Word: appalachians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These experiences working with others outside her Appalachian home caused Daugherty to examine her own life more closely. "In Brazil, I was looking at my own past from the perspective of another country, in another rural setting," she remembers...
...Washington, Daugherty returned to Morris Harvey College to teach religion and women's studies, which she continued to do until coming to the Div School's program this year. The unique culture and lifestyle of rural West Virginia creates a special problem for Daugherty in her work, for Appalachian women do not fit easily into the mainstream of the American feminist movement. "The average rural woman doesn't even know the movement exists, and if she does it's usually greeted with suspicion and hostility," Daugherty says. She found few suitable teaching materials for her women's studies course...
...never "just a miner." He is a miner, a member of a proud breed, who wrenches riches from the bowels of the earth under conditions awesomely unforgiving of mistakes. The calling produces a fierce camaraderie, expressed through the union and rooted in the Anglo-Saxon heritage of the Appalachian mountaineer...
...then relates his quick rise through the minors into major league notoriety. Only die-hard baseball enthusiasts will appreciate this prolonged session of baseball gossip. In fact, such fans will not only appreciate it, they will relish it. The tales of Stubby Overmire, John "The Grod" Grodzinski, the Appalachian League, clubhouse follies--after all, what could be more enthralling...
THAT IS WHY, come Thanksgiving, all the runners will begin to return home from the Appalachian ghettoes of Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, and Detroit, from the Chevrolet assembly lines and the Goodyear rubber plants. They will pour out in their new cars, filled with their new children, to show off in front of family and old high school friends, to make the narrow mountain roads a bit more dangerous for a few days. Union Dues captures this spirit; Sayles knows, as they do, deep down, that they are interlopers almost anywhere except the hills. As for most of us, beneath their...