I’d Rather Have a Talking Frog

Charles Edwin Price
Written by one of East Tennessee’s best known folklorists, this collection of Johnson City tales is different from the author’s previous five books. Certainly there are ghost stories, but this volume also contains anecdotes, little-known facts, personal experiences, and historical sidelights not likely to be found in history books. They are told with humor and affection.
Within these pages you will read about the ghost of a long hunter that haunts the Nolichucky River; the surprising real-life story behind the School of Health at ETSU; a haunted rocking chair; the creepy spook which lurks in the old stacks in ETSU’s Sherrod Library; the freewheeling days of early television in Johnson City—when snowball fights on the weather set were not uncommon; Tom Hodge’s list of 10 events that changed Johnson City and upper East Tennessee forever; and much, much more.
Published 1993 / 86 pages / 6" ¥ 9"
ISBN: 0-932807-98-4 / Trade Paper / $7.95