I used to ride a motorcycle in these hills and learned not to stop on the side of the road for a break because folks would stop continuously asking if I need help.
M Ray I’m from the west but rode back east about four years ago and traveled through the Appalachians. Leaving NYC for New Orleans, I was taking a break one morning in Tennessee at a country store and gas stop. I was relaxing in my chair I keep in my saddlebags at the edge of the parking lot drinking a cup of coffee and smoking a little herb when a local pulled up by me, rolled down his window and said something but I didn’t hear it at first. I said “excuse me?” and he repeated “I ain’t gonna bother to tell you to have a nice day” with a chuckle. I’ll always remember that good natured and humorous exchange as one of my highlights of that trip 😎
I know a man from Appalachia who had a talent for Algebra and Calculus, and who became a Professor of Civil Engineering. He used to play the guitar and we would sing "The Old Grey Goose" to us. He enjoyed Patsy Cline and Hank Williams Senior. He used to translate Russian just for fun and he tried to imitate illuminated texts using Calligraphy. He was my father.
@rome aka umar prince of pan africans You know trash like you need to keep these ideas a comin'. That'll keep you away from the mountains and hopefully you really do live in Africa. The farther away the better
@@chrishall2594 They were mostly irish from the north of ireland(as it was then ) who were prothestant of scottish lowland descent.Don't think there is much descent from native irish catholic stock in the appalachians could be wrong.Most of the catholic irish went to the northern cities and newfoundland.I am from the republic of ireland unlike the gentleman from northern ireland we don't really identify with the people of appalachia,but more so with boston and newfoundland,
These folks migrated from Scotland and Ireland so the rocky terrain made them right at home. In early times the British tried to go in after them but couldn't navigate the Rocky mountainous ground. The Scottish were the first ones who figured out how to distill liquor as we know it today and they brought the secrets with them. Never confuse illiteracy with stupidity.
Scotland is in Britain, it’s on the island of Britain this is not a political thing just a fact of geography a large proportion of British military have always been Scottish
The accent does not equate to illiteracy. My people are from Appalachia and I moved to Indiana 15 years ago. Lots of smart industrious people up here, also some of the dumbest and laziest I've ever met.
@freedomisnocrime they are political entities. England, Wales and Scotland comprise Britain. Add in Northern Ireland and that makes the United Kingdom.
@Prakaash A Most people in the industry accept Ireland having been the first, then Scotland. And most people, other than the most fervently patriotic Irish would agree that Scotland took the art to a higher level. However, the Irish learned the science of distilling from another part of the world through travels of Irish monks.
I don't consider myself to be a "barbarian," and I have my teeth, wear shoes, and I'm not married to my cousin or sister. People in other places may look down their noses at us but you'll never find a better group of people (and we have people of all colors and creeds) anywhere... and we'd give the shirt off our backs to help someone, even if we don't have a shirt to give. I've lived in West Virginia for my whole fifty-three years of life... retired after thirty plus years at the same company... and I'm just gonna keep my ass right here. No need for me to live anywhere else... I got all I need right here.
I agree. Proud to be an Appalachian Hillbilly. I'm from Charleston West Virginia. I am educated and spent 24 years on active duty. My wife almost has a Doctorate in Education, she to is an Appalachian Hillbilly too. We are retired and we are here to stay.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 yup, I'm a Westside boy...SJHS grad from '83. Thanks for the reply...lmk if you need a shirt sometime lol. Keepin a good thought for you and your family.
@J H lol, that's really not too far from the truth...when I first got to Marshall as a freshman, I went nuts (the drinking age was still eighteen then). I won't say I didn't get in trouble...I just didn't get caught lol.
When my folks moved us off our farm and out of the mountains, I thought I was going to die. Nothing tasted right, felt right, smelled right, sounded right. Instead of the deep, impossible green of the mountains we found ourselves in the cold grey of the inner city, with air that could barely be called that. My siblings and I had lost our home and never fully regained the security and confidence we once knew. Our visits to our grandparents were the nearest thing we had to home, and were all too brief.
I guess we can't control this as children and we can't get memories back. I'm lucky enough to live in a rural area. Trees, rivers, lakes green space everywhere. It's not always pretty but it's better than neighbors. I hope you find your way back home.
I can't even imaging the culture shock you probably experienced. I live in NYC so for me it's normal but I think if I grew up in the country, the city would scare me.
Appalachian folk are the best hearted, hardest working, God fearing ppl you will ever meet! Many were & still are poor when you consider their worldly goods, but none see themselves poor! They have always been so very rich! ...."One is only poor, only if they choose to be! ...Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be"....-Dolly
Jenny Mae0417 If your self sufficient and you don't care about materialism then in a way your rich. I find that people who concentrate mainly on materialism and affluence are not living a full life.
I'm Appalachian and we will be the ones to survive through anything this world can throw at us! God, Guns, and Family is all we care about. Can't give a damn less who is the so called potus! We do love our weed and shine! And some good ole country music.
@@luckyduck7778 there are literally billions of people JUST LIKE you! They mostly live in communist ran countries. You have the right to not believe in God or guns, just don't push your beliefs on me because this is America! Believe whatever you want just don't think your way is the way we all should be! That's why they are called rights!
I live in a province in Canada called Newfoundland. It is an island in the most easterly part of Canada. We didn't become part of Canada until 1949 therefore we were pretty much isolated. We were not familiar with mainland culture. We even had a different accent. We were mostly known for its fishery. Mainlanders considered us to be "goofy Newfies" . Our province was often the but of jokes. Like the people of Appalachia we have an Irish/Scottish culture. Our traditional food and music is very much like mountain people. Despite all this, we are a very resourceful culture. Many of the skyscrapers in New York were built by Newfoundlanders hence our ability to take on anything.
And loved and appreciated by your mainlanders Canada would not be Canada without Newfoundland even when you get on my nerves I will always have your back 🇨🇦
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Too bad you folks still voted overwhelmingly for Little Justeen and his welfare traps. Well I suppose you can't win them all. Makes yur monies in Alberta and when it gets a little tough, you runs back to the rock and vote fur the Turd. We will remember.
Don't forget the indigenous peoples also worked on the skyscrapers. Mohawks, Onieda, and other peoples. They would walk the beams bare-footed and without harnesses. They never got the credit due them, either. But back on subject, mountain people, hillbillies, cajons, they are all a beautiful peoples. I've had many friends who were Acaidians, who were from the Ozarks, the Appalachians, deep, dark Tennessee,West Virginia, and other places. They were some of the most trusting, loyal caring human beings I've ever met. They'd have given me the shirt off their back if ever I asked. But mostly they were reserved and never talked much. Sure do miss the comradarie we established....may the good Lord always protect these human beings....☝️
Born and raised in the forested valleys of north western areas of Sweden, where the stereotype is that everyone is inbred, poach, wear plaid, consume too much tobacco, make our own liquor, and speak a lazy unintelligible version of Swedish, with a history of being force to either do manual labour in mining or forestry or starve, I feel a definite kinship with the Appalachians.
If that is the way the rest of your country views you, then we ARE cut of the same cloth. Little do they know what a fine strong fabric it is.✊ I'm a proud Appalachian Hillbilly from the heart of Appalachia, the state of Virginia 👍
Damn proud to be an Appalachian American! We don't just survive, we thrive! And while society considers us poor, we are in fact some of the richest people in America. Rich with tradition, experience, and love of family. Not to mention knowledge-that will keep us alive when shtf for the rest of the country. Bless my beautiful Appalachian mountains and people!
If I had ever crossed the ocean from Ulster to the states where else would I have settled but in the Appalachian mountains as the first Ulster-Scot settlers did. It would be home.I know I'd be welcome have Murray,McBride and Hamilton blood in my veins. And no town am I Country born bred.
I live in the Appalachian Mtn's right now. I have served 10 years active duty Army in some of the most elite units in the world. I have been all over the world. I was lucky enough to land a good job that I still have for 15 years now. I can tell you that we have some problems here, but this is a hidden treasure and I dont want to live anywhere else in the world. People can make fun of us all they want, and with that they can stay away as well. I dont want my little piece of heaven polluted!
I'm a Southern Cali city girl, and I can honestly say that I envy you. You grew up in a beautiful, free and natural environment, whereas I live in a concrete jungle. Looks like a bunch of nice and generous people to me:)
Bo Knows: Thanks for your service. You are indeed correct that the Appalachian Mountain region is a hidden treasure. I had the pleasure of visiting the Smoky Mountains for the first time last month. Absolutely breathtaking. Beautiful country, great people. Incredible all around.
man i live in the appalachian mountain and i grow my own food i have my own spring for water and you know what im loving life and living well you know what one of my friends came up for the first time from new york and was in aw when they saw how simple im living but yes i do have a job but i aint eating that crap that you buy at them fast food places. so all yall that want to call us a red neck or hill bully im gona take it as a compliment because i love the way im living.
Many of us in other regions won't eat fast food either. I grew up on a family dairy farm here in California and the closest to fast food I get is either Popeyes Spicy Chicken and coleslaw or a Mom and Pop Taco Stand.
Michael Craig - wrong!! I was a good looking, traditional wife. My EX husband did not want kids. I told him I wanted 6, but that I’d settle for 4! He told his mother that he was marrying the mother of his children. 8 years later he confessed he’d had a vasectomy and never really wanted kids. He wanted me to work and he wanted a two income family so he could go on exotic hunting trips, buy boats and four wheelers. I’d say, by far, I got the raw end of that deal. I never married again after that. I wanted to be married one time to the love of my life. You can’t lump all of the deceitful bad apples in one basket.
Appalachian people saved my life in my first anaphylaxis from a Honey Bee sting @the age of 7 yrs old. I despise how these God fearing people are portrayed. One good that will come from this slander is that they may be left alone to live the wholesome God fearing life in peace. God bless these Angels!
