Lift Up Your Head Tom Dooley

Author : John Edward Fletcher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625844996

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The True Story of Tom Dooley by John Edward Fletcher Pdf

The crime that shocked post-Civil War America and inspired the folk song that became The Kingston Trio’s hit, “Tom Dooley.” At the conclusion of the Civil War, Wilkes County, North Carolina, was the site of the nation’s first nationally publicized crime of passion. In the wake of a tumultuous love affair and a mysterious chain of events, Tom Dooley was tried, convicted and hanged for the murder of Laura Foster. This notorious crime became an inspiration for musicians, writers and storytellers ever since, creating a mystery of mythic proportions. Through newspaper articles, trial documents and public records, Dr. John E. Fletcher brings this dramatic case to life, providing the long-awaited factual account of the legendary murder. Join the investigation into one of the country’s most enduring thrillers. “Fletcher has spent a great deal of time researching almost all of the characters involved with the Foster homicide and has gone further than any researcher I know in establishing the relationships—blood, marriage and social—between the major actors in the tragedy.”—Statesville Record & Landmark

Author : Jan Kronsell
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9788743014676

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Who killed Laura Foster? by Jan Kronsell Pdf

The murder of Laura Foster in 1866 has been the source of many legends and both in fiction and non-fiction it has inspired many authors. The murder, which in the end led to the conviction and execution of Thomas C. Dula, also inspired the famous song, The Ballad of Tom Dooley. In this book I go through the surviving records from the time and tell the story based on these facts, before I try to give my own explanation of what actually happened in Western North Carolina in the difficult times following the American Civil War.

Author : John Foster West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000035562473

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Lift Up Your Head, Tom Dooley by John Foster West Pdf

Tom Dula's trial unveiled a sordid story of sexual immorality, resentment, jealousy and bitterness, and he was convicted and hanged before a huge crowd in Statesville, an event that drew national attention. The story lived on, in time becoming entwined with myth and legend, because it inspired a ballad that was sung throughout the mountains.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Dr.Tom Dooley's Three Great Books by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1368 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Law
ISBN : HARVARD:32044116493941

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Congressional Record by United States. Congress Pdf

Author : Conrad Eugene Ostwalt
Publisher : Popular Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 0879727608

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Love Valley by Conrad Eugene Ostwalt Pdf

Love Valley is a small town in rural North Carolina. Its genesis in 1954 marked the fulfillment of a dream for founder Andy Barker. Barker cultivated two visions as a young man--he wanted to build a Christian community, and he wanted to be a cowboy. The result of his vision is Barker's utopian experiment. The town boasts a saloon, general store, hitching posts, and rodeos. Yet, above all of this stands a little church--the heart of what Barker conceived as his Christian utopia. This unique combination has led to more than forty years of philanthropic ventures, controversial events such as the Love Valley Rock Festival, stories and legends, and political ambition. Love Valley: An American Utopia captures the history of this town in narrative form while arguing that Love Valley's founders were motivated by utopian goals.

Author : Paul Slade
Publisher : Soundcheck Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780992948078

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Unprepared To Die by Paul Slade Pdf

The Gory Stories Behind The Murder Ballads Cheerfully vulgar, revelling in gore, and always with an eye on the main chance, murder ballads are tabloid newspapers set to music, carrying word of the latest ‘orrible murders to an insatiable public. Victims are bludgeoned, stabbed or shot in every verse and killers often hanged, but the songs themselves never die. Instead, they mutate – morphing to suit local place names as they criss cross the Atlantic and continue to fascinate each generation’s biggest musical stars. Paul Slade traces this fascinating genre’s history through eight of its greatest songs. Stagger Lee’s “biographers” alone include Duke Ellington, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dr John, The Clash and Nick Cave. No two tell his story in quite the same way. Covering eight classic murder ballads, including “Knoxville Girl”, “Tom Dooley” and “Frankie & Johnny”, Slade investigates the real-life murder which inspired each song and traces its musical development down the decades. Billy Bragg, The Bad Seeds’ Mick Harvey, Laura Cantrell, Rennie Sparks of The Handsome Family and a host of other leading musicians add their own insights.

Author : Georgann Eubanks
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781469626062

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Literary Trails of the North Carolina Mountains by Georgann Eubanks Pdf

This guidebook is the first of three regional volumes that invite residents and out-of-state visitors to explore North Carolina while reading literature from our state's finest writers. Organized geographically through a series of eighteen half-day and day-long tours in the western part of the state, the book directs curious travelers to the historic sites where Tar Heel authors have lived and worked. Along the way, travelers can read outstanding excerpts from the writers, evoking the places, customs, colloquialisms, and characters that figure prominently in their poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays. More than 170 writers from the past and present are featured in this volume, including Sequoyah, Elizabeth Spencer, Fred Chappell, Charles Frazier, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Robert Morgan, William Bartram, Gail Godwin, O. Henry, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Anne Tyler, Lillian Jackson Braun, Nina Simone, and Romulus Linney. Each tour provides information about the libraries, museums, colleges, bookstores, and other venues open to the public where writers regularly present their work or are represented in exhibits, events, performances, and festivals.

