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our “bushwhacking” (hiking cross-country without benefit of a trail) we’d come across old roads and trails. It became a fascinating question: Who built these? Where did they go?
"We began to follow these to see where they went—and often would come upon walls and chimneys. Then it became an obsession to find out who used to live there. And so we started asking in the various nearby communities if anyone knew anything about the area. And on it went until finally, a story began to emerge, a story about a whole culture, whole communities, a whole way of life that has virtually passed from the scene." •
The Reeders claim that their book is only a start in uncovering the Blue Ridge subculture, that there is more history, folklore, and culture to be "recovered", as he calls it. They devote about six months of the year to hiking to sites, interviewing oldtimers. and checking out old maps and trails. (Climate prevents further fieldchecking.)
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