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In Memory of Teddie

1984? - 2001

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An Evening With Mountain Storyteller Gary Carden


AVAILABLE ON DVD OCT. 6

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Gary awarded honorary doctorate from Western Carolina University

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The Prince of
Dark Corners
AVAILABLE ON DVD

At the time of his capture in 1881, the outlaw, Lewis Redmond was described as "the most famous man in South Carolina"

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The Raindrop Waltz
Success at 35below

The play ran for four weeks (12 performances) with every night sold out and a number of standing ovations . . .

Mountain Talk

A unique portrait of the language and life of the Southern Appalachian Mountains.

60 minutes / VHS or DVD

Folk Tales, Storytelling and the Past . . . I was raised by my grandparents in a house filled with the past. I listened to Grady Cole and Renfro Valley on the radio while my grandfather tuned musical instruments with a tuning fork and sang hymns from a shape-note songbook.

. . . am I talking too LOUD?? Click here if you can hear me okay . . . - Gary Carden

I grew up listening to a great deal of foolishness about 'bad blood' (mine), black Irish curses (my grandfather's) and the evils of being 'left handed' (I couldn't play a musical instrument.) I grew up with the cows, June apple trees, comic books, the Farmers' Federation and Saturday movies.

I told my first stories to my grandfather's chickens in a dark chicken-house when I was six years old. My audience wasn't attentive and tended to get hysterical during the dramatic parts.

"Preaching to the Chickens"
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This site is here so that I can share a few tales with you and let you know what I've been up to since then.

Now I share my stories in the form of books, paintings, audio and video cassettes or I can just come to your town and tell a few in person.

Among the things you will find here is a peek into my latest book"Mason Jars in the Flood." You can also browse around the site and look at some of the stories I have painted and learn more about the books and cassettes.

Enjoy your visit and make yourself at home!

To learn the story behind this note,
click on it.

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TW Friends: Neal Hutcheson - Film producer/director of The Prince of Dark Corners, Mountain Talk & a host of other great film. FolkTalk.org - Giving voice - recording African American history and gospel music, weaving ethnic stories and music of rural and small town America; songs featuring the impact of coal mining, Appalachian ballads, and music for our times. Charles Home- historical fiction about ordinary people confronted by extraordinary events in the past. The North Carolina Folklore Society has named your storyteller the winner of the 2006 Brown-Hudson Folklore Award. (Click the links for more info. . . )

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