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UArHiNt HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock News Staff .Writer
A half century ago, the hollows in the Blue Ridge were home to ruggedly independent mountain people. They were self-sufficient men and women, trapping, hunting and growing most of their food, doctoring their ills with herbal medicine, playing music on homemade banjos and guitars and spinning tall ta les for entertainment. They brewed moonshine and spiked their leisure time with a chug or two.
Those mountain folk are gone now, moved down to the flat lands when Shenandoah National Park was created. Their way of life has largely disappeared. Only bits and pieces are preserved by stories handed down to grandchildren and
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