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...Daniel Pierce Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina . By Kathryn Newfont . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 2012 . 400 pp., $26.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4125-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2014 2014 2014...

...Sara M. Gregg Abstract The small upcountry farms of Southern Appalachia were slowly fading away during the early twentieth century, but pockets of self-sufficient farms remained in places like the northern Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. These farmers, responsive to the constraints...

...Steve Longenecker The Old German Baptist Brethren: Faith, Farming, and Change in the Virginia Blue Ridge . Charles D. Thompson Jr. . Copyright 2008 Agricultural History Society 2008 Agricultural History Winter merely adding a forty-page introduction does not justify the purchase...

...figure 1. Warning of contaminated soil. Blue Ridge Parkway, Watauga County, North Carolina. Author's photo, 2017. ...

... of Black Hills Alliance, interview by author, Stillwater, Min¬ nesota, 10 August 1997 33 Ellison interview; Madonna Thunder Hawk of the Black Hills Alliance, an Oglala Lakota, interview by author, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 26 June 1999. 34 Marvin Kammerer of the Black Hills Alliance, a rancher...

.... Lemmon , “Last Buffalo Hunt of the Pine Ridge Indians,” Belle Fourche Bee , Aug. 26 , 1932 . 16. Lemmon , “First Arrival,” Lemmon Papers ; Lemmon , “My First Arrival on the Cheyenne River” ; Lee and Williams , Last Grass Frontier , 75 ; US Office of Indian Affairs...

..., 1800-1900. Edited by Kenneth E. Koons and Warren R. Hofstra. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2000. 314 pp., $48.00, hardback, ISBN 1-57233-072-4. Kenneth Koons and Warren Hofstra have brought together an impres- sive array of scholars to examine Virginia's Great Valley between the Blue Ridge...

... projects using radioisotopes, and they dedicated facilities in Beltsville, Maryland, to producing fertilizers tagged with radioactive phosphorus from Oak Ridge National Laboratory. 16 Although President Eisenhower did not offer specifics in his 1953 speech, scientists around the world were excited...

..., the Ridge and Valley, and the Blue Ridge Mountains that extend southward from the New River. Like all choices, this one has consequences. ...

... in the shadows of press attention. Heidi Dodson University of Illinois Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North Carolina. By Kathryn Newfont. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012. 400 pp., $26.95, paperback, ISBN 978-0-8203-4125-5. Kathryn Newfont has a two-fold purpose...

... the region, resulting in conflicting boundaries. After a brief discussion of how each of these different choices alters the delineation of Appalachia, Davis opts for geography, defining southern Appalachia as those parts of the Cumberland Plateau, the Ridge and Valley, and the Blue Ridge Mountains...

....14 The location of the pre-Acadian ranches between the Teche Ridge and the bluff reveals how their herding ecology contrasted with later ranches established on the higher prairie lands west of the bluff (Figure 4). Bayou Teche created both the bluff and the Teche Ridge between thirty-five hundred...

... students and established scholars to present new material that pushes the boundaries of agricultural, rural, and environmental history. Kathryn Newfont, chair of the Regional Studies Department at Mars Hill College and author of Blue Ridge Commons: Environmental Activism and Forest History in Western North...

... to have itsnameofficiallychangedto Pine Ridge, thenameofthefictionaslettingforLum & Abner,a show,RandalHall tells us,thatdidmoreto celebratesouthernmountainlife,culturea,nd language thandidanyothernationalradioprogramT.he affectionfortheprogram's...

... IndependenStcholar Lum & Abner:RuralAmericaand theGoldenAge of Radio. By Randal L. Hall. Lexington:Universityof KentuckyPress,2007. 280 pp40.00, hardback,ISBN 978-0-8131-2469-8. In 1936thetinyhamletofWatersA, rkansass,uccessfullpyetitionedthegovernmentin LittleRock to have itsnameofficiallychangedto Pine Ridge...

...? The coastal plain was built from an earlier mountain range atop the Piedmont, and its ridges are composed of the most resistant, sand-sized materials. Most Piedmont soils have kaolinite clay subsoil, but natural erosion moved the fine silts and clays to lower slopes and carried clays deeper into the soil...

... History Society 2025 Diane Flynt's book is a celebration of heirloom apples. Part memoir and part history, Flynt draws on her own experience as an orchardist and cider maker to place southern apples in a historic context. When Flynt opened Foggy Ridge Ciders in 1997, many of the historic cider apples...

... regional studies. Mississippi may have a stereotyped national reputation, but the state in reality consisted of sharply contrasting sections. In the case of the YazooMississippi Delta, the antebellum plantation legacy was limited to the areas adjacent to the Mississippi River or the inland ridges...

... in 1898, the Rapid City School drew its students primarily from the Rosebud, Pine Ridge, and Cheyenne River reservations. By utilizing oral histories, newspaper articles, and school and reservation records, Riney addresses a series of issues: Why did students attend the Rapid City Indian School, how well...