MOUNTAIN TALK (full documentary, official video)
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- Mountain Talk (full movie)
featuring Popcorn Sutton, Jim Tom Hedrick, Gary Carden, Mary Jane Queen, Orville Hicks, Henry Queen and many others.
A film by Neal Hutcheson
A Production of the Language and Life Project at NC State University
This PBS and Documentary Channel favorite portrays the variety of language and culture of Southern Appalachia. The documentary is the first television appearance for both Popcorn Sutton and Jim Tom Hedrick and gave rise to several other television documentaries including The Last One, The Queen Family, Popcorn Sutton - A Hell of a Life, and others.
Produced and Directed by Neal Hutcheson
Executive Producers Walt Wolfram & Jim Clark
Narrated by Gary Carden
Camera / Editor Neal Hutcheson
(full credits in situ)
© 2003 & 2018 The Language and Life Project
www.languageandlife.org
Riddle me this. I am from Russia, and we also have mountain talk and people just like this. Here is the weird part. Even though I grew up with this type of talk, the words were in Russian, moved to the states and have been here since I was 5, but the thing is even though this is American, I can understand them perfectly fine. Its more than just words and language, its just a connection, and a simple understanding. One word explains a whole sentence. I found this very odd. Different countries, same lifestyle, different language.....but same understanding and feeling. My 2 cents.
I think that's a very profound understanding of language. I totally agree
Profound.
Wow God is amazing
I feel the same about "country" music. No matter the language or culture u can hear the country/farmer music.
Посмотрите фильм Счастливые люди. Там как раз об этом.
"We didn't know we were poor till the government came and told us."
What society could learn from these people...
Indeed
well, we just do not give a single f#ck
Destroy the government
That’s exactly what my Ma Maw would always say: because everyone around her was “poor.”
Amen
My dad was from Mississippi, poor as a shoelace. Biggest heart in the world. It showed, when he got cancer everyone from the our street in SE Portland came to fix up is home, mow his lawn. Anything we needed to make his last years more comfortable. When he retired from the railroad he collected and turn in over $10,000 in bottles an cans and donated every penny to charity. None of us knew till he passed and found his receipts. Smartest man I've ever known. Miss him lots 💜
Sounds like a sweet gentle man.
I'm from Dublin Ireland. I don't know where my love for the Appalachian trail documentaries came from but I find so much peace watching them. I've lived in Paris France for one year now and I've realized how kind and helpful Irish people are compared to everyone in France. Just like the folk In this documentary they go out of their way to help each other Just like the Irish at home in Dublin. Lots of the beautiful side of humanity still exists. Thanks for the documentary I absolutely love it and I'm watching it in bed with a cup of tea feeling at ease and at peace 😀. Love from Ireland ☘️☘️
I’m a scouser (with a lot of Irish dna) I also have a love of Appalachia documentary’s .
Check out donnie laws channel .
That is a fact. Irish people will go out of there way to help a stranger. I live in Maggie Valley North Carolina. In the Great Smokey Mountains. All my family and everybody born here is of Scotch Irish Decent. They are the most kind and loyal people on the face of the earth. If your car broke down. 10 people would stop to help. And if they couldn't get it running. One of them or there friends would have a trailer to get you back home. I would love to vist my motherland of Ireland one day. Good Vibes 👣
Lots of Appalachian people have Scots Irish including myself! have ancestors from Cork Ireland also who settled in the mountains. Love this
@@cobyporschifer221 I don't live far from you. I live in Cherokee. Born and raised here and I couldn't live nowhere else. My family ancestry on my dads side is German and my momma had alot of Cherokee in her. So I have alot of those features high cheek bones dark hair and eyes but I'm pale as a ghost lol. I'm thankful we live here but all these people moving here to retire are kinda destroying the culture here. Idk bout where you live but we've taken an extreme hit from illegal immigration I think that has caused the most noticeable decline in our way of life.
"We didn't know we was poor until the government come along and told us we were." These words are powerful and yet so dissonant from mainstream culture. Pure wisdom.
That quote puts a lot of things into perspective as far as how the times were changin. These hard workin people were getting along just fine as they did for hundreds of years. It's all they ever knew.
I laughed out loud when I heard that.. I live in Alabama, I grew up in the country (and it was amazing).❤
Wonder what time period we're talking here? I haven't watched the whole video yet, but large parts of Appalachia actually got pretty wealthy from coal and lumber in the late 19th century into the early 20th century. That eventually turned. The government started getting involved in the 1960s, I think, so that'd be a good candidate, but one of the main signs that the region was in trouble at that point was that people kept moving out.
Lifragen 2003
They weren't poor at all. They were just livin different.
RIP Popcorn.
My grandma was born in 1924 in the hills of WV, she told me she never seen or even knew what a car was until she was about 10 years old. I once asked her what was it like growing up through the great depression? She said "We never knew of things outside our small farm town. The concept of a nation wide economy never entered our
minds. Our farm through the grace of god and a little hard work, gave us everything we ever needed. The world may have ben depressed, but we never were". RIP Grandma.
LeeRoy Dundlehay 1ST
If it weren't for WWII none of the men in my hometown would have left the town.
Good story!
I can relate! My family is from WV and my great grandfather used to say he “remembered when the lights came on” in town for the first time.
Yeap, my mother was born in 1925, later she was asked by someone from the outside about growing up during the depression, she merely said, " We never even knew there were a depression".
Rest in Peace, Popcorn Sutton. You were a true master of your craft, and an American legend.
Okay so that is where my brain associates some of these faces. "MOONSHINER'S"
Popcorn was never in prohabition. He was a fucking idiot.
He was also a bootlegger, and, for whatever reason, he committed suicide.
@@diamondblue5327 I heard it was because of a three-strikes law. They were going to put him away for life and he decided he wasn't going out like that. When my dad was growing up in eastern KY, "revenuers" were despised and still are. You had to be veeeerrrry careful if you were one of those. There were a lot of old boys who could make you disappear and no one from the area would help you. You were stealing food out of babies' mouths.
He was dying, and his request to die at home under house arrest next too his wife was denied. He decided that killing himself was a fuck you too the law hence his gravestone reading "popcorn said fuck you"
I started dating a girl from the mountains of North Georgia and this is exactly how she talks. I joke about how she talks but honestly i love it. Something simple and honest about it. Low maintenance, honest and appreciative of what she has.
Lol I was mountain adjacent (rural Rustbelt- along the Ohio River) my husband is from LA. He calls me little Pennsyltucky. I bet he never thought when he was younger he'd marry a little barefoot girl crawling from a berry bush. Here we are lol definitely an endearing aspect to it.. and I've seen some insanely beautiful women around here and Appalachia.
Poverty?! These people are blessed in a way that the rest of the world can’t understand!
Kevin Tucker yes but Housing Construction is killed. All skills that have chosen this occupation has STARVED since around 2008. Still, this is my home. We or I have never accepted or applied for a food stamp. Just wasn't raised that way. I do accept VA healthcare but I feel I earned that for sure.
Thank you for your kind words about the people of Appalachia and God Bless
Chris Bolin what branch of military did you serve?
The entire rest of the world "can't understand," but I'm guessing that YOU can. Sure. Just you.
@@TheVeek192 you obviously do not get his point. We get it so your comment isn't needed.
Amen
I’m Algerian and worked in the oil field with people from the mountain who were the best people I’ve met in my whole life. Love from Algeria to the mountain people and the American people 🇺🇸
Love from America to Algeria
serious is very cool sincerely
Ben 10, to Algeria from America with love, take care care
Where did you work at Ben? I also am in the oil and gas industry. It's a small world really.
❤ from 🇺🇸✌
African /American here love love love this . Thank you hugs, compassion. Join my collective.
