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The Legacy of Bear Mountain volume 3
Author: Janie Mae Jones McKinley

Throughout my life, I have been grateful for strong and positive examples in my mountain heritage. My grandparents’ values of gratitude, hard work, patience, and creativity provided the background necessary to make a good life in Appalachia. Even during the Great Depression, Granny’s favorite saying was, “We live right well on the mountain... more ».”

Volume 3 of The Legacy of Bear Mountain includes more uplifting and positively themed stories. Granny found beauty, contentment, and joy amid what modern people might consider to be inconvenience and disadvantage. While Grandpa worked hard on the railroad, she managed the farm and harvested crops singlehandedly.

Instead of bemoaning how bad times were, she chose to create beauty with what was available. She pieced colorful quilts, sewed ruffled flour-sack curtains for the kitchen windows — and designed a ruffled skirt for the wood heater to wear during summer.

Living close to the land and by the seasons, Granny picked early Transparent apples for fresh cobblers, served fried okra and sliced tomatoes in summer, and gathered fall pumpkins for special 8-layer Thanksgiving pies. These delicious foods were prepared on the 1910 cookstove fueled by wood cut in the forest. Water was carried uphill from the spring, and lighting came from kerosene lamps. Along with a wind-up record player, their battery radio provided entertainment.

To go to the Zirconia Post Office and Maybin’s Grocery, they hiked two miles down the mountain, and it was a one-mile trek to U.S. Highway 25. Before daylight, Grandpa walked to work on the abandoned stage-coach trail. Still, they were grateful for what they considered to be a good life. Although they definitely lived behind the times, their daily attitudes engendered a spirit of thankfulness.

Bear Mountain remained so isolated that a road and electricity would not become available until 1975, decades past Grandpa’s lifetime. Even without modern conveniences, the house and Granny’s picturesque flower gardens had been kept so tidy that a person lost in the forest might think they’d stumbled upon a time capsule from a another era.

These Bear Mountain memories may remind you of family stories passed down through the generations. Especially if your ancestors lived on farms, there may be similarities to the lifestyles from previous centuries.

Enjoy recalling the talents and skills of our resourceful and resilient forebears. We are fortunate to have that strong heritage.

ISBN: 520392
Publication Date: 1/1/2023
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Book Type: Paperback
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