A guy takes his camera and just confronts whatever what may.
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If you get bored click forward to the 49:00 mark and watch his conversation with the teenage boys.
I worked for the Boy Scouts there (BEFORE they turned faaaaaaaaabulous!🤩 🤮) 25 years ago – tough, but rewarding work – greatest people in the world!)
If you like Peter, check out his video series on the Amish. Educational and interesting, watched it 2 nights ago when I couldn’t sleep.
Notice they all pronounce it CORRECTLY!!! NOT APE-AY-LAYCHAY. AIN’T no damn long A’s in “Appalachia!!! The college in Boone, NC is NOT “Ape state!!!” It’s “App State” If you pronounce it with long A’s they’ll laugh their Apps off at you!!!
Both my parents hail from West Virginia, and my wife’s kin comes from coal country in Virginia and the hills of Tennessee.
Trust me that he’s not overstating the case.
There’s a reason that WE were not born and raised there.
Because our folks saw no future in it.
…and that was BEFORE Democrats started trying to kill it in earnest…
EVER WATCH THOSE INFOMERCIALS ABOUT THE STARVING KIDS IN AFRICA?? DEFINITELY SAD BUT HAVE YOU SEEN THE SAME ABOUT OUR STARVING AMERICANS WITH HERITAGE THAT GOES BACK 100S OF YEARS??
I SAW ONE A LONG TIME AGO, I THINK IT WAS DONE WITH RICKY SKAGGS, GOD BLESS HIM
KIDS WITH NOTHING, MOST IMPORTANTLY MEDICAL AND DENTAL, NO HEALTHY FOODS
EVERYONE ELSE IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN OUR OWN???
FUCK THAT
This looks like the set and the extras for “Justified”.
Gee, I wonder how much of the billions and billions of federal aid dollars, earmarked for the war on poverty went to this forgotten neglected area of our country? Sorry guys, wrong skin color.
I noticed this guy did not have to hire security as protection and I doubt their retail areas have much of a shoplifting problem.
Next stop, Detroit, just kidding.
My stomping ground, between my retirement gig and my weekend motorcycling, this time of year, I put in around 4500 miles a month in the Blue Ridge/Appalachian region.
Many moons ago, as a long haired teen of 13, to earn $ for my weed &
jazz albums, I played drums for a regional “country star” in a ton of dive joints in the Bluefield area. The guitar and bass players had to kick the rednecks off stage, as they tried to get to “the damn hippie drummer”.
Speaking of Welch…an interesting movie all should see, is “Matewon”.
Though my home town is a place of departure, not a destination, I’m proud to be from… and back to the region. I spent 20 years in Ca. and like all places it ain’t perfect either.
LBJ used these areas to push his “war on poverty” scheme…as we all know now, it was a bait & switch.
Interesting part is when they talk about politics. Coal country was blue. They showed strong support for democrats, and for that support democrats shit all over them and canceled coal. Now it’s all deep red.
Also notice how poor white areas of the country aren’t filled with graffiti, shit in the streets, shootings, and crime. It’s even filled with drugs (Thanks Biden for the fentanyl), and still no crime? These areas in WV/KY used to have high crime rates when they voted democrat. Wonder why that is?
ecp AT 9:08 PM
“Interesting part is when they talk about politics. Coal country was blue. They showed strong support for democrats, and for that support democrats shit all over them and canceled coal. Now it’s all deep red.”
….my folks were raised in the Great Depression and were kids in WwII, so they were FDR Democrats and raised under the impression that Roosevelt pulled their families out of the Depression and Democrats won the war, so Democrats were AMAZING. Then there was the whole Kennedy/Camelot thing, and LBJ starting the alleged “War On Poverty” not in a ghetto but on an Appalachian families’s porch, and this helped fool regional folks into thinking he had an actual interst in helping them.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/16/lbj-war-on-poverty-kentucky/7772929/
…history has, of course, proven otherwise, but only hindsight is 20/20. One can understand why it was possible for desperately poor people could have fallen for what was then a new thing, and a new hope.
That was probably the best one hour and four minutes I’ve spent in ages! KUDOS to a talented film maker and engaging with some of the best people to represent their area!
The actress, Karen Austin, is from Welch, WV.
Thanks! That was interesting and well done. The kids in the last part were wonderful. I hope they achieve their goals.
@SNS: My mother was born and raised in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee 100 years ago. She almost made it to 100, but the hospital killed her 2 years ago. My mother high-tailed it out of there when she met the sperm donor. She would reminiscence about her childhood, but I didn’t see anything appealing. Just a gee-donk town where everyone knows your business. Still have cousins back there and I don’t keep in contract with them – never have. BTW, my mothers family were well off, they were in the lumber business.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAVSHpZIvqQ
If I had a dime for every time I travelled through Bluefield… I’d have a few dollars… Nicest people you’ll wanna meet… Very much like the area I come from in central PA. There used to be great Bluegrass festivals in that area. I miss travelling there.
@ The Claw
Are you familiar with the bluegrass group Brush Creek out of Somerset, PA?