The Granny Curse and Other Ghosts and Legends from East Tennessee3 reviews Randy Russell, Janet Barnett John F. Blair Publisher, 1999 Great Stuff for Storytellers! + Gives you the creeps! + Great Ghost Stories First of all, I like ghost stories rooted in history and place. All 25 stories in this collection are wonderful examples of folklore and of the people of the Cumberland and Blue Ridge mountains of Tennessee. You can almost touch the trees in the forest and hear the water moving over rocks. Did ...             Nashville Then and Now (Then & Now)3 reviews Karina McDaniel Thunder Bay Press, 2005 Nashville Then (As I knew It) and Now + Very Well Done + Photo Journal is both nostalgic and contemporary As one born and raised in Nashville, I feel eminently qualified to review this book. The photo quality of the "Now" pages is excellent. The photo quality of the "Then" pages is excellent, considering the age of some of the pictures, such as the one of the capitol building that dates to Civil War ...             All over but the Shoutin'296 reviews Rick Bragg Vintage, 1998 Destined to be a Southern classic ... ! + Too Good + Wonderfully Written Book + failed revenge             Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds6 reviews Cynthia Rylant Harcourt Children's Books, 1991 A calm and lovely view of Appalachia + Love Cynthia Rylant + Appalachia beautifully portrayed + This book made me homesick! + Appalachia: The Voices of Sleeping Birds             An Unfinished Canvas: A True Story of Love, Family, and Murder in Nashville19 reviews Michael Glasgow, Phyllis Gobbell Berkley, 2007 Fascinating Read + Better Book about the Case of the Missing Wife! + "Perry March's 15 Minutes of Infamy" After moving from Nashville, I continued to keep up with this case through Nancy Grace and 48 Hours Mysteries. Glasgow and Gobbell dramatically portray the story of Janet March who was an intelligent, attractive woman from a great family who was deceived by a narcissistic, evil man. I realize that ...             What Southern Women Know (That Every Woman Should): Timeless Secrets to Get Everything You Want in Love, ...120 reviews Ronda Rich Putnam Adult, 1999 Lovely + A delight! This book was written it seemed just for me! This book has been my manual ever since I opened the box. I take this book right to heart! I took the quiz and I came out as someone with a lot of potential, but needed some more polishing, and guess what? I am using my potential and my life is great! I ...             Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War84 reviews Joe Bageant Three Rivers Press, 2008 A Must Read + Footnotes!!! + Prophetic Insight into the Demise of the Middle Class + A sobering view of America's Heartland             Nashville Nostalgia E. D. Thompson Westview Publishing, 2003 "Just like the old fashioned coffee named after a famous Nashville hotel, this collection of precious recollections maintains its satisfying flavor to the very end." When you browse through this lovely book of memory and historical reference, you will discover many things about both the author and the city he was raised in, still resides in, and loves dearly. Nashville Nostalgia provides a ...             The Cold, Cold Hand: Stories of Ghosts and Haunts from the Appalachian Foothills7 reviews James Burchill, Linda J. Crider, ... Thomas Nelson, 2001 An excellent collection of Appalachian folklore + Good; Not Great + Excellent Book plus it's TRUE!!!!!!!!!! + A good collection of folklore! + Wonderful, true mountain stories!             Strange Tales of the Dark and Bloody Ground: Authentic Accounts of Restless Spirits, Haunted Honky Tonks, and ...3 reviews Christopher K. Coleman Thomas Nelson, 2000 Ghosts of Hank, Sr. and Elvis. What could be better? + A great book I buy and read books about ghosts on a fairly regular basis and have found that there is seldom a proper balance between the ghost story itself and the history of the possible haunt. Some authors breeze along with one ghost story after another never quite giving the reader any real idea of what ...             A Turn in the South11 reviews V.S. Naipaul Vintage, 1990 A Kind Turn After All + makes lots of unlikely creepy but helpful links + Race, Religion, & Rednecks + Naipaul in Dixie             The Plan of Nashville: Avenues to a Great City Christine Kreyling, Mark Scimmenti, ... Vanderbilt University Press, 2005 The Plan of Nashville is a community-based vision of how the urban core of Nashville should look and work in the 21st century. The purpose is to help the central city hold its place in civic life.Since Nashville assumed a metropolitan form of government—merging city and county—there have been almost a hundred plans that dealt with some aspect of the center city. This plan is different.The Plan ...             Historic Photos of Nashville, TN4 reviews Jan Duke Turner Publishing Company, 2005 What a Great Book! + A Gorgeous Book! + Thank you for your excellent service + A Very Top Quality Book             Guide to Civil War Nashville2 reviews Mark Zimmerman Battle of Nashville Preservation Society, 2004 A LOT OF INFORMATION IN A SMALL BOOK! + Wonderful Book Wow, was I impressed with this book when it arrived! I'm not sure whether to call this a history book, or a tour book, but in any case, it amply does the job of both. All bases are covered, the importance of Nashville during the Civil War, the campaigns that led up to and followed the battle, the ...             History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad (Railroads of America (Macmillan).) Maury Klein University Press of Kentucky, 2003 After the Civil War, the Louisville & Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937, the L&N Railroad remained one of the country's most efficient lines. It is a southern ...             Nashville's Lower Broad: The Street That Music Made1 review Bill Rouda, Lucinda Williams, ..., 2004 Good Old Broad Street, Bark, Gnarls and All. Excellent portrayal of an infamous or famous area in Nashville, Tenessee, depending on your degree of snobbishness. The Lower Broad Street area has bars restaurants and amusements for everyone. There are pictures of one of the oldest and more notorious establishments in Nashville, "Tootsie's ...             Long Time Leaving: Dispatches from Up South7 reviews Roy Jr Blount Knopf, 2007 Yee-haw! (or words to that effect) + This book in Audio format ROCKS !!! + Literate Southerner making his way in the liberal NorthEast Besides being a brilliant specimen of that endangered species, The White Southern Liberal, Blount is about as funny as any humanoid on the planet. "Long Time Leaving," an anthology of some of his occasional pieces, proves a little repetitious at points (how many times do you need to remind folks ...             The Voice at the Back Door (Voices of the South)1 review Elizabeth Spencer Louisiana State University Press, 1994 The Voice at the Door As a Southern Woman writer, Elizabeth Spencer explores the issues familiar to her during her childhood and her adult life in this intricate novel. Race, friendship, loyalty, secrecy, and contradiction all make this novel's characters come alive in a way I have seldom experienced in a first-time ...             South to a Very Old Place2 reviews Albert Murray Vintage, 1991 South to a Very Old Place + South to a Very Old Place If Langston Huges is the poet laureate of Jazz, then Albert Murray is its scribe. Murray's indelible style continues in this wonderful trip down South. Murray grew up in Mobile, Alabama, after high school he went to Tuskegee Institute then on to the military where he was the first black to ...             The Old Order: Stories of the South Katherine Anne Porter Harvest Books, 1955 A number of Porter’s finest stories have their setting in the South at the turn of the century. The Old Order brings these together in a single volume, including six stories from The Leaning Tower, three stories from Flowering Judas, and the short novel “Old Mortality” from Pale Horse, Pale Rider.