@@dianedeatherage9401 Bible sales are down for the third year in a row. Last quarter is the worst quarter we have seen yet. This is a Christian country. God Bless
I can appreciate that, but in the winter the decidious trees are barren and the landscape looks kinda bleak. Because you have very few evergreen trees like we do out in Oregon, Washington and N California.
@@cosmo1eleven855I Can agree with this, but when snow covers the mountains, you will never feel more appreciative of life. Late spring is my favorite time of year because of the pinks and yellows on the trees and bushes along with the beautiful songs of the birds. The Allegheny region (especially in Virginia, and West Virginia) is especially beautiful.
During the American Revolutionary War George Rogers Clark lead a militia of “Kentuckians’ from the Virginia Territory to St. Louis and freed the French from the British, then walked to Fort Vincennes through the frozen swollen rivers, Many were barefoot and wearing only deer skin clothing. For miles they waded with their guns and powder held over their heads. Their sharpshooting skills and tenacity forced the British to surrender control of the lands west of the Allegheny Mountains. My ancestors came through the Cumberland Gap as subsistence farmers. My dad saw his first train when he was 13. Today, I’m proud to be the son of an Appalachian hillbilly.
The hill people in the Kentucky mountains were my relatives. My grandmother's house was cleaner than any house I had ever seen. They were gracious, loving, giving and smart. My grandmother never gossiped or said a bad word about anyone, that was how she was raised. I love the memories I have of sitting on the porch at night watching the fire flies and shucking peas. They grew and canned all of the food they ate. Beautiful garden and fields of corn. My father's brother only had one shirt to go to high school but every night my grandmother would wash it and iron it, so he looked good in it.
Sounds exactly like my Granny Nellie Mae Newton Williams whose ancestors came thru there but they settled on the pan handle of Florida. Oh the delights that came from her tiny emaculate kitchen. Us grandkids from Ohio loved visiting Granny and staying in the summertime! We also shucked peas. and she wore a big bonnet while harvesting from her garden.......
I’m from London and I never thought they were like this they are human beings if you are reading this I love you and hope you have an amazing day ❤️🧡💛💚💙
Yeah, they do that with Hispanics too they keep saying we are newcomers to this country, even that we been here in the Americas since 1492. We founded the oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine since 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States.
@@malignustotalis331 My momma's side of the family beat yours here. But I don't complain. Mankind isn't native to this continent, we're all pilgrims and what's past is past. Remember it all, but don't worry about things that happened before we were born.
I live in the Appalachians and my people have been here for generations. I've experienced discrimination and been looked down on because of where I live and grew up. But I'd never want to live anywhere else.
@@deannasoriano2771 Damn, did you think that up all by your little O'l self or did someone write that down for you in crayon so you would better be able to understand it to send it? It's the simple like yourself that is the problem in this country today.
I have been laughed at my whole life for my being a hillbilly- but that does not bother me any. When nuclear holocaust, communism, or pandemics harm the rest of the country, we will be in those mountains with great water, living our own ways, guns, instruments, hunting dogs and horses. We will survive and prosper when all others fail.
I know how you feel, im from south eastern Kentucky an met a few people in Illinois an South Dakota who went by that stereotype an made fun of me but im still proud of bein an Appalachian american an wont let nobody take that from me.
That right there is why it's calling to me. My great grandparents, Judson and Margaret Honeycutt, came from Yancey County, NC, and for some odd reason I don't know the specifics of, they moved to California where they had my grandmother and my mother and I were born. Appalachia must run in our blood, because that region has me enthralled.
Our government waste monr on unnecessary things. It's a shame they don't help those in the Appalachian. Wherever you're raised will always be home. My heart goes out yo those that are lacking.
I have a dear friend from Virginia who is very self couscous about his "hillbilly" accent. He is one of the wisest and smartest men I know. There is no end to his practical knowledge. I have worked and traveled for years in the states through which the Appalachian Trail extends, from North Georgia to Maine. What is remarkable is that culturally they are the same people: Mountain Folk.
does anyone remember the Fox Fire books...put together by a teacher and his students...i think it was in the 60s...they spent time with the older mountain people...learning there ways...I wish I could have been one of the students...I have nothing but high respect for them
I do remember them and have started collecting them. Having a printed resource of practical knowledge like that is not a bad idea when we are so reliant today on the digital world.
Your post is a yr old now, but yes the Foxfire books are great. I grew up deep in the E.TN Appies in the 60s and my grandparents took me to many houses just like these to visit old friends and relatives. Everybody had an outdoor toilet. My grandparents on both sides didn't get their indoor bathrooms until I was in 6th grade. Appalachian people are like no other Americans. We are a blend of three different races an cultures, Cherokee, African, and Scots-Irish...we're survivors and all three cultures know their land and nurture it. If you do't nurture your land, it will eventually cease to yield. I'd love to see the Appalachian farms back to where they used to be, and I'd like to see less of the federal government snooping around re-evaluating our protected land and natural resources. Always like to see someone who is interested in the Appalachian culture. Appalachian Heiress
As I read this post, I turned and looked at my bookshelves and there they are--the complete set of all of the Foxfire books. They've been there ever since I acquired every one of them many years ago and they will remain with me forever.
@@pmaughmer, I was bred and raised by Labradors! So I can eat anything in front of me that my nose says "go for it"! Where do you think your ancestors eventually ended wound up giving you birth? LMAO!
when Buddy Ebsen was asked to play jed clampett in Beverly Hillbillies the script demanded him to play the part as a stupid naive and ignorant person. thankfully he refused that interpretation and played the part as a caring father who although on the surface looked like he might be backward he was quite capable of using his wily skills to not be taken advantage of by the city types who saw themselves as superior.
So true, but then we had Jethro, who was the personification of the stereotypical ignorant, uneducated, backwards hillbilly. In fact, wasn't Jethro originally slated to be the "sophisticated" member of the family?
I totally agree with you. Many people live in the city because the salaries are high however when you realize that rents and mortgages are double and triple the amount that people pay in rural areas , it makes sense to live in the country.
When people say white people have no culture i just look back at rich and strong people like this and see a proud and nobel people who have no money but are rich in stories and songs that make up the most interesting part of the american people i my self am from china and i saw mountain people and they were considered like this aswell
I'm from a Yankee part of Appalachia in Pennsylvania. I now work in DC -- surrounded by flatlanders for the most part, but I'm learning them. Clean air, Clear springs, Little league. People pausing at 11:00 on Armistice Day. green trees and good honest folk.
Michael Alguire I have lived in Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I now live in a log cabin in the mountains of North Idaho and love it here. I will NEVER live in a big city again.
In almost any modern society, the basis for all other achievements must be agriculture (to feed the population) and industry (to provide all necessary materials and products). If someone wanted to precipitate the downfall of any culture, fostering a disdain or contempt for these most necessary peoples would be the place to start...
That's exactly what's it's been. And it started in Scottish lowlands hundreds of years ago. Good thing the English treated us like crap, or there wouldn't be a United States.
Big city liberals look down on you all while preaching tolerance and acceptance. I live in the big city and detest those lying hypocrites. I'd rather be around country people because you are authentic.
Same here, the older generations weren't huggers and didn't say I love you. But you knew it by a good meal, or a warm home, a good coat, a genuine smile. When you DID hear I love you you REALLY got knocked over by it. But now as I'm older I get sad that it was that way a bit...now blending with my husband's family who are very hands on and lovey I feel guilty hugging them and awkward at the same time....then the strange feelings of why didn't my family hug and openly love....it gets my evolving mind confused and worried.
@@justinfilipovic8939 That's a very good point. I am glad that, after living away from my father when I was 17, we understood each other much better. He died when I was 21, but those last three years had very genuine hugs of love where we told each other I love you. I'm not into huggin' guys and that's about the ONLY thing this biological attack from ch na was good for: getting rid of the bro hug.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 yeah hugging and stuff all.the time is like having Christmas every day it's not special that way hugging and saying "I love you" is like death bed stuff not something that should be the order of the day or something
I'm very proud to say I'm from madison county. I love my mountains and my river. bascom lamar lunsford was called the minstrel of the appalachians. he was born in mars hill, madison county, north carolina. if it wasn't for him so many old tunes and ballads would have been lost years ago. we sure are proud to claim him as one of our own.
Those are the only people who showed me what family was after I had lost my parents as a kid. It is vital that Americans discover what has been lost to most of this country. Include the community and others in your circle and teach them how to love your family when you are not around. Be the good Shepard.
I grew up in the mountains of Little Birch WVA and im damn proud to call myself hill folk/hillbilly. I am so thankful for my upbringing, I know the value of good people and hard work. I also know many things about surviving in this world with nothing more than my own grit. Something today's entitled pampered youth fail at miserably.
@@dahe8883 yet another victim of the school system-stupid and narcissistic, per the alinsky method. Thank Obama for your irony. The Appalachian people are isolated farmers with a history in coal mining and logging. They are the very definition of the term "survivalist" and had you the attention span, beyond that of a gnat, you would have picked that up in the video.
With all downsides of the internet, the various clips of Appalachian culture is here on TH-cam. That opens my eyes to the richness of a culture that had been defined by the movie "Deliverance" and decades of other distorted stereotypes. I'm glad I have these videos available and hope that the internet can continue to educate. Thanks Dave!
I've lived a few other places in my life. New Orleans, Alaska. But them mountains is always calling me home. Cant believe how flat it is in other parts around our country!
Sorry...it should be "themselves" instead if "theirself" (watch participle usage with a pronoun object of prepositions). Hang in there Sheila. You've got the empathy but need a little grammar tuning.
My family has lived and died in the Appalachian Mountains since the late 1700s. The funny thing is everyone seems to still believe that all we do is sing, dance, and hangout at the country store. I work in social services and my former class mates are lawyers, doctors, aerospace engineers, SBI agents, and many other professions. Please stop the stereotypes! Thanks
The fella playin the fiddle at the end, when he gets praise for his playin, you can see his smile....his happiness is there you don't need anything else...fantastic video...
