Bittersweet Earth

by Ellen Gray Massey

Book Overview

A description of the folklore, handicrafts, and customs of the Ozarks includes discussions of cooking, camping, moonshiners, and exploring caves. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806125284
• ISBN13: 9780806125282
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Ozarks MO Missouri Foxfire Book

"A cultural journalism effort in the Foxfire tradition. A collection of articles reprinted from Bittersweet, a quarterly student publication (1973-1983) from Lebanon, Missouri High School. The book's goals are 'to record the life style prevalent in the Ozarks in the early 1900s and to portray characteristics of the land that influenced that lifestyle ... The voices presented in the transcribed interviews are clear & authentic."