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^ Read # Hank Hung the Moon: .and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts by Rheta Grimsley Johnson ✓ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Hank Hung the Moon: .and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts Ian said Get this one! Hank comes to life through Rheta's tales of growing up and living Southern. If you like Hank Williams or would like to know more about him, or if you have any kind of real Southern connection, you will really enjoy this book! It is historical, musical, personal, and witty. Just a lot of fun to read. I was able to make a number of personal connections to her story myself because of living in Alabama and Georgia most of my life, and having gone and taught at Auburn. I did no
| Title | : | Hank Hung the Moon: .and Warmed Our Cold, Cold Hearts |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.32 (504 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1588382842 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 200 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-25 |
| Language | : | English |
Rheta Grimsley Johnson has covered the South for over three decades as a newspaper reporter and columnist. In past reporting for United Press International, the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and a number of other regional newspapers, Johnson has won national awards. A native of Colquitt, Georgia, Johnson grew up in Montgomery, Alabama, studied journalism at Auburn University, and has lived and worked in the South all of her career. In 2000, sh
She writes about ordinary but fascinating people, mining for universal meaning in individual stories. About the AuthorRheta Grimsley Johnson has covered the South for over three decades as a newspaper reporter and columnist. They live in Iuka, Mississippi.. In December 2010, she married retired Auburn University history professor Hines Hall. She is the author of several books, including America's Faces (1987) and Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. In 1991, she was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize for commentary. In 2000, she wrote the text for a book of photographs entitled Georgia. In past reporting for United Press International, the Commercial Appeal of Memphis, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and a number of other regional newspapers, Johnson has won national awards. In 1986, she was inducted into the Scripps Howard Newspapers Editorial Hall of Fame. Syndicated today by King Features of New York, Johnson's colum
Ian said Get this one! Hank comes to life through Rheta's tales of growing up and living Southern. If you like Hank Williams or would like to know more about him, or if you have any kind of real Southern connection, you will really enjoy this book! It is historical, musical, personal, and witty. Just a lot of fun to read. I was able to make a number of personal connections to her story myself because of living in Alabama and Georgia most of my life, and having gone and taught at Auburn. I did not. To know Hank is to love him forever Margie Read For many years I have enjoyed Rheta Grimsley Johnson's columns as well as her other books. With this book, she continues her keen observitations well chosen phrases, and, as always, she tells it like it is. With Hank Hung the Moon Rheta travels back in time and captures many memories of her own, those of Hank and some of my mine. I've also enjoyed Hank's songs for years without actually thinking abo. converging lives Jerry Brown I admire this book immensely and will recommend it both to readers who're held and haunted by the music of Hank Williams and also to those who might care to see how a first-rate creative journalist goes about her work. In weaving together her life and Hank's, without getting in the way of her main subject, and then by working into the pattern stories of pilgrims Chaucer might have chosen, the author
A newly minted recording artist buys a belt from Hank himself at a Nashville store that country's first superstar bought to pacify a nagging wife.Finally, here are stories readers haven't heard a thousand times before about people--some famous, some not--who loved Hank. And that's a good thing.More a musical memoir than a biography, Hank Hung the Moon is the author's evocative personal stories of '50s and '60s musical staples --elementary-school rhythm bands, British Invasion rock concerts, and tearjerker movie musicals. Readers will tap their toes and demand an encore.. Hank provides the soundtrack and wisdom for this Last Picture Show of a book.A Cajun girl learns to understand English by listening to Hank on the radio. A Hank impersonator works by day at a prison but by night makes good use of his college degree in country music. This latest Hank Williams paean will make readers laugh as well as cry. The book celebrates a world of 78 rpm records and five-cent Cokes. He transformed the musical landscape, as well as the heavens, with his genius. It was a simpler time when Hank roamed the earth. This lively little book uses Hank as a metaphor for life. Hank's
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