Bluegrass
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Book Details
About the Book
From
the moment real estate mogul Hugh McAdam’s helicopter sets down in the
parking lot of Chat Dalton’s Garage, a struggle for control of the
county ensues that eventually involves the Governor, scrapple, the Drug
Enforcement Agency, ice tongs, the Immigration and Naturalization
Service, cops, history books, drug dealers, auctioneers, bluegrass
seed, construction workers, bibles, and assorted eccentric locals. Along the way,
Spanning
one festival season, the sights, sounds, heart and soul of bluegrass
music and the rural bluegrass community that loves it are the backdrop
for a story of lost innocence, rapacious development, endangered love,
and the daunting task the locals of Pigeon Forge have in dealing with a
paradise lost.
About the Author
Peter
Pappalardo has taught writing, English and Science for 25 years at the
High School and college levels, and has written articles and stories
about local music and the arts for the last ten. An
inveterate musician with informal training, he was abducted by
bluegrass aliens in 1977 at the height of the great folk scare, and has
since become a rabid fan of the genre, which is the only music form
ever to be invented by one man named Bill Monroe.
Since
then, he has played stand-up bass, guitar, mandolin and nose flute with
several different bluegrass, old-timey, gospel and Irish bands, many of
which were called the Lost Ramblers. Pappalardo
has played with the late Mr. Greenjeans of Captain Kangaroo fame, Bob
Dorough, who penned the popular songs for ABC’s “School House Rock” and
many other fine and famous musicians who make their home in and around
the Poconos.
He
is an outdoorsman, erstwhile dartshooter, tile mason and woodworker,
and the father of four fine sons, all of whom fortunately favor their
sainted mother.