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1:19 Charlie Thompson is a cultural anthropologist at Duke University, also a descendant, who wrote a book called Rock Castle Home that became this short film. “Learning about Rock Castle’s people, helps us remember the history, culture and stories that speak of the resilience of the human spirit, underlie almost every place on earth,” he says. Ann Mitchell Whisnant teaches graduate studies at Duke University. She says, when the parkway was built in the 1930 s, attempts were made to make the parkway more like a tourist attraction than an authentic representation of the real Appalachia.  “There’s a whole phenomenon of getting very enamored with a certain mythology about Appalachia. Particularly the idea that somehow this is a repository of American pioneer Values, and that somehow, the old ways, have persisted in this strange and odd region in ways that they haven’t in other parts of the country.”

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