Appalachian travels
Subtitle: the diary of Olive Dame Campbell
By: edited by Elizabeth McCutchen Williams
Contributors: Williams, Elizabeth McCutchen
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lexington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780813136448; 9780813136684; 9780813139920
Subjects: Social life and customs; Description and travel; Diaries; Appalachians (People); Travel; Economic conditions; Social conditions; Mountain life; History
Description: In 1908 and 1909, noted social reformer and ""songcatcher"" Olive Dame Campbell traveled with her husband, John C. Campbell, through the Southern Highlands region of Appalachia to survey the social and economic conditions in mountain communities. Throughout the journey, Olive kept a detailed diary offering a vivid, entertaining, and personal account of the places the couple visited, the people they met, and the mountain cultures they encountered.Although John C. Campbell's book, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region...
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: October 1908 : Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina, Georgia; title: November 1908 : Tennessee and Kentucky; title: December 1908 : Kentucky; title: January 1909 : Kentucky and Tennessee; title: February 1909 : Tennessee; title: March 1909 : North Carolina; title: Appendix: Publications by Olive Dame Campbell; title: Glossary.