MUSING APPALACHIA: VOLUME 2

Wrestling with Life in the Flatlands

Volume 2 of Musing Appalachia is a compilation of forty-six comical but true stories about the lives and customs of Appalachians and their experiences while making the often-painful transition of being absorbed into a culture outside the hills.

Topics touch on humorous adaptations and traditions as they grapple to cope with the new environment. They include searching for identity, schooling, marriage and sex, religion, nicknames, Appalachian creativity, moonshining, hunting, race, the War of Northern Aggression, etc.

A few of the 46 stories include Where I Come From, Roots Run Deep; Jijadzilla, My First Grade Reality Teacher; Stuff Momma Told Me; Mules Taught Me to Cuss; Dixie Whupped the Worst Out of Us; Art, Creativity, and Buttocks Baskets; Strange People; Enduring Poverty; Bootlegger Turns, A Shotgun Sobered Them; Dynamite: Better than Firecrackers; Reverend John Elbert, Mountain Preacher; plus thirty-one more stories. 271 pages.

Once read, the reader should have had a more relaxed perspective on Appalachian ways and how they came to where they are today.