Up Cutshin and Down Greasy-Pa

Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River-Cutshin and Greasy creeks-folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination. For half a century they had preserved the traditional ways of their forebears-the farming methods, the household arts, and the games, ballads, dances, and tales that were their chief entertainment. In Up Cutshin and Down Greasy, brothers Dave and Jim Couch, born about the turn of the century, recall clearly th

Author: Leonard W. Roberts
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 03/22/1988
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.02w x 0.55d
ISBN: 9780813101767

About the Author

Prominent folklorist and professor Leonard W. Roberts (1912-1983), authored numerous books, including South from Hell-fer-Sartin.

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