Kathryn Tucker Windham - Alabama: one big front porch
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First published in 1975 and long out of print, this book is now reissued in a handsome new edition. Alabama is like one big front porch where folks gather on summer nights to tell tales. Its a sprawling porch stretching from the Tennessee River Valley to the sandy Gulf beaches. In this book, Mrs. Windham takes readers on a tour of the history, people, and places of the heart of Dixie. The stories are alike in their unmistakable Southern blend of exaggeration, humor, pathos, folklore, and romanticism with family history woven in.
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Illustrations by H. Roland Russell Photography by the Author
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa and London
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Copyright 1975 Kathryn Tucker Windham Preface Copyright 1991 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
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The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Science-Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Windham, Kathryn Tucker. Alabama : one big front porch / Kathryn Tucker Windham : illustrations by H. Roland Russell : photography by the author. p. cm. Reprint. Originally published: Huntsville, Ala. : Strode Publishers, c1975. Includes index. ISBN 0-8173-0562-9 (alk. paper) 1. AlabamaSocial life and customsAnecdotes. 2. Folklore Alabama. I. Title. [F326.6.W56 1991] 976.1dc20 91-13913
British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data available
The front cover photograph by Chip Cooper is used by permission. Copyright 1989 Chip Cooper
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Dedication
For My Father, James Wilson Tucker, Who Told Stories On Our Front Porch, And For My Mother, Helen Tabb Tucker, Who Listened With Love
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Preface
Our front porch faced west, overlooking the lumber yard with its piles of long pine logs waiting shipment to Mobile. Bordering the lumber yard were the tracks of the Southern Railroad where those logs were loaded by oxen-power onto flatcars for that journey.
A tangle of vineshoneysuckle, wisteria, and ivywove a green screen along the bannisters of our porch, around the posts and up to the roof. Behind that screen our family gathered after supper on weather-pleasant evenings to rock and talk and to tell tales until bedtime. It was on that porch that I first heard some of the stories in this book.
This early exposure to storytelling instilled in me a lifelong interest in preserving family tales; in seeking out accounts of little-known people, both heroes and villains, whose lives have colored the history of the state; and in rekindling some of the laughter that marks the genuine folk tales.
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Introduction
Alabama, they say, is like one big front porch where folks gather on summer nights to tell tales and to talk family. Everybody, they say, is kin to everybody elseor knows somebody who is.
It's a sprawling porch, stretching all the way from the Tennessee River valley to the sandy Gulf beaches with its sides sometimes slipping over into Mississippi and Georgia. Folks there are close kin, too.
The tale-tellers don't all look alike and they don't all talk alike, but the stories they tell are all alike in their unmistakable Southern blend of exaggeration, humor, pathos, folklore, and romanticism. Family history is woven into the stories. And pride. And humor. Always humor.
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Many of Alabama's finest stories used to begin with a reference to "the night the stars fell," and even now there is an inclination among some residents to divide local history into two segments: before the stars fell and after the stars fell. That would make November 13, 1833, the dividing line.
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