Do you have the link to the online version?
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On Nov 23, 2012, at 10:52 AM, [log in to unmask] wrote:
> That book needs to be put in context. First it was written in period where
> "hillbillies" were a favorite group to caricaturized this way. Also,
> notice the time the book was written. The government was busy taking the land
> away from families who had lived on it, sometimes for over 200 years, to
> make Shenandoah National Park. I'm sure it was convenient to have a "study"
> like this to help justify what was happening.
>
> I to have ancestors who lived in hollers, and they were decent hard-working
> people.
>
> By the way, the entire book is online.
>
> Judi
>
>
> [log in to unmask]
> "Puzzles of the Past"
> _http://puzzlesofthepast.blogspot.com/_
> (http://puzzlesofthepast.blogspot.com/)
>
>
> What do you hold so close to your own circle of life that you would not
> put a price on it? What would it be for you? For me, it is the mountains and
> the people of Appalachia.”
>
> Larry Gibson, Keeper of the Mountains
>
>
> In a message dated 11/23/2012 6:08:25 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,
> [log in to unmask] writes:
>
> Let me see--one of the criteria for being a good and accurate genealogist
> is to conduct an exhaustive search. How many recognized sources did you use
> to arrive at your conclusions? Yes-I'm a bit testy here. I am a product of
> that. Just because my ancestors-one generation back--only got one pair of
> shoes per year, had to grow a lot of their food, and walked a lot hardly
> qualifies them for the adjectives you used--I don't care who wrote it. I
> never heard of those people standing around for handouts, free cellphones,
> gas cards etc.
> Enough. If people are so gullible as to believe the first thing they read
> let me sell you some building lots in south central florida.
>
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Carole D. Bryant
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Have read the first 30 pages of book and wish I could find the complete
>> book. Written by health and social professionals in the 1930's from
>> research on-site, it is an eye-opener to the horrid living
>> conditions of the folks in the five subject Hollows.
>> The ignorance, laziness, filth and poverty these people were content
> with
>> in the 20th century America is horrid. Intermarriage and perpetual
>> pregnancy, lack of health services and high death rate of infants is
>> pitiful.
>> This book does not glamorize the folks of the Hollows but reveals their
>> hidden communities in their mountain shacks all of which are described
> as
>> less than 100 miles from the U.S. capital.
>>
>> Thanks for the link to the book.
>> Tree Mother
>>
>
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