There's plenty of good air and sunshine: Asheville, N.C. WPA Life Histories - Softcover

Stevens, Anne Winn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1530789036 ISBN 13: 9781530789030

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

The stories of a young woman and other families growing raising families in the Asheville NC Community before and during the Depression Years in NC. Five stories presented as told to Win Stevens of the WPA Writers Group and documented in the Library of Congress. The original collection of histories in the Library of Congress, consists of approximately 2,900 documents, compiled and transcribed by more than 300 writers from 24 states, working on the Folklore Project of the Federal Writers’ Project, a New Deal jobs program that was part of the U.S. Works Progress Administration (WPA) from 1936 to 1940. 2,000-15,000 words in length, the documents vary from narratives to dialogues to reports to case histories. They chronicle life stories of Americans who lived at the turn of the century

About this title

About the Author:

Anne Winn Stevens was a writer for the WPA during the depression. Not much is recorded about her, yet her name is attached to interviews and documents of a large volume of Life History documents and records in the Libary of Congress. The stories and images were compiled by R. S. Lunsford Retired Sergeant with the City of Asheville Police Dept. Working as a Patrol supervisor where several of the narratives are set. Lunsford has written articles for the Brotherhood of Martial Artist Magazine, Martial Artist Instructor Quarterly, and The Urban News. His books include Juvenile Subcultures and Issues, Cop and Coin A Novel and There’s Plenty of Good Air and Sunshine. The latter a narrative on his Grandmother and other families growing up in the Asheville NC Community during the Great Depression.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1530789036
• ISBN 13: 9781530789030
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136