A Kentucky Christmas /
A celebration of holiday poetry, fiction, essays, recipes, and songs by more than sixty of the Bluegrass state's finest writers. Gathered here are writings from some of the legendary voices of Kentucky -- and the nation -- as well as original Christmas stories and poetry from some of the state&...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Lyon, George Ella, 1949- |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Lexington : University Press of Kentucky, ©2003. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; A GREETING; George Ella Lyon; OLD CHRISTMAS; Wade Hall: Louisville's First Christmas; Harriette Simpson Arnow: FROM Social Life and Diversions, FLOWERING OF THE CUMBERLAND; Thomas D. Clark: A Little Bit of Santa Claus; John Fox Jr.: FROM Chapter 12, THE HEART OF THE HILLS; Loyal Jones: Christmas and Old Christmas in Appalachia; Anne Shelby: Jack Hunts Christmas; Kathy L. May: The Animals That Night; James Still: The Ganders Marry; HOME; Linda Scott DeRosier: FROM Pure Magic and Old Friendship, CREEKER; Graham Thomas Shelby: The Asakawa Christmas Party
- Chris Holbrook: Christmas, Down Home Kathleen Hill: Sterling Home for Christmas; TREE; James Still: At Years End; Winter Tree; Billy C. Clark: My Mother's Christmas Tree; Chris Offutt: Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells; Leon V. Driskell: No Time Like Now; Sallie Bingham: The Birds' Christmas; Jane Gentry: Hunting for a Christmas Tree After Dark; GIFTS; Bobbie Ann Mason: Drawing Names; Marie Bradby: Why I Believe in Santa Claus; Clifford Wieck: Christmas Turtle; Rebecca Bailey: Christmas on Lizard Ridge; Jane Gentry: The Red Taffeta Dress; Janice Holt Giles: The Gift; Frederick Smock: Winteriese
- Crystal Wilkinson: The Visit Richard Taylor: Mistletoe; Jane Olmstead: Letters from the Karst; Loretta Lynn: Hey, You Ain't Supposed to Wear Clothes Under Your Nightgown; James Still: A Master Time; Jesse Stuart: FROM GOD'S ODDLING: THE STORY OF MICK STUART, MY FATHER; Dorothy Sutton: My Uncle Bob; Marianne Worthington: Domestic; MYSTERY; Wendell Berry: VI, 1988; Pauletta Hansel: Waking before Light; Silas House: When She Came to Mercy; Carolyn Jo Lacy: Epiphany at Midnight: January 20, 1994; Elizabeth Madox Roberts: Christmas Morning; David Dick: The Christmas Lamb; Sarah Gorham: Icon
- John Jacob Niles: I Wonder as I Wander (with an introduction by Dr. Ron Pen)Maurice Manning: Bad Winter, 1975; George Ella Lyon: FROM Chapter 17, BORROWED CHILDREN; SNAPSHOTS; Marie Bradby: Shooting Star; Thomas Merton: Advent; Frank Olson: Winter Wren at Solstice; Harlan Hubbard: December 25, 1949-December 31, 1949; George Eklund: Two Cardinals; Maureen Morehead: In the House of the Lord; Jim Wayne Miller: FROM Chapter 10, NEWFOUND; Jonathan Greene: Snow Arithmetic; Joe Survant: The Presence of Snow in the Tropics; James Baker Hall: Prayer for the New Year; KIN; Pam Shingler: Alene
- Mary Ann Taylor-Hall: Christmas Present Kim Edwards: Bread; Lynn Pruett: Christmas Every Day; Jeff Worley: December 24, 1959; Peggy Steele: By Special Starlight; Harry Caudill: Christmas Comes to Lord Calvert; FEAST; Joy Bale Boone: The Proof of Mother's Puddings; Dianne Aprile: All the Right Ingredients; Ronni Lundy: Christmas Fruit Salad, Iva's Christmas Cake, and Snow Cream; Jan Walters-Cook: Christmas Gift: A Memoir; MUSIC; Wendell Berry: VI, 1991; Marcia L. Hurlow: Christmas Eve, 3 P.M.; Belinda Mason: A Christmas Lesson; Jean Ritchie: Little Bitty Baby