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Author |
: Robert Isbell |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0807849626 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807849620 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ray Hicks by : Robert Isbell
Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chronicle of his family's experiences in the remote section of the North Carolina mountains where
Author |
: Lynn Salsi |
Publisher |
: Univ. of Tennessee Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781572336216 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1572336218 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life and Times of Ray Hicks by : Lynn Salsi
Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Best known for his traditional storytelling and also for saving the original Beech Mountain Jack tales brought to the Appalachian Mountains by his ancestors as early as 1776, Hicks was conscious of the role he played in the preservation of oral storytelling. Many of those stories are included in The Life and Times of Ray Hicks. Born in 1922, Ray lived his whole life in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina. (Although it finally got a refrigerator and electric lights, Ray's place never did get a telephone, indoor plumbing, or a radio or television.) It seems he knew everything there was to know about living off the land and about his family's history. A lot of what he knew is in this new book. Hicks made his public storytelling debut in 1951, when a local schoolteacher invited him to her class. In 1973, Ray performed at the very first International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee. He appeared at every one until he became too weak to attend. He died on Easter Sunday in 2003. Based on hundreds of hours of interviews and visits, painstakingly pieced together by Lynn Salsi, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks comes as close as possible to capturing the way Ray talked. Part memoir and part biography, The Life and Times of Ray Hicks presents, sometimes in Ray Hicks's own words, the most important part of his long, colorful life-a life scarcely less interesting than the Jack Tales he told so well. Lynn Salsi is the author of several books, including The Jack Tales and Young Ray Hicks Learns the Jack Tales. She has received the American Library Association's Notable Book Award, six Willie Parker Peace History Book Awards, and was named the North Carolina Historian of the Year in 2001.
Author |
: Raymond Hicks |
Publisher |
: CreateSpace |
Total Pages |
: 128 |
Release |
: 2015-06-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1499107013 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781499107012 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis I'm Still Standing by : Raymond Hicks
I'M STILL STANDING is the story of a man whose idea of duty put him in conflict with the powers that be, and how he endured the injustice of false charges and wrongful incarceration, turning bad providence into spiritual growth. Raymond Hicks writes candidly about the humiliation that he suffered as an upstanding young black officer who was wrongly accused by his coworkers-the anguish and financial ruin that he and his family experienced as he single-handedly attempted to fight corruption within the sheriff's department, as well as within the justice system which failed him. Hicks, a modern-day Serpico, reveals his story in hopes that no other dedicated individual will ever have to suffer through a "justice system gone mad." The purpose of this book is not just to restore justice, to "right the wrongs" visited upon Mr. Hicks, but to make everyone aware of the dangers we all face in a country riddled with corruption to such a degree that "honesty" is all but eliminated.
Author |
: Christine Pavesic |
Publisher |
: iUniverse |
Total Pages |
: 131 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780595363773 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0595363776 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales by : Christine Pavesic
The Jack Tales derive from a Western European narrative cycle and are the oldest folktales to survive in the North American oral tradition. In the twenty-first century, the Jack Tales continue to retain their place at the forefront of Western Oral Tradition. Over the centuries the tales of Jack and his adventures have tended to absorb the interests and values of the culture in which they are operating. Ray Hicks and the Jack Tales: A Study of Appalachian History, Culture, and Philosophy, assesses folktales in the oral tradition and examines both the history and the cultural impact of them. It includes a survey of existing scholarship concerning orality and the European origins of the Jack Tales and then focuses upon a prominent Appalachian native recorder of the tales, Ray Hicks. His enthusiasm and skill as a storyteller has allowed Hicks to bring an ancient body of oral literature to all types of audiences. The way that Hicks has enhanced the Jack Tales through his manner of storytelling-the nature of his performance, his voice and mimicry, the stimulus of the audience and his response-is explored along with the setting of these tales-the Appalachian mountains.
Author |
: Ray Hicks |
Publisher |
: Callaway Editions |
Total Pages |
: 48 |
Release |
: 2000 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015049742755 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Jack Tales by : Ray Hicks
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Author |
: Faith Erin Hicks |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2016-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781626721562 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1626721564 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Nameless City by : Faith Erin Hicks
Every time it is invaded the City gets a new name, but to the natives in is the Nameless City, and they survive by not letting themselves get involved--but now the fate of the City rests in the hands of Rat, a native, and Kaidu, one of the Dao, the latest occupiers, and the two must somehow work together if the City is to survive.
Author |
: Betty N. Smith |
Publisher |
: University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages |
: 424 |
Release |
: 2021-10-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813184081 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813184088 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Jane Hicks Gentry by : Betty N. Smith
"Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's songs and fifteen of the "Jack" tales she learned from her grandfather. When Englishman Cecil Sharp traveled through the South gathering material for his famous English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians, his most generous informant was Jane Hicks Gentry. But despite her importance in Sharp's collection, Gentry has remained only a name on his pages. Now Betty Smith, herself a folksinger, brings to life this remarkable artist and her songs and tales.
Author |
: Robert Stone |
Publisher |
: HarperCollins |
Total Pages |
: 352 |
Release |
: 1997-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780547524160 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0547524161 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dog Soldiers by : Robert Stone
In Saigon during the waning days of the Vietnam War, a small-time journalist named John Converse thinks he'll find action - and profit - by getting involved in a big-time drug deal. But back in the States, things go horribly wrong for him. Dog Soldiers perfectly captures the underground mood of America in the 1970s, when amateur drug dealers and hippies encountered profiteering cops and professional killers—and the price of survival was dangerously high.
Author |
: Della Hicks-Wilson |
Publisher |
: Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2021-06-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781524871826 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1524871826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis Small Cures by : Della Hicks-Wilson
From the British viral poet Della Hicks-Wilson comes an empowering and lyrical collection of short, interconnected poems about the heart, letting go, and a healing love, that readers can carry and quote for a lifetime. Small Cures is at once a compelling reminder to anyone struggling with heartbreak, mental health, or trauma, that they are not alone, an inspirational manual on how to survive, and a stirring call to arms for self-love. This unique volume brings together 150 poems into one seamless narrative based on the different stages of an “illness” – diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. Through words that are as breathtakingly sparse and raw, as they are honest and memorable, Hicks-Wilson’s soothing and soulful voice serves as the gentle guide to self-healing we all need. ‘darling, you feel heavy because you are too full of truth. open your mouth more. let the truth exist somewhere other than inside your body.’
Author |
: Robert Stone |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 1997 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0395860253 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780395860250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dog Soldiers by : Robert Stone
Small-time journalist John Converse thinks to cash in on the last days of the Vietnam War by becoming involved in a major drug deal, but things go very wrong when he gets back to the U.S. and finds himself hunted by a corrupt government agent.