[TSgt]

The mountain people made, grew, or gathered nearly everything they needed to survive. They were remarkably skilled at crafts and handwork of all kinds, making their own clothing, pottery, tools, and musical instruments, growing and gathering their own food, and constructing their own shelter. To the fullest extent possible, they lived in a world fashioned by their own hands.

God fearing self reliant people. An unfathomable concept in today's modern society. Becoming more technologically advanced has actually caused us to become more dependent and require more than we actually need to survive. God Bless Appalachia

[Boonie]

For a detailed and extremely accurate look into the lives of Appalachian mountainfolk, read the “Foxfire” series of books by Eliot Wiggington...They are centered on the folks of Rabun Co, GA, but it is exactly like the area where I grew up in the east Tennessee mountains...