I'm proud to be Appalachian. We have strong family ties. There are uneducated people among us, yes. There are uneducated all over our nation. We have a store of knowledge that vital to our way of life. Many that frown on us and think we are stupid, could not survive here. We live simply because that's what we like. I know it's a foreign concept, but what does a person need other than food, a home and a family? Yeah, I have a lot more than that, but I know I've made a mistake in yearning for more, rather than less. I have an Aunt that is utterly ashamed of her roots. She acts like she didn't come from these mountains. Well, it's a pity she doesn't love her roots and the mountains from which her life sprang.
Too often, people confuse ignorance with stupidity. I have a master's degree, but some of the dumbest people I know were in school with me (and who's to say I am not among them?).
...and I have to add, I'd be one of those people that couldn't survive on my own in the mountains, because I am ignorant of the ways one lives there. (I'm pretty sure what I learned in my lone year of Boy Scouts doesn't quite cut it!) I think it'd be really cool to learn. A child who grows up in the Amazon, for example, will know how to identify thousands of plants and insects by age 7 or so. He or she can see a bee fly by, and know from its height in the air, and speed of its flight, if it has just pollinated a flower or is about to, and whether or not it is headed to or away from its hive. I find that sort of thing endlessly fascinating, and we have places with people full of knowledge and skills completely unknown to us city dwellers/natives right here in the US. Why anyone would be ashamed of growing up wih that kind of knowledge is beyond me.
Some of the nicest people who I have ever had the pleasure to spend time with. Very intelligent for the most part. They still understand the old ways of dealing with life. Thanks for the video!!!
They're the best. I hope they never lose their culture. Modernism has crept in and changed a lot of things in the mountains, but some still relish the old ways. Some of the younger folks are working to preserve their culture, and that's good. Keep it up. How can we know where we're going if we don't know where we've been?
They will try to preserve until the yankees find out and get offended and bring their group antifa in and finish off what the union army couldnt have heat on you at all times
Ibef Nordin that sorry excuse for a movie was one of the worst things that happened to our people. So sad. Literally a "move". Trolling the Appalachian people. I live at the KY, Tenn, VA border. I have lived in Knoxville, which I still adore. Spent some time in California...great people but it wasn't home. We vacationed quite a bit in Florida and spent quite a bit of time in Texas...which I loved. However I feel that we live in Heaven. Truly I so. We do have problems...so does everyplace. Have a great day and or night guys and gals. God bless.
I had to leave my rural hometown, in McDowell County West Virginia, for financial reasons, and I've strayed far from the mountains I grew up in. I am proud of my roots there's no where else on earth I would rather be from than my small town. I will never forget my roots or the wonderful people I share them with.
January 21, 2019: "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace." ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Both my parents were from rural coal and oil country in VA and WV and they left and went on to ivy league schools and professions. Both lines go back to the 17th century. Getting them to talk about "the country" was like pulling teeth. They seemed to have shame about their past but once I started digging the roots they learned from ME and had a change of heart. We can preserve and teach our folkways and STILL function in the modern world. Both are essential to survival in my view. We need to learn about and honor our ancestors in any ways we can - without them we would not be here today. My kids got this lesson from me many times LOL!
I love these folks. They are amazing. Talented and loving and warm. Wish the whole world was like the people in Appalachia. I hope one day I can go and visit, I probably wouldn’t want to leave!
Wowwwwwwwwwwww......... all those songs are directly taken from Irish traditional songs - you can even recognize which song is which. The square dancing, and the tap dancing looks like Irish dancing. It's not Scottish. This is remarkable, because it demonstrates that the Scots-Irish settlers into Ireland had a lot more "Irishness" in their culture before leaving for America.. - always confirmed my suspicions that the forced seperation or the apartheid between Irish and Scots-Irish did not happen until later in history. And also shows why the Scots-Irish in America have a pro-Irish disposition, whilst the situation in Northern Ireland has evolved to make the Scots-Irish in Northern Ireland view Irishness as possibly alien to their ancestry, which they now consider to be British ancestry. This video demonstrates clearly why the Scots-Irish Americans are still proud of their Irish roots. Awesome.
You should read a book called How the Scots Invented the Modern World. America owes much of the language and sentiment of being a free people in our Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the Constitution to the Scots. I hope I had Scot ancesters. I am proud of all my heritage and so should we all be.
emmo, can you tell us what the name of the songs sung in this video are? I would love to look them up. I love folk music. If you don't mind, are you yourself Irish or Scottish? I know I have some Canadian (possibly Scot but not confirmed) definitely some English and Irish. I have a great interest in Scotland, the history. Good I don't live their though, too wet and cold for me. I'm used to the S. East Coast.
Why can't people just be left alone to live their lives as they see fit? As long as they don't hurt other, why bother them. It always angers me when these happy people have some civil servants enter their area telling these people how poor and miserable they are. They had what they needed and were happy until that happened. Leave them the fck alone.
Hmmmm, same thing black folks in Rosewood, Florida and the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma wanted to. The difference is, Appalachian folks still have their land and communities. Yeah, spare me
@easy rider I don't mind having these things brought to my attention. I never knew this happened. But ya, they weren't there so they can spare me their attitude.
I didn't come from the Appalachians, more to the west of there.We have the Ozarks where we still to make our own buscits and sausage ,with gravy. My ancestors worked the led mines and farmed.We walked to school which was fun for us!!!
My Grand dad born in early 1890s never made much money during his working life “substance farm/ rancher” but when he passed he and my Grandmother had saved and trade for a good farm and amassed over 100 k. That takes intelligence. Passed to my dad and my moms family similar did never the same.
I spent a total of five months around the Appalachians, mostly around the Virginia/W-Virginia Alleghenies... the people I met there and time I spent were nothing less than amazing. Undoubtedly amongst the warmest, most genuine and welcoming folk I've ever met... and I've lived and worked in 22 different countries, so have a fair overview of the world. Will always remember the firefly season, too... one of the most spectacular natural events I've ever witnessed ! Best wishes to all the 'mountain people' of the Appalachians, from a Brit.
I read once that 90% of Kentucky people who have been here 200+ years have at least one Cherokee ancestor. I got mine, my great great grandmother. Most of the Indians here disappeared because they married in.
I remember wearing old leather shoe with holes in the soles. We would put cardboard over the holes until it wore out. Then replace it. Yep! White privilege.
I'm sure any of these people can put on a nice outfit,shave and go to any major business in the city and get a job before a black person with education
I've lived in the Eastern Kentucky mountains all my life and I'm proud of it! I grow my own food in the summer and can it for the winter! This is just normal everyday life for us and I wouldn't trade it for anything!
For several years I was working at a company in western North Carolina, essentially at the edge of the mountains. I went on a business-related trip with an older man who had lived in the mountains all his life, had never gone to high school, and mentioned his love of banjo music. I grew up in the NYC area, had lived in several states, had traveled quite extensively, and didn't plan to stay in that area after the job (and don't); he had done some traveling but had lived in the same area where he was. I asked him if he were able to live anywhere he wanted, where would he go--and his answer was "right where I am".
I grew up hard in the coal fields of southern WV, McDowell county. My father grew up once Belcher mountain, and my mother hailed from Eureka hollow just before you get to Keystone. I’m proud of my folks for what they achieved in life, and I’m proud of my roots.
Let it be known, that if you are on the right side of these mountain people, there is nothing within their capabilities that they will not do for you. By contrast, if you are on their wrong side there is hardly nothing they will not do to you. Read Night Comes to the Cumberlands, by Harry Caudill. Some of it he got wrong, (like coal mining beneath sea, off the coast of European countries), but most of it he got right to include the damage done to the culture by the Federal Govt. (ie. welfare) to include the TVA...
@@williamsherman6995 They built a lot of Dams, and flooded several hundred thousand acres of land. All of it fertile bottom land you know, the kind that is used for farming.
@@a.j.giglio7195 --TVA was the Tennessee Valley Authority which built hydroelectric dams to electrify the region. The movie "Wild River" with Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick is about this. I guess "Deliverance" is about it too, though I they demonize the mountain people.
_June 3, 2019_ At least 52 people were shot, eight of them fatally, across Chicago over the weekend, the most violent of the year as summer gets underway, with a toll even higher than during the long Memorial Day holiday just a week earlier. More than half the victims were wounded during a 12-hour burst of gunfire from Friday evening to Saturday morning. At least four of the 31 people shot during that time died after attacks on the West and South sides. At least one other person over the weekend was fatally stabbed, bringing the homicide toll to nine. And they called the Appalachian people savages? Where would you rather live?
This bring tears to my eyes to think of all the joy they made for themselves, but gave freely to others. This is the way we should all live, never mind trying to get rich with money, we are lacking riches of the heart and soul in today's world. Thanks again for another thoughtful, heartfelt video.
Greatest people I've ever known are mountain folk. Loyality is as strong as a blood bound, they'll fight for you or fight with you. People came from everywhere to get some of my granny's 180 proof apple or cherry pie. Music. Kindness. Acceptance. Hard Workers. That's mountain folk.
Hi, my Dad n his whole family was from up in the Hollars of Logan, West Virginia n they were so poor. Granny would cook up eggs, Bacon n toast n that's what they would eat for Breakfast n had to save half for supper time. How sad. Christmas time was the worst for my Dad cuz his Mother couldn't afford to buy him Christmas gifts so Christmas morning he always stayed in the house n watch out the window at other kids outside playing w their presents. My Dad's older sister, when she got old enough to work, saved up n bought her lil brother, my Dad a football for Christmas which her treasured for many years. I love hearing stories from the local people if the Appalachians. Its my favorite place.
