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Author Lingan, John, author.

Title Homeplace : a southern town, a country legend, and the last days of a mountaintop honky-tonk / John Lingan.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018.
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Location Call No. Status
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  975.5991 LIN    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 251 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary "In the tradition of Joe Bageant's Deer Hunting With Jesus and J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy, an intimate account of social change, country music, and a vanishing way of life as a Shenandoah town collides with the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents The Blue Ridge country king -- A closer walk with thee -- Resistance -- A museum and a mountaintop -- How to build a city -- Toxically pure -- They'll have to carry me out -- Better neighbors -- Blessed to be gray.
Subject McCoy, Jim, 1929-2016.
Winchester (Va.) -- Social conditions.
Winchester (Va.) -- Social life and customs.
Mountain people -- Virginia -- Winchester -- Social conditions.
Social classes -- Virginia -- Winchester.
Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815
Mountain people -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01028282
Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst01919811
Virginia -- Winchester. (OCoLC)fst01202730
Other Form: Online version: Lingan, John, author. Homeplace Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018 9780544930834 (DLC) 2018020026
ISBN 9780544932531 hardcover
0544932536 hardcover
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