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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay
A beautiful edition of a classic book about English rural life by George Ewart Evans, author of The Crooked Scythe and The Leaping Hare.
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Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanization changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good. In the 1950s, George Ewart Evans sought out those who could recall the nineteenth-century customs, crafts, dialects, tools, smugglers’ tales and rural beliefs which had endured from the time of Chaucer, and created this fascinating picture of a now vanished world.
Astonishing . . . Places Ewart Evans alongside Cecil Sharp as a founding father of the folklorist movement.
Original, arresting and always human . . . The book is a mine of information, but this is offered so unpretentiously that it reads as easily as a quiet book of memoirs.
Our wisest and most knowledgeable English folklorist.
Born in the mining town of Abercynon, South Wales, George Ewart Evans (1909-88) was a pioneering oral historian. In 1948 he settled with his family in Blaxhall, Suffolk, and through conversing with his neighbours he developed an interest in their dialect and the aspects of rural life which they described. Many were agricultural labourers, born before the turn of the…
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