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A Tree Accurst

Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver

By: Daniel W. Patterson

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A Tree Accurst

Bobby McMillon and Stories of Frankie Silver

By: Daniel W. Patterson

On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was cursed--that anyone who climbed into it would be unable to get out. Daniel Patterson uses this "accurst" tree as a metaphor for the grip the story of the murder has had on the imaginations of the local community, the wider world, and the noted Appalachian traditional singer and storyteller Bobby McMillon. For nearly 170 years, the memory of Frankie Silver has been kept alive by a ballad and local legends and by the news accounts, fiction, plays, and other works they inspired. Weaving Bobby McMillon's personal story--how and why he became a taleteller and what this story means to him--into an investigation of the Silver murder, Patterson explores the genesis and uses of folklore and the interplay between folklore, social and personal history, law, and narrative as people and communities try to understand human character and fate. Bobby McMillon is a furniture and hospital worker in Lenoir, North Carolina, with deep roots in Appalachia and a lifelong passion for learning and performing traditional songs and tales. He has received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award from the state's Arts Council and also the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore Award.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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ISBN 10

0807860913

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9780807860915

The True Image

Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry

By: Daniel W. Patterson

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The True Image

Gravestone Art and the Culture of Scotch Irish Settlers in the Pennsylvania and Carolina Backcountry

By: Daniel W. Patterson

A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving art of British settlers in the region. In The True Image, Daniel Patterson documents the craftsmanship of this group and the current appearance of the stones. In two hundred of his photographs, he records these stones for future generations and compares their iconography and inscriptions with those of other early monuments in the United States, Northern Ireland, and Scotland. Combining his reading of the stones with historical records, previous scholarship, and rich oral lore, Patterson throws new light on the complex culture and experience of the Scotch Irish in America. In so doing, he explores the bright and the dark sides of how they coped with challenges such as backwoods conditions, religious upheavals, war, political conflicts, slavery, and land speculation. He shows that headstones, resting quietly in old graveyards, can reveal fresh insights into the character and history of an influential immigrant group.

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496

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UNC Press Books

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0807837539

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9780807837535

Rites in the Spirit

A Ritual Approach to Pentecostal/Charismatic Spirituality

By: Daniel E. Albrecht

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Rites in the Spirit

A Ritual Approach to Pentecostal/Charismatic Spirituality

By: Daniel E. Albrecht

Rites in the Spirit is a book about spirituality, ritual, and Pentecostal experience. The volume presents a careful and innovative study of Pentecostal practices and experiences. Focusing on the very important, but often intriguing worship rites that express the spirituality of Pentecostals, Albrecht discovers that these Pentecostal/charismatic rites and their attending sensibilities also function to shape, nurture, authenticate and even transform the spiritual lives of these Christians. Rites in the Spirit seeks to guide Pentecostals, and the charismatically-inclined, toward self-interpretation and a more nuanced conception of, and a deeper appreciation for, their Pentecostal experience. The volume also aims to make a sometimes exotic spirituality more accessible and understandable to those who have had limited contact with Pentecostal/charismatic forms and expressions.

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284

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A&C Black

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1841270172

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Managers and Workers

Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880–1920

By: Daniel Nelson

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Managers and Workers

Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory System in the United States, 1880–1920

By: Daniel Nelson

During the early years of this century, the classic factory system of the industrial revolution evolved rapidly into a new, identifiable form that would characterize American and world industry for most of the twentieth century. This transformation, as important for industrial managers, workers, and consumers as the initial creation of the factory, is the subject of Daniel Nelson’s illuminating synthesis, updated and expanded to include the scholarship of recent decades. This edition of Managers and Workers describes the interrelations between technological and organizational innovation, including such familiar developments as the spread of mass production and the emergence of scientific management, and other developments that were little known when the first edition of this book appeared, such as the revolution in factory architecture, the changing role of the foreman, and the spread of personnel work. The volume also incorporates the best scholarship of the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, some of it stimulated by Managers and Workers, and includes a new chapter on the role of organized labor in the early twentieth-century factory. The focus of the work, however, remains the individual managers and workers who created the twentieth-century factory system. The preeminent historian of the American business firm, Alfred D. Chandler Jr. reviewed the first edition of Managers and Workers in The Journal of Economic History, predicting that this book would “long remain the standard work on the origins of the American factory.” The second edition will make that prediction true for the 1990s and beyond.

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252

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299148831

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9780299148836

Sunday in San Francisco

By: Daniel Mangin,Catherine McEver,Kathryn Olney

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Sunday in San Francisco

By: Daniel Mangin,Catherine McEver,Kathryn Olney

From the best brunches to getting a car repaired, from shopping to hiking in the hills, Fodor's Sunday in San Francisco offers 1,638 relaxing, uplifting, caloric, historic, hip, and romantic things to do on a weekend in the Bay Area. "A good guide for locals who start panicking once they're one hill away from home".--San Francisco Examiner.

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Fodor's

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0679032886

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9780679032885

Fodor's Sunday in San Francisco

By: Daniel Mangin,Catherine McEver,Kathryn Olney

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Fodor's Sunday in San Francisco

By: Daniel Mangin,Catherine McEver,Kathryn Olney

Like its popular predecessor, Sunday in New York, this specialty guide answers readers' what, where, and how-to-get-there questions--whether they are first-time visitors or long-time residents of the city by the bay--and also covers Oakland, Berkeley, Marin County, and the Peninsula. 15 detailed maps.

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Fodor's

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0679026282

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9780679026280

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Architecture and Landscape Design, 1856-1940

By: Kim Coventry,Daniel Meyer,Arthur H. Miller

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Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Architecture and Landscape Design, 1856-1940

By: Kim Coventry,Daniel Meyer,Arthur H. Miller

On Lake Michigan's North Shore, an extraordinary group of cosmopolitan and wealthy clients commissioned havens from the city's bustle during the Gilded Age.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393730999

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9780393730999

Book's by Daniel W. Patterson

A Tree Accurst

A Tree Accurst

The True Image

The True Image

Rites in the Spirit

Rites in the Spirit

Managers and Workers

Managers and Workers

Sunday in San Francisco

Sunday in San Francisco

Fodor's Sunday in San Francisco

Fodor's Sunday in San Francisco

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

Classic Country Estates of Lake Forest

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