In the early 1940s; $10 bought a bus ticket from Appalachia to a better job and promise of prosperity in the flatlands of northeast Ohio. A mountaineer with a strong back and will to work could find a job within twenty-four hours of arrival.But the cost of a bus ticket was more than a week's wages in a lumber camp; and the mountaineer paid dearly in loss of kin; culture; homeplace; and freedom.Numerous scholarly works have addressed this migration that brought more than one million mountaineers to Ohio alone. But Mountain People in a Flat Land is the first popular history of Appalachian migration to one community — Ashtabula County; an industrial center in the fabled “best location in the nation.â€These migrants share their stories of life in Appalachia before coming north. There are tales of making moonshine; colorful family members; home remedies harvested from the wild; and life in coal company towns and lumber camps.The mountaineers explain why; despite the beauty of the mountains and the deep kinship roots; they had to leave Appalachia.Stories of their hardships; cultural clashes; assimilation; and ultimate successes in the flatland provide a moving look at an often stereotyped people.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Very well researched; informative; but repetitive.By Bentley S. DavisI have really enjoyed this book and learned a great deal about Curacao's history and the people who lived there. That being said; I feel like this was a series of academic papers strung together. While the book is very well researched with exhaustive notes; it is repetitive in places. Perhaps when the papers were compiled into a book; the redundancies were missed. But there have been several times were I feel I have read the same paragraph verbatim several pages ago. That being said; I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn more about the history of Curacao.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. excellent history of Dutch CuracaoBy hmf22This is a terrific book on the Dutch experience of the Caribbean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Aspects of it that I found particularly interesting include the discussions of the ubiquity of illegal trade and why this was so; the ties between Dutch Curacao and Spanish Venezuela; and the Sephardic Jewish community on Curacao. Curacao was essentially a port with a small agricultural hinterland; rather than a plantation colony; so it forms an interesting contrast to the better-known English and French plantation colonies in the Caribbean.
