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The Kinfolks Of Ann Cobb

The Kinfolks Of Ann Cobb Albert F. Stewart, Charlene Reynolds, Joan Bailey, Kim Watkins, Joan King, Richard Shelby Appalachian Heritage, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1973, pp. 5-9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1973.0036 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441929/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:21 GMT from JHU Libraries The Kinfolks Of Ann Cobb Ann Cobb, a young Wellesly College graduate came to the hills of eastern Kentucky in 1905 to visit the "Settlement School" recently established on the headwaters of remote Troublesome Creek in Knott County. The visit turned into a stay of more than fifty years. Miss Cobb remained to devote her life to the educational enrichment of the area. Although a versatile and memorable teacher, Ann Cobb may be more remembered finally for her dialect poems. She was an apt student of the dialect, customs, and traditions of the hill folk. The "folkses" of the Settlement became her immediate family and those of the larger community became her outlying kinfolks. She was child-like in her concentrated and deep interest in the "doings" about her; her sense of humor was genial and sparkling, and often as not was directed toward herself. She bore the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Kinfolks Of Ann Cobb

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Appalachian Review , Volume 1 (1) – Jan 8, 2014
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Albert F. Stewart, Charlene Reynolds, Joan Bailey, Kim Watkins, Joan King, Richard Shelby Appalachian Heritage, Volume 1, Number 1, Winter 1973, pp. 5-9 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1973.0036 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/441929/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:21 GMT from JHU Libraries The Kinfolks Of Ann Cobb Ann Cobb, a young Wellesly College graduate came to the hills of eastern Kentucky in 1905 to visit the "Settlement School" recently established on the headwaters of remote Troublesome Creek in Knott County. The visit turned into a stay of more than fifty years. Miss Cobb remained to devote her life to the educational enrichment of the area. Although a versatile and memorable teacher, Ann Cobb may be more remembered finally for her dialect poems. She was an apt student of the dialect, customs, and traditions of the hill folk. The "folkses" of the Settlement became her immediate family and those of the larger community became her outlying kinfolks. She was child-like in her concentrated and deep interest in the "doings" about her; her sense of humor was genial and sparkling, and often as not was directed toward herself. She bore the

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