Terms #1
 

The "Other"
Local color writers ­ 1870-1890
Lippincott’s Magazine, Scribner’s, Harper’s New Monthly Magazine,

Jacob Riis, "How the Other Half Lives," 1889
Mary N. Murfree, "The Dancin/Party at Harrison's Cove" (1884), In the Tennessee Mountains
(1884)

 John Fox, Jr., The Little Shepherd of Kingdom Come, The Trail of the Lonesome Pine
 (1913) "The Southern Mountaineer," 1901

William Goodell Frost  "Appalachian America" (President of Berea College 1892-1920)
Horace Kephart', Our Southern Highlanders (1913, 1922)

Paint Creek, Cabin Creek (West Virginia) miner's resistance, 1912
Holly Grove tent camp (West Virginia), Baldwin-Felts' Blue Moose Special, February 7, 1913
Battle of Matewan (West Virginia), 1920
Sid Hatfield
Battle of Blair Mountain (West Virginia), August, 1921
Harlan County (Kentucky)

Congress establishes the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, 1934
Paul Webb, Esquire cartoons, 1935-48
Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Valley of the Tennessee (film), 1944
 

Harry Caudill, Night Comes to the Cumberlands, 1963
Charles Kurault, "Christmas in Appalachia," 1964

Quotes to ponder:

"So, in the log cabin of the Southern mountaineer, in his household furnishings, in his homespun, his linsey and, occasionally, in his hunting shirt, his coon-skin cap and moccasins one may summon up the garb and life of the pioneer; in his religion, his politics, his moral code, his folk songs and his superstitions one may bridge the waters back to the old country, and through his speech one may even touch the remote past of Chaucer. For to-day he is a distinct remnant of Colonial times--a distinct relic of an Anglo-Saxon past."  (John Fox, Jr. "The Southern Mountianeer," p. 123.

"When we consider the separate elements in our population the mountaineer must not be overlooked.  He certainly belongs to the category of the "native born."  But his characteristics are the exact complement of those which we now consider American.  Lacking the intelligence which is the leading trait of latter-day Americans, he has the unjaded nerves which the typical modern lacks.  And while in most elegant circles American families have ceased to be prolific, the mountain American is still rearing vigorous children in numbers that would satisfy the patriarchs.  The possible value of such a population is sufficiently evident."  (William Goodell Frost, "Our Contemporary Ancestors in the Southern Mountains," p. 318.

"Conceive a  shipload of emigrants cast away on some unknown island, far from the regular track of vessels, and left there for five or six generations, unaided and untroubled by the growth of civilization.  Among the descendants of such a company we would expect to find customs and ideas unaltered from the time of their forefathers.  And that is just what we do find today among our castaways in the sea of mountains.  Time has lingered in Appalachia  The mountian folk still live in the eighteenth century.  The progress of mankind from that age to this is no heritage of theirs."  (Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders, p. 17)

"The hard, hopeless life of the mountain farm, sustained only by a meager and ill-cooked diet, begat laziness and shiftless unconcern."  (Horace Kephart, Our Southern Highlanders, p. 445)

"The mountaineer can present no enigma to a world which in interested enough to look with sympathy into the forces which have made him.  And look we must, because with his fruitful wife and brood of untamed children he presents a problem to the nation which is many-faceted and which will deepen in complexity during the ensuing decades.  As the nation moves toward the challenges of a new century and a world ringing with change, it cannot afford to leave huge islands of its own population behind, stranded and ignored.  Idleness and waste are antipathetic to progress and growth, and, unless the Cumberland Plateau is to remain an anchor dragging behind the rest of America, it--and the rest of the Southern Appalachians--must be rescued while there is yet time." (Harry Caudill, Night Comes to the Cumberlands, xii-xiii).

"Appalachia is a creature of the urban imagination.  The folk culture, the depressed area, the romantic wilderness, the Appalachia of fiction, journalism, and public policy, have for more than a century been created, forgotten, and rediscovered, primarily by the economic opportunism, political creativity, or passing fancy of urban elites."  (Allen Batteau, The Invention of Appalachia, p. 1)

"Only when those who know personally experienced Appalachian begin to understand and come to grips with the full range of meanings in read-about Appalachia will there e the possibility that read-about Appalachia might serve the interests of the Southern Mountan people, Appalachian or otherwise."  (Allen Batteau, The Invention of Appalachia, pp. 8-9)