This cycle of original stories features unusual, remarkable, and dear people whom the author has known.
Although everyone has a story, not everybody has a remarkable storyteller like Donald Davis to tell theirs.This cycle of original stories features unusual, remarkable, and dear people whom the author has known. Although everyone has a story, not everybody has a remarkable storyteller like Donald Davis to tell theirs.The author of twelve previous books and more than 20 audios of his original stories, most of which are set in the North Carolina mountains where he grew up, Donald Davis is a perennial audience favorite at the National Storytelling Festival.
You could not meet Otto and Marguerite even briefly without immediately being pulled into the charm of their incredible energy for living. They were two people who simply bubbled over with joy in every waking moment and in everything in which they were involved.
The Woods were both physically tiny people. Otto was short and, except for a white decorative fringe as a frame, completely bald. He was the fiddle player, but he was so small that, when he pulled out his fiddle, many people thought it was a viola.
Marguerite was even smaller. A tiny bird-like creature, she seemed to trip along with her feet hardly touching the ground. She was the piano player, floating above the piano bench, bent over the keyboard, and always smiling, showing all of her teeth. She played gigantic chords all over the piano to undergird and drive Otto’s melodies.
The Woods quickly and easily became the kind of friends you feel you have known all your life, and I soon found myself consumed by their whole life story.
Donald Davis, a former Methodist minister, has become one of America’s most-revered traditional storytellers. While Davis has made his name telling coming-of-age stories of his childhood in the Great Smoky Mountains, this seminal volume focuses upon characters who havelÓ%
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