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The Wolfpen Notebooks: James Still's Record of Appalachian Life Jim Wayne Miller Appalachian Heritage, Volume 19, Number 3, Summer 1991, pp. 20-24 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0100 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438625/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:51 GMT from JHU Libraries The Wolfpen Notebooks: James Still's Record of Appalachian Life Jim Wayne Miller "There are twenty-three of them, six quent without being grammatical or cor- by four inches, wire-hinged,"1 James Still rect. Folk speech is too busy improvis- has written of the notebooks he began ing, making do with what it has to work with. While folk speech often deals with keeping more than half a century ago, soon after moving to a two-story log general propositions and universal expe- house between Dead Mare Branch and riences, its materials are the particulars of local life. So it is little wonder a Wolfpen, on Little Carr Creek in Knott Hindi proverb maintains that language County, Kentucky. The original note- books are preserved in Special Collec- changes every eighteen or twenty miles! The improvisational spirit of folk tions at the University of Kentucky. Their contents are now available in speech accounts
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
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