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Cabins in the Laurel
Cabins in the Laurel
Cabins in the Laurel
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Cabins in the Laurel

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In 1928 New York native Muriel Earley Sheppard moved with her mining engineer husband to the Toe River Valley -- an isolated pocket in North Carolina between the Blue Ridge and Iron Mountains. Sheppard began visiting her neighbors and forming friendships in remote coves and rocky clearings, and in 1935 her account of life in the mountains -- Cabins in the Laurel -- was published. The book included 128 striking photographs by the well-known Chapel Hill photographer, Bayard Wootten, a frequent visitor to the area.

The early reviews of Cabins in the Laurel were overwhelmingly positive, but the mountain people -- Sheppard's friends and subjects -- initially felt that she had portrayed them as too old-fashioned, even backward. As novelist John Ehle shows in his foreword, though, fifty years have made a huge difference, and the people of the Toe River Valley have been among its most affectionate readers.

This new large-format edition, which makes use of many of Wootten's original negatives, will introduce Sheppard's words and Wootten's photography to a whole new generation of readers -- in the Valley and beyond.

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Release dateMar 19, 2014
ISBN9781469620770
Cabins in the Laurel
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T. J. Pempel

Muriel Earley Sheppard (1898-1951) was born in Andover, New York. She is also the author of Cloud by Day: A Story of Coal and Coke and People

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    This is an interesting blend of history and folklore about Western North Carolina, specifically Yancey and Mitchell Counties. While Sheppard does not cite her sources in many of the historical portions, it is clear she has read court files concerning many of the incidents she describes. Much of the folklore portion is told through the form of ballad. In fact, one of the ballads and incidents it described was the basis for Sharyn McCrumb's The Ballad of Frankie Silver. Most readers from Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina will recognize the author's accomplishment in storytelling. Even though it is older, it has held up well because of this.

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