Salvation On Sand Moutain: Snake Handling And Redemption In Southern Appalachia by Dennis Covington

Salvation On Sand Moutain: Snake Handling And Redemption In Southern Appalachia

Dennis Covington

256 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history memoir religion reflective fast-paced
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It is Scottsboro, Alabama, in the fall of 1991. A snake-handling preacher by the name of Glendel Buford Summerford has just tried to murder his wife, Darlene, by snakebite. At gunpoint, he forces her to stick her arm in a box of rattlesnakes. She ...

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