APPALACHIAHIAN
MOUNTAIN VOICES
This
book by 38 year old Warren Moore is of the back dirt roads and
outhouses of the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains where
she talks with the people of the region and fueled her
passion to have their voices heard so what they had to say
did not get lost. It's the nuts and bolts of a social
history.
Moore
is a New York teacher who took a 'leave of absence' , living in
Greensboro , close to where she could spend time in the
mountains where the blacktop ends. Wanting to see what they had
to says she found
out
how little as known about these people and how important it was
to
have
their voices heard.
The
Stereotype is that they are lazy, barefoot hillbillies, people who
did not go to school nor sent their kids to school and she
found
they seldom gave interviews, they are homemakers, farmers,
hunters,
musicians, craftsmen and Cherokee Indians, and need really know
you before they open up and portray them on their terms.
These
folks are philosophers realizing what is important , taking
difficulties
with a grin and going on with life. Bea Hensley a Spruce
Pine
blacksmith has a theory that you are born to live, making a
living is
secondary.
Monetary value has nothing to do with living.
Abstract:
March 18, 1989 Wilmington News Journal
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