Word: cumberlandism
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Alvin York, World War I hero, drilled again, this time for oil, and struck it a few miles from his home in Tennessee's Cumberland Mountains. He said that he was getting 13 barrels an hour; the state geologist said that the well would not make Hero York a millionaire, but he might become "materially wealthier...
...Lick, Tenn. is not a county, or a city, or a town. It is just a place. Greyhound bus drivers in Crossville, 14 miles away, have never heard of it. The 50-odd families in Big Lick carved their little farms out of the rolling, wooded country of the Cumberland Plateau. Timber used to be their cash crop. When the timber market went bad, there was nothing left but hard scrabble farming...
Roly-poly (219 Ibs.) George Allen is a regular card. One of his favorite stories is about the time he was captain of a Cumberland University football team, beaten 222-to-0 by Georgia Tech. George likes to say that he made Cumberland's best run -"I only got thrown for a five-yard loss...
.../ears ago the Order officially turned Kent over to its alumni
(though a Holy Cross Father, Bill Chalmers, re mained as headmaster).
But even without it the monks keep busy:
...Lewis Carroll "flitting, flitting like a shy bird into some recess of Christ Church." He sat at the feet of Esthete Walter Pater, whose mustaches hung "pendulous in the shadow." He became stroke of the Trinity boat. During vacations he read the classics, climbed the mountains of Cumberland and relished "the monotony of sweet mountain mutton and 'Mr. Pendlebury's Pudding' (known to us as 'Pendlebags'), a delicious compound of farm milk, tapioca and raisins...