It's the
same as
a hundred years ago all the pioneers pushed west
but here in these mountains some of them stayed to find the federal land.
To live well by accident government flags.
Now the land is no longer wretch the crop a smaller every year.
But the people remain hemmed in by the mountains cut off.
From the changing world outside a man who first broke the land painted cars today
Karna still lay on the crop the far side garden off the cornfield stop the
hillsides where once there were Hickory and Chestnut.
The men who lived off the far east are dead graves on the crest of the hill.
But the land remains
and the sons of the sons of the men who cleared it still plant the card from the
same old faded around of the years finds them lost in old ways their lives set in
old patterns and worn out grow new ideas are not easy to come by
when learning passes from mouth to mouth from father to son
and when me when you will make anything you want
and I'm only you want you to knwo
when I ought to make you want my money
and along with being then won't
and annoy the blood ruminating in a
home.
Like if you won't blow you know I right. Well I won't. When it was a year.
Well
I don't know soon.
Rather.
Oh true
now.
Kannan PROC CORR and prone to talk sausage
and talk gravy the hogs slaughtered in the pharmacy last I want to
hog provides the shortening for the con bread the meat for the sausage
and the grease for the gravy.
Often there isn't enough to eat never the right things to eat green vegetables
and milk the cow famine for teeth and bodes well vitamins to prevent records
and scar the weak bones from poor food poor food from Poland
kids growing up to the same years of hunger babies being born without a chance of
strong bodies. These are good people proud people.
Sons and Daughters a pioneer cousins of the people who built America.
This is the school twenty four children go to the school.
Some of them live a long way off
in the spring there is much in the winter.
There is no air
in this room the children learn to read to write
and to figure they use the same books
that all the other children in the state use the same books as the children use in
mining towns in mill towns
and great industrial centers some of them are good books
but they talk about another kind of work.
The books do not tell of how to rotate crops
and what makes balanced farming they do not name the way lessons can be applied to
the mountain people the children learn to call the word make seventeen.
This is not enough people live close to the. It's in the sky.
They know the call of every wild bird and rather best herbs grow.
They know the name of every tree
and where the Hornets have their nests they do not know what to do about their own
lack of food and clothing and shelter.
We
need action now
that it said Mr Curtis wanted a run at the great greatest factor
and to say if I yet found out tonight he can react
and I get it in there then I say that no matter have that I say
that back here can I get as I don't tax take a
young fat check I yet read your fast if Patsy yet say you
get the letter next Thank you.
The day he gets a chance give back some good investment.
I share and a basic thirty year fixed A S R X hourly thank goodness.
Thank you for the bet like she cared about that
but God he rocked it back especially Carl and I sat in that market.
Thank you can't get that year at Akpap Let's go to
that show it but yes
that right there must be correct.
Next year
and the children will study materials prepared in their own community to teach them
facts of silent moon along with reading
and writing in somehow
some way the old folks manage to get along with the children
must learn a new way.
The land is tired of Khan
but small parts of it can be enriched by raising vegetables
and children must
learn to raise go to the mill
and they must learn to read for in him too late now for the old one.
The children must learn. The.