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Haunted Jonesborough | 
 enlarge | Author: Charles Edwin Price
Publisher: Overmountain Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2521035
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Young Adult
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 69
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 0932807933
Dewey Decimal Number: 398
EAN: 9780932807939
ASIN: 0932807933
Publication Date: January 1, 1993
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Product Description
Revealing that historic Jonesborough is rich in both traditions and ghosts, this book of folklore claims that nearly every historic house in this oldest Tennessee town boasts at least one resident spook.
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There Stands Jackson Like a Mud Wall October 22, 2005
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
On occasion I run across a ghost book that blends real ghost stories and fiction and this combination worries me. To me this practice is akin to writing a history book that is for the most part very accurate but also including a chapter or two of pure hogwash therefore blurring the line between fact and fiction. In my opinion this is not a good practice and should be avoided at all costs but unfortunately this book contains one of the most glaring examples of this that I have ever come across.
Mr. Price is an excellent writer and storyteller and has published a number of books relating to paranormal events in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. He has also published a very enjoyable, although rather short history of the Bell Witch. He does have a terrible tendency to include old legends in his books but his accounts of real hauntings are quite good. More often than not he includes interviews with people who have witnessed the haunt in his stories, and searches diligently for these stories and witnesses. I know this because I have talked to people who Mr. Price has approached about doing an interview.
The first two-thirds of this book is made up of some wonderful ghost stories from Tennessee's oldest town. For the most part these stories are well documented and very interesting. In fact, there was only one undocumented story in this part of the book and I think Mr. Price was correct in including it if for no other reason than to mention the name of the owner of this long gone haunted house. This is especially true since not many people remember Jonesborough's own Confederate hero, General Alfred E. Jackson, better known as Mudwall Jackson, so as to not be confused with that other Jackson from Virginia. Leaving the General out of this book or any other book about historic Jonesborough would just not seem right.
After this admirable start it was very disappointing to find that the last third of the book was a work of pure fiction. Mr. Price has taken the old German legends about Goblins, set the story in Jonesborough and wrote what is in fact a very enjoyable story about a goblin named JW. It was an excellent story but it just didn't belong in this book. As a matter of fact I think that an entire series of stories about JW the goblin would be very enjoyable but I just don't think that fiction like this belongs in a ghost story book. To me it is sort of like the old saying about east being east and west being west, stories of real hauntings and pure fiction should never meet.
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