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The Shenandoah National Park Association announces the publication of a third book in its cultural history series: “In the Shadow of Ragged Mountain: Historical Archaeology of Nicholson, Corbin, & Weakley Hollows” by Audrey Horning.
Horning,, an archaeologist who teaches at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, worked nine years at old homesites and in various archives to uncover the stories of the families who once lived in the three named hollows in Madison County in what is now Shenandoah National Park.
She also studied oral interviews given by the mountain people since the park’s establishment in 1935, and she met and talked with some of their descendants.
Newspaper articles and studies of the 1930s tended to stereotype the people who once lived in these hollows. As a result, they have often been perceived as “mountain hillbillies” who were “cut off from the civilized world.” Horning here presents a truer story, a story based on actual evidence from her sources, a story fuller and more balanced. She has thoroughly documented her presentation in a complete list of sources in the Endnotes.
The book features hundreds of people, with a full index for easy reference and two genealogical charts. The history starts with the centuries-long activities of American Indians in the Blue Ridge Mountains, but moves quickly to the history of European land grants in the mid-17th century and then to the initial exploration of and settlements in the mountain area.
The focus is primarily on
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