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Backwards & Forward &. Now With A. H. A Sort Of Update WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT Appalachian Heritage is about the people of Southern Appalachia and the land they cling to. It is about the land that limits their vision to narrow sky-space and near earth - and imprisons them (the hill-haunted) with a deep, buried sense of place and home - and shapes them individually to its contours - and often haunts their dreams with irrational beauty and longing - when they are away. So much has been written about Appalachia ·.so many analyses, statistics, abstractions - so much of poverty, ignorance, pollutions - that the effect was to glut and deaden. An alternate presentation was called for. The Southern Mountaineer and his life-style are anything but boring and uninteresting. His life-style is a valid alternative to mainstream America. His cultural herireacted to an untoward environment with laudable It is about those who live so far back in the hollows they have to break daylight with a club, use hoot owls for alarm clocks and possums for watchdogs. It is about those who have moved out along the new highways in little scatterings of helter-skelter suburbios --
Appalachian Review – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jan 8, 1984
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