Here in rural Nova Scotia we've endured the same stereotype perpetuated by the rest of Canada. I've be to two of the Appalachian states (North and South Carolina) and was really taken by the beauty of the land and the warm hospitality of the people. I thought it was very similar to my beautiful Annapolis valley.
My parents were from Mercer County, WV. My dad grew up in Bluefield, my mom on a farm about halfway between Princeton and Beckley. I spent my summers on the old home place, carrying buckets of water from the spring, taking baths in a large galvanized tub, running wild and free up and down the hills. I loved it so much. My grandmother died in 1976 so it's been awhile, but my favorite smell to this day is a mixture of coffee, bacon frying, and woodsmoke (from her woodstove in the kitchen). Salt of the earth people in WV. It is certainly God's country.
We were home birthing some puppies today and my "fancy" aunt came to watch....well a big one was stuck and she was pale and freaking out....I was surprised because she grew up with us...but moved to "the city" about 20 years ago...and I had puppy goo on my hands helping deliver a puppy....and I said to her..."wow, you lost your mountain didn't you?" Because that's what we call it here....we live up on the mountain.....and I love it. Not quit Appalachia, central Pennsylvania mountains, we are polish as they get. And I'm good with that. We can survive if we need to.
I was born n raised in pike co Kentucky I was a Coal Miner for 30 years. I learned how to hunt, fish and how to garden as a kid. I will always be proud of my Appalachian Heritage. I will survive !
The first time I met a guy from the mountains I was in Basic training in the Army. This guy was wide eyed and a little naive but he was stupid. He said that he had to take a bus and a plane to get to Fort Dix, New Jersey, and it had been the first time for both. He was a hell of a worker and very disciplined, funny as hell and got along with everyone. I don’t know what happened after basic but he had scored well on his ASVAB test and was supposed to go to school for computers. And I met a girl from the mountains of West Virginia at Basic too, and she and I met up a few times on the weekend passes, and during the week a few times. She was damn near the best kisser I’ve ever had. I still dream about that girl 40 years later!
I'm a dang hill Billy and proud of it. I also have a master's in education and human development. I build courses for the military. I still talk with my draw. People think I'm stupid until they say something and I answer with my good ole book learning. Still tickles me. My ragged hat and sleeveless shirt as I drive away in my jag. I just a dumb ol hill Billy that caint do fer himself I reckon.
Its still there but people need to practice it more. New folks move in from other states and they should be welcomed with an apple pie or something. That starts a community and tells the newcomer that they are welcome.
Can't say that in my area (central coast of California) I said it once and the hispanic people lost their minds. As for the caucasian/saxons it was just as complicated. Sad...
Can't say that in my area (central coast of California) I said it once and the hispanic people lost their minds. As for the caucasian/saxons it was just as complicated. Sad...
My mom's family is from Big Chimney, West Virginia. Great people. My Dad's is Irish Catholic from Boston. Very different cultures but I respect both so much.
The real rubes are those who are ignorant of the truth of happiness. My roots are of S Central KY and N Central Tennessee, my mother's side of my family and all ten kids (my mother the oldest) went on to be successful. PURE GRIT!
Proud to be a coal miner's granddaughter on both sides of my family, married to a hillbilly whose forebears came to the mountains of Appalachia in the early 1700s.
I live in the Appalachian mountains now, I’ve lived here since 1974. I have been to 14 countries and lived in two. I have been to 41 states and lived in eight. All the places I have been, the Appalachian mountains is by far the best. I have lived in a city of 10 million and a town of 300. I’m retired now. Nothing beats the beauty of the mountains. The clean air, rivers and mountain streams. It’s peaceful and quiet, no traffic jams or smog. Wildlife in abundance.
David, I really admire your work. You always tell stories without exploiting the area or the people. The stories are raw and beautiful. They do not make fun of or belittle. Thanks for exposing us to people and places we would otherwise never experience.
thank you for your statement. That is exactly what I try to do. And the people of the southern mountains have the most wonderful culture. David Hoffman-filmmaker
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I used to ride a motorcycle in these hills and learned not to stop on the side of the road for a break because folks would stop continuously asking if I need help.
M Ray I’m from the west but rode back east about four years ago and traveled through the Appalachians. Leaving NYC for New Orleans, I was taking a break one morning in Tennessee at a country store and gas stop. I was relaxing in my chair I keep in my saddlebags at the edge of the parking lot drinking a cup of coffee and smoking a little herb when a local pulled up by me, rolled down his window and said something but I didn’t hear it at first. I said “excuse me?” and he repeated “I ain’t gonna bother to tell you to have a nice day” with a chuckle. I’ll always remember that good natured and humorous exchange as one of my highlights of that trip 😎
@@MC-xw6vm 🤣 You we’re obviously having a good time, and nothing was gonna bring you down.
I know a man from Appalachia who had a talent for Algebra and Calculus, and who became a Professor of Civil Engineering. He used to play the guitar and we would sing "The Old Grey Goose" to us. He enjoyed Patsy Cline and Hank Williams Senior. He used to translate Russian just for fun and he tried to imitate illuminated texts using Calligraphy. He was my father.
@rome aka umar prince of pan africans You just proved your own statement.
@@romaking6713 You got that right R King!!! Tell the piece of shit.
@rome aka umar prince of pan africans We're all inbred.
@rome aka umar prince of pan africans You know trash like you need to keep these ideas a comin'. That'll keep you away from the mountains and hopefully you really do live in Africa. The farther away the better
So why are you hating fuckers watching a video about mountain people? I'm sure there's something about deserts and mudhuts on TH-cam
I'm from northern Ireland and I love learning about the folk of the Appalachian mountains
We Appalachians are descendants of persecuted Irish and Scottish lower castes whom were despised by the English elite
@@chrishall2594 They were mostly irish from the north of ireland(as it was then ) who were prothestant of scottish lowland descent.Don't think there is much descent from native irish catholic stock in the appalachians could be wrong.Most of the catholic irish went to the northern cities and newfoundland.I am from the republic of ireland unlike the gentleman from northern ireland we don't really identify with the people of appalachia,but more so with boston and newfoundland,
I wish I was living in Ireland.
My sister and visited Ireland...but not together. She and I both felt “at home” there....just a powerful feeling. We grew up in Appalachia.
Some day I hope to play some golf up there.
These folks migrated from Scotland and Ireland so the rocky terrain made them right at home. In early times the British tried to go in after them but couldn't navigate the Rocky mountainous ground. The Scottish were the first ones who figured out how to distill liquor as we know it today and they brought the secrets with them. Never confuse illiteracy with stupidity.
Scotland is in Britain, it’s on the island of Britain this is not a political thing just a fact of geography a large proportion of British military have always been Scottish
The accent does not equate to illiteracy. My people are from Appalachia and I moved to Indiana 15 years ago. Lots of smart industrious people up here, also some of the dumbest and laziest I've ever met.
The Irish made whiskey before the Scottish. Research it yourself.
@freedomisnocrime they are political entities. England, Wales and Scotland comprise Britain. Add in Northern Ireland and that makes the United Kingdom.
@Prakaash A Most people in the industry accept Ireland having been the first, then Scotland. And most people, other than the most fervently patriotic Irish would agree that Scotland took the art to a higher level. However, the Irish learned the science of distilling from another part of the world through travels of Irish monks.
I don't consider myself to be a "barbarian," and I have my teeth, wear shoes, and I'm not married to my cousin or sister. People in other places may look down their noses at us but you'll never find a better group of people (and we have people of all colors and creeds) anywhere... and we'd give the shirt off our backs to help someone, even if we don't have a shirt to give. I've lived in West Virginia for my whole fifty-three years of life... retired after thirty plus years at the same company... and I'm just gonna keep my ass right here. No need for me to live anywhere else... I got all I need right here.
I agree. Proud to be an Appalachian Hillbilly. I'm from Charleston West Virginia. I am educated and spent 24 years on active duty. My wife almost has a Doctorate in Education, she to is an Appalachian Hillbilly too. We are retired and we are here to stay.
@@usmc-veteran73-77 yup, I'm a Westside boy...SJHS grad from '83. Thanks for the reply...lmk if you need a shirt sometime lol. Keepin a good thought for you and your family.
That's a satisfied person.
Well said Delightfullydemented65!
@J H lol, that's really not too far from the truth...when I first got to Marshall as a freshman, I went nuts (the drinking age was still eighteen then). I won't say I didn't get in trouble...I just didn't get caught lol.
When my folks moved us off our farm and out of the mountains, I thought I was going to die. Nothing tasted right, felt right, smelled right, sounded right. Instead of the deep, impossible green of the mountains we found ourselves in the cold grey of the inner city, with air that could barely be called that. My siblings and I had lost our home and never fully regained the security and confidence we once knew. Our visits to our grandparents were the nearest thing we had to home, and were all too brief.
I guess we can't control this as children and we can't get memories back. I'm lucky enough to live in a rural area. Trees, rivers, lakes green space everywhere. It's not always pretty but it's better than neighbors. I hope you find your way back home.
I can't even imaging the culture shock you probably experienced. I live in NYC so for me it's normal but I think if I grew up in the country, the city would scare me.
You had a farm in the mountains?
Chris Edward Neighbors ? You would hate where I live. I live in NYC. The houses on my street are attached. Every street has around 50 houses. lol
I have one neighbor. I used to go to Boston once a year but now it’s third world city. I’ll take barking dogs over car horns any day.
Appalachian folk are the best hearted, hardest working, God fearing ppl you will ever meet! Many were & still are poor when you consider their worldly goods, but none see themselves poor! They have always been so very rich! ...."One is only poor, only if they choose to be! ...Now I know we had no money, but I was rich as I could be"....-Dolly
Jenny Mae0417 If your self sufficient and you don't care about materialism then in a way your rich. I find that people who concentrate mainly on materialism and affluence are not living a full life.
I love what you said.
I just love Dolly!
We never knew we were poor cause Momma made us rich with love!
