The Great Meadow Author:Elizabeth Mary Roberts 1930. American poet and novelist, Roberts is best known for her novels and stories of the Kentucky mountain people, whose dialect and customs she realistically portrayed. The Great Meadow Begins: 1773, and Diony, in the spring, hearing Sam, her brother, scratching at a tune on the fiddle, hearing him break a song over the taut wires and fling ou... more »t with his voice to supply all that the tune lacked, placed herself momentarily in life, calling mentally her name, Diony Hall. I, Diony Hall, her thought said, gathering herself close, subtracting herself from the diffused life of the house that closed about her. Sam was singing, flinging the song free of the worried strings, making a very good tune of it: See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.« less