Tales from the Dead Peckerwood Bench: Folk Tales from Hawkins County, Tennessee

Tales from the Dead Peckerwood Bench (a reference anyone in Hawkins County will get) is a collection of folklore, ghost stories, court cases involving prostitution and murder, and the more colorful characters of Hawkins County between the mid-19th to late-20th centuries. The book includes tales about Native North American Indians, Melungeons, hoodoo women, African Americans, Civil War tales, prostitution, lost treasure, railroad yarns, sensational murder cases, cyrptozoology, peculiar people and infamous Hawkins County residents that have passed on, epidemics that can through the county, spiritualism in the late 19th century, psychics, slavery, etc.