I'm Appalachian and we will be the ones to survive through anything this world can throw at us! God, Guns, and Family is all we care about. Can't give a damn less who is the so called potus! We do love our weed and shine! And some good ole country music.
Jessica Miller I am crazy of cultures and history... How I could learn more about appalachian history culture etc.
@@eddiebaez2093 pick a nice spot and visit. You won't be able to learn more about it any other way.
The Great State of Texas salutes you, sir....
I'm also Appalatchian and I neither believe in God nor guns. So that everyone else out there knows you don't speak for all Appalatchian people.
@@luckyduck7778 there are literally billions of people JUST LIKE you! They mostly live in communist ran countries. You have the right to not believe in God or guns, just don't push your beliefs on me because this is America! Believe whatever you want just don't think your way is the way we all should be! That's why they are called rights!
I live in a province in Canada called Newfoundland. It is an island in the most easterly part of Canada. We didn't become part of Canada until 1949 therefore we were pretty much isolated. We were not familiar with mainland culture. We even had a different accent. We were mostly known for its fishery. Mainlanders considered us to be "goofy Newfies" . Our province was often the but of jokes. Like the people of Appalachia we have an Irish/Scottish culture. Our traditional food and music is very much like mountain people. Despite all this, we are a very resourceful culture. Many of the skyscrapers in New York were built by Newfoundlanders hence our ability to take on anything.
And loved and appreciated by your mainlanders Canada would not be Canada without Newfoundland even when you get on my nerves I will always have your back 🇨🇦
Too bad you folks still voted overwhelmingly for Little Justeen and his welfare traps. Well I suppose you can't win them all. Makes yur monies in Alberta and when it gets a little tough, you runs back to the rock and vote fur the Turd. We will remember.
@ What a sad and petty little man you are.
Don't forget the indigenous peoples also worked on the skyscrapers. Mohawks, Onieda, and other peoples. They would walk the beams bare-footed and without harnesses. They never got the credit due them, either. But back on subject, mountain people, hillbillies, cajons, they are all a beautiful peoples. I've had many friends who were Acaidians, who were from the Ozarks, the Appalachians, deep, dark Tennessee,West Virginia, and other places. They were some of the most trusting, loyal caring human beings I've ever met. They'd have given me the shirt off their back if ever I asked. But mostly they were reserved and never talked much. Sure do miss the comradarie we established....may the good Lord always protect these human beings....☝️
small world hey b'y. reading/writing this from st.johns!
Born and raised in the forested valleys of north western areas of Sweden, where the stereotype is that everyone is inbred, poach, wear plaid, consume too much tobacco, make our own liquor, and speak a lazy unintelligible version of Swedish, with a history of being force to either do manual labour in mining or forestry or starve, I feel a definite kinship with the Appalachians.
If that is the way the rest of your country views you, then we ARE cut of the same cloth. Little do they know what a fine strong fabric it is.✊ I'm a proud Appalachian Hillbilly from the heart of Appalachia, the state of Virginia 👍
SWEDEN!!!! i wasn,t a ware of that raea -west coast of Swedi!!
city folk spread that myth universally to attract labor
Sounds like you would fit right in friend.
Damn proud to be an Appalachian American! We don't just survive, we thrive! And while society considers us poor, we are in fact some of the richest people in America. Rich with tradition, experience, and love of family. Not to mention knowledge-that will keep us alive when shtf for the rest of the country. Bless my beautiful Appalachian mountains and people!
Yep, me too. The place to be when things go sideways is as deep in Appalachia as you can get.
If I had ever crossed the ocean from Ulster to the states where else would I have settled but in the Appalachian mountains as the first Ulster-Scot settlers did. It would be home.I know I'd be welcome have Murray,McBride and Hamilton blood in my veins.
And no town am I Country born bred.
Keep your pride because you have lots to be proud of, you are a people to be admired!!
Stunt Hiker. After the Solar Mass Ejection hits planet earth, country boys will survive. I guarantee it.
Country boy can survive
I live in the Appalachian Mtn's right now. I have served 10 years active duty Army in some of the most elite units in the world. I have been all over the world. I was lucky enough to land a good job that I still have for 15 years now. I can tell you that we have some problems here, but this is a hidden treasure and I dont want to live anywhere else in the world. People can make fun of us all they want, and with that they can stay away as well. I dont want my little piece of heaven polluted!
+Bo Knows Amen!
+Bo Knows Sounds like heaven to me.
I'm a Southern Cali city girl, and I can honestly say that I envy you. You grew up in a beautiful, free and natural environment, whereas I live in a concrete jungle. Looks like a bunch of nice and generous people to me:)
where? I'm from Hendersonville.
Bo Knows: Thanks for your service. You are indeed correct that the Appalachian Mountain region is a hidden treasure. I had the pleasure of visiting the Smoky Mountains for the first time last month. Absolutely breathtaking. Beautiful country, great people. Incredible all around.
man i live in the appalachian mountain and i grow my own food i have my own spring for water and you know what im loving life and living well you know what one of my friends came up for the first time from new york and was in aw when they saw how simple im living but yes i do have a job but i aint eating that crap that you buy at them fast food places. so all yall that want to call us a red neck or hill bully im gona take it as a compliment because i love the way im living.
Many of us in other regions won't eat fast food either. I grew up on a family dairy farm here in California and the closest to fast food I get is either Popeyes Spicy Chicken and coleslaw or a Mom and Pop Taco Stand.
Good for you Axel - its wonderful that you have found your own heaven on earth. Five Stars*****
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The Lord has blessed us real good.I love these mountains.
Michael Craig - wrong!! I was a good looking, traditional wife. My EX husband did not want kids. I told him I wanted 6, but that I’d settle for 4! He told his mother that he was marrying the mother of his children. 8 years later he confessed he’d had a vasectomy and never really wanted kids. He wanted me to work and he wanted a two income family so he could go on exotic hunting trips, buy boats and four wheelers.
I’d say, by far, I got the raw end of that deal. I never married again after that. I wanted to be married one time to the love of my life. You can’t lump all of the deceitful bad apples in one basket.
Appalachian people saved my life in my first anaphylaxis from a Honey Bee sting @the age of 7 yrs old.
I despise how these God fearing people are portrayed. One good that will come from this slander is that they may be left alone to live the wholesome God fearing life in peace.
God bless these Angels!
What if a Muslim would have saved your life?
@@dianedeatherage9401 I wasn't making a statement. The operative words here are "what if".
@@williamsherman6995 What is all this about?
@@dianedeatherage9401 Bible sales are down for the third year in a row. Last quarter is the worst quarter we have seen yet. This is a Christian country. God Bless
@@williamsherman6995 no it isnt. and bible sales are down because people are tired of the bullshit. dont have to be a christian to be a good person.
Appalachian folk are survivors .
I’m from Charleston area wv. DuPont plant on one side, coal trains constantly on the track on the other side. Surviving is definitely in the air 😊
Damn straight we are!!!!
The Indians that were slaughtered on the other hand were not...
Damn right we are
If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. Even if it's yer sister
Them Mountains are the most Beautiful Country I have ever laid eyes on. I love the Appalachian Mountains.
I can appreciate that, but in the winter the decidious trees are barren and the landscape looks kinda bleak. Because you have very few evergreen trees like we do out in Oregon, Washington and N California.
Cosmic Pulse When you're born and grow up in the Appalachian region, you adapt to appreciate all seasons, even the leafless trees in winter.
@@cosmo1eleven855I Can agree with this, but when snow covers the mountains, you will never feel more appreciative of life. Late spring is my favorite time of year because of the pinks and yellows on the trees and bushes along with the beautiful songs of the birds. The Allegheny region (especially in Virginia, and West Virginia) is especially beautiful.
@@b.b3033 don't forget about them frogs! Nothing says spring like them little fellas hollering
@@rynoman3688 How could I forget the frogs! they're probably my favorite part of spring.
Nobody ever accused city folks of being too bright.
Hahahaha, for sure!
City folks with the banks, big buildings, subways, airports, information hubs...hmm the bastion of commerce, education and technology.
@@kenmtb a rat maze for rats with dollar signs in their eyes ....oh yay
@@linoleluminum2017 we rats still have indoor plumbing. And we like our pizza with extra cheese.
Ron B the left has the dunning-Krueger effect
During the American Revolutionary War George Rogers Clark lead a militia of “Kentuckians’ from the Virginia Territory to St. Louis and freed the French from the British, then walked to Fort Vincennes through the frozen swollen rivers, Many were barefoot and wearing only deer skin clothing. For miles they waded with their guns and powder held over their heads. Their sharpshooting skills and tenacity forced the British to surrender control of the lands west of the Allegheny Mountains. My ancestors came through the Cumberland Gap as subsistence farmers. My dad saw his first train when he was 13. Today, I’m proud to be the son of an Appalachian hillbilly.
As you should be!! Some of us more educated people know it's not the heap most people think of.. The history is amazing. Generations of amazing gifts.
the ohio river was 26 inches deep then, now it has 50 dams and is 26 feet deep
The hill people in the Kentucky mountains were my relatives. My grandmother's house was cleaner than any house I had ever seen. They were gracious, loving, giving and smart. My grandmother never gossiped or said a bad word about anyone, that was how she was raised. I love the memories I have of sitting on the porch at night watching the fire flies and shucking peas. They grew and canned all of the food they ate. Beautiful garden and fields of corn. My father's brother only had one shirt to go to high school but every night my grandmother would wash it and iron it, so he looked good in it.
Sounds exactly like my Granny Nellie Mae Newton Williams whose ancestors came thru there but they settled on the pan handle of Florida. Oh the delights that came from her tiny emaculate kitchen. Us grandkids from Ohio loved visiting Granny and staying in the summertime! We also shucked peas. and she wore a big bonnet while harvesting from her garden.......
