HARDWOOD RECORD 



A NIGHT'S SHELTER IN THE MOUNTAINS 



"kinfolks", and anyone living even across the next ridge is a 

 "furiner". This foreigner, should he visit any particular section, is 

 welcome to the best the rough cabin affords, and he is invariably 

 invited to "light and rest his hat". At every mountaineer's shaeli 

 as meal time or night overtakes him, he is tendered the best, and 

 usually the little, there is in the larder, and the hospitable mountaineer 

 insists upon his occupying the only bed, while in a corner of the one- 

 room log cabin, he and his wife sleep on a pallet beside the 

 open fireplace, and the usual flock of children are bestowed in other 

 corners of the same room. For their service it is impossible to pay. 



SPENCE CABIN, FAMOUS LANDMARK TENNESSEE-NORTH 

 CAROLINA STATE LINE 



The visitor is "the stranger within their gates" and an honored 

 guest. 



One can visit for days with scores of these mountaineers and never 

 hear a word of profanity and rarely any vulgar conversation. Few 

 of them smoke, but occasionally one is addicted to chewing tobacco, 

 and in some sections snuff chewing is a prevalent habit, notably 

 among the women. 



The general area of this Southern Appalachian region involves 

 approximately five million acres, about one-fourth of which has been 

 cleared, and is now in various stages of cultivation or abandonment. 



CASCADE, WEST BRANCH, EAST FORK, LITTLE RIVER, SETIER 

 COUNTY, TENNESSEE 



LAUREL ENCOMPASSED CREEK BOTTOM, EAST TENNESSEE 