My dad used to play what the old folks of Campbell County, Tennessee called "Mountain Banjo", like the gentleman in this video. "Cripple Creek" was one of his favorites to play as well as "Cumberland Gap" and "Lonesome Reuben". We kids would sit for hours, listening to him play. We had a cow, a pony and a Mexican Burro as well as pigs, chickens, ducks and sometimes geese on the farm. Dad would plow the half acre garden and all of us would work in it, raising potatoes, corn, beans, tomatoes, onions, lettuce, cabbages, cucumbers, pumpkins, beets, turnips and radishes. We canned many, many half gallons of tomatoes, green beans, and pickles every summer to last us through the winter. We had a "cold" room at the back of the house where we stored lots of bushels of potatoes as well as all the jars of canned food. Mom and dad would buy flour, meal, sugar, salt, black pepper and other staples. The rest we grew ourselves. I miss my parents and the old home where life was hard, but so real and sweet.
Life was harder but it was much more simple. I wish life would go back to those days, I feel the world was better off.
I’m about 30 minutes away from Campbell county, I love traveling and seeing the country but there’s something so special about coming home and being in these mountains
“Just as soon be in Hell with my back broke as to live in Washington DC“
“We didn’t know we was poor till the government came along and told us we were”
These are people I could hang out with.
@Charles and Heather Wade that's some purty country. Ruggedly beautiful!
Heck yeah, used to live in East TN, I miss it there. Plan on moving back hopefully by the end of summer. KY is beautiful too!
I might could hang over yonder as well.
i was just telling some one about you talking about you just as soon break your back than to live back in dc,it's been awhile since i seen the video,crazy that it came up in my feed & your's was the first comment.
Indeed 100%
Nothing wrong with 'mountain talk'. I hope we never lose it.
my wife gets a laugh when I tell her to give me a knife she says i say nife and leave out the k sound and i guess I do my niece always got tickled when I would say "I got in a fite with a brite nite lite .lol"
Well hell far i always thought the k was suposed to be silent
Can't say I've ever heard it pronounced without a silent k. Your wife must be the one with the funny accent.
Amen. Well said brother
I hope it's never lost as well.
I'm from Ireland myself, you can see the similarities with the singing and dancing & language, it's beautiful to watch, I must visit someday 🇮🇪 ❤ 🇺🇲 ☘
I'm from the Appalachian Mountains and I've only been to Ireland once, qc few years ago. There are arriving similarities, due to the fact that the Scots-Irish heavily settled in these areas. My grandfather spoke with a mix of of Irish and Appalachian speek, using some of the same phrases and words that are used in Ireland. You'll find that in the smallest Appalachian mountain towns, the people are just as happy and friendly as the people I met in Ireland. My grandfather and his brother and friend playing banjos and flat-footed - very much like the Irish jigs. In fact it was called 'dancing a jig'. Failtè and welcome from the Appalachian Mountains of VA.
That’s Paris but if you go down to the country areas of southern France, they are amazing friendly people! I’m An Australian who can’t speak French and they felt the same as home warm and friendly
The ancestry of the Appalachians is full of Scotch and Irish. So the roots of their ancestors are deep
Appalachia is inhabited by the descended children of Scotland, Ireland, Northern England and Wales.
@@robwalsh9843 the Irish invented moonshine poitín and brang it to America even how these people dance comes from Irish Seán nós dancing the Irish left there print the Irish gaels who brang Gaeilge Gaelic to Scotland and the Isle of man and parts of Wales the Scottish were pics from picland spoke pictish wipe out by the Saxons Irish called it Albain Mac MC ní ó all irish Gael bloodlines Tál.
My God…..the beauty of the Appalachians, and the blue ridge mountains. You just can’t describe that, you have to see it. And, the people are amazing.
It’s the most beautiful place in the world to me! The mountains are just high enough-not frightening at all. They hold mist daily and the tops hold snow all winter and then the waterfalls are everywhere! Between Asheville and Cherokee in the fall-It glows the most beautiful bright yellow with the leaves. I lived there for several years and wish I hadn’t left.
@@beastshawneeman the truckers talk about you on the CB.
Gonna have a ship-the-leaves-to-you service for the leafers to stay home any day now
Can we take a second to appreciate how well done this doc is?
True
Amen, I’m from Elizabethan Tennessee best people in the world are from East Tennessee .
I grew up nearby. This documentary is true! Surprised they let you into their ranks.
Makes we want to go there! Beautiful documentary!
Go on then 🙄..💯👌🏻😉..we use lots of colloquial phrases and names in the uk
I am a black woman that visit mountain people years ago and they treated me so well. I love them.
No freggin way! I was just thinking about that!
Right? The people the media would have you expect to be opposite.. makes ya wonder.
Ur just another woman round here. What color ya are don't make no difference
@@VRose-ig4qj Most folks from that area judge by character. How you carry yourself. Manners are very important. Color of your skin means nothing.
@@boharris8179 My, how 'special' that is!
I have never had any wanting to go to, or even see America. Yet when I see the people of Appalachia, these are the places I would love to visit. To me these people are the real Americans. Real down to earth very unpretentious people👍🏼
These places exist everywhere across the U.S. It's a large country. Just avoid major cities.
There are multiple Americas. What the TV or Internet presents you with isn't the whole story, and it never was.
Pretty pretentious to call a bunch of hicks "real" Americans. What's a real American?
I've been to the US 3 times now. I'm more of a nature lover but when traveling in between national parks, I spend the night, shop and eat in smaller towns you've never heard of and I've never met, heard or saw any bad people there. Met an old campsite owner in Casper, Wyoming that operated his campsite from an old locomotive turned office. First thing he did after booking us was complain about how his company was bought by a bigger company and now he had to log guests with a computer now, and he couldn't handle computers. Literally the: "Back in my day..." speech, but I loved listening to it haha. And in Utah I spend the night next to Americans who shared their wine with us if they could share our campfire. They popped their trunk to show us it was chockful of firearms and this was their vacation - moving from the big city to the desert, do some shooting on ranges. And surprise, they were democrats. Dems who love guns, yes sir, they exist haha. I told him, it felt like I found a rare Pokemon or a unicorn or something lol.
And in Arizona I had just gotten back from a long and dry hike that nearly killed me because I had underestimated the dryness of the desert so much. Got back to the RV, drank some water, and a car pulled up next to us. And old man. Started talking to us, telling us - in a very kind manner - that we can't spend the night here. Said we weren't planning on it, we had a campsite nearby. He proceeded to tell us he came here every night to look over Phoenix in the distance as the sun would set over it. Think about life. He was a veteran of WWII and it was close to memorial day. He was more than eager to tell me his story. Kinda got the impression that he was very lonely, kinda sad, so we stayed with him for quite some time until it got dark.
Stuff like that, you know :) Encounters like that aren't unique to the US, but the people you meet, their stories, the places they live, it all gave me a misplaced sense of dejavú, because the most I saw of the USA, was through movies and later youtube of course.
So stay home then!
I grew up with most of my family in being in Southern Louisiana. Many parts of South Louisiana are also isolated. They have their own style of music, cooking & dialect. It's called Cajun. I miss swimming in the fish hatcheries, crawfish/shrimp boils, big family gatherings, & the loud talking & laughter. Some of my relative's homes were only accessable by boat on the bayous.❤️😊
I live far north of you. Shreveporter here. 😆
Coonass' are the happiest friendliest people around nobody like um.
A year behind you but I’m Cajun and I get excited when someone mentions cajuns
Our culture is different but it is all beautiful!
Appalachia, one of the MOST breathtakingly beautiful parts of the USA.
I live in WV. I grew up in the Appalachian Mountains and I will die here! It is breathtakingly beautiful! And I have that "weird" language. My youngest daughter says I talk hick-billy! I just say whatever!