I’m from London and I never thought they were like this they are human beings if you are reading this I love you and hope you have an amazing day
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... some people have to degrade, denigrate other people to make themselves look better ...
People doing it to black folk this very moment!
Yeah, they do that with Hispanics too they keep saying we are newcomers to this country, even that we been here in the Americas since 1492.
We founded the oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine since 1565 by Spanish explorers, it is the oldest continuously inhabited European-established settlement within the borders of the continental United States.
@@malignustotalis331 My momma's side of the family beat yours here. But I don't complain. Mankind isn't native to this continent, we're all pilgrims and what's past is past. Remember it all, but don't worry about things that happened before we were born.
@@baldeagle5297 Well said.
Douglas Paterson Yep, there it is, everything is racist to you, poor baby
I live in the Appalachians and my people have been here for generations. I've experienced discrimination and been looked down on because of where I live and grew up. But I'd never want to live anywhere else.
How very true and poignant.
Im from the mountains of West Virginia and when the chips are down, ill take mountain folk to watch my 6 anyday.
Logan County here
Amen!
Inbred hillbillies
@@deannasoriano2771 Well aren't you the smart one. Oh forgot a$$ in between the smart and the one. 🤨
@@deannasoriano2771 Damn, did you think that up all by your little O'l self or did someone write that down for you in crayon so you would better be able to understand it to send it?
It's the simple like yourself that is the problem in this country today.
I have been laughed at my whole life for my being a hillbilly- but that does not bother me any. When nuclear holocaust, communism, or pandemics harm the rest of the country, we will be in those mountains with great water, living our own ways, guns, instruments, hunting dogs and horses. We will survive and prosper when all others fail.
God bless ya. Also ,rid the areas of scourge of drugs that are destroying it.
I know how you feel, im from south eastern Kentucky an met a few people in Illinois an South Dakota who went by that stereotype an made fun of me but im still proud of bein an Appalachian american an wont let nobody take that from me.
That right there is why it's calling to me. My great grandparents, Judson and Margaret Honeycutt, came from Yancey County, NC, and for some odd reason I don't know the specifics of, they moved to California where they had my grandmother and my mother and I were born. Appalachia must run in our blood, because that region has me enthralled.
Our government waste monr on unnecessary things. It's a shame they don't help those in the Appalachian. Wherever you're raised will always be home. My heart goes out yo those that are lacking.
@@SPAZZYok what makes you think the Scourge hasn't hit yet??
I have a dear friend from Virginia who is very self couscous about his "hillbilly" accent. He is one of the wisest and smartest men I know. There is no end to his practical knowledge. I have worked and traveled for years in the states through which the Appalachian Trail extends, from North Georgia to Maine. What is remarkable is that culturally they are the same people: Mountain Folk.
Why do people stereo type an accent?doesn't mean your dumb just cause of an accent
Those Maine folk have mountain accent but different. Ayuaaaa
does anyone remember the Fox Fire books...put together by a teacher and his students...i think it was in the 60s...they spent time with the older mountain people...learning there ways...I wish I could have been one of the students...I have nothing but high respect for them
I do. used to ha e all the volumes
I do remember them and have started collecting them. Having a printed resource of practical knowledge like that is not a bad idea when we are so reliant today on the digital world.
I have them all.
Your post is a yr old now, but yes the Foxfire books are great. I grew up deep in the E.TN Appies in the 60s and my grandparents took me to many houses just like these to visit old friends and relatives. Everybody had an outdoor toilet. My grandparents on both sides didn't get their indoor bathrooms until I was in 6th grade. Appalachian people are like no other Americans. We are a blend of three different races an cultures, Cherokee, African, and Scots-Irish...we're survivors and all three cultures know their land and nurture it. If you do't nurture your land, it will eventually cease to yield. I'd love to see the Appalachian farms back to where they used to be, and I'd like to see less of the federal government snooping around re-evaluating our protected land and natural resources. Always like to see someone who is interested in the Appalachian culture. Appalachian Heiress
As I read this post, I turned and looked at my bookshelves and there they are--the complete set of all of the Foxfire books. They've been there ever since I acquired every one of them many years ago and they will remain with me forever.
When the S.H.T.F., these are the people that will perhaps rebuild society.
Yeah with inbred genetics... god bless 'murica. There's our countries future.
@@pmaughmer, I was bred and raised by Labradors! So I can eat anything in front of me that my nose says "go for it"! Where do you think your ancestors eventually ended wound up giving you birth? LMAO!
@@pmaughmer Stereotyping much?
@@pmaughmer : You ... are a moron.
@@pmaughmer Did you even watch the video? Facepalm.
Always said: If my car broke down and I was stranded, I’d rather be on a country road than the freeway. Nowadays it’s country anything.
I’m proud to be from Appalachian folks - hills/hollers of Kentucky. Some of the kindest, God fearing, and hard working people I know.
I am Scot Irish. All of my ancestors are from the hills of Tennessee
Love them all
when Buddy Ebsen was asked to play jed clampett in Beverly Hillbillies the script demanded him to play the part as a stupid naive and ignorant person.
thankfully he refused that interpretation and played the part as a caring father who although on the surface looked like he might be backward he was quite capable of using his wily skills to not be taken advantage of by the city types who saw themselves as superior.
So true, but then we had Jethro, who was the personification of the stereotypical ignorant, uneducated, backwards hillbilly. In fact, wasn't Jethro originally slated to be the "sophisticated" member of the family?
That's why the show worked and became an all-time classic. 👍
Beautiful people, beautiful land, beautiful culture :) I'll take a country folk lifestyle over a city nightmare any day.
I totally agree with you. Many people live in the city because the salaries are high however when you realize that rents and mortgages are double and triple the amount that people pay in rural areas , it makes sense to live in the country.
Rock Roll It depends on what you consider comfortable.
When people say white people have no culture i just look back at rich and strong people like this and see a proud and nobel people who have no money but are rich in stories and songs that make up the most interesting part of the american people i my self am from china and i saw mountain people and they were considered like this aswell
I'm from a Yankee part of Appalachia in Pennsylvania. I now work in DC -- surrounded by flatlanders for the most part, but I'm learning them. Clean air, Clear springs, Little league. People pausing at 11:00 on Armistice Day. green trees and good honest folk.
Michael Alguire I have lived in Chicago, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I now live in a log cabin in the mountains of North Idaho and love it here. I will NEVER live in a big city again.
The slander addressed here reminded me of actors wearing blackface and acting like fools decades ago. Same old arrogance, different target.
@@folksurvival divide and conquer.
Yup it's a method of degrading a person's diversity to make the hidden agenda seem morally acceptable.
In almost any modern society, the basis for all other achievements must be agriculture (to feed the population) and industry (to provide all necessary materials and products). If someone wanted to precipitate the downfall of any culture, fostering a disdain or contempt for these most necessary peoples would be the place to start...
That's exactly what's it's been. And it started in Scottish lowlands hundreds of years ago. Good thing the English treated us like crap, or there wouldn't be a United States.
Big city liberals look down on you all while preaching tolerance and acceptance. I live in the big city and detest those lying hypocrites. I'd rather be around country people because you are authentic.
My mama said we weren't touchy-feely folks but you knew you belonged to the family. They didn't touch each other much but they had fierce devotion.
Same here, the older generations weren't huggers and didn't say I love you. But you knew it by a good meal, or a warm home, a good coat, a genuine smile. When you DID hear I love you you REALLY got knocked over by it. But now as I'm older I get sad that it was that way a bit...now blending with my husband's family who are very hands on and lovey I feel guilty hugging them and awkward at the same time....then the strange feelings of why didn't my family hug and openly love....it gets my evolving mind confused and worried.
I can't stand touchy-feely people and tell them to keep their hands off of me!
@@rudolphguarnacci197 I feel the same way and people like that aren't even always more friendly than less touchy feely people
@@justinfilipovic8939
That's a very good point. I am glad that, after living away from my father when I was 17, we understood each other much better. He died when I was 21, but those last three years had very genuine hugs of love where we told each other I love you. I'm not into huggin' guys and that's about the ONLY thing this biological attack from ch na was good for: getting rid of the bro hug.
@@rudolphguarnacci197 yeah hugging and stuff all.the time is like having Christmas every day it's not special that way hugging and saying "I love you" is like death bed stuff not something that should be the order of the day or something
I have found more inbreeding in downeast Maine, and among the super rich of Bar Harbor ( Mt. Desert Island) than in the Appalachian mountains.
Be wary of telling the truth these days, because the truth can get you in trouble. I know that you know my meaning.
I'm very proud to say I'm from madison county. I love my mountains and my river.
bascom lamar lunsford was called the minstrel of the appalachians. he was born in mars hill, madison county, north carolina.
if it wasn't for him so many old tunes and ballads would have been lost years ago. we sure are proud to claim him as one of our own.
Those are the only people who showed me what family was after I had lost my parents as a kid. It is vital that Americans discover what has been lost to most of this country. Include the community and others in your circle and teach them how to love your family when you are not around. Be the good Shepard.
I grew up in the mountains of Little Birch WVA and im damn proud to call myself hill folk/hillbilly. I am so thankful for my upbringing, I know the value of good people and hard work. I also know many things about surviving in this world with nothing more than my own grit. Something today's entitled pampered youth fail at miserably.
I have lived several other places but my mountains call to me. This is home.
Bull 💩 some of the greatest Americans ever. I love you Appalachia and that's coming from a yank 😏
Need more like you Sir..
Same
@Roy Dunn where you from, running around with that last name
When the big city people lose everything we the old way people will survive just fine
"I've never let my learning interfere with my educaution". Mark Twain.
I hope so ❤.
As long as the bombs don’t fall, y’all will be alright.
No, they won’t. They need the Walmart and Dollar General to survive.
