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II. From Frontiersman to Sam

II. From Frontiersman to Sam Appalachian Values/American Values The Role of Regional Colleges and Universities by JIM WAYNE MILLER The following chapters are selections taken from Jim Wayne Miller's Book-length manuscript APPALACHIAN VALUES/AMERICAN VALUES: The Role of Re- gional Colleges and Universities. Other Chapters will follow in subsequent issues. Let us now come to the Highlands--a land of promise, a land of romance, and a land about which, perhaps, more things are known that are not true than of any part of our country. --John C. Campbell THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDER AND HIS HOMELAND, 1921 I. IMAGES OF APPALACHIA During the years since Campbell made this observation about Appalachia little seems to have changed. Since 1921 a vast bibliography on Appalachia has accumulated. Almost anything can be said, usually with some justification, about a region so vast and various, and just about everything has been said. Romantics, in the grip of an old Alpine myth, what Roland Barthes has called "this bourgeoise promoting of mountains" which causes them to become enraptured "anytime the ground is uneven,''^ have lamented the passing of the old ways and the noble highlander as a type. Others, cursing the persistence of the old ways, have seen Appalachia as a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

II. From Frontiersman to Sam

Appalachian Review , Volume 5 (4) – Jan 8, 1977
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Appalachian Values/American Values The Role of Regional Colleges and Universities by JIM WAYNE MILLER The following chapters are selections taken from Jim Wayne Miller's Book-length manuscript APPALACHIAN VALUES/AMERICAN VALUES: The Role of Re- gional Colleges and Universities. Other Chapters will follow in subsequent issues. Let us now come to the Highlands--a land of promise, a land of romance, and a land about which, perhaps, more things are known that are not true than of any part of our country. --John C. Campbell THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDER AND HIS HOMELAND, 1921 I. IMAGES OF APPALACHIA During the years since Campbell made this observation about Appalachia little seems to have changed. Since 1921 a vast bibliography on Appalachia has accumulated. Almost anything can be said, usually with some justification, about a region so vast and various, and just about everything has been said. Romantics, in the grip of an old Alpine myth, what Roland Barthes has called "this bourgeoise promoting of mountains" which causes them to become enraptured "anytime the ground is uneven,''^ have lamented the passing of the old ways and the noble highlander as a type. Others, cursing the persistence of the old ways, have seen Appalachia as a

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Published: Jan 8, 1977

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