Essay On Pre Modern Appalachia
Tammi Sweet
Appalachian Studies
March 8, 2011
Pre Modern Appalachia I read a little history for Pre modern Appalachia and learned that from 1770 to 1820 pre modern Appalachian Mountains was settled primarily by people with Scottish roots. They were mostly from Scotland and Northern Ireland. They engaged in a “kitchen garden” economy (Gary Farley). This basically just means they made the land their own and lived strictly off of the land. People during this time were more interested in living day to day and didn’t worry about becoming anything more than they were at the time. Pre modern Appalachian people had a lot of traditional values that are still alive and well today. Some of them include personal relationships and trust, family and community over self; family works together; task –oriented work, no boss; home-centered rituals of life; local-centered life, importance of place; and rural life (Glenna Graves). These things and many more were important to the Appalachian people. Religion at this time or among these people was not a common thing. These people practiced and lived a Celtic culture. They were not use to churches or religions like the ones practiced in this region. The Celtic …show more content…
They did the cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children but they also took care of the farm animals and helped their husbands take care of the land as well as farming beside them. By the 1900s, only men could work in the coal mines (http://appvoices.org/2011/02/04/intro/). Women were also known for keeping violence down. Even though they really didn’t have a voice among the men they were able to calm down a heated argument. Women were not very outspoken in early Appalachian history. They did not have as many rights as men. They were not normally educated. Later in the 1900’s more women left rural Appalachia to become educated. A lot of them became nurses and
Appalachian Studies
March 8, 2011
Pre Modern Appalachia I read a little history for Pre modern Appalachia and learned that from 1770 to 1820 pre modern Appalachian Mountains was settled primarily by people with Scottish roots. They were mostly from Scotland and Northern Ireland. They engaged in a “kitchen garden” economy (Gary Farley). This basically just means they made the land their own and lived strictly off of the land. People during this time were more interested in living day to day and didn’t worry about becoming anything more than they were at the time. Pre modern Appalachian people had a lot of traditional values that are still alive and well today. Some of them include personal relationships and trust, family and community over self; family works together; task –oriented work, no boss; home-centered rituals of life; local-centered life, importance of place; and rural life (Glenna Graves). These things and many more were important to the Appalachian people. Religion at this time or among these people was not a common thing. These people practiced and lived a Celtic culture. They were not use to churches or religions like the ones practiced in this region. The Celtic …show more content…
They did the cooking, cleaning, taking care of the children but they also took care of the farm animals and helped their husbands take care of the land as well as farming beside them. By the 1900s, only men could work in the coal mines (http://appvoices.org/2011/02/04/intro/). Women were also known for keeping violence down. Even though they really didn’t have a voice among the men they were able to calm down a heated argument. Women were not very outspoken in early Appalachian history. They did not have as many rights as men. They were not normally educated. Later in the 1900’s more women left rural Appalachia to become educated. A lot of them became nurses and