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part of J. D. MAriowets article is set ont as follows: moved around quite a bit. At the time I finished grade schocl, we were living at Summerfield near Monteagle, Tennessee on the Cumberland Mountain. "My father worked with the N. C. & St. L. Railway. We Font het T+ a4 In 1931, Myles Horton started the Highlander Folk School at Montcagle; a scheol for promcting the philosophy of unicnism and eduating unicn leaders for the South. Our community was smail and quite a degree cf excitement was created when he came. He explained the idea of the school cround the community and mountain and soon had many friends. The people gathered there to hear speakings and to discuss their own problems. Teffie, one of the staff members, called a square dance and everyone had a goud time. The school socn became the intellectural a ¥-2| + of th nn urna : and social center of the community. I was a frequent visitcr to the school and became well acquainted with all the staff members. Throught them I learned the philosophy of unionisn. In 1933 I went to the six wecks sessicn at the school and attended classes as a day student. The students were from local unicns in the south. After the term was over, Denham — Stage yiovard, one of the students, and I wert to help build a labor school ee “Vike Highlander at Allardt, Tennessec. Ve hitch-hiked and had very gocd luck. “e stepped at Donham's home in wilder, Tennessee and — stayed over night. Things were in a bad way thcre; the miners had been on strike fcr some time and pcople were starving. In fact, there was only cne cow left in that district. The next day we went on ts J Allardt which is necr Jamestown, the birthplace cf Alvin CATork. we had a f ne group cf people in cur work camp. They were mountaincers, ecllege students and professors; a varied group, . but we all had the same interest at heart, and things ran very smoothly. “ic ran things cn a demcerctic besis, and everyone worked equally. Qut cook took good care cf us, and kept plenty of K. P. duty on hand te be dene. The schocl was never finished for the lack cffunds, - TRa mn 4 The roing +t Te 3 c fel i te whe Bs +6 a Highlander qite a bi t =-—<=- mostly about la public schccl During t. They had a good b or history, economics, io vacation, I was ar library and I read a ond trade unions. .. - During the winter cf 1936, my brother and I went to Knoxville. On our way we stopped in Cleveland, Tennessec, where the weclen mills were on strike. The next morning with the organizer, -~26<