THE NORTH RIDING PROJECT

Jesco White learnt “mountain dancing” from his father, an Appalachian mountain speciality descended from English settlers’ clog dancing.  Jesco’s stardom in this world of redneck deprivation was equalled by his stormy private life: a gas- and glue-sniffer since childhood, in and out of reform schools, he eloped with a woman old enough to be his mother and for a time was happy, barring the odd threat to murder her. 

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