Horace Kephart

Old Andy, the Moonshiner Horace Kephart

This is the story of a little mountain girl, Sal, being brought up by her grandparents. Her presence on earth is the result of a brief, impetuous liaison between her naïve mother and a young stranger. "She air different," her grandfather declared and is determined that she obtain an good education. How he manages to pay for this involves something the government declares illegal, but that Andy feels is a right. Quite by a series of circumstances, she meets her father, now a prosperous lawyer. Will she join his family in a life of ease and luxury, or will she return to the mountain? This volume continues with a rather sociological study of the Appalachian folk and their ways by Horace Kephart, who spent much time among them. He discusses their life-views, their social norms, their feuds, and speculates upon their future. His study is considered definitive work on the people of the Southern Appalachians of the early twentieth century.