Jane Hicks Gentry-Pa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813109367)

Winner of the North Carolina Society of Historians Award Jane Hicks Gentry lived her entire life in the remote, mountainous northwest corner of North Carolina and was descended from old Appalachian families in which singing and storytelling were part of everyday life. Gentry took this tradition to heart, and her legacy includes ballads, songs, stories, and riddles. Smith provides a full biography of this vibrant woman and the tradition into which she was born, presenting seventy of Gentry's song

Author: Betty N. Smith
ISBN-10: 0813109361
ISBN-13: 9780813109367
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 03/12/1998
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.97h x 7.05w x 0.65d