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Sitting Up With The Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South
Sitting Up With The Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South
Sitting Up With The Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South
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Stories provide the connective tissue of the South. The intrepid Pamela Petro drives from the Carolinas to the Appalachians to the Atlantic seaboard, from Virginia's valleys to Louisiana's swamps to meet the mesmerizing guardians of its history: the storytellers, who often double as local, or national, treasures. A gifted listener, Petro records how stories originate as well as how they are passed down. She paints vivid portraits of the tellers while compiling tales about Jack the trickster, boo-hags and plat-eyes, ghosts, and singing turtles. The story of the South is not finished. Petro's revelatory investigation into its oral culture is as intoxicating as it is fun.
LanguageEnglish
PublisherArcade
Release dateJan 23, 2012
ISBN9781611459784
Sitting Up With The Dead: A Storied Journey through the American South
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Pamela Petro

Pamela Petro has been educated at Brown, Paris and Harvard Universities; in 1983 she went to the University of Wales at Lampeter for the first time, to do her MA, returning in 1992 for intensive instruction in the Welsh language. She has since taught Welsh and travel writing in the USA. She regularly contributes to the‘New York Times’ Travel Section and to ‘Planet’, and has compiled a guide to New England. This is her first ‘real’ book. She has, by the way, ‘no’ Welsh blood.

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