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ger family that was responsible for some of the community business.
"But it was hard for them to get used to—some of them kept coal in the bathtub," she said.
Mrs. Housh remembered a social crusader, a Mrs. Hughes from Washington, who learned about the plight of the mountain people and visited them. Finally, she moved into Flint Hill, into a resettlement home. She put in bunk beds—she was trying to live in a primitive way.
“She was shocked at the eating habits of the mountain people,” said Mrs. Housh. “She went to visit a family and they served mashed potatoes. Over the potatoes, they poured grease from fried salt pork. Often, that was the meat of the day.” Of course Mrs. Housh knew that many country people - rich and poor - ate this way.
But that meal convinced Mrs. Hughes that the resettled people needed some training in nutrition. She brought out a prominent food writer from Washington to teach them.
One thing the resettled people continued to do when they had transportation was to hunt for ginseng in the park, until the park authorities stopped them. But many of the people continued to think of the mountains as their home, years after the government had burned their houses.
Living in town caused anxiety in many families whose children were made fun of by classmates at school.
“They moved them closer to towns and it didn’t take them long to learn the ways of the town people. And the chil(t’ontinued
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