The author reminisces about his experiences at the drive-in, like cramming a '58 Chevy full of teenagers, visiting the concession stand between shows, finding a parking spot in the back row, and driving off with the speaker box still ...
Most people who decide to take a mule ride through the Grand Canyon focus on the spectacular beauty around them. Donald Davis, however, found his focus trained sharply on the 48-inch-wide trail whose ledge drops 700 feet to the Colora...
Listening for the Crack of Dawn (Amer...
Donald DavisAudiences at storytelling festivals worldwide are passionate about Donald Davis and his deceptively soft-edged Appalachian stories. Developed in oral performance, Davis'stories resonate in the experiences of his listeners and readers.
Learning to drive occasions emotions ranging from reasonable caution to unbridled terror. Learning under the watchful eye of one's spouse is an added challenge
Dr. York, Miss Winnie, and the Typhoi...
Donald DavisThis won't hurt a bit.' In rural North Carolina, in 1951, despite parental reassurances, a typhoid shot hurt. It hurt even more when you saw who would be administering the shot--Miss Winnie, a large, dictatorial nurse who had been 'es...
Listening for the Crack of Dawn (Amer...
Donald DavisAudiences at storytelling festivals worldwide are passionate about Donald Davis and his deceptively soft-edged Appalachian stories. Developed in oral performance, Davis'stories resonate in the experiences of his listeners and readers....
See Rock City (American Storytelling)...
Donald DavisDonald Davis returns to his fictitious Sulpher Springs, North Carolina through the wide eyes of an innocent, forthright narrator: Years later I came to realize that when you come from a long-dammed-up Scots-Irish Gene pool, it is an ...
Tales From a Free-Range Childhood
Donald DavisIn his first new book in six years, Donald Davis, considerd by many to be the father of family tales, returns to recollections of growing up in the southern Appalachians, and especially his relationship with his sibling Joe.Davis has ...