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This review is from: Bring Me Duck, Folk Tales and Anecdotes from Duck, N.C. (Paperback)
This book is filled of the kind of little life stories that your grandmother would tell you. Realy hokey and not very interesting.
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Suzanne Tate, Bring Me Duck: Folktales and Anecdotes from D,
This review is from: Bring Me Duck, Folk Tales and Anecdotes from Duck, N.C. (Paperback)
A series of reminiscences by Ruth Scarborough Tate, presumably a relative of the author, furnish the core of this book. Bring Me Duck is one of Tate's oral histories, which also include Whalehead, Memories of Manteo and Logs & Moonshine. Slightly over a quarter of Bring Me Duck's forty-eight pages are pictures of Duck, which might have been scattered through the text to better effect. The remaining thirty-three pages (there is also a one-page glossary of local terms - at p. 48) of reminiscences include local sayings ("`He's so tight he'd skin a louse for his tallow'" - at p.6) and the origin of personal nicknames (at pp. 8-10). Ruth Tate talks about the hutches used to sweeten sweet potatoes (at p.11), pounds used to keep carp alive (at pp. 13-14), andnet-mending (at pp. 15-16). She also reports pre-War rumors of German spies in the area (at p. 23), traditions of local witches (at pp. 23-24), and stories of pirates and buried treasure (at p. 24). One tale concerns a lost Civil War safe from Baltimore allegedly dumped off Martin's Point Creek (at p. 26), and Tate is also informative about the practice of fire-lighting for swans (at p. 27). Taken in sum, these stories are an interesting addition to information about the area and the book does a service in preserving them.
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