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1 hen there was a new committee — one with Virginia government department heads. This committee, using the information from Ferdinand Zerkel’s little black book, formulated a plan to build 340 homes. There was a sense of urgency, as it was time to transfer the property to federal government.
The organizers asked for $460,000 for their project, expecting the funds from Federal Emergency Relief and from the Federal Subsistence Homesteads Corporation.
Looking back, it becomes clear that in spite of being studied over and again, the mountain dwellers were not understood very well by some of their well-meaning benefactors. The committee was correct in acknowledging that those who hadn’t made their own arrangements to leave by 1934 wrere either not going to, didn’t want to, or were unable to. They were correct in estimating that they would need outbuildings for cows, poultry, pigsty and privy.
The independence and the love of isolation was what the analysts missed; they assumed that these people, living alone or with a few
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