11/29/12
Class has nothing to do with income levels or for that matter education...I am surprise you have not discovered that.
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From: James Burnett <[log in to unmask]>
To: VA-ROOTS <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Fri, Nov 23, 2012 6:08 am
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] About bedcovers... was inventory
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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Douglas Burnett
Satellite Beach
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