@@dahe8883 yet another victim of the school system-stupid and narcissistic, per the alinsky method. Thank Obama for your irony. The Appalachian people are isolated farmers with a history in coal mining and logging. They are the very definition of the term "survivalist" and had you the attention span, beyond that of a gnat, you would have picked that up in the video.
With all downsides of the internet, the various clips of Appalachian culture is here on TH-cam.
That opens my eyes to the richness of a culture that had been defined by the movie
"Deliverance" and decades of other distorted stereotypes. I'm glad I have these videos available and hope that the internet can continue to educate. Thanks Dave!
I've lived a few other places in my life. New Orleans, Alaska. But them mountains is always calling me home. Cant believe how flat it is in other parts around our country!
It's nice to put someone down instead of looking at theirself Nothing wrong with Mountain folk it's ones that need to look at theirself ❤ y'all
Sheila Barron Lady, you said a mouth full. 100% true .
Mountain folks have the best music.
Well said.
Sorry...it should be "themselves" instead if "theirself" (watch participle usage with a pronoun object of prepositions). Hang in there Sheila. You've got the empathy but need a little grammar tuning.
My family has lived and died in the Appalachian Mountains since the late 1700s. The funny thing is everyone seems to still believe that all we do is sing, dance, and hangout at the country store. I work in social services and my former class mates are lawyers, doctors, aerospace engineers, SBI agents, and many other professions. Please stop the stereotypes! Thanks
The fella playin the fiddle at the end, when he gets praise for his playin, you can see his smile....his happiness is there you don't need anything else...fantastic video...
Sergeant Alvin York was a hero of WWI and a film was made about him. He was a mountain person.
God bless the mountain folk... they're going to survive to the end.
I'm proud to be Appalachian. We have strong family ties. There are uneducated people among us, yes. There are uneducated all over our nation. We have a store of knowledge that vital to our way of life. Many that frown on us and think we are stupid, could not survive here. We live simply because that's what we like. I know it's a foreign concept, but what does a person need other than food, a home and a family? Yeah, I have a lot more than that, but I know I've made a mistake in yearning for more, rather than less. I have an Aunt that is utterly ashamed of her roots. She acts like she didn't come from these mountains. Well, it's a pity she doesn't love her roots and the mountains from which her life sprang.
Too often, people confuse ignorance with stupidity. I have a master's degree, but some of the dumbest people I know were in school with me (and who's to say I am not among them?).
...and I have to add, I'd be one of those people that couldn't survive on my own in the mountains, because I am ignorant of the ways one lives there. (I'm pretty sure what I learned in my lone year of Boy Scouts doesn't quite cut it!) I think it'd be really cool to learn. A child who grows up in the Amazon, for example, will know how to identify thousands of plants and insects by age 7 or so. He or she can see a bee fly by, and know from its height in the air, and speed of its flight, if it has just pollinated a flower or is about to, and whether or not it is headed to or away from its hive. I find that sort of thing endlessly fascinating, and we have places with people full of knowledge and skills completely unknown to us city dwellers/natives right here in the US. Why anyone would be ashamed of growing up wih that kind of knowledge is beyond me.
You're not uneducated. You're differently educated and there is a difference.
Worst part is.... most of those uneducated people grew up in the city, and actually attended school.
@@nunyabiznez6381 perfect!
Appalachia is the most beautiful place on earth. My mountain family in Madison are always in my heart ♥
I believe Loretta Lynn came from Appalachian folks. I remember her mama dancing in "Coal Minor's Daughter".
From Van Lear, Ky in Johnson County
Some of the nicest people who I have ever had the pleasure to spend time with.
Very intelligent for the most part. They still understand the old ways of dealing with life.
Thanks for the video!!!
They're the best. I hope they never lose their culture. Modernism has crept in and changed a lot of things in the mountains, but some still relish the old ways. Some of the younger folks are working to preserve their culture, and that's good. Keep it up. How can we know where we're going if we don't know where we've been?
They will try to preserve until the yankees find out and get offended and bring their group antifa in and finish off what the union army couldnt have heat on you at all times
Kyle Holmes- Antifa would not last a day in our mountains. We would get rid of that problem real quick. 😊
I grew up in rural Tennessee, and I remember being asked "Do you go to school barefoot?", even up into the 80s. The stereotypes are still strong.
Tesslynn Amburgey dafuck you talking about? Go back to California and quit confusing Oklahoma for California.
Yeah...deliverance didn't help
grumpy old fart nice!
Alana P sad but true.
Ibef Nordin that sorry excuse for a movie was one of the worst things that happened to our people. So sad. Literally a "move". Trolling the Appalachian people. I live at the KY, Tenn, VA border. I have lived in Knoxville, which I still adore. Spent some time in California...great people but it wasn't home. We vacationed quite a bit in Florida and spent quite a bit of time in Texas...which I loved. However I feel that we live in Heaven. Truly I so. We do have problems...so does everyplace. Have a great day and or night guys and gals. God bless.
I had to leave my rural hometown, in McDowell County West Virginia, for financial reasons, and I've strayed far from the mountains I grew up in. I am proud of my roots there's no where else on earth I would rather be from than my small town. I will never forget my roots or the wonderful people I share them with.
Just like the song says, "Almost Heaven"
I miss ole McDowell Co too.
Where in McDowell ?
Roderfield/Premier area, McDowell Co. Great mountain memories.
@@tapptom iaeger
Hidden treasure on earth💖 wholesome and kindhearted people, no matter what anyone second hand thinks. Those who live here know how beautiful it is.
Payten Blair If that picture is you it reminds me of that girl from Gone from the Wind. But you’re probably much nicer....
@@MT-tu8qd haha, thank you:)
Payten Blair Your welcome..✌️
@@MT-tu8qd mam that really aughtta be the blair beauty
John Hines I agree 100%. Wonder how she is doing these days.
January 21, 2019: "There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance, a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for war and a time for peace." ~ Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Both my parents were from rural coal and oil country in VA and WV and they left and went on to ivy league schools and professions. Both lines go back to the 17th century. Getting them to talk about "the country" was like pulling teeth. They seemed to have shame about their past but once I started digging the roots they learned from ME and had a change of heart. We can preserve and teach our folkways and STILL function in the modern world. Both are essential to survival in my view. We need to learn about and honor our ancestors in any ways we can - without them we would not be here today. My kids got this lesson from me many times LOL!
Most folks from West Virginia would give you the shirt off their back if you look like you need it more than them and offer you their shoes too.
timber_beast: Your parents raised you right.
I love these folks. They are amazing. Talented and loving and warm. Wish the whole world was like the people in Appalachia.
I hope one day I can go and visit, I probably wouldn’t want to leave!
Wowwwwwwwwwwww......... all those songs are directly taken from Irish traditional songs - you can even recognize which song is which. The square dancing, and the tap dancing looks like Irish dancing. It's not Scottish. This is remarkable, because it demonstrates that the Scots-Irish settlers into Ireland had a lot more "Irishness" in their culture before leaving for America.. - always confirmed my suspicions that the forced seperation or the apartheid between Irish and Scots-Irish did not happen until later in history. And also shows why the Scots-Irish in America have a pro-Irish disposition, whilst the situation in Northern Ireland has evolved to make the Scots-Irish in Northern Ireland view Irishness as possibly alien to their ancestry, which they now consider to be British ancestry.
This video demonstrates clearly why the Scots-Irish Americans are still proud of their Irish roots. Awesome.
Let's not forget the Scotts. We put in our share of the culture and hard work all the way back to day one!
TheBuck1283 My youngest son is ha
You should read a book called How the Scots Invented the Modern World. America owes much of the language and sentiment of being a free people in our Declaration of
Independence, Bill of Rights and the Constitution to the Scots. I hope I had Scot ancesters. I am proud of all my heritage and so should we all be.
@@traciebecker6669 Western Culture owes much to the Scottish Enlightenment.
emmo, can you tell us what the name of the songs sung in this video are? I would love to look them up. I love folk music. If you don't mind, are you yourself Irish or Scottish? I know I have some Canadian (possibly Scot but not confirmed) definitely some English and Irish. I have a great interest in Scotland, the history. Good I don't live their though, too wet and cold for me. I'm used to the S. East Coast.
Why can't people just be left alone to live their lives as they see fit? As long as they don't hurt other, why bother them.
It always angers me when these happy people have some civil servants enter their area telling these people how poor and miserable they are. They had what they needed and were happy until that happened. Leave them the fck alone.
Hmmmm, same thing black folks in Rosewood, Florida and the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma wanted to.
The difference is, Appalachian folks still have their land and communities.
Yeah, spare me
@@9ineteen79 I'm sorry, these things should never have happened.
@easy rider I don't mind having these things brought to my attention. I never knew this happened. But ya, they weren't there so they can spare me their attitude.
Michael Dvorak does it matter if she was there? The point still stands, minus the attitude.
@@9ineteen79 they really mostly dont. millions have been displaced and had their land taken. It's been rough all over for most
I didn't come from the Appalachians, more to the west of there.We have the Ozarks where we still to make our own buscits and sausage ,with gravy. My ancestors worked the led mines and farmed.We walked to school which was fun for us!!!
There's something about mountain music.
We call it heart all heart !!
Yeh its crap.
P.S. Today I'm a Flat Lander and Tidewater boy, but I never forgot where my family came from.
Passed by on my way to Florida, best part of my drive.
Blue ridge mountain is scary descend yet absolutely
Breath taking scenery...Hamilton Ontario....
My Grand dad born in early 1890s never made much money during his working life “substance farm/ rancher” but when he passed he and my Grandmother had saved and trade for a good farm and amassed over 100 k.
That takes intelligence. Passed to my dad and my moms family similar did never the same.
I spent a total of five months around the Appalachians, mostly around the Virginia/W-Virginia Alleghenies... the people I met there and time I spent were nothing less than amazing. Undoubtedly amongst the warmest, most genuine and welcoming folk I've ever met... and I've lived and worked in 22 different countries, so have a fair overview of the world.
