The Red Flannel Rag

Some readers will want to think about what they read here, and they may want to

be more reflective than the local colorists and less academic than the sociologists and

anthropologists. Some readers will find only entertainment and amusement in this life

of the not so distant past, and that is as it should be. But some readers, as they reflect

on the life of these out-of-date Appalachian Mountain people, may be moved to only

smile at its superficial crudities and to incorporate some of its fundamental values into

their own lives.

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