Hardly Whoudini you can tell ya ain’t never lived there. If anything, they work harder than folks in city offices because life is 10x harder in these areas. Relying on farming for food is no lazy lifestyle! As far as welfare, there still aren’t many options for work in these areas. A lot of areas used to be big mining towns. Once they closed, unless you could pack up and leave to a working mine, poverty sat in. Neighbors started helping each other to survive. You will not meet sweeter and friendlier people than mountain folk. You won’t go hungry. Car problems? Multiple people are gonna stop to try to help. KY born, SC raised. I live off a single lane gravel road and the only traffic is from horses or tractors. I wouldn’t change it for anything, other than to move back to the Appalachians. Absolutely gorgeous everywhere you look.
@@mutleyadamsracing2684 Common misconception. Come visit. Friendliest folks you'll ever meet.
From Georgia to Maine
Como los del rancho except sound more like english folk like lol. But you get light skin pretty colored eye mountain indigenous self reliant people. Diff but just important and amazing.
I drove through the Appalachian mountains in the 1980's. When people heard a motor they came out on the porch. I talked with them. If I wasn't in the Navy I would have stayed. I married one of them. Amazing woman, I wish she still lived. I have children but no woman like her.
Damn brother. Sorry for your loss
Hugh Jassman hi, what happened?
I'm so sorry for you loss.
Living in a very rural area it seems everyone knows when someone is coming, I knew every car that came down that gravel road.. nobody could get the jump on us.. my dad knew when I was coming home either by the sound or by the way our dogs would react.. even though I was still a mile or two away from the house.. it was normal to just go to the door when you heard someone coming.. it was a sixth sense almost. If you didn’t grow up that way you just don’t notice these things or don’t care.
If you love this comment, and if you teared up (like I did) then you’re either already a whole human, or you want to be a whole human.
I want to be a whole human, like the people in this video.
This is so interesting! In Scotland we still say "a poke of chips" meaning a bag of chips (french fries).
Priceless! I am a proud Appalachian. I love my people and beautiful mountains. Thank you for this amazing video.
Love from an Englishman too, cousin.
Native South Carolinian here! I have people all the time say “I love your accent “. I say “honey, you’re in the south. YOU have the accent!” Lol
That's a good one 😂
My folks have been in the South for almost 400 yrs, first in N Carolina & Virginia, but they came to Alabama immediately following the War. I was born in ATL and raised just North of Birmingham. The majority of the older folks I grew up around sound very similar to these folk. Lots of the same expressions and cadence of language. That said, we have more of a drawl that people think of when they think of a Texan. I remember a few years back I was talking to a store clerk in Florida and she asked me if I was from Alabama, lol. Folks outside of the South don't realize that we ALL sound a bit different or a lot different depending on what area we came from and that's no one particular Southern accent.
Donna Jernigan 👍🏼👍🏼❤️❤️❤️❤️
Same! I'm from Easley SC but I live in Idaho now
In spite of society's efforts to rid me of it, I refuse to feel ashamed of my southern accent and I won't water it down to make anyone else feel comfortable.
Outchonder, in yonder, over yonder, okrey, taters, might could, ain't got no, yep, I could go on. Not getting rid of that to suit a single soul.
Don't ever change!
@@justpassingby997 🤗🤗🤗
My daddy still says he’s stoved up when his back is hurtin. Some time he sounds like a banjo falling down the steps when he’s a speechin!!
@@tracycornwell9901 😂😂😂😂 🤗🤗
@Cave nug you mean aight now? 😉😉
I've watched this probably 5 times. I love America Soo much!!! The diversity, the grit, the pride. Hardworking great people. Not only in the mountains but nation wide, we all have a story. ♥️🇺🇸🇺🇸
Brian Zantac- Thank you, very much, from an American. God bless you, Friend.
I appreciate the sentiment, but I hope you can also realize that the same is true in every part of the world, just speaking different languages. You love America because it’s what you understand the best because you were born here, and for no other reason. Humans are great anywhere when you let ‘em live on their own terms
@@cretaceoussteve3527 oh I can absolutely agree with that. The world is incredible. Humans are incredible
As someone who suffers from depression occasionally, holy WOW am I happy to have stumbled across this video. Not only am I in love with seeing the appalachian way of life, theres a lot of paralels I can draw from being an "acadian mountain boy" myself. But yeah point being, it warms my heart to see so much love and positivity on this page, to each and everyone one of you, I love you and bless you all :)
Wtf does having depression have to do with anything. Don't be a weirdo
Mountain "hillbillies" are some of the nicest, and most humble people on this earth. And their culture is richer than outsiders can comprehend. Thank God I live in these Appalachian hills!
I wouldn't want to live anywhere else
idk about "nicest", that song the old lady sings at 47:50 talks about her dad coming home drunk and hitting the kids.
@@TheAverageAmerikan pff it's a song. In today's culture you hear songs promoting killing people, doing drugs, stealing, and sleeping around. Some people today would've been better off if their parents hit them
I love these hills and hollers of these mountains!!! I thank GOD I was born and raised here!!!
@@pewpew9193 Me neither!!!
God this is so nostalgic. I moved from Appalachia when I was a kid, I miss the culture so much. I wish other Americans understood and appreciated it more
That's the saddest part and it does make cultures die when the young come up coming have to move away to go get better jobs or attend college...
And hardly ever come back. Home... Again....
Instead they mail money home to Mommy and Daddy..... The times are passing.... And we don't know how much our Mountain cultures are going to be affected by the modern temporary conveniences that will be imposed upon every member of the United States....
You. Gotta hold fast to Tradition...
Because if you if you let it go it turns into history..
And the devil take the hindmost.!
Meh, we tend to ruin what we appreciate a lot sooner anyway
Hi Rachel,
I am writing a paper on hillbilly and mountian culture and how the sterotypes that most percieve, would you be willing to be a part of a small interview? Ive done a few with other folks from kentucky but Im needing a few others to really get a picture of the culture from people within it.
Thanks
Dave
@@davidhirschv7903 That said I’m from Pennsylvania. If you want to know anything about the culture of northern Appalachia and coal country up here for your paper, then please message me. I feel like people don’t know much about our culture and I’d be happy to help you out.
I have a Mexican culture but I loveeeeeeeeee Appalachian culture, the music, and dancing… everything! I wish I was born around that culture tho
Best Statement in the whole vidya - "it was a good life and I'd like to live that again" I love these people and thank God I was able to be raised not too far from them.
I was born in ‘63 in Atlanta and my family moved every couple years all over the country and the thing that grounded me was coming back home and seeing my grandparents and great aunts and uncles and they told me the stories about where we came from and what life was like back in their day. This documentary encompasses half of every story I ever heard as a kid! After spending half my life in Los Angeles I moved to Southern Appalachia to live out the stories myself in my old age!
I was also born in ‘63
I was born in 53’…don’t feel old yet 😉😉Loved this video as I love true History ♥️
You must've been a military dependent.
@@thekidfromiowa AT&T brat!
@@onetakewillie I forgot there are civilian jobs with transience on par with the military. Luckily I've lived in the same place since my first birthday.
I live in Ireland I love watching documentaries about Appalachian people id love to hang out with them
And we would welcome you with open arms. And in a few weeks you would sound just like we do.
Katie siobhan we all would. I’m from Louisiana
I’m from Eastern Kentucky, God’s Country.. I wouldn’t change a thing.. I love my home, people, and our ways.. I was taught early by outsiders and others to hide it, but now I celebrate my ways.. Im proud to be Appalachian, Eastern Ky by the grace of God.. No place better to be..
To be fair, these people are from the Carolinas.. Different from Eastern Ky, way different, but we all share the love for the mountains and our heritage.. I That’s our common piece..The mountains..
Katie siobhan we are the same people, just separated by a few years and a ocean.
