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illegible handwriting.his job. No welfare system was in opera-
tion. Indeed, none was needed. Families
had pride.”
There was another way to know it.
“We’re not poor,” the patients of Adiron-
dack physician Daniel Way assured
him. “We just don’t have any money.”
And Johnsburg’s great poet, Jeanne
Robert Foster, would have understood.
Her stripped-down poems, which have
invited comparisons with Robert Frost’s,
consider rural poverty from the inside,
poverty not as it was gawked at or imag-
ined but how it lived and knew itself
inside its own worn skin. She would not
see herself as poor when others had it
worse. Lack of means was why her fam-
ily moved so much, and why her parents
farmed her out to relatives when she was
small. But impoverishment outright—
this was a neighbor whose children went
barefoot in winter, a farmwife who hung
the inside of her log cabin with comfort-
ers to stall the chill. Being poor, like being
rich, was a matter of perspective and a
situation as singular and various as the
stories that described it.
In 2018, the United Way argued for
a definition of poverty that takes into
account the plight of working people on
the brink, maybe as little as one lapsed
bank payment, blown transmission or
shut-down day care away from profound
distress. By this measure, 40 percent of
Adirondackers live in poverty. Does this
cohort figure in our image of the region?
In our lively conversations about region-
al identity and diversity? In our photog-
raphy contests, exhibitions and history
classes? How far have we come from the
era when poor Adirondackers could not
hope to find their experience represent-
ed as they knew and lived it? Data-driv-
en studies, symposia and news specials
do what they can but can’t speak from
the inside looking out. That perspective
is still missing. Our failure to learn and
face it has been our long loss.Historian Amy Godine wrote “The Closet,”
about segregation at an Adirondack summer
camp, in the August 2018 issue, and “Con-
servation’s Dark Side,” about eugenics in
the Adirondacks, in the February 2015 issue.
She’s been uncovering the history of the
region for Adirondack Life since 1989.A POOR VIEWSeptember + October 2019 ADIRONDACK LIFE 75