The Lost Notebooks

Editor’s Note: Several of Ralph Deigh’s notebooks were lost in the Cibola flood. Ralph had been discussing some of the ideas for the Eden Plan with his friends, Adam and Edie Sennett, who had borrowed the notebooks and taken them to Cibola for weekend reading just before the flood.

Phil Anthropod

May 30, 2018

Notebook #4 — Bridges and Spans

Rural Appalachia has many — perhaps hundreds — of railroad and highway bridges and spans, most of which…

Phil Anthropod

May 27, 2018

Notebook #1 — Beyond The Cabin

This is the first of Ralph Deigh’s notebooks to be published in this forum. Deigh is a vernacular…

Phil Anthropod

Apr 8, 2018

Photo Credits

The notebooks of Ralph Deigh contain a great many photographs, but no actual photography is allowed in the community of Eden, West Virginia or of the ruins of the Cibola site. In general the editors have sought to give proper credit to the photographers whose work is shown. Wherever possible photos have…

Phil Anthropod

Apr 8, 2018

Pinterest Link

There are many photographs readily available on the Internet which either lack copyright information or for other reasons are not suitable for including in the Notebooks of Ralph Deigh series. Many of these are included in a Pinterest file named Ideas for an Appalachian Architecture which can be…

Phil Anthropod

Apr 5, 2018

Notebook #2 — Resorts, Courses & Parks

One of the points of interest in these notebooks is Ralph Deigh’s fascination with ski resorts, golf courses, and upscale amusement parks, like Disney World and Universal Studios, Orlando as points of interest in rural community design.

Phil Anthropod

Jun 30, 2017

Notebook #3 — Frank Lloyd Wright’s Academical Village

Phil Anthropod

Jun 4, 2017

Notebook #5 — Local Transportation

Editor’s Note: One of the interesting topics found in Ralph Deigh’s notebooks is a set of detailed…