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Whistlepunks and Geoducks - Oral Histories from the Pacific Northwest
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Oregon State University
Sivumäärä: 277 sivua
Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Julkaisuvuosi: 2001, 30.05.2001 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti
Dusting off his tape recorder for this companion volume to his popular River Pigs and Cayuses, Ron Strickland focuses on Washington, his adopted home. In Whistlepunks and Geoducks, Strickland introduces readers to a remarkable group of storytellers, from old-timers to new arrivals.In searching for people whose stories would add up to a portrait of the Evergreen State, Strickland discovered a region as alive with folklore as it is with natural beauty. Ranchers and wheat farmers, fishers and loggers, Indians and city folk, saloonkeepers and Prohibition agents, oystermen and hippies, and, naturally, whistlepunks and geoduck hunters, all rub elbows on the streets and trails of Strickland's Washington state. The author provides a helpful glossary to local terms and adds an index to names, places and livelihoods. Black and white photographs from both personal and archive collections allow the reader to see as well as hear the storytellers.In his introduction, William Kittredge notes that part of the joy of listening to these spirited oral histories lies in experiencing the subjects' use of work-place lingo. The pickaroon, for example, is a pike pole used to break up log james, while the long two-person saws are called misery whips or Swedish fiddles. We hunger for stories about specific worlds, and the particularities of making a go of things, Kittredge writes. We search them for clues about how we might make our own efforts succeed.

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