On Troublesome Creek and anger while detailing and

and anger while detailing and examining the disaster's causes

Verna Mae Slone

Don't Tell Me

she captured this culmination of a year's labor raising livestock

Reliquiae Diluviana: (Relics of the Flood)

On Troublesome Creek and anger while detailing andJames Still left eastern Kentucky for Europe in 1941 after enlisting in the US Army during World War II, leaving behind a recently published, semi autobiographical work of fiction, On Troublesome Creek. Even as he developed a broader worldview, his work continued to draw from the agrarian and regional sources of life in the Cumberland Plateau that supported the American war effort. Like the riverbeds and creeks he so often evoked, Still reminds