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".
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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