Appalachia's Alternative to Mainstream America : A Personal Education

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul Salstrom

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Reciprocity (Psychology).

Manners and customs.

Local exchange trading systems.

Farm life.

Cooperation.

Cooperation--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Local exchange trading systems--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Farm life--Appalachian Region, Southern.

Southern Appalachian Region.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Salstrom, Paul, 1940-.

Salstrom, Paul.

Genre:

Autobiographies.

Autobiography

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages): illustrations

Place of Publication:

Lightning Source Inc. (Tier 3) 2023

Summary:

"Longtime Appalachian resident, scholar, and historian Paul Salstrom recounts the education in homesteading, subsistence farming, gardening, and community-based mutual aid that he discovered in rural Lincoln County, West Virginia, beginning in the early 1970s. These experiences inspire a reflective history of Appalachia's 'neighborly networking' form of life and an impassioned case for its value to contemporary America. Salstrom notes that the 'back-to-the-landers' of the 1960s and 1970s have by no means disappeared, finding new expression in the farm-to-table and other related movements. But today is different, Salstrom argues. Pandemics, climate change, and deepening political divisions signal a crisis of common sense in mainstream America and cast new light on these old, landed practices, which may yet stand a chance of generating local sufficiency in food and energy production"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781621907169

1621907163

OCLC:

1522768097