Very interesting ! Sounds as if the mountain folk have been (to some
extent) "ruined" by attempts to make them "get with the program" ! !
Have all the old-fashioned "hollow folk" vanished ?
Carole
In a message dated 11/25/2012 12:49:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
While googling "Colvin Hollow," I came across this material critical of
"Hollow Folk."
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug99/anderson/appalachia/reject.html
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ug99/anderson/appalachia/reclaim.html
Warren
-----Original Message-----
From: Carole D. Bryant <[log in to unmask]>
To: VA-ROOTS <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sun, Nov 25, 2012 9:12 am
Subject: Re: About bedcovers... was inventory
_http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b297150;page=root;seq=13;view=2up
;size=100;orient=0;num=1#page/6/mode/2up_
(http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.b297150;page=root;seq=13;view=2up
;size=100;orient=0;num=1#page/6/mo
de/2up)
In a message dated 11/25/2012 1:25:12 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:
Do you have the link to the online version?
Sent from my iPad
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
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Douglas Burnett
> Satellite Beach
> FL
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