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Farr, Sidney Saylor was born on October 30, 1932 in Stoney Fork, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Wilburn and Rachel (Saylor) S.
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Sydney Saylor Farr is a woman who knows Appalachia well. Born on Stoney Fork in southeastern Kentucky, she has lived much of her life close to the mountains, among people whose roots are deep in the soil and who pass on to their children a love for the land, a strong sense of belonging and of place. Mountain food and how it is cooked is very much a part of this sense of place. Ask any displaced Appalachians what they miss most and they will probably talk about soup beans, country ham, and homemade buscuits. They may also remember the kitchens at home, the warmth from the wood-burning stove, the smell of coffee, and the family gathered around the kitchen table to eat and talk. More than Moonshine is both a cookbook and a narrative that recounts the way of life of southern Appalachia from the 1940s to 1983. The women of Stoney Fork rarely had cash to spend, so they depended upon the free products of nature - their cookery used every nutritious, edible thing they could scour from the gardens and hillsides. These survival skills are recounted in the pages of More than Moonshine, with instructions for making moonshine whiskey, for fixing baked groundhog with sweet potatoes, for making turnip kraut, craklin’ bread, egg pie, apple stackcake, and other traditional dishes. More than Moonshine is more than a cookbook. It evokes a way of life in the mid-twentieth century not unlike that of pioneer days.
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(In Table Talk Sidney Farr broadens her earlier spectrum o...)
In Table Talk Sidney Farr broadens her earlier spectrum of Appalachian life. Moving beyond her personal experience, she interviews a wide array of people from several states - Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Indiana. Some still live in the mountains, while others have moved away. In their own words, they convey the flavor of olden-day mountain life: "back home" kitchens, the warmth from wood-burning stoves, the smell of coffee simmering and biscuits baking, and the family gathered around the kitchen table to talk and eat.
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Tom Sawyer is a former bicycle racer who had a near-death experience when a pickup truck fell on him, crushing his chest. He was clinically dead for 15 minutes, yet he came back to tell about his strange experience of going though a tunnel, meeting a "Light that was God", and being sent back to tell people about death and the unconditional love of God. But this is not just another NDE book. Tom Sawyer's account of the experience itself is one of the lengthiest and most powerful ever written. But what makes it even more profound us what happened to him after the experience - how it affected his life, changed his personality and gave him abilities and knowledge that he could use in many ways. This information can be used as a catalyst for spiritual growth and as a comfort to all who want to know what is on the other side.
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Farr, Sidney Saylor was born on October 30, 1932 in Stoney Fork, Kentucky, United States. Daughter of Wilburn and Rachel (Saylor) S.
Bachelor, Berea College, 1980.
Associate editor Council of the Southern Mountains, Berea, Kentucky, 1964-1969. Editor This Week in Asheville, Daniels Graphics, Asheville, North Carolina, 1970-1971. Editor Appalachian Heritage Berea College, 1985-1999.
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Member American Association of University Women, Kiwanis (president Berea club 1992-1993).
Married Leon Lawson, February 23, 1947 (divorced July 1967). Children: Dennis Wayne, Bruce Alan. Married Grover V. Farr, January 24, 1970.