Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell by Williams, Elizabeth M.

Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813136448)

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Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell by Williams, Elizabeth M.

Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell

$35.00
Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell by Williams, Elizabeth M.

Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell

$35.00
Format: Hardcover
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In 1908 and 1909, noted social reformer and ""songcatcher"" Olive Dame Campbell traveled with her husband, John C. Campbell, through the Southern Highlands region of Appalachia to survey the social and economic conditions in mountain communities. Throughout the journey, Olive kept a detailed diary offering a vivid, entertaining, and personal account of the places the couple visited, the people they met, and the mountain cultures they encountered. Although John C. Campbell's book, The Southern Hig

Author: Elizabeth M. Williams, Olive Dame Campbell
ISBN-10: 081313644X
ISBN-13: 9780813136448
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 10/19/2012
Pages: 318
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.87h x 5.90w x 1.13d

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By Elizabeth M. Williams
By Elizabeth M. Williams
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American folklorist Olive Dame Campbell (1882--1954) was the author or coauthor of numerous books, including English Folk Songs from the Southern Appalachians. In 1925, she founded the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, North Carolina.

Elizabeth McCutchen Williams is research librarian and assistant professor at Appalachian State University.

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