No Sweat: Memories of Southern Appalachia: An article from Southern Cultures 17:3, The Memory Issue

by Danny Fulks

Overview

No Sweat
Memories of Southern Appalachia
by Danny Fulks

When his brother went off to fight, the author was left behind—and his recollections here reveal a wonderful snapshot of wartime Appalachian life.

"Cooney Simms, the grocer, had a big Philco floor-model radio with push buttons and short wave. Neighbors gathered around when Joe Lewis was fighting. And wasn't he always this good giant who whipped Adolph Hitler's man Max Schmeling? Static wasn't too bad; one could hear Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats if they didn't come on the same time as the Grand Ole Opry."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807882788
Publisher:	UNC Center for the Study of the American South
Publication date:	09/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Danny Fulks is Professor Emeritus at Marshall University. He has written two collections of nonfiction essays for the Jesse Stuart Foundation (Ashland, Kentucky), Tragedy On Greasy Ridge and Tick Ridge Faces the South, and has published in the MacGuffin, Timeline, Backwoods Home, Hearthstone, Goldenseal, Bluegrass Unlimited, the Elementary School Journal, the Educational Forum, Now and Then, and the Appalachian Journal. He lives in Huntington, West Virginia.