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A Letter From Beahm
In August of 1929, a resident of the Thornton Hollow area, H.M. Cliser, wrote to the Secretary of the Interimprotesting the proposed condemnation Act.
"Will the U.S. Government Accept Resident Property from the State of Virginia for the Proposed Shenandoah National Park under Condemnation proceedings under the Condemnation Act I don’t feel that I will any thing like recieve for my Humble Home what it is worth to me.
I will greatly appreciate your reply.
Reply H.M. Cliser
Beahm, Va."
Mr. Cliser was one of many people who protested the loss of his home to no avail. But he had a plan to help some of the poor mountain people to join together in hiring a group lawyer to represent them. In a letter to the Page News and Courier, Mr. Cliser said. "The fundamental principles of our government are to protect those who can't protect themselves and to restrain the rich and strong from oppressing the poor and weak. . .”
Mr. Cliser’s public campaign did not work and he ended up losing his land on the edge of the park.
“J don't feel that I will any
thing like recieve for my
Humble home what it is
worth to me. ”
Fiddlin’ in the Mountains
Tommy Cornell made fiddles, in fact made a real nice fiddle for Sam Dwyer, Carson Johnson remembers. He made his fiddles out of spruce and white pine. “He had a workshop with an old pot-bellied stove," Johnson said. "In the attic, it was like a kiln, in summer from the sun. in winter. from the stove. There he'd lay his strips of spruce and white pine wood to season. Then he’d use his patterns to cut out a real nice fiddle.
"For strings, he’d buy metal ones or use catgut. People also make ukuleles and used rawhide strings."
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