Bearwallow - A Personal History of a Mountain Homeland (Paperback)

Across the Blue Ridge Mountains stretches a world both charming and complicated. Jeremy Jones and his wife move into a small house above the creek where his family had settled 200 years prior. He takes a job alongside his former teachers in the local elementary school and sets out on a search to understand how this ancient land has shaped its people-how it shaped him. His search sends him burrowing in the past-hunting buried treasure and POW camps, unearthing Civil War graves and family feuds, exploring gated communities and tourist traps, encountering changed accents and immigrant populations, tracing both Walmart sidewalks and carved-out mountains-and pondering the future. He meshes narrative and myth, geology and genealogy, fiddle tunes and local color in his exploration of the briskly changing and oft-stigmatized world of his native southern Appalachians and particularly the mystical Bearwallow Mountain, a peak suddenly in flux.

General

Imprint:	John F. Blair Publisher
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	July 2021
Authors:	Jeremy B. Jones
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	288
ISBN-13:	978-1-949467-54-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > Rural communities Books > History > History of specific subjects > Local history Books > Biography > General Promotions
LSN:	1-949467-54-6
Barcode:	9781949467543

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