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The narrative unfolds in the Kentucky mountains and follows village life when a troupe of women from the lowlands sets up temporary cloth houses near the county seat. Through local voices—older matrons, returning youths, and conservative officials—the community watches, envies, and judges performances, music, courtships, and everyday rituals. Episodes trace gatherings, holidays, funerals, moonshine and legal confrontations, showing how new customs press against older ways. The work dwells on neighborliness, suspicion of outsiders, gender roles, and the porous boundary between entertainment and moral anxiety, presenting a series of linked scenes that map social change in a remote mountain community.

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Title: The quare women

A story of the Kentucky mountains

Author: Lucy S. Furman

Release date: December 4, 2023 [eBook #72307]

Language: English

Original publication: Boston: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923

Credits: hekula03, Graeme Mackreth and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)

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