The Tollivers and Falins wage their own war as the outside world and industrialization are beginning to reshape the region. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Set in Wise County, Virginia at the turn of the twentieth century, the love story between Jack and June is played out against a feud that has been boiling for over thirty years between two influential mountain families. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine Outdoor Drama, based on the novel by John Fox Jr., is the Official Outdoor Drama of Virginia and one of the longest running outdoor dramas in the country. If that's something which interests you, this is definitely worthwhile.The Trail of the Lonesome Pine is a night of family fun in the Mountains of Virginia. Still, the book deserves its status as a classic of American regionalism. The middle portion of the book, which follows her progression from 'barefoot hick' to 'cultured society girl' to 'barefoot hick who is now too educated to be happy with her family anymore', gets a bit dull. The love story really isn't all that interesting even the author of this edition's foreword (John Ed Pearce) admits that the hero, Hale, is 'impossibly brave and pure', and that his love interest 'is only slightly more believable'. The author, himself a coal and real estate speculator in the region, knew the details of these changes, and the people of the area, intimately many of the characters, and the feud in the novel, are likely based on real people he knew.While the author mixes these 3 elements fairly skillfully, it's really aspect #3- the opportunity of having an inside look at a legendary but vanished hillbilly culture, and a ringside seat for a time of historic change- which provides the primary reason for reading this novel today. Partly because of his interest in June Tolliver, and partly because of his efforts to bring law and order to the region, Jack Hale gets caught in the middle of the feud, antagonizing both sides.3) The story of how the coming of the railroads, and the coal and iron industry, brought rapid changes to a region and a culture which had been largely isolated for a century. Along the way the two fall in love.2) The story of two feuding clans, the Tollivers and Falins. A young engineer, Jack Hale, while scouting the mountains of the Cumberland Plateau, takes an interest in a girl (June Tolliver) from a backwoods mountain family he gets permission from her father to pay for her education, farther and farther afield, eventually sending her all the way to New York. (And the book does have some plot elements in common with westerns, too namely, the struggle to impose the rule of law in a lawless, violent place.)The book interweaves 3 elements:1) A Pygmalion-style love story. Maybe it's just that the title sounds like the title of a Western. A young engineer, Jack Hale, while scouting the mountains of the It's interesting how many people use the term 'Western' to describe this novel set around the Virginia/Kentucky border at the turn of the 20th century. there was a double reason why it seemed an age to June since her eyes had last rested. Maybe it's just that the title sounds like the title of a Western. The Lonesome Pine, the mountaineers called it, and the Lonesome. 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine', Manuel Romain (Edison Blue Amberol 1743, 1913)- Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project.'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' (Sheet music). MacDonald, Ballard (w.) Carroll, Harry (m.).E-rea - Revue électronique d'études sur le monde anglophone. 'Modernist Shepherdess: Gertrude Stein's Pastoral Sounds'. Film Clowns of the Depression: Twelve Defining Comic Performances.
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'Two movie clowns who sang about 'The Blue Ridge Mountains Of Virginia'!'. ^ 'Manuel Romain – The Trail Of Lonesome Pine'.^ MacDonald, 'The Trail of the Lonesome Pine' (Sheet music).The song was the favorite song of Gertrude Stein.