Mildred, Quit Hollering! and Other Ozark Folktales

By: Randolph, Vance

Mildred, Quit Hollering! and Other Ozark Folktales is the last collection of folktales by celebrated Ozarks historian and storyteller, Vance Randolph. These folktales--nearly forty in all--represent some of the best stories assembled by Randolph over five decades of wandering the hills and hollers of the Missouri/Arkansas Ozark Mountains--a celebration of the life and humor enjoyed by folks in rural America and assembled during Randolph's final years spent in a nursing home. Now published nearly forty-four years after Randolph's death, Mildred, Quit Hollering! includes the biographies of the men and women who originally passed each story along to Randolph, which makes for interesting reading in itself, plus additional commentary from Augustus Finch, the self-proclaimed "Reverend, Biblical Expositor and Eschatologist", who presents an entire new collection of his own bawdy tales. The last compilation of "Mr. Ozark" himself, Mildred, Quit Hollering! is both a tribute to the late Vance Randolph, but also a reminder that people are still people wherever you go, and it's okay to laugh at ourselves sometimes.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1956027475
• ISBN13: 9781956027471
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Acclaim Press, Inc.
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Ozarks History via Vance Randolph returns

This is a delightful read with new Ozark tales told with just the right dusting of bawdy, original tales told without the added family-friendly patina we find in Branson shows. Augustus Finch adds a little pepper to the end of many chapters, leaving me anxious to plunge into the next one without waiting for the dust to settle. Worth rereading next winter by the fire.