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Alyssa on
27 May 2010, 10:58 am
Alan Jabbour, who authored Decoration Day in the Mountains: Traditions of Cemetery Decoration in the Southern Appalachians with his wife Karen Singer Jabbour, provides some insight to a grassroots ritual that led to the creation of a federal holiday. –alyssa Many rural community cemeteries in western North Carolina hold “decorations.” A decoration is a religious [...] Read more »
Filed under American History, American Studies, Appalachian Studies, Author blog entry, Cultural Studies, Guest Bloggers, North Carolina, Southern Studies, folklore.
Tagged appalachian cemeteries, appalachian culture, appalachian mountain customs, appalachian traditions, blandford cemetery, cemetery decorations, confederate memorial day, decoration day, dinner on the ground, folklorist alan jabbour, fontana lake, general john a. logan, grand army of the republic, great smoky mountains national park, ladies memorial association, mary logan, memorial day, petersburg virginia, union veterans
Posted by
Beth on
9 April 2010, 9:45 am
Today we’d like to send you over to the website for ABC 11 Eyewitness News because today, John Clark, who is an anchor and reporter over there, writes about Leonard Rogoff’s book, Down Home: Jewish Life in North Carolina. In his book, Rogoff chronicles Jewish life in the Tar Heel State from colonial times to [...] Read more »
Filed under History, Jewish Studies, North Carolina, Religion, UNC Press News, folklore.
Tagged abc eyewitness news 11, down home, jewish heritage foundation of north carolina, jewish life, jewish life in north carolina, john clark, judaism, judaism in north carolina, leonard rogoff
Posted by
Rose on
24 November 2009, 4:48 pm
Give My Poor Heart Ease: Voices of the Mississippi Blues, by Bill Ferris, was published earlier this month, and we could not be happier with the attention it has garnered the few short weeks it has been on the shelves! The book is more than just pages of words connected at the spine, it is [...] Read more »
Filed under Music, UNC Press News, folklore.
Tagged B.B. King, Bill Ferris, blues, folklore, Give my Poor Heart Ease, Harper's Magazine, Mississippi, Morgan Freeman, NPR, Publishers Weekly, The Story, Vicksburg Post
Posted by
Ellen on
20 November 2009, 2:51 pm
We love fan mail here at UNC Press. Who doesn’t, right? Fan mail from kids is extra awesome, though. Here’s something that really made our day recently. Eight-year-old Sydney C., of Asheville, North Carolina, was one of the guests at last month’s Asheville book party (which Rachel has blogged about). Sydney met Press authors Foy [...] Read more »
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Rose on
10 November 2009, 9:12 am
Creating lifetime readers is the goal and it’s all thanks to Pizza Hut. Wait, what? That’s right, you read me correctly. National Young Readers Week is an annual event that was co-founded in 1989 by Pizza Hut and the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. Pizza Hut created The BOOK IT! Program [...] Read more »
Filed under Appalachian Studies, Current Events, Juvenile, folklore.
Tagged Adventures of Molly Whuppie, Ann Shelby, appalachian folktales, barbara duncan, BOOK IT!, Center for the Book, cherokee, Library of Congress, National Young Readers Week, oral traditions, Origin of the Milky Way, Pizza Hut
Posted by
Rachel on
28 October 2009, 3:08 pm
First, let’s set the scene: A little closer… Last Sunday, UNC Press held a book party at the historic Grove Park Inn in Asheville, NC. The event celebrated three of our fall 2009 titles: Foy Allen Edelman, author of SWEET CAROLINA, spent six years traveling every inch of North Carolina to collect the best in [...] Read more »
Filed under African American History, African American Studies, American History, Biography / Autobiography, Civil Rights, Cooking / Food, Fiction, History, Literature, Local Indy Booksellers, Media Studies, Music, North Carolina, Recipes, Southern Studies, Travel, UNC Press Authors, UNC Press News, folklore.
Tagged Asheville, Foy Allen Edelman, Give my Poor Heart Ease, Long Story Short, Marianne Gingher, Morgan Freeman, North Carolina authors, Sweet Carolina, The Grove Park Inn, William Ferris
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admin on
29 June 2009, 10:35 am
Looking for an inexpensive get-away this summer? Well, you’re in luck. Now through July 5th on the National Mall in Washington DC is the annual cornucopia of world culture–the Smithsonian Folklife Festival! The best part about it? IT’S FREE! This year one of the festival’s three themes is Wales which, of course, reminded me of [...] Read more »
Filed under American Studies, folklore.
Tagged Catherine Zeta Jones, Christian Bale, immigrants, John L. Lewis, Ronald L Lewis, Smithsonian, Smithsonian Folklife Festival, UNC Press, United Mine Workers of America, Wales, Washington DC, Welsh, Welsh-Americans
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admin on
26 June 2009, 11:37 am
Located on the Virginia-North Carolina border, directly above Forsyth County, is Stokes County, the next stop on our Tar Heel Trek. Historically, Stokes is best known for tobacco production and stringband music. More recently, it is getting attention for being the home of baseball standout Dustin Ackley. However, as a Stokes County native, I feel [...] Read more »
Filed under Cooking / Food, Hiking, Literature, Music, Nature, North Carolina, Southern Studies, folklore.
Tagged billy ray cyrus, bloody christmas, carolina buddies, charlie lawson, doc watson, dustin ackley, frank stasio, germanton, hanging rock, Hiking, hillbilly hideaway, john dillenger, m. bruce jones, North Carolina, sauratown, stanley brothers, stokes county, Tar Heel Trek, The State of Things, trudy j. smith, walnut cove, waterfall, white christmas, Winston-Salem, WUNC
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admin on
2 April 2009, 6:51 am
I wrote briefly last week (in rather vague terms) about some of Archie Green’s accomplishments. Over the weekend, the New York Times and Los Angeles Times both published lengthy obituaries. I wanted to offer a more personal glimpse of him here from a longtime friend and colleague of Green’s, Robert Cantwell. In 2001 UNC Press [...]
Filed under American Studies, Biography / Autobiography, Guest Bloggers, Labor Studies, UNC Press News, folklore.
Tagged archie green, iww, laborlore, robert cantwell, vernacular culture, wobblies
