The hill farmer ... always seems to make out somehow with his corn patch, his few vegetables, his rifle, and fishing rod. This self-contained economy creates in the hillman a comparative disinterest in the world’s affairs, along with a disdain of lowland ways. “I don’t go to question the good Lord in his wisdom,” runs the phrasing attributed to a typical mountaineer, “but I jest cain’t see why He put valleys in between the hills.”
ATTRIBUTION:
Administration in the State of Arka, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943). Arkansas: A Guide to the State (The WPA Guide to Arkansas), p. 257, Hastings House (1941).