Will always remember the firefly season, too... one of the most spectacular natural events I've ever witnessed !
Best wishes to all the 'mountain people' of the Appalachians, from a Brit.
I found the same experience.
David Hoffman-filmmaker
I am decended from the Van Hoose ancestors of Johnson County,Kentucky,and the Pines of West Virginia,withsome Cherokee mixed in.
I read once that 90% of Kentucky people who have been here 200+ years have at least one Cherokee ancestor. I got mine, my great great grandmother. Most of the Indians here disappeared because they married in.
My Grand folks where from West Virginia. Grand mother didn't get her first pair of shoes until she was 13. Such white privilege.
Omg are you serious
That’s hard to believe I know many way back then made their own shoes
I’m from WV, my mother didn’t get indoor plumbing until she was 14, this was 1974.
I remember wearing old leather shoe with holes in the soles. We would put cardboard over the holes until it wore out. Then replace it. Yep! White privilege.
I'm sure any of these people can put on a nice outfit,shave and go to any major business in the city and get a job before a black person with education
I've lived in the Eastern Kentucky mountains all my life and I'm proud of it! I grow my own food in the summer and can it for the winter! This is just normal everyday life for us and I wouldn't trade it for anything!
For several years I was working at a company in western North Carolina, essentially at the edge of the mountains. I went on a business-related trip with an older man who had lived in the mountains all his life, had never gone to high school, and mentioned his love of banjo music. I grew up in the NYC area, had lived in several states, had traveled quite extensively, and didn't plan to stay in that area after the job (and don't); he had done some traveling but had lived in the same area where he was. I asked him if he were able to live anywhere he wanted, where would he go--and his answer was "right where I am".
I grew up hard in the coal fields of southern WV, McDowell county. My father grew up once Belcher mountain, and my mother hailed from Eureka hollow just before you get to Keystone. I’m proud of my folks for what they achieved in life, and I’m proud of my roots.
Let it be known, that if you are on the right side of these mountain people, there is nothing within their capabilities that they will not do for you. By contrast, if you are on their wrong side there is hardly nothing they will not do to you. Read Night Comes to the Cumberlands, by Harry Caudill. Some of it he got wrong, (like coal mining beneath sea, off the coast of European countries), but most of it he got right to include the damage done to the culture by the Federal Govt. (ie. welfare) to include the TVA...
@puggles luv how did the Fed Gov ruin farming there?
@@williamsherman6995 They built a lot of Dams, and flooded several hundred thousand acres of land. All of it fertile bottom land you know, the kind that is used for farming.
What is TVA?
@@a.j.giglio7195 TVA = Texas Vineyard Association
@@a.j.giglio7195 --TVA was the Tennessee Valley Authority which built hydroelectric dams to electrify the region. The movie "Wild River" with Montgomery Clift and Lee Remick is about this. I guess "Deliverance" is about it too, though I they demonize the mountain people.
America is a country of flavors. The Appalachian people are one of those flavors.
_June 3, 2019_
At least 52 people were shot, eight of them fatally, across Chicago over the weekend, the most violent of the year as summer gets underway, with a toll even higher than during the long Memorial Day holiday just a week earlier. More than half the victims were wounded during a 12-hour burst of gunfire from Friday evening to Saturday morning. At least four of the 31 people shot during that time died after attacks on the West and South sides. At least one other person over the weekend was fatally stabbed, bringing the homicide toll to nine.
And they called the Appalachian people savages? Where would you rather live?
This bring tears to my eyes to think of all the joy they made for themselves, but gave freely to others. This is the way we should all live, never mind trying to get rich with money, we are lacking riches of the heart and soul in today's world.
Thanks again for another thoughtful, heartfelt video.
Green acres is the place to be. Love my country folk. Amazing how so many smiles. How the little things are appreciated.
Greatest people I've ever known are mountain folk. Loyality is as strong as a blood bound, they'll fight for you or fight with you. People came from everywhere to get some of my granny's 180 proof apple or cherry pie. Music. Kindness. Acceptance. Hard Workers. That's mountain folk.
from good ol east kentucky my family been here since 1700s i wouldnt ever leave this beautiful place
I live in Harlan County. Where do you live?
@@johngluck6938 i was raised in Harlan also...Martains Fork..
Just warms my heart to think my ancestors were just like these folks.
Hi, my Dad n his whole family was from up in the Hollars of Logan, West Virginia n they were so poor. Granny would cook up eggs, Bacon n toast n that's what they would eat for Breakfast n had to save half for supper time. How sad. Christmas time was the worst for my Dad cuz his Mother couldn't afford to buy him Christmas gifts so Christmas morning he always stayed in the house n watch out the window at other kids outside playing w their presents. My Dad's older sister, when she got old enough to work, saved up n bought her lil brother, my Dad a football for Christmas which her treasured for many years. I love hearing stories from the local people if the Appalachians. Its my favorite place.
I live in a small town in Southern England and they have an Appalachian dancing group that performs at local fetes, with all the music played live.
They look like really lovely people god bless u
i'm a appalachian and I would never leave them
Here in rural Nova Scotia we've endured the same stereotype perpetuated by the rest of Canada. I've be to two of the Appalachian states (North and South Carolina) and was really taken by the beauty of the land and the warm hospitality of the people. I thought it was very similar to my beautiful Annapolis valley.
My parents were from Mercer County, WV. My dad grew up in Bluefield, my mom on a farm about halfway between Princeton and Beckley. I spent my summers on the old home place, carrying buckets of water from the spring, taking baths in a large galvanized tub, running wild and free up and down the hills. I loved it so much. My grandmother died in 1976 so it's been awhile, but my favorite smell to this day is a mixture of coffee, bacon frying, and woodsmoke (from her woodstove in the kitchen). Salt of the earth people in WV. It is certainly God's country.
My people came here from Scotland, Ireland and Wales. They settled in Appalachia. They worked hard and were good people. Proud of my roots.
When I saw this I thought of the Walton's; hard-working, God-fearing , salt of the earth Americans. Love their bluegrass music, too.
I live in the appalacian mountains! There's nothing else like it! I wouldn't trade it for the world!!!!
You ain't never seen me then?
We were home birthing some puppies today and my "fancy" aunt came to watch....well a big one was stuck and she was pale and freaking out....I was surprised because she grew up with us...but moved to "the city" about 20 years ago...and I had puppy goo on my hands helping deliver a puppy....and I said to her..."wow, you lost your mountain didn't you?" Because that's what we call it here....we live up on the mountain.....and I love it. Not quit Appalachia, central Pennsylvania mountains, we are polish as they get. And I'm good with that. We can survive if we need to.
I was born n raised in pike co Kentucky I was a Coal Miner for 30 years. I learned how to hunt, fish and how to garden as a kid. I will always be proud of my Appalachian Heritage. I will survive !
The first time I met a guy from the mountains I was in Basic training in the Army. This guy was wide eyed and a little naive but he was stupid. He said that he had to take a bus and a plane to get to Fort Dix, New Jersey, and it had been the first time for both. He was a hell of a worker and very disciplined, funny as hell and got along with everyone. I don’t know what happened after basic but he had scored well on his ASVAB test and was supposed to go to school for computers. And I met a girl from the mountains of West Virginia at Basic too, and she and I met up a few times on the weekend passes, and during the week a few times. She was damn near the best kisser I’ve ever had. I still dream about that girl 40 years later!
I'm a dang hill Billy and proud of it. I also have a master's in education and human development. I build courses for the military. I still talk with my draw. People think I'm stupid until they say something and I answer with my good ole book learning. Still tickles me. My ragged hat and sleeveless shirt as I drive away in my jag. I just a dumb ol hill Billy that caint do fer himself I reckon.
I come from melungeon Appalachian heritage. I love my family and especially my great mamma Freeman! 💖
I remember a thing called "Community".
Its still there but people need to practice it more. New folks move in from other states and they should be welcomed with an apple pie or something. That starts a community and tells the newcomer that they are welcome.
Can't say that in my area (central coast of California)
I said it once and the hispanic people lost their minds. As for the caucasian/saxons it was just as complicated.
Sad...
Can't say that in my area (central coast of California)
I said it once and the hispanic people lost their minds. As for the caucasian/saxons it was just as complicated.
Sad...
Community comes a lot easier homogeneity.
Erik River This is the truth. Not what people like to admit, but it's truth.
I met only 1 person from W. Virginia. One of the nicest and generous people I've ever met. Jimbo! Hell of a guy.
My mom's family is from Big Chimney, West Virginia. Great people. My Dad's is Irish Catholic from Boston. Very different cultures but I respect both so much.
The real rubes are those who are ignorant of the truth of happiness. My roots are of S Central KY and N Central Tennessee, my mother's side of my family and all ten kids (my mother the oldest) went on to be successful. PURE GRIT!
Beautiful Tribute to your Family.Blessings to you from Philadelphia, Pa.
Thank you.
Proud to be a coal miner's granddaughter on both sides of my family, married to a hillbilly whose forebears came to the mountains of Appalachia in the early 1700s.
Some of the greatest soldiers in our history,come out of them mountains.
I live in the Appalachian mountains now, I’ve lived here since 1974. I have been to 14 countries and lived in two. I have been to 41 states and lived in eight. All the places I have been, the Appalachian mountains is by far the best. I have lived in a city of 10 million and a town of 300. I’m retired now. Nothing beats the beauty of the mountains. The clean air, rivers and mountain streams. It’s peaceful and quiet, no traffic jams or smog. Wildlife in abundance.
David, I really admire your work. You always tell stories without exploiting the area or the people. The stories are raw and beautiful. They do not make fun of or belittle. Thanks for exposing us to people and places we would otherwise never experience.
thank you for your statement. That is exactly what I try to do. And the people of the southern mountains have the most wonderful culture.
David Hoffman-filmmaker