I enjoyed looking at your pictures but I disagree with some of your comments. If you look at the math board problems again you will see that they are not doing algebra. The first problem is 3 1/2 times 60 cents. Math problems during this time period in grammar schools which this was (1-8th) were real life problems that would help them with be able to do needed math for farming. The older girls were usually kept at home to help out because many fathers believed that after a certain grade education for girls wasn’t needed. My great-grandfather stopped my grandmother at 8th grade. Many did have shoes they were kept for church and other special occasions. The picture without boys might have been because they were needed for planting. Teachers were also treated with a greater degree of respect during this time period. Large groups of students were not as big of an issue because children were taught that they were not to act up or face consequences from parents. In fact many teachers were looked on as being in the “upper class” in the social hierarchy. I am a teacher from Scottsboro and before my grandparents passed away did many interviews with them about life in the depression. I also had family who were part of the Skyline project. It would be interesting to find out if any of these children are still alive and hear their stories.
Elisa Cueto
I agree with Tina Benson. Back in the days there was respect for teachers as well as for all adults. Behavior problems would be addressed by the parent. That is no longer the case even parents are nasty to teachers and in front of their children. If behavior were not an issue even if a teacher had 30-40 students in the class they would be able to teach. However, the only downfall to that is that there is no opportuniy for teachers to be able to give students the individual attention that they need. Another challenge with the that is the amount of paper work that teachers must complete. If I had a choice I would prefer to have to deal with the paper work if I could only teach and not worry about behavior problems.
That is still the case in many other Latin countries.
Skyline Farms is a creature of the Resettlement Administration, a depression-era agency which bought up large tracts of land, 18k, in the case of Skyline, and resettled people trapped, many as sharecroppers, on worn-out lands. Although most of their efforts were concentrated on the southwest, they also created a number of communities in the Appalachians and Cumberland Plateau. The experiments weren’t a success, in part because the land wasn’t particularly arable, without extensive amendment and fertilization. Now, Skyline is largely a bedroom community. Most of the inhabitants commute to Scottsboro and other towns to work. Part of the original acreage is now in the Skyline Game Management area… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_Administration
Ms Causey:
I really enjoyed this piece. Most of my relatives are natives of the mountains of Jackson County, AL, and were residents during the New Deal Projects. My folks referred to the Skyline project as the “Colony”. Some distant cousins still live in the area.
FDR is to be commended for this and several other government projects ( CCC. RSA. TVA, WPA) that snatched our nation from the jaws of Depression & starvation. I feel that as much as anything it gave the masses hope in an era of despair. I have had several relatives that made careers & retired from the TVA.
I too am a free lance writer living in Talladega. I enjoy all your material and pass it on just as I will this too. Just a note in passing, a dear friend, Dr. George Ricker, grew up on a Cumberland Mountain farm where the Apple Orcherds are now and is retired living here in Talladega. He is the retired Director of Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center here in Talladega.
Keep up the excellent work.
James W. Anderson
Talladega, LA
(256)761-1484
At my mother’s very rural school in Caddo Gap, Arkansas there was no running water, so children would make cups from a sheet of Big Chief tablet paper and get a drink from a nearby spring. Times have changed!
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I enjoyed looking at your pictures but I disagree with some of your comments. If you look at the math board problems again you will see that they are not doing algebra. The first problem is 3 1/2 times 60 cents. Math problems during this time period in grammar schools which this was (1-8th) were real life problems that would help them with be able to do needed math for farming. The older girls were usually kept at home to help out because many fathers believed that after a certain grade education for girls wasn’t needed. My great-grandfather stopped my grandmother at 8th grade. Many did have shoes they were kept for church and other special occasions. The picture without boys might have been because they were needed for planting. Teachers were also treated with a greater degree of respect during this time period. Large groups of students were not as big of an issue because children were taught that they were not to act up or face consequences from parents. In fact many teachers were looked on as being in the “upper class” in the social hierarchy. I am a teacher from Scottsboro and before my grandparents passed away did many interviews with them about life in the depression. I also had family who were part of the Skyline project. It would be interesting to find out if any of these children are still alive and hear their stories.
I agree with Tina Benson. Back in the days there was respect for teachers as well as for all adults. Behavior problems would be addressed by the parent. That is no longer the case even parents are nasty to teachers and in front of their children. If behavior were not an issue even if a teacher had 30-40 students in the class they would be able to teach. However, the only downfall to that is that there is no opportuniy for teachers to be able to give students the individual attention that they need. Another challenge with the that is the amount of paper work that teachers must complete. If I had a choice I would prefer to have to deal with the paper work if I could only teach and not worry about behavior problems.
That is still the case in many other Latin countries.
We survived. God is good.
God had nothing to do with it. Eleanor Roosevelt has a LOT to do with it.
Nickey Satterfield
Skyline Farms is a creature of the Resettlement Administration, a depression-era agency which bought up large tracts of land, 18k, in the case of Skyline, and resettled people trapped, many as sharecroppers, on worn-out lands. Although most of their efforts were concentrated on the southwest, they also created a number of communities in the Appalachians and Cumberland Plateau. The experiments weren’t a success, in part because the land wasn’t particularly arable, without extensive amendment and fertilization. Now, Skyline is largely a bedroom community. Most of the inhabitants commute to Scottsboro and other towns to work. Part of the original acreage is now in the Skyline Game Management area… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resettlement_Administration
Ms Causey:
I really enjoyed this piece. Most of my relatives are natives of the mountains of Jackson County, AL, and were residents during the New Deal Projects. My folks referred to the Skyline project as the “Colony”. Some distant cousins still live in the area.
FDR is to be commended for this and several other government projects ( CCC. RSA. TVA, WPA) that snatched our nation from the jaws of Depression & starvation. I feel that as much as anything it gave the masses hope in an era of despair. I have had several relatives that made careers & retired from the TVA.
I too am a free lance writer living in Talladega. I enjoy all your material and pass it on just as I will this too. Just a note in passing, a dear friend, Dr. George Ricker, grew up on a Cumberland Mountain farm where the Apple Orcherds are now and is retired living here in Talladega. He is the retired Director of Shocco Springs Baptist Conference Center here in Talladega.
Keep up the excellent work.
James W. Anderson
Talladega, LA
(256)761-1484
At my mother’s very rural school in Caddo Gap, Arkansas there was no running water, so children would make cups from a sheet of Big Chief tablet paper and get a drink from a nearby spring. Times have changed!
Mark Strickland
Roxanne Daughtry
I lived at skyline 1942-1945.Attended the Rock school.I have fond memories,but they were tough times too.
The page can’t be found.
Try it now.
IT DID NOT BOTHER THEM THEN I DONT SEE WHY IT SHOULD BOTHER THESE KID TODAY.
Seats are just as hard 82 years later.
Thanks for sharing
My mother talked about how much things changed when President Roosevelt was elected. She was born 1910 died 2008.
My grandparents loved FDR.
Joey West mine too
David Hawkins I think he fed a hungry population of folks.
The President helped a lot of people during the depression
Distant kin,Perry line