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dried apples and beans, at least ten gallons of kraut, potatoes, pumpkins and cabbage stored for winter use. They have a hog to kill for their winter meat, a few chickens, and a cow.”
The first park superintendent, R. Taylor Hoskins, recalled many of the people he came to know personally in a 1969 interview:
“The people were diverse in background, in character, in degree of prosperity or poverty. Lewis Willis was college-educated and was prosperous in his prime. Hunter Dodson as a boy helped plant com near Old Rag Mountain, not in fields or patches or rows but in tiny hills among the rocks wherever pockets of soil could be found — as Indians often did long before.
“Two members of the Barbee family, with its home a short distance east of Thornton Gap, had become capable sculptors, one with an international reputation. Charlie Smith lived within walking distance of Skyland and kept pigs and chickens with him in his cabin; his father came here during the Civil War, fathered him, and then left.”
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