The mission of the North Carolina Humanities Council is to serve as an advocate for lifelong learning and thoughtful dialogue about all facets of human life and to facilitate the exploration and celebration of the many voices and stories of North Carolina’s cultures and heritage. Look Back the Maytime Days exemplifies this mission in every way, and I recommend it to you highly.
—Shelly Crisp, Executive Director, North Carolina Humanities Council
From the Pages of Fred Chappell
Adapted and Directed by Brenda P. Schleunes
Originally Commissioned by the North Carolina Humanities Council
60 minutes
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- About the Kinfolk Series
Look Back the Maytime Days is an oral tapestry of the voices from the ridges and hollows of the North Carolina mountains woven together with traditional mountain music and songs. Audiences will meet wise, eccentric, playful and profound members of Fred Chappell’s fictional family as they converse, expound, exaggerate and tell stories about themselves and others.
Writing about family is a way for the poet to approach history, politics, culture, psychology, economics and so forth with intense and personally engaged language. The poet has a real stake in the past that gave rise to his or her sensibility, for out of that past is shaped an encounter with present time and a vision of time to come.
~Fred Chappell, former NC Poet
Laureate
