The Splendor of Brasstown Valley

About the Book

The southern Appalachian Mountain Folks in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North East Georgia are a race of people that have migrated from Scottland, Ireland and England and who have their own unique dialect of the English language, customs, and values that have been handed down for centuries from the early pioneers who settled in the mountain valleys. The Mountain Folks have lost much of their values, dialect and ways because of modern communication and people from everywhere moving into the mountains, and the mountain children having to leave the mountains in order to make their living, and most of them never return.

About the Author

Leota was born and raised in the mountains. She was one of the many mountain children who had to leave the mountains in order to get further education.   She was a student of Massey Business College for two years. Leota had one child from her first marriage, a son, Rick Alan Rogers, and married Lee B. Hamilton, and lived in Atlanta for about 25 years before returning the mountains. She is self employed and does much community work where ever there is a need for it. The pay she receives is in blessings, and knowing that the work is done for the 'works sake'.