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a job cutting corn or picking apples,” Mr. Estes continued. “No, no, they were not lazy.”
Mr. Estes said that mountain farmers worked their crops by hand. “They didn’t have tractors,” he said. “If they had a horse, they were lucky. Most of them used an ax, a broadax, a reaper and a cradle for farm tools.”
“I’ve seen them grow com in a field so rocky that they had to carry the dirt into the field to cover it,” he said.
Mr. Estes knew few incidents of violence: “Oh, there were some, among the moonshiners. They’d turn each other in and then get even. That was in some of the rougher hollows. I heard once where one moonshiner pushed another into the fire. ”
The women canned and dried peaches, apples, beans and cherries, worked in the gardens, and churned butter. They dressed like the flatlanders of the previous generation in long black dresses and bonnets with aprons. Many of them smoked pipes, and Mr. Estes believes they were fond of moonshine. They could ride sidesaddle even on rough ground, or they walked down the mountain to his father’s store, sometimes five paces behind their husband. As tourists appeared, they sold berries*and quilts.
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