Hounds on the Mountain

Hounds on the MountainFirst published in 1937, Hounds on the Mountain evokes James Still's personal experiences of eastern Kentucky through reflective folk poems describing Appalachian mountain life from birth through death. Written during the Great Depression, the collection emphasizes a collective reliance on the earth and the primacy of nature that Still observed from the seclusion of his thirty acre home in Knott County, Kentucky. Still, who became known as the "Dean

and resilience

No writer has caught more effectively the vividness of mountain speech or shown more honestly the trials and joys of mountain life

ambitious and unassuming

Stories to be Told   Photography by Tyler Barrett

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by Pamela Hirschler

Amid the brute and terrifying glimpses of Reece's own degraded façade

its featherlight and moisture-wicking material ensures comfort even on the hottest days

To this day

faith and doubt

both blood and created

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