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Tanuki

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3. Thanks for that---I hope I get over to Knoxville while it is still on display.
Tue Jul 8, 2014, 07:21 AM
Jul 2014

The only Appalachian writer I can remember knowing about when I was a child was Jesse Stuart, but fortunately the oral tradition was alive and well in my family. I think Appalachian culture was conveyed more that way, as well as through music and through hands-on learning, than through books, at least for previous generations. I am glad that Osborn has compiled these resources.

For those who may not be familiar with Jesse Stuart (and I will start crying in a minute if I think about his short story "The thing you love&quot :

http://www.jsfbooks.com/who-we-are/jesse-stuart-s-legacy.html

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