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The 1892 Givens Home Place: The Fate of a Mountain Farm

The 1892 Givens Home Place: The Fate of a Mountain Farm Fred Carlisle Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 21-32 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0038 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435926/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:15 GMT from JHU Libraries ARTICLE The 1892 Givens Home Place: The Fate of a Mountain Farm_____________________ Fred Carlisle "We didn't have conveniences. We had no bathroom. We had no central heat. Dad really didn't have the money to do it with. He was still paying on this farm, so it was a hard road." Caroline Givens Vincel is describing her memories of growing up on the family farm. "All I can tell was it was cold"—yet it was somehow satisfying. Like most of her generation, Caroline simply made the best of what was given to her. She was born and grew up in her family's 1892 homeplace in Clover Hollow, attended school in the nearby village of Newport, Virginia, helped with farm and housework, married, raised children and worked as a postal clerk and then postmaster in Newport. "I've never known anything else." From seventh grade on, when her mother suffered her first stroke, Caroline—the youngest of five children—assumed most of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

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Fred Carlisle Appalachian Heritage, Volume 29, Number 4, Fall 2001, pp. 21-32 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2001.0038 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/435926/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 20:15 GMT from JHU Libraries ARTICLE The 1892 Givens Home Place: The Fate of a Mountain Farm_____________________ Fred Carlisle "We didn't have conveniences. We had no bathroom. We had no central heat. Dad really didn't have the money to do it with. He was still paying on this farm, so it was a hard road." Caroline Givens Vincel is describing her memories of growing up on the family farm. "All I can tell was it was cold"—yet it was somehow satisfying. Like most of her generation, Caroline simply made the best of what was given to her. She was born and grew up in her family's 1892 homeplace in Clover Hollow, attended school in the nearby village of Newport, Virginia, helped with farm and housework, married, raised children and worked as a postal clerk and then postmaster in Newport. "I've never known anything else." From seventh grade on, when her mother suffered her first stroke, Caroline—the youngest of five children—assumed most of the

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