Mountain Preacher Stories: Laughter Among the Trumpets by Fisher, Ben C.

Mountain Preacher Stories: Laughter Among the Trumpets (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781469636627)

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Format: Paperback
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Mountain Preacher Stories: Laughter Among the Trumpets by Fisher, Ben C.

Mountain Preacher Stories: Laughter Among the Trumpets

$16.00
Mountain Preacher Stories: Laughter Among the Trumpets by Fisher, Ben C.

Mountain Preacher Stories: Laughter Among the Trumpets

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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Over a period of forty years, Ben Fisher collected stories illustrating the humor of the Southern Highlander. English, Scotch, Welsh, and Irish immigrants to the Appalachian region of North Carolina brought with them a rugged individualism and a sense of humor and dignity which have been characteristic of the sturdy yeoman farmer. Most mountain preachers and many of the old time mountaineers had a real talent for telling stories. While the "tall tale" is a staple of mountain storytelling, more often the tales relate to something that happened, not something just dreamed up. Mountain humor, like all folk humor, typically arises out of a life situation. Fisher's work, edited by his wife Sally following his passing, relates many of the stories and tales that he had heard over the course of his life.

Author: Ben C. Fisher
ISBN-10: 146963662X
ISBN-13: 9781469636627
Publisher: Appalachian State University
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1990
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.32lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.22d
By Ben C. Fisher
By Ben C. Fisher
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Ben C. Fisher was a native of Webster, North Carolina. He attended both Wake Forest University and Andover Newton Theological School in Newton Center in Massachusetts. He held several prominent positions as a long standing member of the Southern Baptist Convention. He taught at Gardner Webb University and Liberty University. He published a number of scholarly works including, New Pathways: A Dialogue in Christian Higher Education and The Idea of a Christian University in Today's World. He passed away in November of 1985.

Sally Fisher was the wife of Ben C. Fisher. She kept minutes on all of the speeches he gave, took notes on conversations that they had regarding Christian education and all things that Ben held dear. Following Ben's passing, Sally put those notes together, the stories told in this book.

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