Don't Go Up Kettle Creek is a historical portrayal of a river and
the people who made their living along its banks and tributaries.
Drawing upon the personal recollections and oral traditions of
longtime residents, William Lynwood Montell describes a century and
a half of life in the Upper Cumberland.
Montell organized his material according to the topics that
dominated his tape-recorded conversations with residents of the
area-farming, logging and rafting, steamboating, the Civil
War-topics that the people themselves saw as important in their
history. In reconstructing the past, the author also illuminates
the relationship between geographic and economic factors in the
region; the prolonged affects of a cataclysmic event, the Civil
War, on the isolated area; and the impact of modernization, in the
form of "hard" roads and cheap, TVA-supplied electricity, on the
traditional ways of people.
First published in 1983, this book is now available in paperback
for the first time. Included with this edition is a new foreword in
which Montell and Mary Robbins, executive director of the Tennessee
Upper Cumberland Tourism Association, describe changes in the area
that have occured since the book's initial appearance.
The Author: William Lynwood Montell, now retired, was coordinator
of programs in folk and interculturual studies at Western Kentucky
University. His numerous books include Ghosts along the Cumberland
and The Saga of Coe Ridge.
General
| Imprint: |
University of Tennessee Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
September 2000 |
| First published: |
September 2000 |
| Authors: |
William Lynwood Montell
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| Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
296 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-57233-084-9 |
| Categories: |
Books
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-57233-084-8 |
| Barcode: |
9781572330849 |
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