{"id":136,"date":"2010-08-30T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-30T18:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pmdc.wcu.edu\/?p=136"},"modified":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T13:20:55","slug":"making-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/2010\/08\/30\/making-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Do"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1164\" title=\"Clearing front yard\" src=\"http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/clearing-front-yard-1024x799.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"483\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Nearly 100 years ago, Horace Kephart, in his classic study Our Southern Highlanders, called the mountain region \u201cthe Land of Do-Without.\u201d He admiringly describing the resilience of mountain people coping with the poverty in more remote communities. In our time, this tradition of \u201cMaking Do\u201d continues to be part of the popular image of the region, even as it undergoes rapid change. Making Do involves simple living and self-reliance. It values gardening, hunting, sewing, auto repair, and other hands-on skills. Frequently \u201cmaking do\u201d has reinforced a negative image of mountain backwardness. Increasing as Americans have become aware of the excesses of consumer society and the need to conserve and recycle to live green. \u201cMaking do\u201d has served as a model for simple living and ingenuity celebrated in the popular Foxfire books.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Multimedia:<\/h3>\n<h2>Below is the Digital Heritage Moment as broadcast on the radio:<\/h2>\n[audio:http:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/MakingDo60Mx.mp3|titles=MakingDo60Mx]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 100 years ago, Horace Kephart, in his classic study Our Southern Highlanders, called the mountain region \u201cthe Land of Do-Without.\u201d He admiringly describing the resilience of mountain people coping with the poverty in more remote communities. . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1164,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[225,269,295,480,487],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","tag-foxfire-books","tag-hands-on-skills","tag-horace-kephart","tag-self-reliance","tag-simple-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8848,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/8848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.wcu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}