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eled. Baby births cos* more than an acre of land. Land prices ranged anywhere from a few cents to $1 an acre for steep, and $10 an acre for open, pasture land. The only phone service was through party lines with neighbors, so eavesdropping was a way of life.
This was an era when all of life’s activities revolved around the rhythm of the seasons. Tb everything there was a season, and the cycle of work on the farm never ended.
This is just a sampling of the keen observations made by Rayner V. Snead, in his book, “Hollow Boy— Remembrance of Life in the Gid Brown Hollow.” Judge Snead—as we now know him—was bom in 1918 and raised in the Gid Brown Hollow at the family home known as “Hillcrest,” a home that remains in the Snead family to this day.
Snead’s childhood in the hollow was an education in survival, where one learned first-hand how to live off the
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