I got a new boss and he was from the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee. We all rolled our eyes when we first heard him talk. "Who's this country bumpkin?" we all said. I looked down to see if he was wearing shoes. I wrote him off and told everyone that he's never going to make it in this business. I judged the book by it's cover. Turns out he had a Masters from the University of Tennessee in mathematics. He is one of the most intelligent, thoughtful, insightful and genuine people I have ever met. He is self aware. He is always making fun of himself, saying his eyes are too close together, the large sloping forehead, his speech could qualify as it's own language. A great guy and a friend. I ate crow for sure. And he knows it. I see him in bars doing that Good Will Hunting thing with strangers who automatically try and talk him down. They all walk away shaking their heads.
You should take a look at yourself. Sounds like you have a judgment issue.
I'm from Tennessee and it's always blown my mind that so many other Americans are actually ignorant and foolish enough to think someone from a particular area of the South must be stupid or uneducated. That's making some dumbass assumptions.... like thinking all black people must be criminals or something like that lol. Honestly I haven't met anyone from any other part of the country whose intelligence was abnormally impressive or anything...
Takes time to get to know people and if we give them some time we often find they are like walking books of interesting knowledge and stories...
@@itcantbetruebutis7778 that's a fact. People limit their experiences by judging others by what they see. I would be proud to spend time with any of the mountain folk. I admire and envy their traditions and close family ties. People are so quick to turn their backs on family nowadays. That notion never crosses their mind. I respect that.
@@cyn6607 well said and I couldn't agree more with everything you said.
I loved it people so beautiful. I live in New Zealand and have visited that part of your country. I even walked up that lookout in the Smokey mountains. Live free and be blessed.
Sadly, most of the people in this documentary have passed on now, including my wife's uncle and grandma Henry and Mary Jane Queen. I was born and raised here and my younger years were like living inside this documentary. But this culture is disappearing fast. I'm proud of my mountain heritage and I will hold on to everything my parents and grandparents and neighbors taught me because I'm afraid I'll see our culture disappear in my lifetime. Thank you Neal for making this documentary so when it is gone, we'll still get to look back at how it once was.
I live in Scotland (God's country). and i speak fairly broad scots. I am 61 years old and even in my lifetime i see a lot of the old words and sayings dissapearing, however when i listen to you folks i can hear a lot of the words my Nana used thank heavens for you folks and isolation don't let the bastards make you speak PROPER thanks for the film
Your people settled here first. We gained our accents and slang from the Scottish. Thanks!!!!!
J Steven Anderson That’s what mountain/country culture is. We are those Scottish descendants who have done both; developed in an English way, and have also kept a significant part of language and culture.
Nah, Wales is God's country (fy ngwlad) changing English vocabulary doesn't matter to us as we speak our own language. Cymraig
You put a huge smile on my face! Thank you from the mountains of East Tennessee U.S.A. ❤
CreamyTrumpet My family comes from Wales and influenced these mountains just as much as the scots-Irish. My paternal ancestor was Jeremiah Williams, and came to Virginia from an area near the Brecon Beacons.
I'm from Australia and was never exposed to banjo music but there is something about it that resonates with me, it's an uplifting sound
Antipodean33 , plenty of really good banjo pickers in Australia, real good.
Antipodean33 I love it too , wish I was born there .
Antipodean33 it was constant growing up, people would get together and play and sing almost every weekend. Banjo, fiddle, autoharp, guitar, sometimes even a handsaw and a wash board.
Have you ever seen the movie"the deliverance"?
Antipodean33 sound of freedom. Semper Liberi Montani
It's so nice to see something celebrating Southern, rural and Mountain culture instead of denigrating and running us down. This is worth a million bucks.
I’m not from that area but any time someone someone slanders people like this, they will encounter resistance from me.
@@jpbefree I was born in this area and they can slander it as much as they want.
If you think mountain talk is difficult to understand, try listening to someone from the bayou in Mississippi! When I was in the ARMY, one guy had a southern drawl that nobody could understand for about the first month we were there. I became good friends with him a few months in, but I still had to pay close attention when he was talking to me, because every sentence sounded like one word. It's ironic that most people think these people are uneducated, just because of the way they talk, when they wouldn't be able to survive if they were lost in the woods. These people have so much knowledge about how to live without going to Walmart, or Home Depot for everything. God bless y'all. 🙏
I miss my grandma soon much. If you asked her how she was, she said fair to midlan.cooked everything in lard and made cornbread in a cast iron skillet. She called us youngish. If we wanted candy, she said go outside and eat ya some of those apples or sugar pears off the tree. I always to eat the grapes off the vine. Wish times were still like that today. She would sing ol dan tucker for us kids. LOVE AND MISS YOU GRANDMA!!
Ole dan tucker was a mighty old man washed his face with a frying pan combed his hair with a wagon wheel died with a toothache in his heal get out the way old Dan tucker your too late to get your supper.suppers over and breakfasts a cooking old Dan tucker just stand there a lookin.
I love the fair to middling , heard that many times when i was growing up in Scotland
I just love how happy and proud everyone is to share their story. You can watch their face light up when they get asked to share their old mountain words
They are proud. What's sad is that these days, lots of people push the idea that being proud of your culture or heritage is a bad thing. They would have you believe that if you're proud of your culture that you aren't receptive of other cultures. Which anyone with any critical thinking skills knows is hogwash, but some will still push that narrative. They imply that some people are allowed to be proud of their culture while others aren't. It's a shame and I'm glad to see many in here recognize the fact that it is perfectly fine for these people showcased to be proud of their culture and show others how they live.
Every area of America has it’s own dialect and I love it.
@@boddaboom77 In this sad day of political correctness / cancel culture. People going the wrong way down a one way road. Instead of shame and denial. People should stand proud and treasure our differences.
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@@juaquiene7733 It's an AGENDA, and I know WHO is behind it all!
I grew up in Eastern Kentucky right across the river from Kermit West Virginia. Moved to Illinois the Chicagoland area at 9 years old. I went back a lot as a kid and all my family sounded way different than me and they kept telling me I had the accent but in my head they had the accent. But this whole documentary made me smile and think of my grandparents that are now gone my great aunts and uncles that are now gone all my cousins that no longer live there... I couldn't help but refill the way I felt being in those mountains when I was a kid. It's just something about the Big Green mountains and the valleys all the rivers every time it rains there's waterfalls and people that have more love for you than anybody ever really met in Chicago for the last 30 years. I moved to Tennessee in 2020 but since I married and raised city folk we live around the Nashville area, by my eyes and my heart still belong to these mountains. At around the 8 minute Mark when he said flower the way my mom said it when I was a kid my heart melted with so much happiness and memories. She tried so hard to get rid of her accent but that was the one word she could never get rid of. She's gotten better but from time to time she slips even nowadays. And she grew up most of her life in those mountains.
I am from Southern Indiana.The Ohio River divides Indiana from Kentucky. The farther south that you go in Indiana you frequently hear mountain talk. And it gets more prevalent the farther south you travel excluding the Louisville area. A song that always reminded me of how rough and tough living in Appalachia was is a Coat of many Colors by Miss Dolly Parton.
My husband had never been on an escalator when he moved to be with me. . He called the high rise buildings in Denver “cement buildings”. I still laugh,but he’d help ANYONE out who needed it!
I smiled when reading you Corina, great share
Look up Trevor Noah's comedy routine "Zambia loves escalators." I think you'll get a kick out of it.
Welcome to the South!
Cuz, make no mistake you are a pupupupupiiiiieeece
God bLess him! I live in Denver btw
Released in 2003, before the meth plague hit the rural areas. Wish things could return to more wholesome times.
Rural areas have been devastated economically since the govt.'s war on labor unions. The Reagan era truly destroyed the economic security of Appalachia.
