Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell

Appalachian Travels: The Diary of Olive Dame Campbell
ISBN-10
0813139929
ISBN-13
9780813139920
Category
History
Pages
318
Language
English
Published
2012-10-19
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Author
Olive Dame Campbell

Description

In 1908 and 1909, noted social reformer and "songcatcher" Olive Dame Campbell traveled with her husband, John C. Campbell, through the Southern Highlands region of Appalachia to survey the social and economic conditions in mountain communities. Throughout the journey, Olive kept a detailed diary offering a vivid, entertaining, and personal account of the places the couple visited, the people they met, and the mountain cultures they encountered. Although John C. Campbell's book, The Southern Highlander and His Homeland, is cited by nearly every scholar writing about the region, little has been published about the Campbells themselves and their role in the sociological, educational, and cultural history of Appalachia. In this critical edition, Elizabeth McCutchen Williams makes Olive's diary widely accessible to scholars and students for the first time. Appalachian Travels only offers an invaluable account of mountain society at the turn of the twentieth century.

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