Something in These Hills Isabella Wallace The world was fooled in

The world was fooled in the nineteenth century during the Great Moon Hoax of 1835

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Something in These Hills Isabella Wallace The world was fooled inWhat is the "something in these hills" that ties mountain families to family land in the southern Appalachians? This ethnographic examination challenges contemporary theory and explores two interrelated themes: the duality of the southern Appalachians as both a menacing and majestic landscape and the emotional relationship to family land characteristic of long term residents of these mountains. To most outsiders, the area conjures images of a