| SHARYN McCRUMB Acclaimed author, Sharyn McCrumb lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790, in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.
She is well-known for her Ballad series and has been honored for Outstanding Contribution to Appalachian Literature.
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THE ROSEWOOD CASKET
Ballad Series, Book #4 Randall Stargil lies dying on his southern Appalachian farm and his four sons have come home to build him a coffin from the cache of rosewood he long has hoarded for the special purpose. Meanwhile, like a vulture hovering over prey, a local real estate developer is readying an offer for the farm that will be extremely hard for the heirs to refuse as soon as the old man is gone. And at the same time, mountain wise-woman Nora Bonesteel, Randall's sweetheart of long ago, must bring to light a small box to be buried with Randall - a box containing human bones.
Thus the stage is set for a tale of family strife, dark secrets, and haunting legends that mix present with past tragedies among mountain people torn between tradition and change. 1996, First Edition, First Printing
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THE BALLAD OF FRANKIE SILVER
Ballad Series, Book #5 Once there was a murder done. It is a legend that has been told through the generations, a story rooted in a lonely churchyard in the shadow of three uncarved tombstones ... in a secret buried deep in the white silence of the winter of 1832, and deeper still in the heart of a poor mountain girl accused of a terrible crime.
Over a century ago, it is said that a man was murdered in his sleep, that a young wife and mother was accused of the crime, and that one the gallows her last words were silenced by her father's order. In 1833 Frankie Silver became the first woman in North Carolina to be hanged for murder. 1998, First Edition, First Printing
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THE SONGCATCHER, A Novel
Ballad Series, Book #6 Folksinger Lark McCourry is haunted by the memory of a song. As a child, she heard it from her relatives in the North Carolina mountains, and she knows that the song has been in her family since 1759, when her ancestor, nine-year-old Malcolm MacQuarry, kidnapped from the Scottish island of Islay, learned it aboard an English ship.
Over the years, though the memory of the old song has dimmed and Lark McCourry's only hope of preserving her family legacy lies in mountain-wise woman Nora Bonesteel, who talks to both the living and the dead. 2001, First Edition, First Printing
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GHOST RIDERS, A Novel
Ballad Series, Book # 7 "In 1861 the Civil War reached the mountain South - where the enemy was your neighbor, the victims were your friends, and the wrong army was whichever one you joined. When Malinda Blalock's husband, Keith, joined the army, she dressed as a boy and went with him. ...
McCrumb also brings into her story the larger-than-life narrative of the historical political figure Zebulon Vance, a self-made man and Confederate governor, who was from the mountains and fought for the interests of Appalachia within the hierarchy of the Confederacy.
Linking the forces of historical unrest with the present-day stories of mountain wisefolk Rattler and Nora Bonesteel, McCrumb weaves two over-lapping narratives. It is up Nora Bonesteel and Rattler to calm the Civil War ghosts who are still wandering the mountains, and prevent a clash between the living and the dead" 2003, First Edition
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THE BALLAD OF TOM DOOLEY
Ballad Series, Book #9 Hang down your head, Tom Dooley ... America's most famous folk ballad, a haunting tale of murder and illicit love, is based on actual events that took place in Wilkes County, North Carolina, in the aftermath of the Civil War.
The Kingston Trio's folk song "Tom Dooley" tells the story of the murder of Laura Foster, a simple country girl involved with returning Confederate soldier Tom Dula. But Tom was also engaged in a passionate affair with his childhood sweetheart, the beautiful - and married - Ann Melton.
One May morning in 1866, Laura Foster stole her father's horse and left home, telling a neighbor that she was eloping to Tennessee. Three months later her body was found in a shallow grave only a few hundred yards from where she was last seen. Sharyn McCrumb visited the actual sites, studied the legal evidence, and concluded that the traditional story did not make sense.
After consulting the maps, the trial transcripts, and the census records, she uncovered a missing piece of the story that will shock those who think they already know what happened." 2011, First Edition, First Printing
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