The stories in Trickster Jack, which focus on the Shenanigains of Jack and his older brothers, are really tall tales emerging from Reid Gilbert's tricky imagination.  Set in the Southern Appalachians around the end of the nineteenth century, these tales describe actual activities of the time, such as making a wooden wagon with white oak rounds for wheels, fetching water from wells with windlasses, and using outdoor outhouses.

Trickster Jack introduces those readers from outside the Appalachians to some of the ways and manners of that region, while reacquainting Appalachians themselves with their own hertiage.  Regardless of where you hail, there is plenty in this whimsical collection to delight and entertain you.