Backroads 2: The Road to Chicken Holler - Softcover

Coffey, Lynn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615392415 ISBN 13: 9780615392417

Publisher: Lynn Coffey, 2016

Synopsis

In Backroads 2: The Road to Chicken Holler, Lynn Coffey is back with another remarkable journey into the lives of the elder people of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains. In her first book, Backroads: Plain Folk and Simple Livin', she revealed the charm of the "old ways" as she told the stories of the native residents living in and around the little hamlet of Love, Virginia, where the author makes her home. In her second volume, we are once again taken back to this beautiful country setting, beginning with an interview with Doris Giannini Hamner, the real "Olivia" of the popular TV series, The Waltons. From there, it's on to river baptizing, pickling beets, midwives and home births, bear hunting, mountain music and those wonderful recipes. Each story is enhanced with a multitude of photos of early ancestors, craftwork and breathtaking scenery that only the Blue Ridge Mountains can afford. No one tells the story of the Appalachian culture with such heart, warmth, and respect as Lynn Coffey because this is her life and these are her people. Or as Brad Herzog, the best-selling author of the American travel memoir, States of Mind, says, "Like its predecessor, this book is a celebration-of the people and pastimes of a bygone era and a magical place. It is a snapshot of a flickering candle before it burns out, and Lynn Coffey is the keeper of the flame."

About this title

About the Author:

As a young girl growing up along the gold coast of south Florida, Lynn always had a Waldenish bent towards the old ways and longed to live a simplistic lifestyle in the mountains, far from the flatlands of her home state. In 1980 her dream came true when she moved to the tiny hamlet of Love, in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. Realizing the elderly neighbors living around her and their unique culture was slowly ebbing away, Lynn thought there must be a way to capture the existing Appalachian lifestyle before it disappeared altogether. With no prior experience in journalism, she began publishing a monthly newspaper called Backroads that chronicled the customs and activities of the native mountain people she had grown to love; the people who mentored her and taught her their ways. Backroads carved out a folksy niche, having a twenty-five year run before Lynn retired in 2006. But the mountain people's pleas, "Don't let our stories die with your retirement," compelled Lynn to start writing five books about the vanishing and oft-misunderstood people of her area. Backroads 2; The Road to Chicken Holler, is the second of a five-book series of Appalachian culture and may be viewed on Lynn's website: www.backroadsbooks.com. Lynn is happily married to Billy Coffey, a rugged native of Love, Virginia, who is also a Baptist minister and they continue to live the simple life on their mountaintop farm. They have five children, six grandchildren and welcomed their first great-grandchild in December of 2015.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lynn Coffey
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0615392415
• ISBN 13: 9780615392417
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304