Thank you !!!!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carole D. Bryant" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 10:52 AM
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] About bedcovers... was inventory
> For others interested, Hollow Folk may be read on-line:
>
> _http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b297150#page/1/mode/1up_
> (http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b297150#page/1/mode/1up)
>
> Carole
>
>
>
> In a message dated 11/19/2012 11:16:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Carole, if you have a chance to read the book, hope you will get back to
> me.
> M.
>
> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 3:57 PM, Carole D. Bryant
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> "Hollow Folk" ! I reckon those folk were anything but "hollow" ! Such
>> living most often results in solid personal character -- the kind of
>> people
>> some of us would like to have for neighbors ! ! ! Kind and generous,
>> honest
>> and faithful, God-fearing and spiritually strong.
>>
>> I know my comment is a bit "off subject," but I couldn't resist. The
> term
>> just jumped out at me. There are exceptions, of course, but generally
>> our
>> "soft living" today is producing an unkind and greedy, deceitful and
>> incompetent, immoral and spiritually dead society ! Give me the old
>> "hollow
>> folk" ANY day !
>>
>> Carole D. Bryant
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> In a message dated 11/18/2012 3:19:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> [log in to unmask] writes:
>>
>> Carolyn, what a nice response. Many of my kin came to the Shenandoah
>> Valley in the 1730s. I can't imagine how tough the conditions were
> while
>> they tried to put up a cabin. I look at how spoiled I am (can't be
> too
>> warm or too cool) and wonder how, genetically, my line survived.
>>
>> Your comments reminded me of a book I read ...Hollow Folk by Mandel
>> Sherman
>> and Thomas R. Henry. It was written in 1933 and tells of life in the
>> hollows on the Blue Ridge Mountains. From the tone of your email....I
>> think you may enjoy it.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Madaline
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Carolyn Bruce <[log in to unmask]>
> wrote:
>>
>> > Quantities of blankets, quilts, and coverlids (a.k.a. counterpanes or
>> > "countypins") were necessary in homes in which there was no central
>> heat...
>> > and if the fire went out, no heat at all. Most homes were of wood
>> > and
>> had
>> > no insulating materials. In addition, kinfolks might come to stay
>> awhile,
>> > often around the holidays... maybe with numerous children, which
>> > would
>> > require providing pallets or some form of bedding to be able to sleep
>> > everyone comfortably. Straw or corn shucks would be stuffed into
> "straw
>> > ticks" which made rudimentary mattresses that were laid on the floor
> to
>> > accommodate visitors, especially young un's.
>> >
>> > My mother told of growing up in a house with all her brothers and
>> sisters
>> > (there were ten) at home at one time, sharing beds among them, two or
>> three
>> > in a bed. There were two upstairs bedrooms, one for the boys and one
> for
>> > the girls... but come fall of the year, teachers often boarded at
> their
>> > house, and the boys were pushed out into an attic space. Cold
>> > wouldn't
>> even
>> > come close to describing the conditions. At times it was truly
> freezing
>> in
>> > the bedrooms and they would have to break ice on top of the water in
> the
>> > wash bowl and ewer to wash their faces when they arose.
>> >
>> > In the time frame of your "wagoner", it was even colder than in the
> 20th
>> > century, at least in the U.S. and Europe. Around 1700, it was so cold
> in
>> > the area known as Alsace-Lorraine, it is said that birds froze in
> flight
>> > and fell from the sky. Heavy snows fell in most of Europe, and canals
>> and
>> > streams froze. Remember Hans Brinker, the poor boy (and his sister)
> who
>> > competed in the traditional speed-skating race from one town to the
> next
>> on
>> > the frozen canal? And all those snowy Currier and Ives prints from
> that
>> > period? That was during a centuries-long dip in temperatures that
>> started
>> > in the early 1300s and ended about the mid-1800s... called the
> "Little
>> Ice
>> > Age". So your wagoner would have been most appreciative of having a
>> large
>> > stockpile of warm blankets and other bedcovers, as would most of his
>> > neighbors.
>> >
>> > Thank goodness for central heat.
>> >
>> > Carolyn
>> >
>> > --
>> > Carolyn HALE BRUCE
>> > Virginia Beach, VA
>> >
>> >
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