Model Ts and Model Roads: The Bumpy Ride into the Modern Era Along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike
Track Listings
| 1. Early 20th Century roads: Last of the wagon era | ||
| 2. Good Roads Movement: Getting the country out of the mud | ||
| 3. Early cars: A bumpy beginning | ||
| 4. Learning to drive: Making good time across the mountain | ||
| 5. Valley Railroad meets the Western Maryland at Huttonsville | ||
| 6. "What's he brought me to?": From Australia to Mill Creek | ||
| 7. Juxtaposition of agricultural and industrial communities | ||
| 8. The Great Depression: A dollar a day | ||
| 9. The Roosevelt Era: A new Homestead community | ||
| 10. Saturday night in Durbin: Upper Greenbriar Valley towns | ||
| 11. The Tannery: Learn to take up for yourself | ||
| 12. Railroads and local commerce | ||
| 13. Community life and music | ||
| 14. Peddlers and people on the move | ||
| 15. Remembering the story on down the road |
Editorial Reviews Hear the songs and stories of the days when all the neighbors gathered at one family's farm to wait for a train or to hole up for a Saturday night music jam. Join in the boisterous accounts of West Virginia towns on a Saturday night when the boys came in from the log woods. Feel the mixed emotions revealed through depictions of close knit communities centered around work in the tanneries and hard scrabble towns. Hear the accounts of a 101-year-old gentleman whose wife helped him keep the faith during the long years of the Great Depression until the President and Mrs. Roosevelt brought hopes of better times to West Virginia. Recall for yourself the reasons why we keep passing on the stories and music of earlier times, tales of fortitude and songs about spending time with friends and neighbors.
Album Description
Listen while West Virginia elders reminisce with a chuckle and a tune about the first time they saw "one of those blasted automobiles." Some hid, and others ran to hitch a ride.
Model Ts and Model Roads: The Bumpy Ride into the Modern Era Along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike, Music, Model T's and Model Roads:, Early automobiles, railroads, The Great Depression, The New Deal, and rollicking good times are featured in this captivating account of West Virginia in the early 1900s told through personal recollections, traditional music and songs.
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Model Ts and Model Roads: The Bumpy Ride into the Modern Era Along the Staunton-Parkersburg Turnpike
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ASIN: B00006CRUG Release Date: 2002-02-02 |
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Album Description
Listen while West Virginia elders reminisce with a chuckle and a tune about the first time they saw "one of those blasted automobiles." Some hid, and others ran to hitch a ride.Hear the songs and stories of the days when all the neighbors gathered at one family's farm to wait for a train or to hole up for a Saturday night music jam.
Join in the boisterous accounts of West Virginia towns on a Saturday night when the boys came in from the log woods.
Feel the mixed emotions revealed through depictions of close knit communities centered around work in the tanneries and hard scrabble towns.
Hear the accounts of a 101-year-old gentleman whose wife helped him keep the faith during the long years of the Great Depression until the President and Mrs. Roosevelt brought hopes of better times to West Virginia.
Recall for yourself the reasons why we keep passing on the stories and music of earlier times, tales of fortitude and songs about spending time with friends and neighbors.
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