Leota Hamilton

The Splendor of Brasstown Valley: Mountain Folks Leota Hamilton

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.