The Man who Moved a MountainThis is the definitive biography of Reverend Bob Childress of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Often compared to Mark Twain's tales of the Mississippi, the style and the text show, with stark clarity, the transforming effects Childress and his ministry had on the rough and wild mountain communities of this section of Virginia. |
Contents
Dark Shadows of the Blue Ridge | 1 |
The Heller of The Hollow | 11 |
Blacksmith Lawman | 31 |
Free Lance in the Brush Arbors | 45 |
To Beat the Devil | 62 |
The Heritage of the Buffalo | 82 |
The Fear and the Fearless | 99 |
Softening the Hardshells | 109 |
Madness of a Mountain | 155 |
Salvation by Laughter | 170 |
Goats Sawmills and Roads | 184 |
The King of Slate Mountain | 198 |
Signs of New Life | 210 |
Out from the Buffalo | 222 |
All the Upright We Ever Had | 240 |
Epilogue | 251 |
Common terms and phrases
a-goin asked Bailey Goad began Bill Joe Blaine Blue Ridge Bluemont Bob Childress Bob knew Bob thought Bob's brother brush arbor Buffalo Mountain cabin Carroll County chestnut church Commonwealth Conduff congregation cove Creek dollars door drinking drove drunk Fancy Gap felt fight Floyd Folks say friends Giles Harris girl hard Hardshell Hasten Hattie hear heard hill Hillsville Hobert Hollow horse Indian Valley John Whorley joke killed laughed Lelia liquor lived looked Lord Mayberry Meadows of Dan miles minister moun Mount Airy never night preach preacher Presbyterian Primitive Baptists road Roanoke rocks Roy Smith seemed seminary sermon shooting Slate Mountain someone sometimes Squirrel started Steve Kemp stopped store-house Sunday school Sutphin talk tell thing took trees tried Violation prohibition law walked wanted week Willis woman young young'uns
References to this book
Blue Ridge Roadways: A Virginia Field Guide to Cultural Sites M. Anna Fariello No preview available - 2006 |