Word: hogback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jumping enthusiasts, Hogback Mountain in Brattleboro, Vermont, is the place to go. The 70 metre jump, scene of Winged Trophy judging, is the biggest and best in the east, possibly excepting the Lake Placid jump...
...Hogback is relatively close to Boston, 95 miles, and has facilities for novice to expert downhill runners. The Brattleboro region was given the New Look over the summer in the extension of old trails and tows and the addition of one new trail-tow network...
...ugly red brick buildings, begrimed by industrial smoke, sat on a treeless, limestone hogback. Most of the barracks windows were broken. There were no lawns or plantings around the camp. Worse than the looks of the place were the ugly reports that came from there...
Home to Gene Atkins meant a wretched rural slum. His father was a sharecropper in the Hogback Mountain region, where tenant farms are rich only in ragged children, moonshine stills and Redbone hounds. The hero and his hill bride had little chance of escaping poverty. Broke, Gene Atkins was resigned to spend his $300 mustering-out pay for a stock-mule, harness, turning plow, singlefoot, geewhiz, section harrow, planter and wagon-and then sharecropping cotton on another man's land...