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Mountain people in a flat land : a popular history of Appalacian migration to northeast Ohio, 1940-1965 / Carl E. Feather.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Feather, Carl E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rural-urban migration.
- History.
- Appalachians (People).
- Biography.
- Appalachian Region, Southern--Biography.
- Appalachian Region, Southern.
- Appalachians (People)--Appalachian Region, Southern--Biography.
- Appalachians (People)--Ohio--Ashtabula County--Biography.
- Rural-urban migration--Ohio--Ashtabula County--History--20th century.
- Ohio--Ashtabula County.
- Southern Appalachian Region.
- Physical Description:
- xxvi, 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Athens : Ohio University Press, [1998]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0821412299
- 0821412302
- OCLC:
- 37975567
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