Up Cutshin and Down Greasy: Folkways of a Kentucky Mountain Family

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Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River―Cutshin and Greasy creeks―folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain circle of relatives of gifted memory and imagination. For half a century that they had preserved the standard ways in their forebears―the farming methods, the household arts, and the games, ballads, dances, and tales that were their chief entertainment.

In Up Cutshin and Down Greasy, brothers Dave and Jim Couch, born concerning the turn of the century, recall clearly their childhood days on Sang Branch of Greasy and Clover Fork of Big Leatherwood. Dave, a professional moonshiner and bottlegger in his younger days, tells of his brushes with the law. Jim engaged in lumbering and coal mining, with a bit of moonshining at the side. His accounts of mine accidents, in particular the person who cost him his leg, give an insight into the minds of folks who risk their lives underground for the sake of high pay.

First published in 1959, the book is to be had once again in paperback to pleasure a new generation of readers.

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