Appalachian farming life
Subtitle: memories and perspectives on family farming in Virginia's New River Valley
By: Mary B. LaLone, Peg Wimmer, and Reva K. Spence, editors ; contributing researcher-writers, Tiffany P. Beaver ... [et al.] ; with a foreword by Robert D. Holland II.
Contributors: La Lone, Mary B., 1950-; Wimmer, Peg.; Spence, Reva K.; Radford University. Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology.
Publisher: Brightside Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Radford, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
Subjects: Farmers -- Virginia -- Montgomery County -- Interviews.; Farmers -- New River Valley (N.C.-W. Va.) -- Interviews.; Farm life -- Virginia -- Montgomery County -- History -- Sources.; Farm life -- New River Valley (N.C.-W. Va.) -- History -- Sources.; Agriculture -- Virginia -- Montgomery County -- History -- Sources.; Agriculture -- New River Valley (N.C.-W. Va.) -- History -- Sources.
Genres: Interviews.; Sources.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 421-425).
Consists of excerpts from oral history interviews conducted January-December 2002 by a student research team in the Radford University Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, under the guidance of Mary LaLone, and an overview of farm life in the New River Valley written by the research team.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. An ethnographic view of farming life; title: pt. 2. Excerpts from the oral history interviews on farming life.