Tall Tales True Stories

This books contains original tall-tale short stories from West Virginia. Some stories a humorous some serious some satire some nostalgic and some delve into the paranormal.If I told my dad a lie as a young kid or teenager he would wallop my backside. However if I began to spin a big-o-whopper of a tall tale he would laugh load me up in the car and take me over to the neighbor's house for entertainment. And then he would take me home and wallop my backside. On occasion Dad would tell me lies but he called it storytelling or spinning a good yarn. I never did get to wallop his backside for all of his tall tales. Instead I just smiled listened and marveled at his robust imagination. From these family activities - both walloped and un-walloped lying - I learned the fine mountaineer art of storytelling.