This film explores the true meaning of poverty in Southern Appalachia.
Very cool VIDEO HERE (24 minutes), well worth the time.
This film explores the true meaning of poverty in Southern Appalachia.
Very cool VIDEO HERE (24 minutes), well worth the time.
So much white privilege.
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ReplyDeleteI had a lot of family come from Tennessee and have a lot hand written stories of their lives 1900-1940. Talk about poverty and hard lives !!!
The 'reality' of so called 'white privilege'...
ReplyDeleteJust recently returned from a trip to the old family communities in Grundy and Warren Counties in Tennessee.
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The tarpaper house looks like the house my great aunt and uncle lived in, with my great grandmother. I remember going to the back room to get her a fresh can of snuff When I was about 4 years old. East Tennessee has changed a lot since I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteThank you Kenny for posting this. The narrator and the people of that time and place was far head of their time. They understood the perilous times we are headed for, for it was started with them. When I lived in Alabama it was peaceful time for me and I will return. Simple folk, poor folk are true civilization.
ReplyDeleteEven the narrator, though trying to be objective, gives away the root of our problems today.
ReplyDeleteHe can't fathom, though he respects the decision (the unusual part today), why the subject wouldn't want to live in town? He's capable of it (aka has a diploma/skills he recognizes like typing), but the backwards animal still chooses to live up in the mountains.
... and the narrator laments why Appalaichian people are distrusting?
Same for the golks in the cloud cities today, nothings changed. How can thise rubes live in flyover country with their big diesel trucks, they don't even have a thai noodle restaurant?!?!?
Another area of Appalachia that was eradicated by the federal government:
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My grand parents grew up near the Underwood Cemetary. Kenny may know where this is.
ReplyDeleteThe dog drug up a ground hog, so it (the ground hog) went in the pot.
1930 in Macon county Tennessee and several kids to feed....
I've got a hundred stories like that.
Yup, I live within a mile or so of Underwood cemetery.
ReplyDeleteHow to cook a ground hog. Heard this up in a Holler. Skin and gut it and nail it to a board. Put in oven at 400 degrees for 4 hours. Remove, pull nails, flip it, re-nail back in the oven for another four hours. Remove, pull nails, remove the hog and eat the board.
ReplyDeleteA feature film based on the book "Hillbilly Elegy" is due for release 11/24 on N-flix. Don't know how true to the hardscrabble of Appalachia it gets, but Amy Adams and Glenn Close are in it. My kin going way back were from there.
ReplyDeleteThat was fascinating
ReplyDeleteThat was fascinating
ReplyDeleteThanks for that link! Heard a few tales from my grandparents about the depression era here, which wasn't too different.
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