An interesting look at life in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, through the eyes of one who moved there "from away".
At times funny and touching, often sad, the essays paint a picture of a rapidly changing American landscape. Family farms give way to subdivisions filled with giant homes, and local businesses and towns slowly disappear as "people live where they cannot work and work where they cannot live." Barbara Holland stays on her mountain bearing witness to it all, showing us precisely what we have lost in the name of progress. ( )

http://www.book-blog.com/2007/10/holl... ( )

This is a good little book, recounting a single woman's fit into a rural southern exurb. Civilization is coming, can't be stopped, but she captures the tension between wanting the convenience of modern life and dealing with the wildness of rural life. ( )