Looneyville Zip Code 25259 Lore

About the Book

"Looneyville ZIP Code 25259 Lore" is told by a man and his associates from information handed down from parents to children.  The author and his associates recapture and record some of the way of life people in isolated and serene Looneyville, WV lived and spoke in by gone days (starting in the 1920s - 1950s.

The book puts forth the idea that hill and hollow folks´ colloquial speech is a purer form of words in many cases.  The author does not encourage people to write Looneyville colloquial speech, but Looneyville speech is not inferior to standard spoken English - - it is simply different   The writer will carry you back in time to a lot of the unique idioms and folklore of the Appalachian Mountains.

About the Author

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Jake Miller holds a masters degree from Marshall University.  He is retired from the U. S. Navy, and also retired from the West Virginia State Board of Education.  Miller is a native of West Virginia and spent his childhood and early teen years in a rural Appalachian Mountain environment during the great depression of the 1920s and 1930s.  Miller was serving aboard a U. S. Navy ship in the Pacific war zone when he was still seventeen years of age.  He has traveled extensively, both as a military man and as a civilian, concentrating on the folklore and popular etymology of other cultures.  His travels have been in Africa, Canada, Europe, Greenland, Iceland, the Far East, Latin America, Mexico, the Middle East, and the United States.