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All in This Together

All in This Together Bo Ball Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2004, pp. 57-63 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0004 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/431043/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 17:43 GMT from JHU Libraries MEMOIR Bo Ball "WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER." "A body can't hardly make it alone." I heard these allowings often as a child in the post-Depression, and although we didn't have the old-time corn-huskings or "poundings," enough communal "workings" survived to indicate that, indeed, we were not "in this alone." I actually attended a barn-building (1946), surely one of the last in Appalachia. A George Howard had moved from the wilds of Kentucky to the wilds of our southwestern Virginia. He brought with him his wife's twin sister—now his mate. He brought, too, tales of '"a hell hole called Kaintuck." He claimed he had to leave there because he'd killed two men. (His name was not George Howard, but he wouldn't tell his real one.) He, his common law, and their four children lived in a two-room shack at the head of our holler. A near-by sawmill had closed down, and George "gathered" enough lumber to build a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

All in This Together

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Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (4) – Jan 8, 2014
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Bo Ball Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 4, Fall 2004, pp. 57-63 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0004 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/431043/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 17:43 GMT from JHU Libraries MEMOIR Bo Ball "WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER." "A body can't hardly make it alone." I heard these allowings often as a child in the post-Depression, and although we didn't have the old-time corn-huskings or "poundings," enough communal "workings" survived to indicate that, indeed, we were not "in this alone." I actually attended a barn-building (1946), surely one of the last in Appalachia. A George Howard had moved from the wilds of Kentucky to the wilds of our southwestern Virginia. He brought with him his wife's twin sister—now his mate. He brought, too, tales of '"a hell hole called Kaintuck." He claimed he had to leave there because he'd killed two men. (His name was not George Howard, but he wouldn't tell his real one.) He, his common law, and their four children lived in a two-room shack at the head of our holler. A near-by sawmill had closed down, and George "gathered" enough lumber to build a

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