Night Comes To The Cumberlands

Author : Harry M. Claudill
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786252005

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Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area by Harry M. Claudill Pdf

“At the time it was first published in 1962, it framed such an urgent appeal to the American conscience that it actually prompted the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, an agency that has pumped millions of dollars into Appalachia. Caudill’s study begins in the violence of the Indian wars and ends in the economic despair of the 1950s and 1960s. Two hundred years ago, the Cumberland Plateau was a land of great promise. Its deep, twisting valleys contained rich bottomlands. The surrounding mountains were teeming with game and covered with valuable timber. The people who came into this land scratched out a living by farming, hunting, and making all the things they need-including whiskey. The quality of life in Appalachia declined during the Civil War and Appalachia remained “in a bad way” for the next century. By the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, Appalachia had become an island of poverty in a national sea of plenty and prosperity. Caudill’s book alerted the mainstream world to our problems and their causes. Since then the ARC has provided millions of dollars to strengthen the brick and mortar infrastructure of Appalachia and to help us recover from a century of economic problems that had greatly undermined our quality of life.”-Print ed.

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Appalachian Plateau
ISBN : 1931672660

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The Watches of the Night by Harry M. Caudill Pdf

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1992-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 081310811X

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Slender Is the Thread by Harry M. Caudill Pdf

Reading the tales spun out of Harry Caudill's Letcher County law office, I can close my eyes and see the man, even hear his rich mountain voice -- measured, distinctly accented, engaging, etched with wit and anger and compassion. He denounced scoundrels of high and low station, praised courage and justice wherever he found it, and celebrated the ridiculous frailty of the human condition.

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780813146270

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The Mountain, the Miner, and the Lord and Other Tales from a Country Law Office by Harry M. Caudill Pdf

This book of stories celebrates people who have a magnetism, a tenacity, a personal vision, an independence, and a self-sufficiency that elude most of us today.

Author : Emma Bell Miles,David E. Whisnant,Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1985-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0870494651

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The Spirit of the Mountains by Emma Bell Miles,David E. Whisnant,Roger D. Abrahams Pdf

A classic account of mountain life, accurately portraying the people and lore of the Cumberland Mountains. Miles' familiarity with the mountain people--and her perception of the importance of women, especially older women--allows her to illustrate their way of life in a personal and realistic manner ". . . gives us an extraordinary insight into the personal relationships of the mountain lore, signs, rhymes, omens, tales, even the development of the mountain music. She presents the strength of religious beliefs along with the emotionalism and simplistic tradition of 'the old-time religion.'" --The Southern Quarterly . Emma Bell Miles (1879-1919) also wrote numerous poems and short stories that appeared in such publications of the period as Harpers Monthly, Century, and Lippincott's.

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813187532

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A Darkness at Dawn by Harry M. Caudill Pdf

Outspoken Appalachian writer Harry M. Caudill analyzes the exploitation and decline of the eastern Kentucky mountain lands, which have rendered "no people in the nation...more forlorn than the Appalachian highlanders in our time." Frontier attitudes, a strong attachment to the land, and isolation have produced in Appalachia a backwoods culture which made its people susceptible to an outside exploitation of their resources that has perpetrated on them a passive society largely dependant on relief. But the times, says Mr. Caudill, are changing. A growing world population and global industrialization have created a drastically altered situation in eastern Kentucky. The area's resources of energy are essential to the progress and well-being not only of the nation but also of the world; and the world is prepared to court the favor of the people who control these resources and is prepared to pay the price demanded by those owners. Mr. Caudill makes an eloquent plea for Kentuckians to reclaim the resources that lie in their mountains and to demand their fair share of the wealth generated by those resources. If they are willing to do this, the state and especially the people in eastern Kentucky can have a bright and prosperous future. But they can delay no longer. They must break the mold of passivity and take destiny into their own hands. An attorney in Whitesburg, Kentucky, Harry M. Caudill is the author of such well-known books as Night Comes to the Cumberlands, Dark Hills to Westward, and My Land is Dying. The Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf is a celebration of two centuries of the history and culture of the Commonwealth.

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Appalachian Plateau
ISBN : 1548515329

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Night Comes to the Cumberlands, a Biography of a Depressed Area by Harry M. Caudill Pdf

Night Comes to the Cumberlands, A Biography of a Depressed Area by Harry M. Caudill, first published in 1963, is a rare manuscript, the original residing in one of the great libraries of the world. This book is a reproduction of that original, which has been scanned and cleaned by state-of-the-art publishing tools for better readability and enhanced appreciation. Restoration Editors' mission is to bring long out of print manuscripts back to life. Some smudges, annotations or unclear text may still exist, due to permanent damage to the original work. We believe the literary significance of the text justifies offering this reproduction, allowing a new generation to appreciate it.

