Let's Whittle Awhile: My Blue Ridge Neighbors and Friends.

Signed by Author Jim Perry. Octavo, green cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, 134 pp. Very Good+, with small former-owner inscription; in a Very Good+ dustjacket with light rubbing. From dust jacket: Want to get out of the rat race? Jim Perry did it, giving up a good law practice, electricity, and running water, to retire to the mountains -- on borrowed money. And that was only the beginning. With the help of his hardy family and skeptical mountain neighbors, he put down roots at Sky Valley and found a whole new way of life. It was hard for a city man to adjust to the leisurely pace of the Blue Ridge folks. He had to work at learning how to "cut 'er off and whittle awhile," as his friends the Stepp brothers recommended. But whittle he did, and ended up owning 2,000 acres of scenic mountain land, wiith no mortgage. Years after his humorous tales appeared in the Saturday Evening Post, Jim Perry has picked up his pen once again, at the urging of his wife Katherine and collaborator Betsy Tice White, an old Sky Valley Music Campter, to tell the homey stories of his journey on the sometimes bumpy road to acceptance by his Blue Ridge friends. North Carolina, Tennessee, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachia, Southern Americana, American South, Living off the Land. nslic.…