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Page 125
... Henry for purposes of preserving its anonymity . Henry consisted of a scattering of farms unconnected by roads , tucked into mountain folds in western North Carolina , at an outermost edge of what was to become the TVA region . In the ...
... Henry for purposes of preserving its anonymity . Henry consisted of a scattering of farms unconnected by roads , tucked into mountain folds in western North Carolina , at an outermost edge of what was to become the TVA region . In the ...
Page 126
... Henry arrived in their mountain pocket , they brought with them a rich economic heri- tage of products and skills : among them , spinning and weaving , loom construction , cabinetmaking , corn milling , house and water- mill ...
... Henry arrived in their mountain pocket , they brought with them a rich economic heri- tage of products and skills : among them , spinning and weaving , loom construction , cabinetmaking , corn milling , house and water- mill ...
Page 128
... Henry took to encroaching ever farther into the mountain for- ests with their deadenings , they were behaving as people of many bypassed subsistence cultures have behaved , and as many do today under the pressure to survive . People in ...
... Henry took to encroaching ever farther into the mountain for- ests with their deadenings , they were behaving as people of many bypassed subsistence cultures have behaved , and as many do today under the pressure to survive . People in ...
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