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Answer at Once: Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938

Answer at Once: Letters of Mountain Families in Shenandoah National Park, 1934-1938

Powell, Katrina M.

Paperback

Fiction AnthologiesGeneral SociologyRegional: South

ISBN10: 0813934931
ISBN13: 9780813934938
Publisher: Univ Of Virginia Pr
Published: Mar 29 2013
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

With the Commonwealth of Virginia's Public Park Condemnation Act of 1928, the state surveyed for and acquired three thousand tracts of land that would become Shenandoah National Park. The Commonwealth condemned the homes of five hundred families so that their land could be donated to the federal government and placed under the auspices of the National Park Service. Prompted by the condemnation of their land, the residents began writing letters to National Park and other government officials to negotiate their rights and to request various services, property, and harvests. Typically represented in the popular media as lawless, illiterate, and incompetent, these mountaineers prove themselves otherwise in this poignant collection of letters. The history told by the residents themselves both adds to and counters the story that is generally accepted about them.

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