The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Women by Kami Ahrens

Author:Kami Ahrens
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2023-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

Flora Youngblood with her husband, Johnny, shortly before his death in 1980.

Meanwhile, Johnny helped frame houses. He read blueprints. A lot of other people couldn’t read them, but he could. He made good money, but he had to stay gone nearly all the time. He joined a carpenters’ local [union] and they would hunt him a job if he got out of work. He built houses everywhere. He left Atlanta to help build an H-plant in Jackson, South Carolina. Then he went to Indiana and helped build a hydrogen plant there, and then one in Tennessee. That was back in the war times. He helped build a bomber plant in New York State. He went from there to Niagara Falls to work on the dam. He got a pension and drawed that until he died. That was the 28th of June in ’80. He was seventy-eight.

Back in the mountains, we didn’t have nothing much to do. We didn’t have nowhere to go, so such things as [basket making] were pastimes. When we would see anything made, why we would want to fix one too, so we’d copy it. My mother would make our Easter baskets, and she’d also make big baskets, big enough to put beans in. [After I moved to Buford], I still made baskets as a pastime. [I enjoy making baskets from honeysuckle] because it’s something from nature. I just enjoy things like this — you can start from nothing and make something.

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