"Ghosts and Goosebumps" is a rich collection of folktales and superstitions that capture the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. In its pages one can glimpse the long-lost horse-and-buggy times, when people sat up all night with the dead and dying, hoed and handpicked cotton, drew water from wells, and met the devil rather regularly.
The book is divided into three parts--tales, superstitions, and slave narratives. The spirits of treasure-keepers, poltergeists, murderers and the murdered, wicked men and good-men-and-true float through the book's first section. Sue...
"Ghosts and Goosebumps" is a rich collection of folktales and superstitions that capture the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. I...
(With photographs by Suzannah Solomon.) Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the names, lives and epitaphs of thousands of the deceased. The volume they now share with us is not a Book of the Dead, but a Book of Life. The Solomons reveal here their love and respect for the "final resting places" of this world. In these pages are recorded the sorrow for a lost child, the anger over the murder of a brother, the strengths of an admired civic leader, the life of a beloved preacher, the character of a stalwart soldier, as well as...
(With photographs by Suzannah Solomon.) Four decades ago, folklorists Jack and Olivia Solomon began documenting Southern cemeteries, recording the nam...
