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Harry M. Claudill
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Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
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published
2014
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2 editions
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“As the more intelligent and ambitious people moved out of the plateau the percentage of mental defectives relative to the total population rose sharply. Their low intelligence added to their employment woes, but their votes were as potent as those of the wealthiest merchants in the county seats. The doctors and Welfare workers were sympathetic to them—and it is difficult for one to be otherwise. When a man and his wife are unemployed and unemployable, public assistance is the only alternative to cold and starvation and they inevitably wind up on the relief rolls.”
― Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
― Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
“The migration into the virgin Kentucky mountain wilderness continued at a steady pace for about twenty-five years after 1787. Steadily, the fresh valleys filled with people until about 1812, when the flow of newcomers began to decline. At that time the country was by no means filled with people, in any modern sense of the word; but over most of the region the backwoodsman could find neighbors within five or ten miles of his cabin. Though the influx from the east diminished, it did not cease, but continued sporadically until about 1830. By that year all the parent stock of the basic population had arrived, and few settlers came into the region after that date.”
― Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
― Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
“In the forty-five years since “the War” the public schools had slowly but steadily multiplied. Most communities had a log schoolhouse within “walking distance of the scholars” (this phrase was applied to an area within a radius of four or five miles). Though statutes required all children to attend school for at least eight years, few bothered to do so and it is doubtful whether more than half the children had ever darkened a schoolhouse door. The school term continued to be three or four months; many of the teachers were coarse near-illiterates who sought to instill knowledge into the child’s head by constant application of a stick to his back.”
― Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
― Night Comes To The Cumberlands: A Biography Of A Depressed Area
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