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Photo, Print, Drawing Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, and Danny Williams, of Clay's Branch, cutting Yellow Poplar in Canterbury Hollow on Rock Creek

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Title

  • Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, and Danny Williams, of Clay's Branch, cutting Yellow Poplar in Canterbury Hollow on Rock Creek

Names

  • Williams, Danny (Depicted)
  • Springston, Bernice (Depicted)
  • Eiler, Lyntha Scott (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • September 27, 1995

Headings

  • -  Logging
  • -  Fall
  • -  September
  • -  Year-round work
  • -  Tulip poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
  • -  Yellow poplar (Liriodendron tulipifera)
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  West Virginia -- Kanawha County -- Canterbury Hollow
  • -  West Virginia -- Rock Creek

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  The extraction of coal and timber has for the past century formed a "boom and bust" economy for people living in the mountains. Conversations with residents and foresters reveal a contrast between two modes of forest management, one market-based, the other community-based. A community-based mode of forestry, rooted in a historical system of forest-farming with Cherokee and Celtic antecedents (cite source), nurtures a sense of reciprocity among humans, animals, and the land. A number of project participants expressed misgivings about destroying "den trees," "bee trees," and nut trees, for example. "I worked with a man in Hazy who would not cut a hickory," said Danny Williams. "He would not cut a hickory. The boss had to go along behind him and cut all the hickories." Depicted in these photos is a "selective cut," which means that the property owner identified the species and size of timber that could be harvested.
  • -  Event: Logging.

Medium

  • 35 mm Color Slide

Call Number/Physical Location

  • AFC 1999/008: CRF-LE-C006-01

Source Collection

  • Coal River Folklife Collection (AFC 1999/008)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

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Credit line

Coal River Folklife Project collection (AFC 1999/008), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Williams, Danny, Bernice Springston, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, and Danny Williams, of Clay's Branch, cutting Yellow Poplar in Canterbury Hollow on Rock Creek. Canterbury Hollow Kanawha County West Virginia Rock Creek, 1995. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000053/.

APA citation style:

Williams, D., Springston, B. & Eiler, L. S. (1995) Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, and Danny Williams, of Clay's Branch, cutting Yellow Poplar in Canterbury Hollow on Rock Creek. Canterbury Hollow Kanawha County West Virginia Rock Creek, 1995. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/cmns000053/.

MLA citation style:

Williams, Danny, Bernice Springston, and Lyntha Scott Eiler. Bernice Springston, of B&T Logging Contractors, and Danny Williams, of Clay's Branch, cutting Yellow Poplar in Canterbury Hollow on Rock Creek. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/cmns000053/>.