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Donald Davis Live from Fearrington Village
"For 16 years, Donald Davis has performed during the Christmas season at Fearrington Village, a unique destination community near Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Hundreds of people fill the seats in this historic barn, now converted for use as an events venue. Recorded live at Davis's December 15, 2007 performance, this audio captures the familiar and special relationship between a skilled and beloved storyteller and the audience that has sustained him year after year. In three memorable stories, Davis revisits the vertigo occasioned by the rides at the county fair ('I had my head down between my legs with my fingers in my ears so my liver wouldn't squirt out through my brain'), recalls the days when corporal punishment was common ('most kids didn't need to worry about it, because every class had about three designated paddlees whose job in life was to get paddled for the whole class'), and puzzles over the Belks department-store Santa's inability to remember him ('I thought, if he can't remember my name, how's he going to remember what I want?') despite multiple visits. ©2008 Donald Davis; (P)2008 August House, Inc."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"When Donald Davis walked into his 45th high-school reunion, he had two startling visions. The first was that the only signage he saw read, WELCOME HARLEY RIDERS. After discovering that he and his classmates would be sharing space with the bikers, Davis had his second surprise: 'I was amazed to see how many parents had come.' In The Time Machine, Davis offers us both the story of the reunion and the collectively remembered story of his classmates' senior year. In 1962, Waynesville, North Carolina, was that small town where the school principal also served as a teacher, the football coach, and the Sunday-school superintendent. One classmate spends his time in the bar wishing for a time machine, so he can go back to his teenage years with his accumulated experience."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"This is a double set of double stories. The first set is made up of a story my Grandmother told me about when my mother broke her arm...twice! The second story in this set is my story of when we broke my little brother's collarbone...twice! It is about how trouble is genetic in families. The second set follows up with the same neighbor boys, the Leatherwoods, and shows what happens when two big brothers team up against two little brothers. It also shows us that fathers are always smarter than their sons! --Donald Davis"
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"The title story here is the story of my Mother's fear of snakes and of the way she eventually got passively even with me for making fun of her. She always came out on top. The second story we put on this recording is called 'The Red Coat,' as it is a story that happened in the same family setting. It is the story of how my father and his brothers-in-law finally stopped playing Christmas tricks on their sister-wives. --Donald Davis"
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"We all know someone like them: women whose lives revolve around their cats. Here Donald Davis paints verbal portraits of two very different women in his life who shared a fiercely unshakable sense of priorities. It was simply understood that the cats came first, and once you accepted that, everything else made perfect sense. Employing his trademark Carolina drawl, droll wit, and sharp observations, Davis is in top form here as he pays homage to these two remarkable women and their devotion to their feline families. ©2008 Donald Davis; (P)2008 August House, Inc."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"This is a set of three stories about trouble with little brothers, especially mine. One is the story of the haircut he badly needed, and so I gave it to him. One is the story of getting permanently fired as his babysitter. The third is the story of one of the many science projects for which he was my personal chemistry set. These stories work to call memories forth from anyone who had to live in relationship to siblings. --Donald Davis"
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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From Black and White to Living in Color
"There was a time during Donald Davis's college freshman year when he wasn't really sure if he wanted to claim his hometown of Sulpher Springs, North Carolina. But a boy by the name of Stanley Easter changed his mind. 'The year after that,' he recalls, 'I did go home from college for Thanksgiving. In fact, I had now become so proud of where I was from that I could hardly wait to get home. I no longer had to lie about where I was from. The world of childhood was quickly becoming a dear place to visit.' This story of accepting one's roots endears anyone who has ever thought twice about admitting where they came from. And Davis, in his sly narration, acknowledges that a whole lifetime of thoughts and attitudes can be rearranged in a single moment. ©2008 Donald Davis; (P)2008 August House, Inc."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"A lot about the birthing experience has changed during the past 50 years. A lot about child psychology hasn’t. For example, sibling rivalry: sometimes, a kid just isn’t ready for some little squirt to come along and invade his space—his own room. So what if there’s an extra bed in the room…isn’t that were the stuffed animals are supposed to sleep? How could a couple of otherwise sensible parents just bring a new kid home without even consulting their very own son? Still, a younger sibling can be in need of a big brother’s guidance. And a big brother, even if not so very big, can have a lot to offer—once he gets used to the idea."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"Old Man Hawkins was a larger-than-life character among deer hunters, or — more precisely — among tellers and hearers of tall tales. His self-proclaimed method of hunting deer by holding a mirror in one hand and his rifle in the other — pointing backward over a shoulder — was, he said, “to be fair to the deer.” It was a story, Davis tells us, that would occupy his father on the drive to Grandma’s house.©2002 Donald Davis; (P)2002 August House Publishers, Inc."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"Learning to drive occasions emotions ranging from reasonable caution to unbridled terror. Learning under the watchful eye of one's spouse is an added challenge; undertaking the task with anxious children in the back seat can only heighten the intensity. Davis recalls his mother's driving lessons through the objective eye of a patient and restrained young man of seven, in contrast with his little brother, whose oft-shouted refrain—'You're going to kill us all!'—rings still in memory."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"Storyteller Donald Davis had a very sensible mother. She had a pretty good idea what boys would do, so she was always on the lookout. As Davis later learned, always being on the lookout is what mamas do. His vigilant but gentle mother gave her son multiple gifts in life, and—as we learn in the end—gifts that do not end with her passing."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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"Joe Davis was in his mid-40s when he became a father, and the experience he was able to apply in raising his sons lent creativity to his parenting. The five stories here recall the wisdom of fathers with humor and rich detail: a visit to the Smithsonian inspires father's memory; father 'cures' a boy's impulse to try cigarettes; Santa Claus learns an important lesson; and someone plays a trick on a visiting preacher. ©2001 August House Publishers, Inc; (P)2001 Donald Davis, Storyteller, Inc."
Donald Davis (Author), Donald Davis (Narrator)
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