Download or read book Agriculture and Poverty in the Kentucky Mountains written by Dwight B. Billings and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture and Poverty in the Kentucky Mountains written by Dwight B. Billings and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Road to Poverty written by Dwight B. Billings and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-28 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Blee and Dwight Billings examine the social dynamics of persistently poor rural communities through the history of Clay County, an especially po or section of the Eastern Kentucky mountains in Appalachia. This book makes an important contribution to basic research on inequality pointing to the shortcomings of treating symptomatic problems of low income, while failing to address systemic ones at a time when American policymakers are struggling to design and implement effective programs to move people from welfare to work.
Download or read book Once Upon A Place written by Kenneth D. Tunnell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the globe, something is amiss. Even pedestrian observation recognizes that rural communities and small towns are fundamentally changing. Local economies, generations-old cultures, and ingrained ways of life are being severely altered. Within the United States, these changes are symbiotically tied to the demise of the family farm. The decline in family farming and -- the so-called “development” of the country-side -- race along unimpeded and, in fact, are aided by public officials and their policies. With these two great and fundamental changes – the downturn in family farming and the general paving of paradise – locally owned and operated small businesses are dying as big-box retailers come to dominate local economies. The “Wal-Marting of rural America” alters the economic and cultural landscape of rural communities and small towns. People are leaving their homes where their families have lived for generations. The exodus of residents, for example, from the Kansas plains and the Ohio Valley is tied to these forces of late modernity. The result: once-quaint hamlets are becoming vastly different places than of only a generation ago. Some of those places simply no longer exist. Living in central Kentucky and as a rural dweller, my community and I likewise are not immune as we are confronted with vast changes. I contemplate their affect on my life, my family, and our shared anxiety about what may come and what might have been. Over the past few years I have set out to document these fundamental shifts within rural Kentucky. I have paid visual attention to the downturn in family farming and to the closing of local businesses, schools, post offices, and churches; to local governments’ difficulties at providing infra-structural resources to financially strapped counties; to the aggressive influx of big-box retail chains; to the decaying, abandoned, and forgotten symbols of community awash in change; to the near absence of “civic community” among some public officials in rural villages and small towns; and to indications of subsequent social disorganization played out as myriad social problems that over- run ill-equipped communities. My observations of these unprecedented events within Kentucky, one of our country’s most rural and poorest states, are described within these pages. Readers will see too the many photographs that I have composed as I have made my rounds, camera in hand, to record geographical and cultural features of rural life in the throes of late modernity. My observations and writing are intended for both popular and scholarly audiences. Readers will soon learn that I take guidance from academic sociology. I have spent my adult life writing and teaching in sociology. Across this book, the fields of visual, rural and criminological sociology – particularly that specific to communities – guide the descriptive and theoretical analyses. My hope is that the prose is easily accessible.
Download or read book The Farm Family in a Kentucky Mountain Neighborhood written by James Stephen Brown and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Appalachia in the Making written by Mary Beth Pudup and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Appalachia first entered the American consciousness as a distinct region in the decades following the Civil War. The place and its people have long been seen as backwards and 'other' because of their perceived geographical, social, and economic isolation. These essays, by fourteen eminent historians and social scientists, illuminate important dimensions of early social life in diverse sections of the Appalachian mountains. The contributors seek to place the study of Appalachia within the context of comparative regional studies of the United States, maintaining that processes and patterns thought to make the region exceptional were not necessarily unique to the mountain South. The contributors are Mary K. Anglin, Alan Banks, Dwight B. Billings, Kathleen M. Blee, Wilma A. Dunaway, John R. Finger, John C. Inscoe, Ronald L. Lewis, Ralph Mann, Gordon B. McKinney, Mary Beth Pudup, Paul Salstrom, Altina L. Waller, and John Alexander Williams
Download or read book Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms 1920 1950 written by John van Willigen and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The foods Kentuckians love to eat today—biscuits and gravy, country ham and eggs, soup beans and cornbread, fried chicken and shucky beans, and fried apple pie and boiled custard—all were staples on the Kentucky family farms in the early twentieth century. Each of these dishes has evolved as part of the farming lifestyle of a particular time and place, utilizing available ingredients and complementing busy daily schedules. Though the way of life associated with these farms in the first half of the twentieth century has mostly disappeared, the foodways have become a key part of Kentucky's cultural identity. In Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920–1950, John van Willigen and Anne van Willigen examine the foodways—the practices, knowledge, and traditions found in a community regarding the planting, preparation, consumption, and preservation—of Kentucky family farms in the first half of the last century. This was an era marked by significant changes in the farming industry and un rural communities, including the introduction of the New Deal market quota system, the creation of the University of Kentucky Agricultural Extension Service, the expansion of basic infrastructures into rural areas, the increased availability of new technologies, and the massive migration from rural to urban areas. The result was a revolutionary change from family-based subsistence farming to market-based agricultural production, which altered not only farmers' relationships to food in Kentucky but the social relations within the state's rural communities. Based on interviews conducted by the University of Kentucky's Family Farm Project and supplemented by archival research, photographs, and recipes, Food and Everyday Life on Kentucky Family Farms, 1920–1950 recalls a vanishing way of life in rural Kentucky. By documenting the lives and experiences of Kentucky farmers, the book ensures that traditional folk and foodways in Kentucky's most important industry will be remembered.
Download or read book Economic Costs and Benefits of Rural Road Improvement in the Eastern Kentucky Coal Fields written by Dana George Card and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Geographic Factors in the History of the Development of Agriculture in Kentucky written by Louise Marie Kornfeld and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Better balanced Farming for Kentucky written by United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kentucky Mountains Transportation and Commerce 1750 to 1911 written by Mary Verhoeff and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Part time Farming in Eastern Kentucky written by Robert E. Galloway and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Is the Quality of Life in the Kentucky Mountains Improving written by A. Lee Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mountain People of Kentucky written by William Henry Haney and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Economic Study of Crops and Livestock in the Purchase Region of Kentucky written by John B. Hutson and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Notes on the Kentucky Agricultural Situation written by University of Kentucky. College of Agriculture and Home Economics. Extension Division and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Among the Hills and Mountains of Kentucky written by William Roscoe Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1930 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
