Download or read book Rural Life and Culture in the Upper Cumberland written by Michael Birdwell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2004-12-24 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen original essays by prominent scholars uncover fascinating stories and personalities from the Upper Cumberland region of Kentucky and Tennessee, often regarded as isolated and out of pace with the rest of the country, but seen here as having a far richer history and culture than previously thought.