Bücher der Reihe Folklife in the South Series

A comprehensive view of the fascinating folklife in the Appalachian foothills of North and South Carolina

Bordered by the Blue Ridge and the Allegheny Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley forms a natural corridor to the western parts of Virginia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Scott Hamilton Suter documents the many peoples who have left their marks on the folkways of the region - Native Americans, Germans, Swiss, Scots-Irish, and African Americans.

Ranging over parts of three states, Wiregrass Country extends from north of Savannah, sweeps across rolling meadows into the southwest Georgia coastal plain, fans over into the southeastern corner of Alabama, and dips into the northwestern panhandle of Florida. This book is the first comprehensive study of the folklife of this unique region.

Horse breeding, the cultures of tobacco and bourbon, the forms of architecture, the codes of the hunt, the traditions of gambling and dueling, convivial celebrations, regional foodways - all of these are ingredients in the folklife of the Inner Bluegrass Region that is the focus of this fascinating book.

In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American nation the Blue Ridge region was the American frontier. As it describes the most characteristic and significant verbal, customary, and material traditions, this fascinating, fact-filled book traces the historical development of the region's distinct folklife.