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"They were strong on
honor, personal honor
and dignity."
Another unusual remedy involved a chicken. For snake bit, “you split open a chicken and put it over the bite. It would draw the poison out. But you tear it open. You tear it °l>en with your hands and while the chicken is still alive, and then put it on the snake bite. The carcass would turn greenlike.”
In addition to the humor of old timey folk medicine. Mrs. Estes remembers the sorrows of watching the mountain families leave what became Shenandoah National park. “Some sort of fell to pieces. They couldn't manage out here like that. But then the next generation did."
That first generation of mountain people. “I think they felt naked, she continued. “There were no trees around and everything was all out and just too wide open. They just didn’t like that. They missed the mountains. 1 think they missed them terribly.”
“It tore their hearts
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