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The View from Brindley Mountain: A Memoir of the Rural South Specifications
This non-fiction work takes the reader on a trip through the 1940's and '50's in the rural South. The story unfolds in the lower reaches of the Appalachian Mountain chain on a plateau called Brindley Mountain. A part of the Sand Mountain Ridge, the area covers lower Morgan County and north east Cullman County. In an earlier time the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Creek hunted in relative peace across these ridges and valleys of north-central Alabama. In 1873 a young, rebellious Bavarian named Johann Gottlieb Cullmann came into the area seeking a peaceful haven for his immigrating countrymen. He ultimately selected a large swath of this gently-sloping and pine-forested wilderness for his new Deutsche Kolonie. Other hardly pioneers began to homestead the relative free Federal lands. This produced a rather odd mingling for the rural South. A fledgling town grew rapidly with its blacksmith shops, cotton gins, grist mills, ice house and merchant class.
On a hard-scrabble farm south of this bustling county seat, a young boy grew to manhood dreaming of future journeys and conquests. On the back porch of a little clapboard house, this would-be traveler contemplated the wide horizon stretching out in all directions, full of seemingly endless possibilities and challenges.
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The View from Brindley Mountain: A Memoir of the Rural South Overviews
This non-fiction work takes the reader on a trip through the 1940's and '50's in the rural South. The story unfolds in the lower reaches of the Appalachian Mountain chain on a plateau called Brindley Mountain. A part of the Sand Mountain Ridge, the area covers lower Morgan County and north east Cullman County. In an earlier time the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee and Creek hunted in relative peace across these ridges and valleys of north-central Alabama. In 1873 a young, rebellious Bavarian named Johann Gottlieb Cullmann came into the area seeking a peaceful haven for his immigrating countrymen. He ultimately selected a large swath of this gently-sloping and pine-forested wilderness for his new Deutsche Kolonie. Other hardly pioneers began to homestead the relative free Federal lands. This produced a rather odd mingling for the rural South. A fledgling town grew rapidly with its blacksmith shops, cotton gins, grist mills, ice house and merchant class.
On a hard-scrabble farm south of this bustling county seat, a young boy grew to manhood dreaming of future journeys and conquests. On the back porch of a little clapboard house, this would-be traveler contemplated the wide horizon stretching out in all directions, full of seemingly endless possibilities and challenges.
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