Sources for More Info
The National Park Service website offers the following resources:
More about the role Miriam Sizer played at https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/historyculture/miriamsizer.htm
More on displaced residents of Shenandoah at https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/historyculture/displaced.htm
More about the archaeological finds at https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/historyculture/mtnsettlement.htm
The following books provide a closer look at this topic:
- Hollow Folk, Mandel Sherman and Thomas R. Henry, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company (1933)
- Managing the Mountains: Land use planning, the New Deal and the creation of a federal landscape in Appalachia, Sara Gregg, New Haven and London: Yale University Press (2010)
- Shenandoah Heritage, Carolyn and Jack Reeder, D.C.: Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (1978)
- Tangled Roots: The Appalachian Trail and American environmental politics, Sarah Mittlefehldt, Seattle and London: University of Washington Press (2013)
Articles of interest:
- "Mountaineers Not Backward, Survey Shows," The Washington Herald, Jan 11, 1937
- "Neglected Infections of Poverty in the United States of America," Peter J. Hotez, published in The Causes and Impacts of Neglected Tropical and Zoonotic Diseases: Opportunities for Integrated Intervention Strategies, Institute of Medicine Forum on Microbial Threats, 2011
- "The People of the Park: The Human Cost of Creating Shenandoah National Park," Anne L Legge, published in The International Association of Torch Clubs, vol. 86/3, Spring 2013
- "The Rise and Fall of Pellagra in the American South," Karen Clay, Ethan Schmich, and Werner Troesken, Aug 2016
- "Shenandoah Resettlements," Gene Wilhelm, Jr., published in Pioneer America, vol. 14/1, March 1982
- "A Virginia Mountain School", Miriam Sizer, published in Childhood Education, vol. 8/5, Jan 1932