(SNP034) Robert Hilton Corbin interviewed by Allan Tanner and Paul Lee

Records an interview with Robert H. Corbin, who leads a party of researchers from the National Park Service (NPS), the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) and several family members on a walking tour of Nicholson Hollow. The primary interviewers are Allen Tanner of the PATC and Paul Lee of the NPS. Additional questions and commentary are provided by Mr. Corbin\u27s son, Joe, and other family members. The Corbin homestead was located on part of the land turned over to the NPS by the state of Virginia in the 1930s. The primary focus of the tour was the identification of home sites and their owners along the length of Nicholson Hollow. Discusses home and family life in the mountains, including the tan bark industry, apple, chestnut and ginseng harvesting, food cultivation and preservation, and the moonshine business. Community gatherings, such as weddings, funerals, corn husking and apple butter boiling parties are also discussed, with passing mentions of Camp Hoover and local entrepreneur George Pollock, owner of nearby Skyland resort. Mr. Corbin, who was nearly 80 years old, gives an extensive account of many of the inhabitants of Nicholson and Corbin Hollows, as well as Corbin Mountain. The second eldest of 21 children, Corbin was related by blood or marriage to most of the surrounding families. Some of the more notable relatives mentioned include Corbin\u27s cousin George T. Corbin, builder of the landmark Corbin Cabin, Aaron Nicholson and Phinnel Fennel Corbin, who were both featured in George Pollock\u27s book Skyland: Heart of the Shenandoah Valley. Corbin describes two local murders, including that of his father, William J. Corbin, who was killed by a family member, John Nicholson, in 1922.https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/1025/thumbnail.jp

Entrevista a Danielle Corbin i Pierre Corbin, directors del Diploma europeu de lexicografia

Entrevista a Danielle Corbin i Pierre Corbin, directors del Diploma Europeu de Lexicografi

The Velocity Field of Quasar Broad Emission Line Gas

In this Letter, the broad emission line (BEL) profiles of superluminal quasars with apparent jet velocities, $\beta_{a}>10$, (ultraluminal QSOs, or ULQSOs hereafter) are studied as a diagnostic of the velocity field of the BEL emitting gas in quasars. The ULQSOs are useful because they satisfy a very strict kinematical constraint, their parsec scale jets must be propagating within $12^{\circ}$ of the line of sight. We know the orientation of these objects with great certainty. The large BEL FWHM, $\sim 3,000 \mathrm{km/s} - 6,000 \mathrm{km/s}$, in ULQSOs tend to indicate that the BEL gas has a larger component of axial velocity (either random or in a wind) along the jet direction than previously thought.Comment: To appear in ApJ Letter

[Review of] William H. Turner and Edward J. Cabell, eds. Blacks in Appalachia

The editors are a civil rights worker (Cabell) and an academician (Turner) who evidence a longstanding interest in the Appalachian region and especially in the place and history of black people there. The articles are grouped into eight parts: Basic Approaches, Historical Perspectives, Community Studies, Race Relations, Black Coal Miners, Blacks and Local Politics, Personal Anecdotal Accounts of Black Life, and Selected Demographic Aspects. According to Turner\u27s article on the demography of Black Appalachia, he defines Appalachia as the Appalachian Regional Commission counties in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia

The Intermediate Line Region in AGN: a region "praeter necessitatem"?

As a consequence of improved S/N, spectral resolution and wavelength coverage various authors have introduced, without strong justification, new emitting regions to account for various emission line profile differences in AGN. The so-called CIVlambda1549 intermediate line region (ILR) appears to be especially ill-defined. We present observational evidence that suggests the ILR is statistically indistinguishable from the classical narrow line region (NLR). We present the results of theoretical models showing that a smooth density gradient in the NLR can produce CIV and Balmer emission lines with different widths. The putative ILR component has often been included with the broad line profile in studies of CIV BLR properties. Failure to account for the composite nature of CIV emission, and for the presence of sometimes appreciable NLR CIV emission, has important consequences for our understanding of the BLR.Comment: 3 Figs. 1 Table, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letter

A search for HI in some peculiar faint dwarf galaxies

We present a deep Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) search for HI 21 cm emission from three dwarf galaxies, viz. POX 186, SC 24 and KKR 25. Based, in part, on previous single dish HI observations, these galaxies have been classified as a BCD, a dwarf irregular and a transition galaxy respectively. However, in conflict with previous single dish detections, we do not detect HI in SC 24 or KKR 25. We suggest that the previous single dish measurements were probably confused with the local galactic emission. In the case of POX 186, we confirm the previous non detection of HI but with substantially improved limits on its HI mass. Our derived upper limits on the HI mass of SC 24 and KKR 25 are similar to the typical HI mass limit for dwarf spheroidal galaxies, whereas in the case of POX 186, we find that its gas content is somewhat smaller than is typical of BCD galaxies.Comment: Accepted for publication in MNRA

Understanding the importance of collecting qualitative data creatively

IN ITS broadest sense, qualitative research encompasses any study that does not use statistical methods or quantify results (Strauss and Corbin 1990). Qualitative researchers undertake their work in the natural setting, attempting to understand or interpret phenomena in terms of the meanings people bring to them

(SNP042) Estelle Nicholson Dodson interviewed by Dorothy Noble Smith, transcribed by Sharon G. Marston

Records the reminiscences of Estelle Dodson, (née Nicholson), who grew up in a log house in Corbin Hollow, Virginia, prior to the establishment of Shenandoah National Park. Describes her early home and family life, household chores, and school days. Discusses the difficulties of making a living in the mountains during the Great Depression and her father\u27s work as a basket maker. Other sources of income included harvesting chestnuts and ginseng, and selling flowers and berries at nearby Skyland Resort. Recalls numerous members of the Dodson, Nicholson and Corbin families, including her grandfather, David Nicholson and her first cousin, George Corbin, who built Corbin Cabin in 1910. Also includes anecdotes regarding George Pollock, local entrepreneur and owner of Skyland, and the importance of the resort to the local economy. Estelle Dodson\u27s mother-in-law, who is only identified in the interview as Mrs. Dodson, contributes to the interview throughout. A note written on one of the transcripts identifies her as Mrs. Odie Dodson.https://commons.lib.jmu.edu/snp/1031/thumbnail.jp