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Sign of Shade: High Waters On Wartrace

Sign of Shade: High Waters On Wartrace Jack Turner Appalachian Heritage, Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 1983, pp. 56-60 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1983.0037 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438434/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:41 GMT from JHU Libraries #fa> Sign of Shade ¿fa .............!j I :: High Waters On Wartrace :.t by Jack Turner Wood blocks with jacks would be set Floods had come to be major social around underneath a house and then occasions in Wartrace. The people of Wartrace lived on bottom land half- the house would start up, with posts circled by Toller Creek. In the years being added and blocks and jacks be- when Toller had been farming country, ing reset until the proper height had been reached. only a cloud burst could threaten the After a while the whole town was long bottom. When Jason was a boy, on stilts, but the water kept on coming though, growing up in Wartrace, floods were a continuing feature of life there. up. The schoolhouse couldn't be raised- it was built of brick. There was mining going on up- stream. The water was often black When the rains came long enough and the water http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Sign of Shade: High Waters On Wartrace

Turner, Jack.
Appalachian Review , Volume 11 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Jack Turner Appalachian Heritage, Volume 11, Number 2, Spring 1983, pp. 56-60 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1983.0037 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/438434/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 21:41 GMT from JHU Libraries #fa> Sign of Shade ¿fa .............!j I :: High Waters On Wartrace :.t by Jack Turner Wood blocks with jacks would be set Floods had come to be major social around underneath a house and then occasions in Wartrace. The people of Wartrace lived on bottom land half- the house would start up, with posts circled by Toller Creek. In the years being added and blocks and jacks be- when Toller had been farming country, ing reset until the proper height had been reached. only a cloud burst could threaten the After a while the whole town was long bottom. When Jason was a boy, on stilts, but the water kept on coming though, growing up in Wartrace, floods were a continuing feature of life there. up. The schoolhouse couldn't be raised- it was built of brick. There was mining going on up- stream. The water was often black When the rains came long enough and the water

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