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_______________ Charles Dodd White McCallister brought two competing dreams to the ridges of Sanction County—the equal, shining lures of memory and hope. Old men would come up from distant hollers to watch McCallister’s crew work the blast lanes and see with their wintered eyes these dreams he carried, see them as clearly as if they were irons slung across his shoulders. Some remembered when the railway men had come two generations earlier, siccing their teams of black convicts on the mountains in battalions, picks and sledges bashing through the passes. But this year of 1934 brought a new promise; these men arriving in the highcountry held a sheen when the sun touched their bodies. A new word was being spread through the mountains of western North Carolina: the name progress. In the matter of only a few weeks, the nature of McCallister’s mission came to be suspected, and finally affirmed. A tunnel through Callum Mountain, a bold lunatic stroke clean through the granite wedge at the east end of Croptop Gorge. They were to rip open a gate to plunge down into the gorge so that the wpa men could pave the road through, opening up the world to
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: May 12, 2011
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