Fixin' to Tell About Jack
Fixin' to Tell About Jack
Fixin' to Tell About Jack su StreamingCommunity. Ray Hicks is a mountain farmer from Beech Mountain, North Carolina, with a genius for telling traditional folktales that have been passed down in his family for generations. This film shows Ray working on his farm, gathering herbs in the woods, and describing his family’s tradition of storytelling and his theories of human and natural continuity. Running throughout the film is Ray telling a tale called “Whickity-Whack, Into My Sack” (also known as “Soldier Jack”). Viewers will be charmed by Ray's tales and wiser to the traditional ways of life still in practice in the 1970s in central Appalachia.
- Genere: Documentario
- Nazione:
- Direttore: Elizabeth Barret
- Cast: Ray Hicks,