Source: from North GA
rustie No... no, I don’t think it was that... you can look at Detroit’s unions if you want to see what unchecked unions do. Pretty sure if you actually just left them alone and didn’t tax them, or involve them in government programs, they probably go back to the way things were, or move... either way they’d start contriving things locally to start businesses. They’re a microcosm of when you allow the feds to dictate too much, like the divide between North New York state, and populous dictatorial Downstate, they want to separate.
Agreed
powerful comment. meth destroyed the culture of these areas. its crazy that a substance has that power
Thats what I was just thinking .
My whole family is from this area. We have been there for generations. This documentary made me proud of my heritage. Mountain life is full of hard work, and it's less complex than the world around us. I wouldn't change my heritage for anything in this world. I have lived in major cities like Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and Baltimore, but my real home is in those mountains.
As an English teacher, I was curious about Mountain language. In college I studied language like old and middle English which is where those words originated. Suddenly it made it all seem to me that these crazy words weren't just "hillbilly" nonsense. When I was a kid, I couldn't understand why my family spoke differently than everyone else's. Learning to read was confusing with their accents. I would be in Northern school having teachers yell at me because I didn't pronounce words the same way others did. It wasn't the way that I heard it at home. Growing up and still to this day my friends will say, "I love your parents' accents". My brother and I never noticed until someone pointed it out. We learned to be one way at home and another way at school and with our friends.
My dad was an executive for a major cooperation and a very intelligent man, but people thought he was a hillbilly just because he had an accent. His response was the best. He said, "It took me 40 some odd years to get this accent. It isn't going anywhere now" To this day he believes that if he hadn't had that accent he could have gone even further in the company. Having a accent in Trenton, NJ was something they just didn't understand.
Even though I grew up in the North, I still consider myself a Southern girl. By the way, my Dad grew up near the Sutton family. My grandpa told my Dad and his brothers to stay away from the whole Sutton family. They were bad news. They were drunks and got into trouble with the law often. I guess he just didn't want them drinking moonshine. lol Evidently, their trouble-making went back several generations. lol
Yes, in my life, I have seen the area down there change. It makes me sad that it isn't the place it was when I was a child. I miss my Grandma and Grandpa and all the old folks that have passed on. A lot of our culture died with them. Many of the words they used aren't spoken much and more. It was amazing to hear many of them again in this documentary.
The sickest part of it all is that Florida people have moved in all over those mountains and built summer homes. These homes have destroyed the view of the mountains. It disgusts me. I mean generations of my family farmed and ranged cattle in those hills. My Cherokee ancestors hunted, fought and died there. But it's okay because they need to have a pretty view. Ugh! I am sorry this comment was so long. I just wanted folks to know my connections to this area. Mountain lives matter!
Popcorn is riding in the truck he used to pass over with. I love his story. In a world where the government seems to be blatantly tightening the reigns it still warms my heart someone went on their own terms. Some will say they are sad he left, but when it’s either fight or flight... he fought back... his tombstone is a testament that Americans won’t back down.
He went on his own terms, fighting back, yet just a few years later we find out it’s legal to burn down a police stations, loot retail stores, kill cops, etc…. All Popcorn wanted was to make a few buck’s selling some shine between consenting adults.
Please explain, if you can. I know he passed; knew he was in a fight, muddy on the details-regarding both.
@@sherylreed3558 he was going too federal prison for making moonshine .
He didn't use that truck he used a Ford Fairmont car.
@@jbrown1971 yes, I understand that
Thats jim tom! From moonshiners! That dude is a legend! This town has the best shiners! Popcorn Sutton too! God rest his soul.
Im from England and my dad is full Irish and i dont have a problem understanding them at all so it makes sence that it sounds Irish, even there dancing is like Irish dancing
And Scotland! My grandmother's family was living there too! W.V. Originally from Scotland.
Well,i'm from Croatia and i have more problem with Aussie accent or speech
More Scottish
My dad could do all those dances. Bobby helms was impressed.
I live in SC. I understand a majority of it because we have the same jargon here in Lexington, SC. My ancestors are from Chaleston and North Carolina.
I'm so happy I growed up with folks like this I couldn't imagine living anywhere else
Greetings from Santo Andre (metropolitan area of São Paulo city, Brazil).
I appreciate this documentary. I love studying the culture of a country and its folks. Love the appalachian accent - reminds me those good times when I used to watch some Western movies with my grandpa.
What a nice people!
Best regards
Reminds me of sitting at the thanksgiving table listening to grandma and papaw telling stories. Appalachian folks are some of the best people in this whole country. I’m so thankful for my roots
Aww bless. Thank you for yr comment. I miss my grandparents dearly.
Anybody else call their grandmother mamaw? Mamaw and Papaw.
@@arroganceinvictus yes!
Now I'm a Mamaw myself ❤️
True !
Hell ya good times with family and friends nothing better 💯
North Carolinian here. Moved to New Hampshire. Ladies love me accent. Sometimes they don't understand what I mean. Asked a coworker once to carry me to the store. Look in his face was priceless.
Carry me to the store. I'll have to remember that one.
What's wrong with saying carry me to the store? West Tennessee here.
@@65sheilakay I'm from Minnesota born and raised and can tell you I've never heard that saying before! We just say "take me to the store". I can tell you it would probably be taken quite literally by a northerner, as if you are asking us to physically pick you up and carry you to the store 😂
vermonter here, Bubs. where in NH?
Born and raised in North Carolina and I always wanted to go to California but I learned to love North Carolina and I ain’t ever going up north to stay
I’m a Spence over 50 and was raised in rural Illinois in farm country, my Grandfather walked up here from Ky but before that we was from Spence field area. Our family still uses a LOT of these sayings and here i am 4 generations removed.
My grandparents were from the mountains and hills of Kentucky. I understood every single person in this video because I grew up with these ways and this kind of talk. I'm proud of that, proud of my ancestry and where my kinfolk come from. 🥰❤️❤️
"People had time for each other." Amen!
Sometime too much time. If you know what I mean. Dead serious. Let’s not romanticise rural poverty, lack of access to education and opportunities, and a kind of clannishness that has been pretty racist. And sexist. And conformist. Ask some of the Black Americans and Native Americans, like ME, whose families are from there about “day-to-day” in the mountains. We have stories.
@@MarianDouglasUngaro Do tell.
@@MarianDouglasUngaro I can only imagine what you might have been through. I hate that part of our heritage. I cried a little the day Obama was elected just thinking how far we had came as a country. With that being said I look at our country now and it breaks my heart to see Americans having their constitutional rights taken daily by groups not with America's best interest at heart. I honestly thought that Obama would bridge the gap in our country but to be honest I believe he widened it even more. It's sad to me when I can't use the manners that I was raised with in greeting a man or woman the way God made them, I don't mind being corrected and educated but don't chastise someone for seeing what they see. Our government has overstepped its bounds in some ways that a government should. I hope and pray that one day we all can live in an UNITED STATES OF AMERICA together in peace and with equal rights to all and not just some. God bless you ma'am, and God bless us all.
Actually its the opposite, we spend most our time talking with people we will never know.
Amen brother
This brought tears to my eyes. My Grandfather used to pour grease on bread for his meal. He didn't have to eat that way anymore, he just did.
Boots Snow awe i hear you. My papa doesnt have to eat poor either, he tries to though. We try not to let him.
My dad did that with bacon drippins
🥰❤️
even in the good times when i'm living well I still find myself saving grease, drippings, and freezing bones to use for soup. I doubt I'll ever stop!
From Tennessee. Yes, my father still ate fried Spam for lunch when he had 100,000 dollars in the bank and a paid for house. I would tell him he didn't need to live like that anymore and he would just laugh. He lived to be 85. I might not make it that far and I eat healthy meals. He may have been on to something.
