{"product_id":"thirteen-georgia-ghosts-and-jeffrey-commemorative-edition-paperback-softback-9780817358839","title":"Thirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey; Commemorative Edition (Paperback \/ softback) 9780817358839","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eCommemorative Edition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKathryn Tucker Windham (Author), Dilcy Windham Hilley (Afterword by), Ben Windham (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780817358839\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 13 September 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e160 pages, 39 B\u0026amp;W figures\u003cbr\u003e25.1 x 17.7 x 1.5 cm, 0.33 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Ghost stories have a very real place in the folklore and the history of a state or a nation. After all, who should be better able to tell of happenings long past than the ghosts of those who had a part in them?\"\" - Miss Bessie Lewis, author of \u003cem\u003eThey Called Their Town Darien: Being a Short History of Darien and McIntosh County, Georgia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Spine-tingling with a twang...” - National Public Radio’s \u003cem\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In Windham’s tales... myth and fact intertwine to present a picture of the South that is as true as any textbook.” - \u003cem\u003eParis Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePetrifying the Peach State, hosts of haints have beset the state of Georgia throughout its storied history. In \u003cem\u003eThirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey\u003c\/em\u003e, best-selling folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham, along with her trusty spectral companion Jeffrey, introduce thirteen of Georgia’s most famous ghost stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWindham won hearts across the nation in her regular radio broadcasts and many public appearances. The South’s most prolific raconteur of revenants, Windham, giving new meaning to the phrase “ghost-writer,” does more than tell ghost stories—she captures the true spirit of the place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEvoking Georgia’s colonial era, “The Eternal Dinner Party” explains why the sounds of an elegant dinner soirée still waft from the grove of Savannah’s Bonaventure estate. At the onset of the Revolution, the Tattnall family abandoned Bonaventure and slipped away to England. Young Josiah Tattnall eventually returned to fight in the Revolution, restored Bonaventure, and later became Georgia’s governor. One holiday eve, when the mansion was bedecked with magnolia and holly and crowded with visitors, a fire too large to control swept through the old house. Tattnall, exhibiting his cool head and impeccable manners, ordered the massive dinner table carried out to the garden where he enjoined his holiday revelers to continue their stately meal. The melancholy strains of Tattnall’s dinner guests still echo through Bonaventure’s ancient oaks on moonlight nights.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Ghost of Andersonville\u003c\/em\u003e, Windham takes visitors near the woebegone Confederate prisoner-of-war camp. A plaque there still recounts the tale of Swiss immigrant and Confederate captain Henry Wirz. Convicted—many thought wrongly—of war crimes, Wirz’s restless ghost still perambulates the highways of south Georgia. Writing for the Georgia Historical Commission, Miss Bessie Lewis quips in her preface to this beloved collection, “Who should be better able to tell of happenings long past than the ghosts of those who had a part in them?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA perennial favorite, this commemorative edition restores \u003cem\u003eThirteen Georgia Ghosts and Jeffrey\u003c\/em\u003e to the ghastly grandeur of its original 1973 edition.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"The University of Alabama Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52574394974488,"sku":"9780817358839","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/thirteen-georgia-ghosts-and-jeffrey-commemorative-edition-paperback-softback-9780817358839","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}