For others interested, Hollow Folk may be read on-line:
 
_http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b297150#page/1/mode/1up_ 
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Carole
 
 
 
In a message dated 11/19/2012 11:16:24 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
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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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