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Author Feather, Carl E

Title Mountain people in a flat land : a popular history of Appalachian migration to northeast Ohio, 1940-1965 / Carl E. Feather
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 255 pages) : illustrations
Contents Foreword / Stuart D. Hobbs -- 1. The Best Location in the Nation: Ashtabula County and Appalachian Migration, 1900-1965 -- 2. Coal Miner's Daughter: West Virginia -- A Synonym for Hard Times -- 3. Strong Stock for Legends: The Ross Boggs Family in Ashtabula County -- 4. The Gillespie Beachhead: Harry and Ruby's Migrant Welcome Center -- 5. Nothin' but Hard Times: Novel Forinash: Thumbing to Ohio -- 6. Kin from Kedron: The Snyder Home -- 7. Ten Mile's Contributions: A Small West Virginia Crossroads -- 8. The Virginians: National Carbide: A Link for Virginia Migrant Workers -- 9. A Singin' Man's Family: Kentucky's Gift of Mountain Music -- 10. Death of a Mining Town: From Kempton, Maryland, to a New Life in Conneaut
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Appalachians (People) -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography
Appalachians (People) -- Ohio -- Ashtabula County -- Biography
Rural-urban migration -- Ohio -- Ashtabula County -- History -- 20th century
HISTORY -- State & Local.
HISTORY -- State & Local -- General.
Appalachians (People)
Rural-urban migration
Binnenlandse migratie.
United States Local History.
Regions & Countries - Americas.
History & Archaeology.
SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
Ohio -- Ashtabula County
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 97046493
ISBN 0821440381
9780821440384