TAILIEUCHUNG - Blue Ridge Country

High mountain walls and bridgeless streams marooned the people of the Blue Ridge for centuries, shut them off from the outside world so that they lost step with the onward march of civilization. A forgotten people until yesterday, unlettered, content to wrest a meager living from the grudging soil, they built for themselves a nation within a nation. By their very isolation, they have preserved much of the best that is America. They have held safe and unchanged the simple beauty of the song of their fathers, the unsullied speech, the simple ideals and traditions, staunch religious faith, love of freedom, courage and fearlessness. Above. | Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas 1 Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas The Project Gutenberg EBook of Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Blue Ridge Country Author Jean Thomas Editor Erskine Caldwell Release Date May 10 2008 EBook 25413 Language English Character set encoding ISO-8859-1 Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas 2 START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BLUE RIDGE COUNTRY Produced by Mark C. Orton Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http AMERICAN FOLKWAYS EDITED BY ERSKINE CALDWELL BLUE RIDGE COUNTRY by JEAN THOMAS DUELL SLOAN PEARCE NEW YORK COPYRIGHT 1942 BY JEAN THOMAS All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To My Brother DOCTOR GEORGE G. BELL A once itinerant Tooth Dentist who became the first Republican county judge in more than a quarter of a century at the mouth of Big Sandy and whose unique sentences have become legendary throughout the Blue Ridge APPALACHIAN RITUAL Emerald nobility Reaching to the sky Makes the eye a ruler Fit to measure by. In the spring an ecstasy Lies upon the hills-- Purpling with new red-buds Ruffling colored frills. Make an early ritual For the mountain side Pine and beech are spectators White dogwood a bride. Give a pair of ivory birch For a wedding gift All the mountain side a church Where wild flowers sift Velvet carpet-petals down To the edge of hill and town Showing wild-grape fringes through Opal cloud-thrones dropped from blue. Now the summer like a queen Does her mountain home in green With a season for a bier Some old majesty lies here. Blue Ridge Country by Jean Thomas 3 Autumn gold is swift and fleet With a wing upon the feet Rushing toward

• Lịch sử - Văn hoá
• Jean Thomas
• THE LAND
• THE PEOPLE
• MOUNTAINEER
• VANISHING TRAIL
• FAMILY HONOR
• Chronicle of Jean
• Canada
• history
• thomas chapais
• The Great Intendant
• Khế ước xã hội
• Quyền lực nhà nước
• Triết học chính trị
• Tư tưởng Thomas Hobbes
• Tư tưởng chủ quyền nhân dân