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Homeplace : a southern town, a country legend, and the last days of a mountaintop honky-tonk / John Lingan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lingan, John, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social classes.
- Mountain people.
- Social conditions.
- Winchester (Va.)--Social conditions.
- Winchester (Va.).
- Winchester (Va.)--Social life and customs.
- Virginia--Winchester.
- McCoy, Jim, 1929-2016.
- McCoy, Jim.
- Mountain people--Virginia--Winchester--Social conditions.
- Social classes--Virginia--Winchester.
- Manners and customs.
- Mountain people--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 251 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
- Summary:
- "In the tradition of Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus and J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, an intimate account of social change, country music, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The Blue Ridge country king
- A closer walk with thee
- Resistance
- A museum and a mountaintop
- How to build a city
- Toxically pure
- They'll have to carry me out
- Better neighbors
- Blessed to be gray.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Sabin W. Colton, Jr., Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Lingan, John, author. Homeplace
- ISBN:
- 9780544932531
- 0544932536
- OCLC:
- 1032289019
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