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Blue Ridge Folklife (Paperback)
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In the years immediately preceding the founding of the American
nation the Blue Ridge region, which stretches through large
sections of Virginia and North Carolina and parts of surrounding
states along the Appalachian chain, was the American frontier. In
colonial times, it was settled by hardy, independent people from
several cultural backgrounds that did not fit with the
English-dominated society. The landless, the restless, and the
rootless followed Daniel Boone, the most famous of the settlers,
and pushed the frontier westward. The settlers who did not migrate
to new lands became geographically isolated and politically and
economically marginalized. Yet they created fulfilling lives for
themselves by forging effective and oftentimes sophisticated
folklife traditions, many of which endure in the region today. In
1772 the Blue Ridge was the site of the Watauga Association, often
cited as the first free and democratic non-native government on the
American continent. In 1780 Blue Ridge pioneers helped win the
Revolutionary War for the patriots by defeating Patrick Ferguson's
army of British loyalists at the Battle of Kings Mountain. When
gold was discovered in the southernmost section of the Blue Ridge,
America experienced its first gold rush and the subsequent tragic
displacement of the region's aboriginal people. Having been spared
by the coincidence of geology and topography from the more
environmentally damaging manifestations of industrialization, coal
mining, and dam building, the Blue Ridge region still harbors
scenic natural beauty as well as vestiges of the earliest cultures
of southern Appalachia. As it describes the most characteristic and
significant verbal, customary, and material traditions, this
fascinating, fact-filled book traces the historical development of
the region's distinct folklife. Ted Olson is a college instructor,
folklorist, freelance writer, and former Blue Ridge Parkway ranger.
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