Disappearing Appalachia in Tennessee: A Picture of a Vanished Land and Its People

by Arcadia Publishing

Overview

Stepping through time to past and present communities, settled in deep hollows and surrounded by ridges and mountains in Tennessee's Appalachia, is to confront a different and disappearing realm. Travel along Hogskin and Richland Valleys. Visit Frenches Mill and Dulaney General Store while passing cantilever barns, one-room school buildings and steepled churches. Listen as octogenarians Robert, Charles, Glenn and others explain life without electricity. Former Cades Cove residents Lois and Inez tell stories of living in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park before it was a national park. Authors Fred Brown, retired journalist, and Harry Moore, retired geologist, explore Tennessee's Appalachian region, recalling its culture, land and people before it vanishes into the abyss of time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467149433
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	05/03/2021
Pages:	240
Sales rank:	682,859
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Fred Brown was a working journalist for more than forty-five years. He reported on a wide variety of assignments that took him to endzones as a sportswriter, to editing a small-town daily in Arkansas, to war zones as an embedded reporter on general assignment and finally as a senior writer penning regional history and features. Brown is a member of the Scripps Howard Hall of Fame, recipient of the Tennessee Associated Press Managing Editors Malcolm Law Trophy for Feature Writing, received a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Michigan (1983-84) and was named to the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame for excellence in journalism in 2008. Harry Moore is a retired geologist from the Tennessee Department of Transportation (Knoxville) and, more recently, Golder Associates (Atlanta), where he worked a combined forty-seven years studying the geology of East Tennessee and surrounding regions. As an engineering geologist, he has been involved in the planning, design, construction and maintenance of East Tennessee's road system since 1972. His experience with landslides, rock falls, caves and sinkhole-related highway issues are known nationwide. He has penned numerous technical papers and made abundant presentations on not only highway engineering geology but also the region's geology. He has received the national Highway Geology Symposium Medallion Award for his contributions to the practice of highway engineering geology.

Table of Contents

Preface 9

Acknowledgements 19

Introduction 21

Part I Beginnings

1 A Beautiful and Ancient Land 33

2 Mountain Folks 47

3 Appalachian Language 70

Part II A People and the Land

4 Robert Nicley 83

5 David Mitchell 90

6 Charlie Gavin 96

7 Billy Lay 102

8 The Casket Shop 108

9 Ben, the Adventurer 111

10 Paul Richardson 114

11 Daniel Jacobs 120

Part III Old Structures and Sundries

12 Appalachia Infrastructure 129

13 Old Country Stores 133

14 The Old Store 140

15 Joe Sheddan/Mt. Horeb General Store 144

16 Margaret Burkey, Dulaney General Store 149

17 Churches 152

18 Schoolhouses 157

Part IV Gravel Roads, Bridges, River Ferry Crossings and Old Cars

19 Gravel Roads 163

20 Old Bridges 167

21 River Ferries 173

22 Wilson Nance and Nance's Ferry 175

23 Old Cars 180

Part V Mills, Barns, Old Houses and Railroads

24 Mills 185

25 Barns 193

26 Houses 201

27 Railroads Forgotten 207

Part VI Appalachian Music

28 A Unique Sound 213

Part VII Epilogue

29 Final Thoughts 217

30 Sundries in Black and White 223

Bibliography 237

About the Authors 239