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Tending the Commons: Folklife and Landscape in Southern West Virginia
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Item Title
Danny Williams, of B&T Logging Contractors, relaxing on a break from logging. [Photo]
Author/Creator
Photographer: Eiler, Lyntha Scott
Created/Published
September 27, 1995
Notes
The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of forest management, one market-based, the other community-based. A community-based mode of forestry, rooted in a historical system of forest-farming with Cherokee and Celtic antecedents (cite source), nurtures a sense of reciprocity among humans, animals, and the land. A number of project participants expressed misgivings about destroying "den trees," "bee trees," and nut trees, for example. "I worked with a man in Hazy who would not cut a hickory," said Danny Williams. "He would not cut a hickory. The boss had to go along behind him and cut all the hickories." Depicted in these photos is a "selective cut," which means that the property owner identified the species and size of timber that could be harvested.
Event: Logging.
Subjects
Fall
September
Year-round work
Logging
Photo
Ethnography
Photographs
Canterbury Hollow
Rock Creek
Object Type
Related Names
Depicted: Williams, Danny
Medium
35 mm Color Slide
Language
English
Call Number
CRF-LE-C006-16
Part of
The Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)
Repository
Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Digital ID
afccmns lec00616
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec00616