From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks [Paperback]

Olive Tilford Dargan (Author), Bayard Wootten (Contributor), Jonathan Morrow (Contributor), Anna Shannon Elfenbein (Contributor)

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Univ Tennessee Press; 1 edition (September 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1572330201
• ISBN-13: 978-1572330207
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,855,908 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A must read companion to Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders, April 29, 2009

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Clark Mackey - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks (Paperback)

This book is a wonderful telling of rural Appalachian stories in the same vein as Horace Kephart's Our Southern Highlanders - though I liked it better than Kephart. The author, Olive Tilford Dargan, based her stories on her own experiences living in the region and was aware of Kephart's work. Where Kephart occasionally engages in cliche and negative stereotypes of women, Dargan tells stories that feel original and highlight dynamic female characters. The book is a delight with stories that make it hard to put down - very well crafted. I'm surprised to see it doesn't have any reviews.

1.0 out of 5 stars To your lowest understanding..., January 6, 2012

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Carolina Kat "Carolina Kat" (Charlotte, NC) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: From My Highest Hill: Carolina Mountain Folks (Paperback)

A narrow and terrible book. The author engaged in an endeavor to understand a culture to which she felt superior, obscuring from her any meaningful understanding of her subject. There is one great lesson in this book - objectivity is essential in understanding another culture - and this is a perfect example of what doesn't work. Reading this book is a waste of time intellectually, and sadly, an insult to mountain culture it purports to explain.