Author : Frances H. Casstevens
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2006-10-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439676950

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Death in North Carolina's Piedmont by Frances H. Casstevens Pdf

Author : Daniel W. Patterson
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807860915

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A Tree Accurst by Daniel W. Patterson Pdf

On a wintry night in 1831, a man named Charlie Silver was murdered with an axe and his body burned in a cabin in the mountains of North Carolina. His young wife, Frankie Silver, was tried and hanged for the crime. In later years people claimed that a tree growing near the ruins of the old cabin was cursed--that anyone who climbed into it would be unable to get out. Daniel Patterson uses this "accurst" tree as a metaphor for the grip the story of the murder has had on the imaginations of the local community, the wider world, and the noted Appalachian traditional singer and storyteller Bobby McMillon. For nearly 170 years, the memory of Frankie Silver has been kept alive by a ballad and local legends and by the news accounts, fiction, plays, and other works they inspired. Weaving Bobby McMillon's personal story--how and why he became a taleteller and what this story means to him--into an investigation of the Silver murder, Patterson explores the genesis and uses of folklore and the interplay between folklore, social and personal history, law, and narrative as people and communities try to understand human character and fate. Bobby McMillon is a furniture and hospital worker in Lenoir, North Carolina, with deep roots in Appalachia and a lifelong passion for learning and performing traditional songs and tales. He has received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award from the state's Arts Council and also the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Folklore Award.

Author : Robert V. Wells
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Folk music
ISBN : 9780252076503

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Life Flows on in Endless Song by Robert V. Wells Pdf

An engaging survey of what folk songs tell us about the American past

Author : Sara Pitzer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780762774531

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Myths and Mysteries of North Carolina by Sara Pitzer Pdf

Part of our new and growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of North Carolina explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in North Carolina's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in North Carolina history. Read about the Cherokee legend of the Judaculla rock. Try to figure out if Tom Dula, subject of many a local myth and a popular folk song, really did murder his wife. Speculate as to what really caused the Carolina Bays indentations.

Author : Sara Pitzer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781493015863

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North Carolina Myths and Legends by Sara Pitzer Pdf

North CarolinaMyths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in North Carolina’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in North Carolina history. Read about the Cherokee legend of the Judaculla rock. Try to figure out if Tom Dula, subject of many a local myth and a popular folk song, really did murder his wife. Speculate as to what really caused the Carolina Bays indentations.

Author : Jerry Wayne Williamson,Edwin T. Arnold
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0870498223

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Interviewing Appalachia by Jerry Wayne Williamson,Edwin T. Arnold Pdf

Interviewing Appapachia is a rich collection of interviews from some of the forerunners of Appalachian Studies and Literature, such as James Still, Marilou Awiakta, Fred Chappell, Lee Smith, Jim Wayne Miller, Appalshop, and SAWC, the Southern Appalachian Writer's Cooperative. This collection of articles was gleaned from the pages of the Appalachian Journal, founded by co-editor J.W. Williamson in 1972. Published at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, this journal has been on the cutting edge of Appalachian Studies for over 30 years. Though Interviewing Appalachia is not a complete spectrum of every great interview to ever grace the pages of the Appalachian Journal, you won't find such in-depth interviews in one collection anywhere else. A must-read for anyone interested in the literature and culture of the Appalachian region.

Author : Norman Cohen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780313088100

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American Folk Songs [2 volumes] by Norman Cohen Pdf

This state-by-state collection of folksongs describes the history, society, culture, and events characteristic of all fifty states. Unlike all other state folksong collections, this one does not focus on songs collected in the particular states, but rather on songs concerning the life and times of the people of that state. The topics range from the major historical events, such as the Boston Tea Party, the attack on Fort Sumter, and the California Gold Rush, to regionally important events such as disasters and murders, labor problems, occupational songs, ethnic conflicts. Some of the songs will be widely recognized, such as Casey Jones, Marching Through Georgia, or Sweet Betsy from Pike. Others, less familiar, have not been reprinted since their original publication, but deserve to be studied because of what they tell about the people of these United States, their loves, labors, and losses, and their responses to events. The collection is organized by regions, starting with New England and ending with the states bordering the Pacific Ocean, and by states within each region. For each state there are from four to fifteen songs presented, with an average of 10 songs per state. For each song, a full text is reprented, followed by discussion of the song in its historical context. References to available recordings and other versions are given. Folksongs, such as those discussed here, are an important tool for historians and cultural historians because they sample experiences of the past at a different level from that of contemporary newspaper accounts and academic histories. These songs, in a sense, are history writ small. Includes: Away Down East, The Old Granite State, Connecticut, The Virginian Maid's Lament, Carry Me Back to Old Virginny, I'm Going Back to North Carolina, Shut up in Cold Creek Mine, Ain't God Good to Iowa?, Dakota Land, Dear Prairie Home, Cheyenne Boys, I'm off for California, and others.