Paradise in Price Valley

House were Lou spent part of her childhood.

"Price Hollow is a small hollow between hills and ridges, so deep that when you look up, crosses from a winter's sun break through the naked trees. It is in Hogoheegee, Washington County, Virginia, a wide are that the Great Spirit gave to Indians to hunt and fish. But perhaps Price Hollow could be any of the thousands of hollows in the great Appalachian chain extending from Maine to Georgia. Perhaps readers could name it Snake Hollow, Hant Hollow, or Tin Can Hollow and see it as their own."
[Bloodroot: reflections on place by Appalachian women writers,(81)]

"In March 1913, all throughout the mountain ridges surrounding the North Fork of the Holston River, service trees shook open their snowy blossoms and buckeyes held back leaves ready to break out into leaf. On this day in a cabin, in Price Hollow, located just east of the river, in a time or place where it was said witches could curse cows into giving bad milk, a "Bad Luck Baby" was born on Friday, the 13th."

"She proclaims to be a Bad Luck Baby. Yes indeed, she was that baby born on Friday, March 13, 1913 in the Hogoheegee, an Indian term for an area along the Holston River, in Washington County, Virginia—Lou Vivian Price, the first-born daugheter of Lula Buckley Price and Benjamin Franklin Price."
["Lou V. Crabtree, Virginia Laureate in Literature: how lessons from the Holston turn "Bad Luck Baby" good." An Interview by Judy K. Miller, November 2000, Historical Society of Washington County, VA. Bulletin, Series II, No. 38 (57, 590]

"She had an isolated childhood, submerging herself in the natural world of plants and animals, gaping at the Cherokees who built stick-lodges across the river. She didn't go to school until she was 8 or 9, and then it turned out she was brilliant. So it was off to Radford Normal School, then back to teach in a one-room school in Possum Hollow. She was 16."
["In Her Own Words: for Lou Crabtree, writing is a way of making sense of her life," Beth Macy. Roanoke Times & World News, "Extra." Sunday, September 20, 1992 (Extra10)]