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The Caryatids of Appalachia
- Appalachian Heritage
- The University of North Carolina Press
- Volume 30, Number 2, Fall 2002
- p. 80
- 10.1353/aph.2002.0045
- Article
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The Caryatids of Appalachia Small-town, hill-farm aunts and grandmothers who spoke in fossils and smiled out of faces weathered like sandstone the limestone drape of their dresses stark against the trees. They chiseled lives out of flint and ground their bones for bread. Now they are gone under granite; their carven names alone remain and every name a poem: Agnes Emeline, Sarah Caldonia, Lillie Fay, Rilma Glenith, Victoria Jane— the list goes on of mountain women who held up the sky. —Elaine Fowler Palencia 80 ...
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