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Tags: CCC, company houses, depression, family background, farming, food preservation, history, log houses, making dulcimers, Mathieson Alkali Works, music, Olin Mathieson, raising sheep, Smyth County, Southern Gypsum, unions, WPA

Tags: CCC, churches, depression, farming, Olin Mathieson store, store keeping, the dairy business, trading, WPA

Tags: CCC, depression, farm life, medicine and home remedies, moonshine and bootlegging, planting crops by the signs, public work, recreation, the almanac, WPA

Tags: Carbo, Christmas, church, depression, education, Lick Fort, local communities, manual to machine labor switch, mine safety, R. Fleming's Mine, Sandy Ridge Community, Shannon, St. Charles, strip mining, Tom's Creek, transportation, unionization, working at Jewel Ridge, working in mines, WPA

Tags: Appalachia, CCC, depression, doctoring, elections in Harlan, family background in coal industry, herbs, legends, moonshining, politics, transportation, unions, work camps, WPA

Tags: blacksmithing, CCC, church, coal mining, company stores, depression, early life and family, education, moonshining, politics, Pony Mine, race relations, Sandy Ridge Community, strip mining, transportation, unionization, WPA

Tags: canning factory, children, churches, Debusk's Mill, depression, early life, education, family, farming, Kelly Chapel, lanyard, railroad, Universal Molding, weaving looms, WPA

Tags: businessman, CCC, churches, dairies, farming, Olin Mathieson, the depression, trading, WPA

Tags: bootleggers, CCC, farming, home remedies, moonshining, recreation, the depression, WPA

Tags: CCC, crafts, depression, family background, farming, music, Olin Mathieson, Smyth County, unions, work, WPA