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LarneMan · Senior Member

The Appalachians Documentary

Kilted Carver · Senior Member

Cool, I'm gonna check that out Rick, thanks. There was a cool one on the History Channel hosted by Billy Ray Cyrus about Appalachia, but it dealt with the North-Eastern section.

LarneMan · Senior Member

I think PBS has that one for sale. It's mainly about the music, so it would focus on that area because that's mainly where the commercial recordings were made.

Kilted Carver · Senior Member

The one on History Channel dealt alot with the moonshiners, and he coal miners going t war against corrupt officials. It also talked about family squabbles like the Hatfields and McCoys. It featured a old moonshiner named Popcorn Sutton who had a still up in Maggie Valley.

Dulcimer Dude · Veteran Member

I am from Appalachia. Oh yes, there is NO LONG A sound in Appalachian,just as a side-note.
My grandfather Green(MacGlashan)was a REAL moonshiner and was killed by his own brother fightin' over the "shine money" one cold night in 1944. I never knew him. My MacPatrick's left Charlestown in 1715 and went straight for the mountains of what is now North & South Carolina. I still have "Paterson's" living in Clay & Macon counties in N.C. and in Fannin & Murray counties in Ga. and Polk and Monroe counties in Tn. and recently found "cousins" in Oconee county S.C.
My dad's side had Grady's (O'Grady) and Welch families in Cherokee co. and further north into what is now Buncombe and Mitchell counties in N.C. My Cherokee ancestors lived in the Snowbird mountians in what is now Graham co. N.C. So my roots go VERY DEEP into the soil of Appalachia and I am very thankful that they do. I belong to the mountains and when I retire that's where I am going to be!!
Since I love virtually all things "Appalachian" I'm sure I'll have no problem interacting or speaking the language when I get there. It'll probably N.C. somewhere between Robbinsville and Blowing Rock....so I'll have a big choice to make in where to settle. Oh well, it'll be a task I won't really regret! Slainte'.......MacBubba # 400 biggrin

David · President - CLSNA

I'm a Netflix subscriber. Might be available through there.

DWS5382 · Newbie

There is an hour-long show that pops up once in a while on PBS World entitled (I think ) " The Last One " featuring the previously mentioned Popcorn Sutton. The entire show is devoted to him and the stories he tells as he makes his last batch of White Lightening. This man is a wonderful relic of a bygone era and watching him makes me think of a man I never got to know--my Grandpa Fee who was born, lived and died in Harlan County, Kentucky--not to mention a million other Scots-Irish hillbillies who lived in relative obscurity. While I'm at it, I have to recommend a book entitled " Night Comes to the Cumberlands " that is mostly a treatment of the Appalachian Scots-Irish coal miners and the Appalachian coal industry as a whole. If you have coal mining ancestors, you'll want to look at this one. The author's name is Harry Caudill and it includes a short story of how some one with a Spanish name like Caudill wound up being Irish. Hint-- it has to do with Spanish Armada shipwrecks on the western shore of Scotland and Ireland. Good stuff. Gud day.