Jack is the universal folk hero and adventurer. Tales of Jack's adventures are as timeless as bedrock but as fresh as dawn in the Appalachian Mountains. Whether

"Orville Hicks has enthralled audiences beyond the porches of Beech Mountain, North Carolina, for more than two decades. Jack Tales and Mountain Yarns captures

Ray Hicks, 78, the famous teller of Appalachian Jack Tales, is one of America's best-loved storytellers. In this book he shares a different kind of story, a chr

ONCED UPON A TIME AGO, in the Smoky Mountains, there lived a feller named Jack. So begin twenty Jack Tales, based on traditional folk and fairy tales, plus an e

An Appalachian version of the traditional tale in which a boy and five elderly animals find their fortune in a robbers' den.