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A Kentucky Christmas. George Ella Lyon, Editor. Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
from A Kentucky Christmas
George Ella Lyon, Editor
A GREETING
George Ella Lyon
OLD CHRISTMAS
Wade Hall
"Louisville's First Christmas"
Harriette Simpson Arnow
From "Social Life and Diversions," Flowering of the Cumberland
Thomas D. Clark
"A Little Bit of Santa Claus" from Pills, Petticoats, and Plows: The Southern Country Store
John Fox Jr.
From Chapter 12, The Heart of the Hills
Loyal Jones
"Christmas and Old Christamas in Appalachia"
Anne Shelby
"Jack Hunts Christmas"
Kathy L. May
"The Animals That Night"
James Still
"The Ganders Marry" from The Wolfpen Notebooks: A Record of Appalachian Life
HOME
Linda Scott DeRosier
From "Pure Magic and Old Friendship," Creeker
Graham Thomas Shelby
"The Asakawa Christmas Party"
Chris Holbrook
"Christmas, Down Home"
Kathleen Hill Sterling
"Home for Christmas"
TREE
James Still
"At Years End,"
"Winter Tree" from From the Mountain, From the Valley
Billy C. Clark
"My Mother's Christmas Tree"
Chris Offutt
"Jingle Bells, Shotgun Shells"
Leon V. Driskell
"No Time Like Now"
Sallie Bingham
"The Birds' Christmas
Jane Gentry
"Hunting for a Christmas Tree After Dark"
GIFTS
Bobbie Ann Mason
"Drawing Names" from Shiloh and Other Stories
Marie Bradby
"Why I Believe in Santa Claus"
Clifford Wieck
"Christmas Turtle"
Rebecca Bailey
"Christmas on Lizard Ridge"
Jane Gentry
"The Red Taffeta Dress"
Janice Holt Giles
"The Gift" from Wellspring
Frederick Smock
"Winteriese" from Guest House
Mary Ann Taylor-Hall
"Christmas Present"
Kim Edwards
"Bread"
Lynn Pruett
"Christmas Every Day"
Jeff Worley
"December 24, 1959"
Peggy Steele
"By Special Starlight"
Harry Caudill
"Christmas Comes to Lord Calvert" from The Mountain, The Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office
FEAST
Joy Bale Boone
"The Proof of Mother's Puddings" from Savory Memories
Dianne Aprile
"All the Right Ingredients" from The Things We Don't Forget
Ronni Lundy
"Christmas Fruit Salad, Iva's Christmas Cake, and Snow Cream" from Shuck Beans, Stack Cakes, and Honest Fried Chicken: The Heart and Soul of Southern Country Kitchens
Jan Walters-Cook
"Christmas Gift: A Memoir"
MUSIC
Wendell Berry
"VI, 1991" from A Timbered Choir
Marcia L. Hurlow
"Christmas Eve, 3 P.M."
Belinda Mason
"A Christmas Lesson"
Jean Ritchie
"Little Bitty Baby" from Jean Ritchie's Swapping Song Book
John Jacob Niles
"I Wonder as I Wander" (with an introduction by Dr. Ron Pen)
Maurice Manning
"Bad Winter, 1975"
George Ella Lyon
From Chapter 17, Borrowed Children
SNAPSHOTS
Marie Bradby
"Shooting Star"
Thomas Merton
"Advent" from The Collected Poems of Thomas Merton
Frank Olson
"Winter Wren at Solstice"
Harlan Hubbard
"December 25, 1949 - December 31, 1949" from Shantyboat Journal
George Eklund
"Two Cardinals"
Maureen Morehead
"In the House of the Lord" from The Dark Woods I Cross
Jim Wayne Miller
From Chapter 10, Newfound
Jonathan Greene
"Snow Arithmetic" from A Little Ink in the Paper Sea
Joe Survant
"The Presence of Snow in the Tropics" from The Presence of Snow in the Tropics
James Baker Hall
"Prayer for the New Year" from The Mother on the Other Side of the World
KIN
Pam Shingler
"Alene"
Crystal Wilkinson
"The Visit"
Richard Taylor
"Mistletoe"
Jane Olmstead
"Letters from the Karst"
Loretta Lynn
"Hey, You Ain't Supposed to Wear Clothes Under Your Nightgown" from Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter
James Still
"A Master Time" from Pattern of a Man & Other Stories
Jesse Stuart
From God's Oddling: The Story of Mick Stuart, My Father
Dorothy Sutton
"My Uncle Bob"
Marianne Worthington
"Domestic"
MYSTERY
Wendell Berry
"VI, 1988" from A Timbered Choir
Pauletta Hansel
"Waking before Light" from Divining
Silas House
"When She Came to Mercy"
Carolyn Jo Lacy
"Epiphany at Midnight: January 20, 1994"
Elizabeth Maddox Roberts
"Christmas Morning" from Under the Tree
David Dick
"The Christmas Lamb" from The View from Plum Lick
Sarah Gordon
"Icon"
Martha Gallion Gehringer
"St Ann's Kitchen Door: Mis-en-Scène"
Frank X Walker
"Too Wise Men"
Leatha Kendrick
"Bound into the Mystery"
Albert Stewart
"The Holy Season" from The Holy Season: Walking in the Wild
CHRISTMAS CHEER
James Still
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