Mountain People in a Flat Land by Carl E Feather

Mountain People in a Flat Land by Carl E Feather

In the early 1940s, $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival. But the cost of a bus ticket was more than a week's wages in a lumber camp, and the mountaineer paid dearly in loss of kin, culture, homeplace, and freedom. Numerous scholarly works have addressed this migration that brought more than one million mountaineers to Ohio alone. But Mountain People in a Flat Land is the first popular history of Appalachian migration to one community - Ashtabula County, an industrial center in the fabled “best location in the nation.” These migrants share their stories of life in Appalachia before coming north. There are tales of making moonshine, colorful family members, home remedies harvested from the wild, and life in coal company towns and lumber camps. The mountaineers explain why, despite the beauty of the mountains and the deep kinship roots, they had to leave Appalachia. Stories of their hardships, cultural clashes, assimilation, and ultimate successes in the flatland provide a moving look at an often stereotyped people.

Feather, Carl E.: - Carl E. Feather has researched and written about Ashtabula County history for the past thirty years as a lifestyles editor and general assignment reporter for the Ashtabula Star Beacon, and then as an author and lodging tax administrator for Ashtabula County. His Feather Cottage Media company produces video products of historical interest and he is the author of Covered Bridges of Ashtabula County, Ohio and Mountain People in a Flat Land. Carl is a trustee of the Ashtabula County Historical Society.

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ISBN 13	9780821412305
ISBN 10	0821412302
Title	Mountain People in a Flat Land
Author	Carl E Feather
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Ohio University Press
Year published	1998-06-24
Number of pages	200
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