Alice,

While the names given the three hollows in the book are fictitious, Audrey Horning points to the author's intention in this : www.nps.gov/shen/historyculture/mtnsettlement.htm<about:blank>

As a person who has ancestors from all those hollows, I can only say .... well this may be an inappropriate place to say it!  It seems the government's justification for ruining the lives of so many people was overly zealous IMO.  Thankfully, Horning's work wipes some of dirt from their faces.

R. Burnett Jenkins


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  From: Alice Owens<mailto:[log in to unmask]> 
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  Sent: November 26, 2012 11:21 AM
  Subject: [VA-ROOTS] Hollow Folk


  I have been reading with much interest the discussion regarding "Hollow Folk." I have also been reading online and making notes. At present I am about half done. I can't decide whether to continue reading as my feelings of utter disgust for those authors and those who "bought into this" just trouble me at length. I have spent considerable time in trying to "proove" any of this and only today have learned the people and place names are fictitious! So, for any of you that felt the same way....I think the best place for it is the trash can! off my soapbox now!

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