Appalachian Journey

Alan Lomax travels through the Southern Appalachians investigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendents of the Scotch-Irish frontiers people who have made the mountains their home for centuries.

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[kevindsims]

thank you for the tip, though i'm having trouble getting the streaming to work, i have a mac and tried vlc and quicktime player with no success, do you have any advice? thank you again

[folkstreamer]

you need to download the Real player. Is a free download at Real dot com. Use the the Real sure stream.

[kevindsims]

do you have more of this documentary?

[folkstreamer]

go to folkstreams dot net and you can stream the entire film.

[galahad143]

This is the essence of America and should be kept alive! I was a Filipino immigrant and now a citizen, and am proud to be part of this culture.

[oshjump]

Fuck you Mrbeano1. If you don't like mountain people take your yankee ass back to Maine and shove a lobster up your stupid ass.

[paulaegraham]

@Solarlad Thank you for your kind words.

[galahad143]

@Solarlad ?

[Solarlad]

@paulaegraham U moron Irish have NOTHING to do with scoth-irish u retard. Appalachian cuulture is mostly english/scottish-anglo-saxon protestants. The Irish are too dignified and too superior to live in appalchian and be scotch-irish.

[Solarlad]

@galahad143 Slave.

[Wodenhelm]

"Scots-Irish" are British Borderland area English-Scots who temporarily moved to British Northern Ireland for a short time before then moving once again to the Appalatchans (yeah note my spelling there; "Appalayshian" has no historic basis in speech and is a mispronunciation by Northerners who encountered the term in writing, not in speech). 90% of Appalachia's settlers are Scots-Irish (more correctly "Anglo-Scots"), with English, German, and Cherokee abound as well.

[dave777blaster]

@barnettrs actually the term is Appalachian

Apalachie and Apalachchan are local terms of endearment .

The Appalachian runs from the Southern USA clear on up into Canada into the Gaspesie

Though the peoples living along the mountain have divers back grounds

they are all people of the land

[bubbles202]

Watch deliverance



[jpmccue7]

there scots-irish_they did not like the irish people_not irish.

[paulaegraham]

The Appalachians were settled mostly by Scotts, Irish, or some combination. This is a very Irish culture; from the stress on storytelling and ballads, to the place of alcohol in the culture, the lack of trust for outsiders and authority figures, and the philosophical attitude of defeatism.

The people don't trust outsiders because outsiders tend to use or abuse the natives. The missionaries tend to be almost as bad as the coal bosses.

[paulaegraham]

Because of the potato famine of the late 19th century, there are more people of Irish extraction in NY city than in the entire countries of Ireland. Naturally that kind of influx is going to impact the greater culture.

Anyone whose family has been here since colonial times, has some English, Some Irish, some German, and probably some Native American.