December 2024
Hollow Folk is a recontextualization of the forgotten history of the Shenandoah Valley, written by a direct descendant of the park. To create the now 200,000 acre park, hundreds of families had to be removed from their land. This was accomplished through misleading the public on the living conditions in the valley. This text’s namesake, Hollow Folk, set out to do just that. Authors Mandel Sherman and Henry Thomas wrote of a degenerative people without god or law.
Nearly a century later, archeological evidence and the accounts of residents have worked to prove history wrong. Each argument posed by the authors is refuted chapter by chapter and with the inclusion of residents’ interviews, the truth reveals itself. The Shenandoah Valley was populated by hard working laborers who were devout in their beliefs and committed to their community.
Tissue paper, vellum
Nearly a century later, archeological evidence and the accounts of residents have worked to prove history wrong. Each argument posed by the authors is refuted chapter by chapter and with the inclusion of residents’ interviews, the truth reveals itself. The Shenandoah Valley was populated by hard working laborers who were devout in their beliefs and committed to their community.
Tissue paper, vellum