Donald Davidson first wrote “folk-chain” in his 1927 poem “Hermitage,” and later spoke of the “folk-chain of memory” in his 1966 lecture “The Center That Holds: Southern Literature & The Oldtime Religion.” These words had to wait another eighteen years before finding their way into print in
"Peace be to all who keep the wilderness / Cursed be the child who lets the freehold pass."
That hits hard.