My grandparents from West Virginia talked just like this. My grandfather became aeronautics engineer (worked on Apollo 11 launch - through Challenger Missions) / so it doesn't mean a person isn't intelligent! He only had a 5th grade education - but Aced any engineering requirements in order to do that type of work. He could fix anything / and was really loved by his co-workers @ AeroJet.
When people hear our accent that assume we're idiots but we have some of the smartest people (and some of the prettiest).
I remember seeing this on the Documentary Channel years ago. I know many of these people must
gone by now, but they are so warm and wonderful I could listen to this all day! Awesome culture!
I'm a Bondurant raised in Reidsville, NC. Watching this has brought back so many memories of my family long gone. My family moved from the mountains (shiners) to make a legal living. The movie "Lawless" was written by my 3rd cousin.
@Robin Bondurant Wood
Wow. I really enjoyed that movie and learning about the Bondurant's. Thanks for sharing.
Wow such a small world! My ex’s family is from Reidsville! His Dad, God rest his soul, was a primitive baptist preacher. I kept the last name Wray which is their name! Really enjoyed that movie!!
I'm a 55yr old Scot and I still put my stuff in a poke..
I'm from Ulster and it really was surprising how many of the words were things my granny would have said, or even my parents, and a few are things I would say
@True Me I dinny think he is my mammy ,ma granny and my grandma ALL have been oot fer a poke o chips , maybe try learning about our language afore you act like a halfwit ...or as they say in mountain talk "ye g'damn peckerwood"
@True Me peckerwood
@True Me did I....wow ...now I have some uneducated Twat telling me 41 years of my life is " from the internet " lmao . The only poke your likely to see is in the eye...and from a sharp stick ..why dont you get out there and experience life .maybe get yourself a woman, party a little instead of proving how much of a 14 year old incel u are .
@@rjones3459 lol,yep, and he might not be a Scot either. But I know my bloodline is. I lived across by Kentucky at the foothill of Missouri. My mama would say these words and we just thought we talked normal. They hear me talk and ask me where I'm from cause I moved down here to Niloxi Ms. Cajuns have a whole new way of talkin' I love listenin' to both cultures but I love my mountain folk more cause my family talked like mountain folk too! Wish Id've moved over that way but I followed my sisters....💕
Live this little Documentary.. Lived in the Appalachian Mountains my entire 39 year life and ill remain here until the end.. Its a wonderful thing to be able to travel States away and still feel at home, and thats what us Appalachian peoples have.. It is a very special thing..
I could listen to these people all day long! they are all So happy and friendly
26:30 “When the gentleman said it was a good life. I’d like to live it again” That really struck me. They all have nothing but positive things to share. Misery and sadness doesn’t seem to be a common theme in life like in city and suburban living. This is so fascinating and beautiful to me. I live in Maryland about an hours drive from the Appalachian. I’ve often wondered what the lifestyle is like out there. Is it sad? Is it boring? This video has finally answered some of those questions for me. People of the Appalachian seemed to be blessed with community, rich in culture and gifted with a sense of peace within them. It was a pleasure to watch. Blessing from MD.
There is a sense of tranquility here.
I'm only in my 40's. I was able to roam wherever I wanted, the only threats were wildlife (bears, snakes, etc.), I remember not locking our doors when we would go somewhere.
Neighbors were usually family by blood or marriage. If you were doing things that you shouldn't, you could expect to be corrected by someone else or even get a whipping if it was bad enough.
I wouldn't trade those memories for anything, it's a good life here.
Its just a documentary. I grew up deep in Coal country. trust me theres plently of misery back there: lots of people hooked on painkillers or meth, lots of drunks, family sexual abuse shit, etc. its the same everywhere.
@@josephkowalczyk7459 that is true as well, sadly. Case in point: Documentary from a few yrs ago called "Oxyana".....that one highlights the drug use in WV
@@josephkowalczyk7459 As someone from a different part of Appalachia, i can say that my experience is similar to yours.
@@josephkowalczyk7459During the whole of this doc you can hear people saying: "Back then", or "people used to". I think all these people will agree with you that things have changed for the worse. I hope life and tech will develop in such a way that towns like these will not die out, but thrive on something new.
I find this so relaxing. I love hearing different English dialects - here in England you can travel 20 miles down the road and they'll talk noticeably different to at home. Plus the genuine pleasantness of these people is very comforting, people really are nicer out in the sticks than in towns.
I am from n Ireland and I can relate to many of these words and sayings, it’s near the same lingo a wee used. Had to smile when I heard a wean of these words, enjoyed this program.
I worked with a guy that lived in the mountains outside of Asheville North Carolina. Best man I ever met
I'm Tennessean and the accent is different but the words are all the same. My Dad still says "Y'all come go with us" when we leave someplace and "Stay a while it's quite (quiet) and pacefull (peaceful)'' when someone is leaving the house. I believe when society collapses the Appalachian people will still be here 100 years after just like we were the three hundred years before. Nobody's going to drive us out. Nobody.
my dad would always say don;t make a stranger of yourself, when our company would leave
I am from Tennessee and do have an accent.
I agree 👍. Have to add the other side as sometimes ppl stay too long. An old man here said to his wife, "Honey let's go to Bed, and let these good ppl go home."
@@debrajohnson6809 wear it proud honey
Nobody would drive you out. There would be a fire.
I’m from Hawaii (a Hawaiian) & I love this. You folks are true roots of America. In Hawaii we too have our own language that we locals call pidgin. Its Hawaiian talk. Hang on to your mountain culture; so important. Even if your kids move away, teach them & emphasize to them the importance of their mountain culture. By the way, I’m Scots, Irish, Hawaiian, Chinese, Japanese & more...but so proud of my Hawaiian background. We try hard to keep our culture especially with so much outside influence.
Honey I usually say I'm Heinz 57 we got so many different bloodlines here in these mountains I'm Scott's irish English 3 tribes Indian and 3 percent south African lol proud of every speck of my heritage I'm from good stock tell my kids same .
I grew up in the Georgia mountains but have lived in the islands for the last 8 years. I've always been right at home in Hawaii.
yea ! my moma was from the ozarks in oklahoma & no dout thier answers were from the applishia, im a hill billy country boy kind of guy .. i feel my roots about my genitic inherintence,
i hope the real people of Hawaii will help its own and thier selves . as americans we the people's >> the people of the usa are intiled to prosper , arnt we .. im facing hard ships of being driven from my house home and part time weld buisness because a near by factry is aloud to poizen the air and land. with heavy meatols 3 years now ..
any way i pray 🙏 for Justus for all .. we are intitled to that & it is our responisbiltey .. i aint done fighting ,
Family has lived in eastern Kentucky mountains for centuries this was a nice documentary. Listening to everybody talk was like I was back home. I live in western Kentucky now.
I'm so thankful I found this. This is my heritage, my bloodlines. I take my children to the places my Parents were born and raised and sadly each trip more and more seems to be lost. I love having this to show my children. This is BEAUTIFUL to me. To my ears, and to my heart. It's who I am. Thank you for these videos. I hope and pray this beautiful culture survives. Yes, as many as there were that had moved from deep South when this was made, so much more has Been lost in 4 short years. May we all keep this beautiful heritage alive in our hearts and lives and pass this to the next generations.
There was a time when you waved at every car you passed. It didn't matter if you know them or not. Try that today and it'll get ya shot. What a sad thing. It's my true prayer that somehow we can carry on the traditions and foundations that build this Country.
