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by Sheila Kay Adams

Author:

Sheila Kay Adams

ISBN13:

978-0807845363

ISBN:

0807845361

Language:

English

Publisher:

The University of North Carolina Press (September 11, 1995)

Category:

Fiction

Subcategory:

Genre Fiction

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1743 kb

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Rating:

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Sheila Adams has been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for over twenty years. I bought this book after hearing Sheila read at Hindman, hoping it was not only her way of reading that made me want more. I wasn't disappointed

Sheila Adams has been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for over twenty years. A native of Madison County. I wasn't disappointed. The stories -literally dozens of them- are anecdotal; vignettes, really, many from early childhood. All are about growing up in a place where Family and Home mean more than random accidental attachments; so much more.

Come Go I just watched the film "Song Catcher" about a woman who, in the early 1900s, discovers the old English ballads . It reminded me of a wonderful book of stories written by Sheila Kay Adams.

Come Go I just watched the film "Song Catcher" about a woman who, in the early 1900s, discovers the old English ballads preserved in their purest form in the mountains of Appalachia. I love roots music and I love the mountains of North Carolina and the film captured my heart. Ms. Adams is a singer, banjo player and story teller who has received awards for her valuable contributions to the study of North Carolina folklore

Sheila Kay Adams, NEA Heritage Fellowship recipient, Appalachian ballad singer, musician, storyteller and author.

Sheila Kay Adams, NEA Heritage Fellowship recipient, Appalachian ballad singer, musician, storyteller and author. Ballads Banjoes & Stories. Sheila Kay Adams Newsletter. Sheila Kay Adams Wins 2016 NC Heritage Award.

Sheila Kay Adams: American storyteller, author, and musician from the Sodom Laurel community in Madison County, North Carolina. Traitor, Camp A Little While In The Wilderness, Breaddaddy and the Furriner и другие песни. Вся дискография, Радио, Концерты, рекомендации и похожие исполнители.

Adams voice as a known storyteller and balladeer is clear and simple in these short glimpses into her early life growing up in the community of Sodom in Madison County, North Carolina. Funny and heartwarming, we come to know many of her kinfolk and neighbors. The story of Old Christmas Eve with her Breaddaddy will leave you with a warm feeling and you'll understand her Granny best by her phrase "my hand print is all over the raising of that on. Sheila Kay Adams is a North Carolina treasure. cataylor, August 1, 2010.

But tales told from Adams's adult perspective lack the tang of the burnished ""histories"": ""Off to Ivydale,"" for one, could be Anyteens in a Rural Setting, USA. And when Granny's old age and eventual death are the subject, the writing turns wholly sentimental: Phrases like ""I will miss he. . And when Granny's old age and eventual death are the subject, the writing turns wholly sentimental: Phrases like ""I will miss her as long as I live""-from ""Ending Granny's Story""-come straight out of Hallmark-land

Sheila Adams has been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for over twenty years. A native of Madison County, North Carolina, she was introduced to the tale-telling tradition by her great-aunt 'Granny,' well-known balladeer Dellie Chandler Norton. This collection of Adams's stories provides a rare portrait of a distinctive mountain community and charts the development of an artist's unique voice. The tales range from stories of heroic, sometimes fierce, mountain settlers to the comic adventures of local drifters and tricksters, from magical childhood encounters to adult rites of passage. We meet Bertha and the snake handlers, local preacher Manassey Fender (who 'looked like a pencil with a burr haircut, in a suit'), and Adams's beloved grandfather Breaddaddy, who taught her about life and death with an enchanting graveyard dance. But perhaps the most powerful character depicted here is 'Granny,' whom Adams calls 'the most exciting person I have ever known and the best teacher I would ever have.' By weaving these remembrances into her stories, Adams both preserves and extends a rich artistic heritage.

Xava

These are wonderful stories and beautifully told. It reminds us of a simpler time and celebrates the values of family and community in tiny communities in the mountains of North Carolina.

Manemanu

I laughed until I cried. Great fun, fantastic book.

Clodebd

A collection of short stories about growing up in the mountain community of Sodom. Very homey and real. A good read.

Todal

This took me back to my childhood on my grandparents farm or sitting around the kitchen table playing cards with my grandmother. I wish I had written down the stories I heard. It is a same that the children of today don't have the chance to see or live these times.

Arryar

Good

Tygrarad

"Sealie" gives a lesson on writing in dialect. Her colorful turns of phrase and sometime odd grammatical use make funny spelling unneccessary while conveying in detail the voices of her home town. I bought this book after hearing Sheila read at Hindman, hoping it was not only her way of reading that made me want more. I wasn't disappointed. The stories -literally dozens of them- are anecdotal; vignettes, really, many from early childhood. All are about growing up in a place where Family and Home mean more than random accidental attachments; so much more. There aren't plots, no intrigue and resolution, but I laughed aloud in places and cried in others, and next time I see Sheila I need to ask about that little "life's secrets revealed" she got from Granny.

Mr_Jeйson

Come Go Home with Me was the second written work of author Sheila Kay Adams that I have read. Her short stories were written with the same soft southern ease and imagery as her most recent novel, My Old True Love. Sheila is a writer who knows her subject and more important loves her subject from deep within her soul. That intense love of the southern mountains and the culture of people who live there shines through easily in each short story in this volume. I recommend this book to anyone interested in a written images of people living a slower pace of life in a very misunderstood area of our great country. My only negative comment...she hasn't published enough material to keep me in great reading. Can't wait for her next novel of the southern mountains.

The author, Sheila Kay Adams, was a consultant for the film Songcatcher. She is responsible for the authenticity of the accents, diction, and singing style of the characters in the movie. So often mountain people are put down as "hokey," ignorant, or trivial. In these stories they reveal their moral strength, their poetic way of expressing themselves, and their perseverance in a challenging environment. Their humor and dignity raise them far above the stereotypes of Snuffy Smith and Li'l Abner. The story of Sheila, as a small girl, and her grandmother having a zen-like moment with a flock of migrating Monarch butterflies is so full of magic, it is worth the price of the book alone.

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