Remnants of Frontier Life

Duration: 0:22:00

Creator: Robert W. Hartley

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Describes the life of the Smoky Mountain people of the Carolina mountains. Shows how they live the same life and practice the same old-fashioned methods that their forefathers did. Pictures their activities in town, duties of the children, homes, home life, clothing, agricultural methods, carpentry, harvesting, corn grinding, diet food preparation, and schooling. Stresses that modern highways and cars are fast wiping out the isolation of this community., Describes the life of the Smoky Mountain people of the Carolina mountains. Shows how they live the same life and practice the same old-fashioned methods that their forefathers did. Pictures their activities in town, duties of the children, homes, home life, clothing, agricultural methods, carpentry, harvesting, corn grinding, diet food preparation, and schooling. Stresses that modern highways and cars are fast wiping out the isolation of this community.

Complete Record: , Describes the life of the Smoky Mountain people of the Carolina mountains. Shows how they live the same life and practice the same old-fashioned methods that their forefathers did. Pictures their activities in town, duties of the children, homes, home life, clothing, agricultural methods, carpentry, harvesting, corn grinding, diet food preparation, and schooling. Stresses that modern highways and cars are fast wiping out the isolation of this community.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.