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In this collection of profiles of 66 fascinating Carolinians, you will meet people as varied as Paula Sandburg, goat raiser & wife of the famous poet, Amoneeta Sequoyah, Cherokee medicine man, Ben Owen, the South's master potter, Wimpy Lassiter, a world champion pool shooter, Lee Goldston, a log snaker, Peg Leg Jackson, the last medicine show man, & Bascom Lamar Lundsford, the minstrel of the Appalachians. "Jerry Bledsoe is Carolina's Listener Laureate," Charles Kuralt said of this book. "Nobody beats him at listening to the human voice & to the human heart, & nothing beats holding his book in your hands & listening with him. JUST FOLKS is just life, which is the most you can say about any writer.Bledsoe, Jerry is the author of 'Just Folks: Visitin' with Carolina People - Jerry Bledsoe - Paperback' with ISBN 9780962425554 and ISBN 0962425559.
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