(I play the piano and bass guitar, the first song I learned to play on a guitar was Cripple Creek! Going up Cripple creek going in a whirl .. my Mom's family was many born and raised on Cripple Creek. One of the most beautiful and pure places left on earth)
Your post meant everything to me. In We've got to keep this history, this heritage alive by sharing with our kids and their kids. The founding of the Appalachian Mountains, the language, the music, will be like it never existed unless we try. These young kids aren't going to go looking for videos and stories like this. We need to impress upon them how important it is to keep alive. ♥️ Love to you and yours from the Appalachian Mountains of VA
Why can't people see the connection with what we're loosin from our culture and how our demographics are so rapidly declining? There's your source of all the change. The constant importing of foreigners is destroying everything
@stephaniegamble
here in Piedmont, Alabama we still wave at everybody goin' down the road to town and if they're outside in the yards or fields too! I ain't to much for waving at them Crimson Tide fans though! 😂😂😂
I’m from the uk and I spent 4 years in Sylva NC. Wonderful folk and very welcoming. Great stories and memories. A different life that taught me so much.
I love these mountain people. I first came to know them as fellow marines and then got to know their families and friends when I went home with them on pass.
How about "I swan", I always heard people say that, but I've never heard anyone talk about using that phrase. Yes poke means a sack and it goes way back ... Old English.
Most people, anywhere in the world are very good people. It’s the evil leaders motivated by money and power that cause wars and hate and suffering. Dare it to say, if true Anarchy ruled the earth, it would be a much better world.
The music is just great. I am an Irishman but my mothers father was a Scottish man. I play some Irish Traditional music and when I hear that mountain music from America I can totally relate to it. I love the way they changed it into something new and different but that I can still hear some of the old Irish and even Scottish traditional influences, I love it.
Yes...I hear it too...I love my Irish and Scottish heritage and their music...
Love hearing a banjo.
The banjo is from Africa.
@@zellah No one said anything about where the banjo originated.
It's probably because the
The mountain people in America have scottish and Irish ancestry's the
ReAson you can hear the Influence in the music they play
Thank you for this documentary! I’m from upstate SC which is the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. We talk like them. Especially the older folk. I love our culture. I love my family’s old time ways. My 8 year old grandson already plays the banjo. My son plays the guitar. That music is in our soul.
I'm from east Texas and at 32 I moved to the mountains of northern New Mexico and I have a very deep southern drawl and here it's nothing but old Spanish talk and they love hearing me talk but I know they can't understand half of what I say. I speak a lot like these folks and I understand them just fine. I've always been a poor country boy and now I'm a poor mountain man lol. I'm telling you what ain't no one knows a hard life until you've had to cut out a living in the mountains. Thankfully I'm a blacksmith and custom knife maker and one hell of a farmer and a hard ass that won't give up. I'll die in these mountains and I love every single day of it.
20 years behind the rest of the country?! Sign me up! I want to live there. I currently live in California and can not wait to get out of state.
Oh that ain't for real, we ain't 20 years behind, just appreciate what we got and where we live.
Yes, born and raised in So Cal. Can't wait to leave. California used to be a great place but no longer. So sad to see it collapse.
Good luck getting away
@Anson Mayweather I'm not surprised you said that. Most everyone does. And thats ok. Im not one of those Californians who wants to bring "cali", its ideas or politics with me where ever I go....no. My ultimate goal in life is to fish, maybe harvest a few deer a year, be quiet in my own little house with my dogs, and sometimes have coffee at the corner store with an older wiser gentleman and talk about the weather. I crave slow, I crave quiet. I first experienced what I call "normal" life when my dad moved to Arkansas 20 years ago.. He lives out side of Ozark with a modest 3 acres. The neighbors are far away, which I love. The town practically closes down at 7 ( totally great in my opinion) The history to be found there is stunning, not only in the buildings but in the people I've met. Its clean, the streets aren't riddled with homless or trash or graffiti, the forests there are a huge wealth of food and fun. The bluegrass bands who play at the Loves truck stop is a highlight for me when I visit. Theres a please and thank you, yes/no ma'am/sir to be heard everywhere I go. The night life and crazy tourists are wonderfully tucked away hours from him.. its awesome. Id rather spend my days trommping the woods, or helping fix dads log splitter or finishing his Model A , than shopping or hitting the streets of SF. ( actually ive only even even been to San Francisco a handful of times in 40 years.. its nasty there not fun)
Anyway, I digress. Its fair that you feel the way you do about Californians, because I feel the same way. We're not all like that though. I live in California... it doesnt live in me. Thats why I want to leave. I have no passion for its collective ideals.. in fact its been killing me for years. I hope someday, sometime, in some way you meet someone in person like myself to help you understand that it totally possible for some Californians to hate Californian and truly wish to leave every bit of this place far behind them..... and before you ask "why not just move to Arkansas?"... well I haven't yet decided if its slow enough for me. If I can find an even slower pace of life to live I will choose that.
Born in Pasadena grew up in Glendora long gone now live in the Philippines...it's almost like Appalachia.
You'll never find any better of people than what you're going to find in the Appalachian mountains. Regardless of the State they're from, they are the most genuine, good hearted people you'll ever come by. Many people, esp school kid's, used to make fun of the family that came and visited through the summer & even as an adult it bothers me the way people talk about my kin folk who'd give anything they had to another.
Most of these wonderful folks have passed away. We'll never know how much knowledge and memory went with them.
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My dad's family is from tazewell Va and i remember my grandpa always telling me one of his legs was longer than the other because he walked around the mountain one way all his life lol
I'm typing this from Tazewell Co. My dad used to say that, too. :)
Love Tazwell and Big A Mountain
Haha that's funny but so true living in them mountain ridgelines between WV and tazwell,va
One of the most beautiful regions in the country, in my opinion. I grew up playing in Cumberland Gap Nation Park.
Same town I grew up in. I’ve heard that saying before too. I’ve always wanted to hike the peak but have never been to it.
I wasn't raised in Appalachia but both my parents were. WV and east tn. We visited alot. All I ever wanted was to live in the mountains. I'm in between both states. Shenandoah valleys Rockbridge Co. VA. Love these mountains.
Although I was born in Toledo, OH, I lived the better part of 46 years in these very same mountains. Now, I live in Columbia, SC. I miss so much about those mountains that I could write a book about my experiences there. I especially miss the good people of the mountains. To this day, I still use many of the words that were said in this documentary. People look at me like I am from another world and I just smile.
As MANY who lived there, and now only visit, say that the culture seems to be fading FAST, I'd say you best get to writing THAT BOOK!! On a side note, and this is LITERALLY an after thought, (because I had a foster Mom who talked this way and have watched this vid several times.. just to Hear the echoes of HER VOICE-) I just happen to BE A Ghost writer. Not joking. On either of those subjects/comments.
I love that grampa. "Yeah I like my moped."
zoooooOOOOOOM
Ol Jim Tom
@@williamhatley1367 yup, knew the voice right off
I was like, “oh, hell yeah..!”😁👍
I was about to turn it off until I heard him. Sat right down and watched it
Jim Tom is on the TV show moonshiners sometime.
This just made me smile. Imagine being part of a town where you greet your neighbour with a smile. Meanwhile all my neighbours are sourpusses that don’t even look at you to greet you. I say hi anyways, dude just ignores me. Now I don’t even try. Aren’t we all just miserable. I wish I was part of a community...I guess feel part of it.
Totally can relate. I live in Columbus city, Ohio. Just 35 minutes north, a smaller "city" (feels like a town to me) Delaware, I got culture shocked because complete strangers up there are super friendly - one female stranger smiled & at first I literally looked behind me to see if who she was smiling then realized too late that she was smiling at me! I felt bad that I didn't reciprocate a smile. Few minutes later, another stranger smiled at me (walking on a sidewalk on Main Street) & I finally realized, oh wow, people are friendlier here and I quickly smiled back. Once I went to a quaint small theater and accidently bumped into a male adult and he said, "Sorry ma'am" - I smiled all day long... talk about politeness! Columbus city folks are snobbish, cold & rude, sadly so. I wish I could afford to move up to Delaware, OH, but it's so expensive, but I try to visit during summer time.
