The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1914-05-08
(ey Albert eueIl.)
(Reproduoed from Travel Magazine
for July, 1918, by courtesy Of Nc
Bride, Mast q Co, Publishers.)

Tor July, 1918, by courtesy ot NC
Bride, Mast q Co., Publishers.
Tha mono,onv NJ oiyilization has
,,aao s,ch irroads ppon The American
noonle that few places remain To us
s,,har. iIfa heInp different nppenrs 10
no romantic Two places there are,
ho,ever wehre within easy reach
from Nexy York Won can step utterly
AM m today and come In contact with
! l,fe ,hat hna no, changed these hum
dred venrs and with communities
,yhere ain nerststs the pure blooded
An.Io. "a Won nracttcaIIy unmixed with
o,her racea often has a been said
tha, we. as n people. are no longer
.Lri, ~ n,,r Itngiish ancestors but be-
cop,. another and n oosmopolitan ma
,,on hacause the blood of other races
comea with each generation TO flow
,,or. ana moro within our veins. But
an the eastern shore of MARYLAND.
,,,h.r. ~. railroads haye NOT reached
,ha se,,Iemen,s bac, along the deeply
trdanted shores OF the Nanticoke and
the Choptank and IN the mountain
counties az eastern Kentucky. the An
90 On xon fiescendanta of Anglo saxon
foybeara attn live In the simplicity OF
,h.Ir ~ a,her,. marr,age has heenamong
,h.,,,aetvea ana Immigration has pass-
"a ,h.m bv gs no unusual thing
for men ~ be living today upon the
hnmeataad lands their great grand
sa,h.ra claarad, md in tho main. the
roln, q, ,,,ew Tho attitnde toward ufe
and ,hc customa az thai life have
,hanged hnt little with tho wears. IL
e. therefore entireIy possible. II YOU
u,an, 10 lnow uhat American life was
l,ke In tho EIghteanth Centnry. To find
oul hv actnaI exnerienoe
Y rhesa folk ~ the Cbesapeake md
n,be, Y,o,ntaIns moi only keen the an
c,ant vava hut ,beir verv sneech is nm
narIv E,ngi,ah that 90 snol,en nowhere
ei.a IN America and nerhans heard but
rarely oven In E,ngland itself Mixed
,,,,,h ,ha ianouago of evarv dav nre
u,orda aud idioms ~ sbnkespeare's
,,n,a ana tba, barL hack even Ia
(,haucer
Tho sottIonents 4, Tho East repre.
aent n higher social NE Here are old
,,,onors IN stately marks and n certain
for,n ana fashIon varv chnrming IN its
Ola UorId s,,ggos,Ion Tho settianenta
N ,ba n,nnntains tct another atory
hA lima fIan hn atsitI nj n
I,a.,or Shore ,yere ,lreadv living q
i,so ~ connarativa case md ~ n Ger
,o,n Inxrrv Inc lony lIne 81 ,niyra ation
,,,a. ho,ns nnshed . acrnss Tho AnnaIa-
rhair range. II yns n hard road ana
n iong road tbat led onward across
these Kentucltv s,mmits Along the
uav ma less ee,cient ones would ono
bv ona dron out. = broken axle 4 sicls
anna d,aco,,ro roeor,ont--alI claimed tha
naaser.hv nnd where the travellers
nausea ibera thev staved tho moro
fortnnate nusbed On down into the
,,Iatn ana haca,,o tho or,stocrac,, ~
INC pIno Grass r.gion Those vino
i,nsorad an tho h,lis hocome tho an
oas,ors ~ ,ha Kontnc,,v rno,,ntainoars
az tho same IcnpIIsh hiood win n
,,,o aairstad % ,ha sa,na traditin,s
ana run,sng hack 10 tho sone ner,od
ltho Eastarn Kontncl,ians and thS
Eos,orn sboro man have much yot ,,,
Xln,non RI, thoro 10 ,his d,sreronoa.
Aiong tho sChosanoai,a iifo 10 s,,,,n,a
tndnlent ana hann,,. IN ,ho ,no,,ntaJns
q 10 s,mnIa strenno,s md hard. hnt
a. hoth nIaces e. is ,ha l,,a -, anntha,
oanturv Iohn Eox pnnws thoso r,n,,n
al, noonla ha,tar ,har dnes anvano
else. ana he saws Of them: