Yesterday Today - Barker, Catherine S
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"The Great Depression era witnessed the discovery of the Ozarks mountaineers in the national consciousness. Noted Ozarks chroniclers like Vance Randolph romantically depicted a simple and hardy hill culture that had presumably escaped the superficial trappings of American modernity in the region's isolated ridges and hollers. But Catherine S. Barker's 1941 book, "Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks," sought to illuminate another side of these "remnants of eighteenth-century life and culture": poverty and despair. Drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the…mehr

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"The Great Depression era witnessed the discovery of the Ozarks mountaineers in the national consciousness. Noted Ozarks chroniclers like Vance Randolph romantically depicted a simple and hardy hill culture that had presumably escaped the superficial trappings of American modernity in the region's isolated ridges and hollers. But Catherine S. Barker's 1941 book, "Yesterday Today: Life in the Ozarks," sought to illuminate another side of these "remnants of eighteenth-century life and culture": poverty and despair. Drawing on her encounters and experiences as a federal social worker in the backwoods of the southeastern Ozarks in the 1930s, Barker described the mountaineers as "lovable and pathetic and needy and self-satisfied and valiant," declaring that the virtuous and independent people of the hills deserved a "better way" and a "more abundant life." Though often overshadowed by other Ozarks writings, this reprinting--edited and introduced by historian J. Blake Perkins--situates "Yesterday Today" in its proper place among the great Depression-era chronicles of the Ozarks"--
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Catherine S. Barker (1901-1961), a native of the Midwest, lived in Batesville, Arkansas, for eleven years before relocating to Salt Lake City, Utah. She was an employee of the Federal Emergency Relief Administration in the Ozarks in 1933 and 1934. J. Blake Perkins, an Ozarks native, is assistant professor and chair of history and political science at Williams Baptist University in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas. He is the author of Hillbilly Hellraisers: Federal Power and Populist Defiance in the Ozarks.