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dren went to school regularly which makes a difference— and the children teach the parents what they learn.”
Sometimes the resettled families competed with each other in home furnishings: “They had linoleum on the floors, no one had rugs. They were called linoleum rugs. Sometimes they would call it a drug—it.” Sometimes one family got two drug—its, and then that would cause problems.
“Most of them had to use all the rooms for bedrooms, except the kitchen,” Mrs. Housh said. “Some people expected the mountain people to be dirty, but the homes I visited were always neat, and the people were always kind and offered me apples and butter.”
“Some of them would sweep yards—that’s an old custom—to have a dirt yard, but sweep it.”
‘The people had been so poor, and their furniture in the mountains was built-in, or there wasn’t any. So the government furnished the homes—not with much, just beds, dressers, a table and chairs. And I learned something. They had had a different life, but it was just an accident of their birth. They were smart, hard-working, some good and some bad, just like townspeople. Some looked down on them, but I saw them a lot and knew better. People are people.”
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