Ask the Fellows Who Cut the Hay - George Ewart Evans

Ask the Fellow Who Cut the Hay is a vivid portrait of the rural past of Blaxhall, a remote Suffolk village, in the time before mechanisation changed the entire nature of farming, the landscape and rural life for good. In the 1950s, George Ewart Evans sought out those who could recall the nineteenth-century customs, crafts, dialects, tools, smugglers' tales and rural beliefs which had endured from the time of Chaucer, and created this fascinating picture of a now vanished world.

Reviews:

'Original, arresting and always human... The books is a mine of information, but this is offered so unpretentiously that is reads as easily as a quiet book of memoirs' The Economist

'Our wisest and most knowledgeable English folklorist' - Robert Gavin

'Astonishing... Places Ewart Evans alongside Cecil Sharp as a founding father of the folklorist movement' - Caught by the River 

Publishers: Faber & Faber

ISBN: 0780571340545

Pages: 272

Weight: 224g

Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 18 mm