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Chestnut oak bark brought $8 a cord, locust posts brought 10 cents each, and water from Morris Spring brought 25 cents a pint.
Compassion and respect for the mountain people was most evident in the writings of the very people there to evict them. The rangers did what they could to explain the situation and to ease the pain of transition. In the years before the final exodus, many concerned people made their way up the mountain, prompted mainly by a sense of sadness and sympathy for these proud and independent families whose way of life was doomed. Mountain neighbors
One of these, Elizabeth J. Winn, was an extraordinary woman who founded “Mountain Neighbors,” a crafts collective similar to those existing now in West Virginia. Her idea was to revive some of the older mountain crafts for the women to make for sale.
“As recently as 40 years ago,” Ms. Winn said, “the mountain women practiced many skilled handicrafts and were good at them. They wove all the cloth used by their families and were extremely skillful in the making of dyes from native plants ...”
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