Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature. This book is an edited compilation of his memoirs of his childhood. Included are the stories "The Double Murder at Sledges, " "Preacher Lang Gets Drunk, " "My Schoolmates at Middle Caines Creek School, " "I See a Baptism, " and "Ye Offspring of Vipers."