{"id":50138,"date":"2019-06-29T13:52:37","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=50138"},"modified":"2021-08-02T14:49:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T18:49:56","slug":"faye-trail-deaton-correspondence","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=50138","title":{"rendered":"FAYE TRAIL DEATON Correspondence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-pine-mountain-settlement-schoolseries-09-biography-alumniseries-19-students\">Pine Mountain Settlement School<br \/>Series 09: Biography &#8211; Alumni<br \/>Series 19: Students<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-faye-trail-deaton-correspondence-1991\">FAYE TRAIL DEATON Correspondence, 1991<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>TAGS:<\/strong> Faye Trail Deaton Correspondence, Faye Trail Deaton, John Deaton, Harry Robie, cornbread, Sidney Saylor Far, <em>Appalachian Heritage\u00a0<\/em>magazine, Berea College KY, settlement schools, 1940s, rebuttals, writing memoirs, autobiographies<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-gallery-faye-trail-deaton-correspondence\">GALLERY: Faye Trail Deaton Correspondence<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"878\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/trail_faye_deaton_2-878x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Deaton correspondence to editor of American Heritage, 1991.\" class=\"wp-image-50144\" srcset=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/trail_faye_deaton_2-878x1024.jpg 878w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/trail_faye_deaton_2-257x300.jpg 257w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/trail_faye_deaton_2-768x896.jpg 768w, http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/trail_faye_deaton_2-624x728.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 878px) 100vw, 878px\" \/><figcaption>Faye Trail Deaton Correspondence, 1991. [trail_faye_deaton_2.jpg]<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-transcription-faye-trail-deaton-correspondence\">TRANSCRIPTION: Faye Trail Deaton Correspondence<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Morristown, TN 37814<br \/>April 13, 1991<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sidney Saylor Farr<br \/>Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Appalachian_Review#:~:text=Appalachian%20Review%2C%20formerly%20known%20as,writers%20throughout%20Appalachia%20and%20beyond.%22\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Appalachian Heritage<\/a><\/em><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Berea_College\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Berea College<\/a><br \/>Berea, KY\u00a0 40404<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dear Ms. Farr:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Robie is wrong, wrong, wrong! His attempt to explain (and judge) settlement schools is like a Yankee trying to make cornbread, The willingness is there, the oven set and the skillet hot, but what comes out is (to a Southerner) strange and unpalatable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mr. Robie&#8217;s article will misinform a great many people who, not having first-hand knowledge of settlement schools, will believe it. I regret and resent that. His analysis does not in any way describe the school I attended, Pine Mountain Settlement School. Did Mr. Robie ever visit a settlement school? Talk to a former student or teacher?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I will not try, in a mere letter, to list all the benefits I was fortunate enough to receive as a boarding school student, but suffice it to say that I left there with broader horizons, Where else in the mountains of Kentucky during the Forties would I have heard the music of Mendelssohn, Shubert, Handel, Bach, and others in live concerts? Where else would I have been tutored by teachers with degrees from educational institutions such as Oxford? Princeton? Smith?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pine Mountain Settlement&nbsp;school did not destroy the existing culture of the mountains, it respected it, encouraged it, enriched it. I left that good place with a new appreciation for myself and my heritage. Never again would the slur &#8216;Hillbilly&#8217; have the power to sting, I KNEW who I was and from whence I came and was proud of it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am enclosing a book I wrote that chronicles my years as a boarding school student, After you have read it, please complete the address on the enclosed stamped envelope and forward it to Mr, Robie. I believe you will find it interesting and, perhaps, Mr. Robie will learn something about settlement schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=33475\">Faye Trail Deaton<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>See Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.pinemountainsettlement.net\/?page_id=33475\">FAYE TRAIL DEATON<\/a> Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator is-style-wide\"\/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pine Mountain Settlement SchoolSeries 09: Biography &#8211; AlumniSeries 19: Students FAYE TRAIL DEATON Correspondence, 1991 TAGS: Faye Trail Deaton Correspondence, Faye Trail Deaton, John Deaton, Harry Robie, cornbread, Sidney Saylor Far, Appalachian Heritage\u00a0magazine, Berea College KY, settlement schools, 1940s, rebuttals, writing memoirs, autobiographies GALLERY: Faye Trail Deaton Correspondence TRANSCRIPTION: Faye Trail Deaton Correspondence Morristown, TN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":157,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-50138","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v17.1.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FAYE TRAIL DEATON Correspondence - PINE MOUNTAIN SETTLEMENT SCHOOL COLLECTIONS<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FAYE TRAIL DEATON Correspondence: Image &amp; 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