Appalachian History

There’s one [memory of working for the Frontier Nursing Service] that really does stand out rather a lot. We weren’t supposed to go outside the five mile limit. That was our limit. We weren’t supposed to go a step beyond that. Well, I was at Bull Creek one clinic day, and this woman came to [...]

“So many outside writers had come in and . . . and given such a terrible account of the people. They had put ‘em down a lot in their articles that I didn’t think this was true, because the people that I met were very intelligent and they were very civilized. They were not like [...]