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Skriven 2011-05-03 21:37:50 av Carol Shenkenberger (25399.cooks)
  Kommentar till text 10155 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: Re: spoon bread  was: catch up 1
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 >  >  CS> Mostly along the smokey mountains and along the blue ridge.  'Walton
 >  >  CS> Mountain' was about 25 miles from here I lived for a time (yes, it's
 >  >  CS> real place).
 > 
 >  CS> Smokies are in SC BTW but there's a chain or so that for all but a
 >  CS> geologist is the same along up through Virginia.  I read onece that a
 >  CS> very long time ago, they dwarfed Mount Everest but are now timeworn.
 > 
 > I remember that from school, ages ago...  I'd forgotten exactly where
 > the Smokies were, but I do know the Blue Ridge... and Appalachia...
 > Besides, my NC and SC ancestors were pretty much all coastal, too.  ;)
 > (That was another part of the same grandmother's heritage...)

Mine all mountainwards as in experience of where I've lived before joining
the military.  The people around you have more impact than the ancestors you
may have been born of so..

 >  > that way, too.  It's also interesting to me that both varieties came
 >  > from the same state, just different regions of it.  I'd have been less
 >  > surprised to have something like this happen from totally different
 >  > areas of the country, or different countries altogether...  :)
 > 
 >  CS> Well, they might as well be differnt countries in some aspects!  The
 >  CS> settlers were very different along those routes.  The smokies were the
 >  CS> earlier path west before they found easier ones and then folks stopped
 >  CS> traveling that way. Hence a bit of difference and you can see where
 >  CS> stuff dates back to an almost elizabethan england in spots there. (Not
 >  CS> really, she was too early but the backwards segmnts came that way then
 >  CS> got isolated a bit).
 > 
 > True, there were a lot of Scots that came shortly after the Jacobean
 > stuff... and many of them gravitated further inland into the mountains.
 > And there were some of the earlier settlers that went inland.  I have a
 > very interesting book called _Albion's_Seed_ by David Hackett Fischer
 > that talks about the four different folkways of British settlers into
 > America [East Anglia to Massachusetts (Puritans 1629-41), South of
 > England to Virginia (Distressed Cavaliers and indentured servants
 > 1642-75), North Midlands to the Delaware (Quakers 1675-1725), and

Probably many of my area were that distressed cavaliers joined later by
scotts?

 > Borderlands to the Backcountry (Scots-Irish/North Britain 1717-1775)].
 > He describes distinctive customs in 24 different areas of life that
 > characterize each different set of people and shows how they simply
 > brought their old ways of life with them as they migrated, everything
 > from speech patterns to songs to attitudes to FOOD ([g]).  I just pulled
 > it down off the shelf to make sure I got the different groups right...
 > it's a wonderful thick book (900 pages) which I read from cover to cover
 > back when I got it nearly twenty years ago...  :)  It was doubly
 > fascinating to me since I have some ancestry in each of the different
 > folkways...  And as you say, the last group ended up with some major
 > pockets of isolation that preserved more of the original group's ways.

Yes.  Smokies are like that.

 
 >  CS> Hooger river is a real place.  It's about 45 mins drive from Seneca
 >  CS> SC.
 > 
 > Next you'll be telling us that the Waltons were your next-door
 > neighbors...  ;>

Hehe go google a map.  I doubt it moved away.  It ws west and perhaps a bit
north of Seneca SC.  As to the Waltons, they were up north of
Charlottesville, little town at the foot of that range.  Had a post office
and nothing else of a town.  If you recall in the show, John-boy came down to
Charlottesville for college.

Now that name of that town?  Humm, I wanna call it 'Easly' but I seem to
recall that was a sizable place and that one isnt.
         xxcarol
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