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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay

by George Ewart Evans (Author)

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    Paperback 1975

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Synopsis

A classic picture of the rural past in a remote Suffolk village, revealed in the conversations of old people who recall harvest customs, home crafts, poetic usages in dialect, old farm tools, smugglers' tales, and rural customs and beliefs going back to the time of Chaucer.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 272
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 29 May 1975
ISBN 10: 0571063535
ISBN 13: 9780571063536
Book Overview: Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay by George Ewart Evans is a classic picture of the rural past in a remote Sussex village.

Author Bio
Born in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-88) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the century, who had worked on farms before the arrival of mechanisation. With the assistance of a tape recorder he collected oral evidence of the dialect, rural customs, traditions and folklore throughout East Anglia, and this work, reinforced by documental research, provided the background for his renowned East Anglian books.