Author : Harry M. Caudill
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Capitalists and financiers
ISBN : UCAL:B4395639

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Theirs be the Power by Harry M. Caudill Pdf

Author : Yogi Ramacharaka
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781616403317

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The Life Beyond Death by Yogi Ramacharaka Pdf

Followers of the early New Age movement known as New Thought, which was wildly popular at the turn of the 20th century, were intensely interested in gleaning the fruit of all of humanity s spiritual wisdom. Here, in this curious volume originally published in 1909, one of the most influential New Thought writers and editors introduces Western readers to Eastern thought on what, exactly, is on the other side of the river of death. From the geography of the astral plane to the soul-slumber that occurs after death, from communication with spirits to what lies beyond reincarnation, this is a fascinating look at the pop spirituality of a century ago.American writer WILLIAM WALKER ATKINSON (1862 1932) aka Theron Q. Dumont was born in Baltimore and had built up a successful law practice in Pennsylvania before professional burnout led him to the religious New Thought movement. He served as editor of the popular magazine New Thought from 1901 to 1905, and as editor of the journal Advanced Thought from 1916 to 1919. He authored dozens of New Thought books including Arcane Formula or Mental Alchemy and Vril, or Vital Magnetism under numerous pseudonyms, some of which are likely still unknown today.

Author : Alessandro Portelli
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199934850

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They Say in Harlan County by Alessandro Portelli Pdf

This book is a historical and cultural interpretation of a symbolic place in the United States, Harlan County, Kentucky, from pioneer times to the beginning of the third millennium, based on a painstaking and creative montage of more than 150 oral narratives and a wide array of secondary and archival matter.

Author : Jack E. Weller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813146508

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Yesterday's People by Jack E. Weller Pdf

The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided, but rarely has it been understood. Yesterday's People, the fruit of many years' labor in the mountains, reveals the fears, anxieties, and hopes that underlie the mountaineers' way of thinking and acting, and thereby shape their relationships in family and community. First published in 1965, this book has been an indispensable guide for all who seek to study, work or live within the Appalachian culture.

Author : Ronald D. Eller
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 0813125235

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Uneven Ground by Ronald D. Eller Pdf

The industrial expansion of the twentieth century brought with it a profound shift away from traditional agricultural modes and practices in the American South. The forces of economic modernity—specialization, mechanization, and improved efficiency—swept through southern farm communities, leaving significant upheaval in their wake. In an attempt to comprehend the complexities of the present and prepare for the uncertainties of the future, many southern farmers searched for order and meaning in their memories of the past. In Southern Farmers and Their Stories, Melissa Walker explores the ways in which a diverse array of farmers remember and recount the past. The book tells the story of the modernization of the South in the voices of those most affected by the decline of traditional ways of life and work. Walker analyzes the recurring patterns in their narratives of change and loss, filling in gaps left by more conventional political and economic histories of southern agriculture. Southern Farmers and Their Stories also highlights the tensions inherent in the relationship between history and memory. Walker employs the concept of “communities of memory” to describe the shared sense of the past among southern farmers. History and memory converge and shape one another in communities of memory through an ongoing process in which shared meanings emerge through an elaborate alchemy of recollection and interpretation. In her careful analysis of more than five hundred oral history narratives, Walker allows silenced voices to be heard and forgotten versions of the past to be reconsidered. Southern Farmers and Their Stories preserves the shared memories and meanings of southern agricultural communities not merely for their own sake but for the potential benefit of a region, a nation, and a world that has much to learn from the lessons of previous generations of agricultural providers.

Author : Fenton Johnson
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342566164

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Songs of the Soil by Fenton Johnson Pdf

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Author : John Spargo,George Louis Arner
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0530155435

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Elements of Socialism by John Spargo,George Louis Arner Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Mildred Lewis Rutherford
Publisher : Ironclad Pub
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Confederate States of America
ISBN : 0966245407

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Truths of History by Mildred Lewis Rutherford Pdf

Introductions by Mauriel P Joslyn and JH Segars. In today's society we are unaccustomed to writings as bold and direct as those penned by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851-1928). The surviving papers of this Georgia educator provide an interpretation of Civil War History that is rarely found in modern texts. "Truths of History," first published in 1920, is an extraordinary presentation of historical viewpoints held by Southerners, past and present. Also included in this reprint is "Wrongs of History Righted," a fiery lecture given by Rutherford in 1914 in Savannah. Miss "Millie" Rutherford's insight into the mindset of Southerners is both fascinating and provocative. Few scholars were more keenly aware of the heart, mind and soul of the Confederate soldier than was this national orator and Grand Historian of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.