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  • From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] lost cultures, was SE PA
  • Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:48:36 -0500

I guess it takes all kinds. One of the hardest things I've done is to sit in a windowless office on a beautiful spring day; it just eats at me, wanting to be outside. I did it for years, and I couldn't even let myself go out for lunch, or I might never have gone back. I'm never happier than when I'm tired and dirty and sunburned, but accomplished something. I never felt that satisfaction doing office work.

Lynn Wigglesworth
----- Original Message ----- From: "bob ford" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] lost cultures, was SE PA


I remember some of my older relatives being asked about the old days. Their use response was simply that "times were hard". I don't think most of my rural relatives are anxious to work in the dirt any more than is necessary.

They like the hunting and fishing, not a lot of the other stuff. They probably buy as big a percentage of their produce and meat from the market as I do. I guess a lot has to do with attitude, I don't know......bobford


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--- On Mon, 11/17/08, eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net> wrote:

From: eureka AT hctc.net <eureka AT hctc.net>
Subject: Re: [Homestead] lost cultures, was SE PA
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Date: Monday, November 17, 2008, 12:28 PM
A friend of mine wrote a couple of anthologies of local
pioneer stories when he was in his 20's and was able to

interview many of the 80-90 year olds about their lives
growing up on pioneer homesteads. These people are gone
now, and the author is my age. I find them fascinating
reads, and am so glad someone so young (at the time) saw
the need to write some of this down.--S

On Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:03:16 -0500
EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net> wrote:
>
>
> Jeanne Driese wrote:
>> James, Spoken like a true native of TN! My life in
TN
>>started in 1979
>> and I could write books about what I have learned
about
>>"how to do
>> things" in TN. These folks are the best and
are very
>>wiling to share
>> their ways with you. It was my privilege to learn
how to
>>grow tobacco
>> without any poison from a old timer!
>
> TN, north GA, and I'm guessing the mountains of
the
>Carolinas and KY,
> VA, etc.
> The old ways are dying. We need yet another Foxfire
>series. I bought
> the collection as a present to myself some years back,

>but I haven't
> made a good dent in reading them. It's on my list
for
>the winter.
> In addition to mountain lore, I'd say it would be
very
>interesting to
> read about the Gullah/Geechee communities of coastal
>SC/GA as well as
> the Cajun/Creole bayou swamp culture in MS/LA. If I
had
>to leave the
> mountains-if they disappeared, the place to go to
>provide food for
> yourself and be left alone, is, I think, the
>swamp/bayou/low country.
> The writers of the world need to stop writing fluff
>romance novels and
> start recording history of vanishing peoples, whether
>indigenous groups
> like Native Americans or adaptive groups like the
Irish
>mountain people
> or the Gullah.
>
> Bev
> -- > “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to
anger.
>Anger leads to
> hate. Hate leads to suffering.” Yoda
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