The Appalachians: America's First and Last Frontier
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Editor: Mari-Lynn EvansEditor: Robert Santelli
Editor: Holly George-Warren
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2004-06-15
ISBN: 1400061865
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Random House
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Book Review: The beautiful south
Summary: 4 Stars
My parents are from that area. They moved up north when they were young to a large city. And I was born up there. They were simple, hard working people. They didn't drink and my mother read the Bible and prayed every night (BTW, I'm an agnostic and now a UU). My dad chose to move to my hometown because he was a machinist with only one leg. That was before the civil rights laws that protect the disabled and he never got over the fear of people finding out his disability.
I found this a wonderful book and made me homesick for a place that could have been my home.
Anyway, I have a love/hate relationship with the South. I hated being called a "hillbilly" and was often made fun of. Yet when I've gone down there, I feel a kinship with the land and the people (the ones who are not mean rednecks). I hide the fact that I'm just a generation away from being a Southerner from most people until I get to know them. I live far away from my hometown. My adult children know little about their background and I don't know if that is good or bad.
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