Mountain Hands; A Portrait of Southern Appalachia
Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 2001. Second paperback printing [stated]. Trade paperback. Format is approximately 8 inches by 8 inches. xi, [1], 259, [1] pages. Illustrations. Index of Subjects. Cover has some wear and soiling. No dust jacket present. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Inscription reads: For Evelyn Moyers--Hope you enjoy these stories of my people--Sam Venable 1/18/06. The Author is a fifth-generation southern Appalachian, Sam Venable is a newspaper columnist whose award-winning observations on daily life appear four times a week in the Knoxville News-Sentinel. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Venable has spent most of his career roaming the highlands of his home state. The Photographer: Paul Efird is a native of Rome, Georgia. He holds a degree in biology from Shorter College but has spent his professional career as a news photographer. After working for two newspapers in Georgia, he moved to Tennessee in 1990 and became a staff photographer for the News-Sentinel. More