Appalachian Mountain Girl

Appalachian Mountain Girl is a sensitive and beautifully written autobiographical account of a childhood in the coalmine district of Depression-era Kentucky. With humor and warmth—but without sentimentality—Rhoda Warren recounts the lives of these mining people whose religion and family values buttressed and sustained them. As a young girl, Rhoda began to catch glimpses of the world outside her narrow mountain community through the stories in True Confessions magazine and the pictures in the Montgomery Ward catalog—which to her seemed like “visions of a fairy world.” When Rhoda married and moved to a small town in New York State, it seemed that her dreams of a better life had been realized. Yet scenes of Letcher always “hovered in the back roads of her memory.” When she revisited her homeland, this time as a New Yorker, Rhoda found that Letcher was no longer the place of her memories.

"The Mountain Girl" by Payne Erskine follows David Thryng, the third son of a British family. Unwilling to marry into money without love, and unwilling to spill blood on the battlefield as a soldier, he decides to become a doctor. He travels to Canada to study, but when he becomes ill, his mentor sends him to recuperate at his cabin, perched high in the mountains of North Carolina. That's where the mystery of the Mountain Girl comes to find him.

"The Mountain Girl" is a novel written by the American author Payne Erskine. It was first published in 1909. The story is set in the Appalachian Mountains and revolves around the character of "Little Sister," a young mountain girl who lives a simple life in the rural, remote region. When she encounters a group of outsiders from the city, her world is transformed, and she is exposed to new experiences and challenges. The novel explores themes of culture clash, love, and the clash between traditional and modern ways of life. Payne Erskine was known for her works that often depicted life in the Appalachian region and portrayed the struggles and triumphs of the people who lived there. "The Mountain Girl" is one of her notable works, capturing the essence of rural mountain life and the complexities of human relationships.

Elizabeth's idyllic life in the Appalachian mountains hides family troubles. Relatives and community alike shun her mysterious uncle and she wants to know why. Can she forge a connection with Uncle John and can she do it in time?

The autobiography of Rhoda Bailey Warren, who grew up near the coal mines of Corbin Glow, Kentucky, where her father was a miner. Warren's family later moved to Letcher, Kentucky, and Warren herself eventually moved to New York State and married.

Growing up in the Appalachian Mountains of East Tennessee means many things. But for one girl, it means feeling secure by the mountains and its people and thinking you are forever protected from the rest of the world. There are many things you will never forget about living in the mountains. Come along and take a look through the eyes of a young girl as she reminisces of days gone by.

Most Americans know Appalachia through stereotyped images: moonshine and handicrafts, poverty and illiteracy, rugged terrain and isolated mountaineers. Historian David Hsiung maintains that in order to understand the origins of such stereotypes, we must look critically at their underlying concepts, especially those of isolation and community. Hsiung focuses on the mountainous area of upper East Tennessee, tracing this area's development from the first settlementin the eighteenth century to the eve of the Civil War. Through his examination, he identifies the different ways in which the region's inhabitants were connected to or separated from other peoples and places. Using an interdisciplinary framework, he analyzes geographical and sociocultural isolation from a number of perspectives, including transportation networks, changing economy, population movement, and topography. This provocative work will stimulate future studies of early Appalachia and serve as a model for the analysis of regional cultures.

Introduction: Dolly mythology -- "Backwoods Barbie": Dolly Parton's gender performance -- My Tennessee mountain home: early Parton and authenticity narratives -- Parton's crossover and film stardom: the "hillbilly Mae West"--Hungry again: reclaiming country authenticity narratives -- "Digital Dolly" and new media fandoms -- Conclusion: brand evolution and Dollywood