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Tending the Commons

American Ginseng and the Idea of the Commons

by Mary Hufford

Reprinted from Folklife Center News 19, nos. 1 and 2, Winter-Spring 1997

I'll tell you what's dying here: the concept that the forest itself was open. . . . It didn't dawn on me until a couple of years ago when that began to change, that concept that the Native Americans had, that the land was like air or water--who could own it? David Stover, Mullens, West Virginia

The View from the Sundial Tavern

The Commons

Historical Background

Stalking the Wily Seng

Giles the Seng Man

Seng Talk and Ginseng Tales: Conjuring the Commons

Ginseng and the Future of the Commons

Notes

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Detail from Shelby Cantley Estep (Left), Natalie and Carla Pettry: three generations of ginseng hunters... Lyntha Scott Eiler. 1996/10/05. Library of Congress American Folklife Center.

Tending the Commons