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ORAL HISTORY
by
Lee Smith


"Well they is stories and stories," says Granny Younger in Lee Smith's Oral History, and the history of the Cantrell family is not your average story. The story begins with Almarine Cantrell who is bewitched by a demon-possessed woman, but that is just the beginning. The family saga includes ghost stories, mystery, heartbreak, suicide, and love. The oral history of the family covers three generation of a mysterious mountain family in Southwest Virginia.