Short call : snippets from the smallest places in Texas, 1935-2000 (Volume 24) (Texas Folklore Society Extra Book)

Roach, Joyce Gibson

ISBN 10: 1574415735 ISBN 13: 9781574415735

Published by University of North Texas Press, Denton, TX, 2014

Language: English

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xvii, 154 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. ; blue full cloth with gilt spine lettering ; dj. "Short Call: Snippets from the Smallest Places in Texas, 1935-2000" by Joyce Gibson Roach, is TFS Extra Book #24. Joyce Gibson Roach has collected "snippets" of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small towns--and the people who inhabit them.

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Short call : snippets from the smallest places in Texas, 1935-2000 (Volume 24) (Texas Folklore Society Extra Book)

Publisher

University of North Texas Press, Denton, TX

Publication Date

2014

Language

English

ISBN 10

1574415735

ISBN 13

9781574415735

Binding

Hardcover

Condition

As New

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Fine

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Joyce Gibson Roach has collected “snippets” of stories, recipes, and traditions of life in Turtle, Texas, which represents many small towns―and the people who inhabit them. Many of the younger generations leave such towns, finding both place and society crumbling. Those who’ve stayed are finding new and interesting ways to put themselves and their places back together. Both the short and long pieces herein are about the folks who’ve elected to stay generation after generation, knowing that for them wherever they’ve stayed is still the Home Place. The characters’ viewpoints are personal, sometimes agreeing with facts found in history books and sometimes not.

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JOYCE GIBSON ROACH is the author of The Cowgirls from UNT Press. She lives in Keller, Texas.

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