A holler is actually a hollow, spelt in accent. It's a thin slash between two mtns (or overgrown hills). They are also called gaps, which is perhaps more descriptive in a way that is visual.
If you try to traverse (especially in the old days) the hills around here, you could be into all kinds of trouble. if you know where the gaps are, or how to find them, things go much easier. also, when in the woods here, you look for the deer trails. they are narrow, but findable, and the deer do know what they are up to... you find those, and follow, and you will get yourself about, not just be stumbling over rock outcroppings or fighting thru briars or such.
Now I am wondering of the historical reason for referring to them as hollows. |
