Hometown Humor

ISBN: 0-87483-532-1

In the midst of all that may ail us – crime, pollution, an unsure economy – people still take time to make each other laugh. If you listen on the street corners, in the cafes, at the kitchen tables of America, you’ll hear people telling funny stories and jokes. Hometown humor helps pull us through. In Hometown Humor, Loyal Jones and Billy Edd Wheeler have gathered some gems of American silliness. They range from one-liners . . .

"My wife’s cooking was so bad, the flies go together to mend the screens."

to epigrams . . .

"To do good is noble. To tell others to do good is also noble and a lot less trouble."

to longer stories . . .

Like the one about why the Devil tried to give Oral Roberts, Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart back to St. Peter after they were assigned to his place.

Contributors to this volume include regular folks as well as celebrities like Minnie Pearl, Tom T. Hall, John Ed McConnell, Senator Sam J. Ervine and the nine students of Clinton County Elementary School in Clinton County, Kentucky.

If laughter is healing, you’re going to feel a whole lot better after reading Hometown Humor, USA.

Loyal Jones, a native of North Carolina, is the author of seven books and dozens of articles on Appalachian culture. He is former director of the Appalachian Center at Berea College in Kentucky after directing it for twenty three years. He continues to live in Berea, Kentucky where he is working on several books.

Billy Ed Wheeler, author of Outhouse Humor, is a songwriter, singer, playwright and poet who has written songs for such performers as Judy Collins, Kenny Rogers, Johnny Cash, June Carter and the Kingston Trio. A West Virginian by birth, he now lives in North Carolina when not working in Nashville.