I'm from just outside Belfast, Northern Ireland and I can recognise some of the expression and rhythms used. I live on a peninsula were the accent and language changes from village to village. We use the words poke, yin and tatties, I loved the expression 'living above your raising' we still say 'never forget the bowl you were baked in' our way of speaking is described by the British government a dialect rather than language for political reasoning, Im not so sure. Beautiful documentary.
I have a real affection for these folks. My parents emigrated from the Philippines and I was born and educated in sunny California. I've travelled through a good part of the world, and if there's one place I'd love to visit before I die, it's Appalachia. It seems magical, and quintessentially American.
You're welcome anytime. we treat all guests with kindness, part of our culture
Quintessentially American it is indeed. When I was getting my license, if my father didn't have time, his friend would co-pilot while I drove. He would drive me out to the Blue Ridge to look at general stores and thrift shops. Lot of 20th century and 19th century memorabilia from the local area in those stores.
As an immigrant to the States, I love what I've stumbled into. Love the U.S.
We are glad to have you here.
welcome! ya'll make this country what it is.
I wonder if there's any first generation immigrants where this was the English they learned
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This is the only part of the US that has it's own distinct identity, like when you go to Europe and the culture in Bavaria is different from Swabia, and Alsace is different from Normandie. The US is very homogeneous in most ways- ("soda" vs "pop" is not a huge cultural distinction) but Appalachia is unique. I'm not even from there, but it's one of my favorite places to go.
This really blessed my soul. Much love from Papua New Guinea, a country with 800 different languages and cultures that is slowly dying out or adapting to modern times. I do hope you keep your core values, culture and language.
You should start a channel in your language and go around the country and record those people!
@@randomvintagefilm273 Thank. What a wonderful suggestion. I will definitely try do that
@@patrickako305 do it before it's too late!!
Turu tumas wantok.
Patrick, let preservation begin with you. Get some friends involved. If you can video/record older folks who will talk, dance, sing or tell stories - do it! Do it before it’s too late. Best of luck.
I really enjoyed this. I’m Irish and in my 70s and I’d love to live there,and the music is right up my street. Beautiful people,beautiful land and a great way to live. God bless you all.🇮🇪☘️🙋🏼♀️
I'm from north central Pennsylvania, and may of these phrases were used by my grandmother, and even by farm people in their thirties. I love that talk.
I'm born and live in Detroit. But I've been through Appalachia a million times on my way back and forth to Florida. I hope that we never lose this wonderful culture to time.
its 2strong/practical 2ever die out. timeless lifestyle
@@drummaboi5879 exactly. These are the people that will repopulate the country after ww3 happens.
Lol. These backward hicks are incredibly inbred. No one needs that in their culture
@@beastfromthemiddleeast6369 damn. You ain’t from round here are ya
@@valentinelovesyou_.38 gladly I'm not. These hicks are inbred beyond belief
I'm Peter and I'm from Poland. Beautiful accent these people have. Like music to my ears. I love listenening to anyone who's from Dixie. For me these people are wonderfull. Helping one another in need. It doesn't matter if you don't see Europe or Australia you got one another and this is what really matters in the end of the day.
I grew up and still live in Western NC, my best friend's parents were from Poznan and he speaks Polish fluently although he can't read it well. We met when we were 13 and ended up with some sort of bizarre hybrid accent from being around each other so much.
@@willshogren1987 All the best Will
@@willshogren1987 People from southern Poland (the mountainous regions) have their own dialects, quite contrasting to standard Polish ;)
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I agree....I've always luvvvvvvvd their accents along w "southern" people...I luv to hear them talk! My momma was full blood irish w a accent bt I client tell bc of being raised by her!
I am 37 years old a Franklin NC native, worked for a Massey Ferguson dealer in Sylva, NC for a while and I legit met about half of these folks around 14-18 years old. Appalachia is an amazing place.
I met Popcorn twice, a nice interesting and fun man... but his shine was not great, kinda all over the place in terms of quality.
I grew up playing and singing this style of music. What’s interesting is songs about love, religion, hate, war, food, and drink are all in the same rhythm and style. Music says a lot about a community and that yodeling style (singing high and playing fast) takes me back back back back back.
I was born and raised in Japan. Living on the east coast for 41 years. I understand every word they say. So proud of myself feeling like trilingual. 😄
I’m in Australia and I understand perfectly what you’re saying.. I do understand the slower speakers to the faster ones or some of the nicknames you have for things but that’s in every land of the planet. I can’t understand my nieces and nephew here though.. Don’t pay any attention to the nasty spirited people. You’re all treasures for the natural way, that’s close to nature as a community can be. The mountains are beautiful and so too is your community. Live long in health.
Yeah I understood pretty much everything also. I'm Tasmanian.
Queensland Australia here & really understand them fine. We get a bit of a drawl going here in the country. I go south & ppl comment on my Qld accent lol I can see the Scottish origins in them
I absolutely love everything about mountain life Appalachia to me is the most beautiful place in our whole country. We must cherish its history and preserve it for future generations to come.
My family was uprooted by the public works of Fontana dam. They moved to Maryville Tennessee and Union County only to be displaced by interstate highways and other TVA dams. When papaw made it all the way off the mountain he went to work at ALCOA making 1.27$ a day and farmed hogs and tobacco while raising 8 kids. My double great grandmother was the daughter of a freed slave and Cherokee. We still cling to our culture. It is a blend of faith, moral conviction, separatism and outlaw brought about by isolation. I was ashamed when I moved to Salt Lake then Atlanta in my twenties. Now I’m home and I’m proud. If it weren’t for the interstate we’d still have way more of our culture, but being the positive type, I’d be happy to thank you for all the tourist dollars y’all spend. Make friends with mountain people, you’ll have real friends. Make enmity with them and you’ll have to fight the whole mountain and the people in both hollers on either side. FYI being perceived as clannish is not a slight to us. We brought it across the ocean with us and just kept it in the holler. Using SIRI on our phones is a lost cause. Haha #hillbillyproud
I'm from West Virginia, so I absolutely understood everything that these folks were a saying. i left WV to join the military, which was a easy transition. The way my parents raised me to be respectful and such, made it real simple. I also had some difficulties with people understanding me, but I adapted in a short time. Throughout my military career, everywhere I was stationed, all the guys would refer to me a "Big Country". Funny thing is, I am by no means the biggest guy in my family or from my home town.
While serving, i met a gentleman from County Cork Ireland, we became fast friends and I asked him how he ended up in WV. He said that he was an engineer that worked on Coal Mine Equipment. During our deployment, he told me how he came to love with the people and the culture. Prior to entering military, he had actually moved to WV and is still there today. He said that WV reminded him of going to his seanmháthair (grandmother's) house. It's also funny that he did a family history and found that his ancestor had once lived in the same area that he lives in now.
Unfortunately, the Meth epidemic has destroyed a lot of Appalachia, all of these outsiders with the quest for money from Fracking has led to the ruin of many of small communities and corrupted the politicians even more. When I grew up, we had a B/W TV and a party line. No electronics, just Tonka trucks and lots of chores.
Sorry about the fracking and meth problem. Such a beautiful place
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From Kentucky, currently living in WV. People are both the same and different in subtle ways. Was shocked to see how bad the issues with drugs were when I moved here. A real shame.
Things I've learned: meth and opioids are killing all of these beautiful communities.
Appalachia is eat up with meth. If you get lost you just as liable to get robbed by a meth head as to be helped by an old man
Born and raised in East Tennessee. I understand everything they are saying! Love this film. Thank you for sharing. Makes me miss home.
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Same.
Kristie Hutto Yeah me too I was born in Maryville Tennessee but raised in Blairsville Georgia and I still go back there pretty often
@@timchapman6702 I was born and raised in Maryville, too, and I still live here. I'm out in the Old Piney/Six Mile area. Small world!
Melanie Ogle Yes it is
Warm hearts and gentle people That live in my hometown!