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Updated: June 27, 2025
The cause does not matter, to a mountaineer. Our Highlanders are anything but robbers, for instance, and yet the only outsider who has ballads sung in his memory throughout Appalachia is Jesse James! unless Jack Donohue was one I do not know. Come all ye bold undaunted men And outlaws of the day, Who'd rather wear the ball and chain Than work in slavery!
By way of compensation the hillsmen sometimes insert a euphonic r where it has no business; just as many New Englanders say, "The idear of it!" Throughout Appalachia such words as last, past, advantage, are pronounced with the same vowel sound as is heard in man.
He sees his forests leveled and whisked away; his rivers dammed by concrete walls and shot into turbines that outpower all the horses in Appalachia. He is dazed by electric lights, nonplussed by speaking wires, awed by vast transfers of property, incensed by rude demands.
In New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and farther southwest the lowest strata of the next period, the Cretaceous, rest on the eroded edges of the earlier rocks. The surface on which they lie is worn so even that we must believe that at the opening of the Cretaceous the oldland of Appalachia, including the Triassic areas, had been baseleveled at least near the coast.
I have seen the worst as well as the best of Appalachia. There are "places on Sand Mountain" scores of them where unspeakable orgies prevail at times. But I know that between these two extremes the great mass of the mountain people are very like persons of similar station elsewhere, just human, with human frailties, only a little more honest, I think, in owning them.
The parallel is so close eighteenth century Britain and twentieth century Appalachia that here we walk the same paths with Alan and David, the Edinboro' law-sharks, Katriona and Lady Allardyce. The only difference of moment is that we have no aristocracy.
Considering the large amount of feldspathic material in these rocks, do you infer that they were derived from the adjacent crystalline and metamorphic rocks of the oldland of Appalachia, or from the sedimentary Paleozoic rocks which had been folded into mountains during the Appalachian deformation?
To what height the Devonian mountains of Appalachia attained cannot be told from the volume of the sediments wasted from them, for they may have risen but little faster than they were worn down by denudation. We may infer from the character of the waste which they furnished to the Chemung shores that they did not reach an Alpine height.
Our aim is not only to relieve the symptom of poverty, but to cure it and, above all, to prevent it. No single piece of legislation, however, is going to suffice. We will launch a special effort in the chronically distressed areas of Appalachia. We must expand our small but our successful area redevelopment program.
Our nation's prosperity has not yet reached these places. Over the last six months, I have traveled to many of them joined by many of you, and many far-sighted business people to shine a spotlight on the enormous potential in communities from Appalachia to the Mississippi Delta, from Watts to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.
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