more important,
recordings of Smoky Mountain elders recorded in 1939 along with transcripts
of what they say (click on "Transcripts").  All this will get you'uns
started.

Michael Montgomery

> Marsha and Arthur--
>
> Thank you for your warm Appalachian welcome and apologies
> for the slow
> response.  Where else but at Lowlands-L could one find Wien
> and
> "Westbygod Virginny" within the lines of the same
> e-mail!
>
> I have a question:  As yet I haven't progressed beyond
> reading some of
> the Jack stories on-line, and I am wondering whether you
> might have any
> recommendations as to good source material for Appalachian
> studies.  I
> am interested in everything having to do with Appalachia:
> language,
> history (especially the history of the mining industry),
> traditions, and
> traditional arts and crafts.
>
> If there are any recommendations that you or other
> Appalachian Listers
> would like to make, they would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks and regards,
>
> Peggy

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From: R. F. Hahn <sassisch at yahoo.com>
Subject: Resources

Dear Michael,

I've checked it out and found it to be a thing of beauty. Congratulations!

I guess this makes me an "other besides." Or?

Cheerio!

Reinhard/Ron

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