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Hoberman, Michael. "Back Up on Brushy: Folk Regional Identity in the Sawmill Valley of Western Massachusetts, 1890-1920," Program in English and American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, September 1993.
This project focuses on the cultural fault lines that converged between 1890 and 1920 to create a dynamic sense of regional identity among the people of western Massachusetts’ Sawmill Valley. The study especially attends to the uses of place and landscape within oral traditions collected from local residents over the last two years. At the turn-of-the-century, this Valley’s folk traditions functioned as highly self-conscious reactions to events both within and beyond the region’s immediate borders. The gradual influx of an immigrant population into a dynamic rural/industrial corridor during the period 1890-1920, as well as the Valley’s growing dependence on the Connecticut Valley’s market-economy, provide a volatile moment of cultural re-definition for study.
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