Butch Harrison, Florida Cracker Storyteller

This is the opening to the new DVD, "Butch Harrison, Florida Cracker Storyteller." It is available at http://butchharrison.com. It is produced by Panorama Studios in Cambria, California. http://panoramastudios.com

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Entertainment

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• florida
• cracker
• storyteller
• Butch
• Harrison
• Florida
• pioneer
• stories

[purzheen]

He sure don't sound like any native Florida Cracker I've met ... sounds like a Yankee to me.

[panoramarick]

Despite how you think he sounds, he grew up in Florida and spent his life as a gladesman, hunting and fishing guide in the Everglades, cattleman, airboat operator and now a storyteller. You can't get any more "Cracker" than he is. He's the real deal.

[MrLighterknot]

i wish yall could here me talk im from nw fl my and my great x3 moved here in 1842 from south ga . my great granddadx2 joined joined the c.s.a.army on the banks of the aplachacola river at iola in 1861 he cought a river boat went back to ga to fight ! we came up making moonshine hunting gaters for the hides cypress logging we had hog cliams and cow cliams witch where both free grazing.we still live that kind of lifebecouse we know no other way !we'd reather pull goffers than eat at mcdoalds !

[seesitreal]

I knew Butch and have talked to Butch a few times over the past couple years and Butch is a real as they come and as true as can be Butch spent alot of time in the Loxahatchee Glades 14 miles west of Deerfield Beach as well as in the many of the glades else where Butch was well known by many and actually still remembered by many who knew him.

[KBDollhouseproject]

I've been in florida my entire life. We don't have accents. Glades and or otherwise, we don't have accents.

[chaos0691]

@purzheen My family came to Florida in1763, the accent that your talking about came mostly from people from Georgia and Alabama who came in after around the mid 1800s.

[purzheen]

@daytonafreakboy:

I'm not saying he isn't from Florida, I sound like a Yankee myself. But he sure didn't grow up on the land in the Glades or the any other non-coastal part of the state. For an example of a famous person with a classic Florida accent, listen to John Anderson, the country singer. Or, if you want, go to South Bay, Belle Glade, or Clewiston (FL) and look for local born white folks over 60 -- they'll let you know that this man don't sound right.

[daytonafreakboy]

@purzheen you dont know what your talking about.

my family been in florida 150+ years and i hear that glint in his speech that tells me he IS a man from florida..

southern accents vary greatly, from georgia to carolina the intonations and rise and fall in emphasis on the same exact words are totally different..

compare a texan's drawl to the "southern accent" of a virginian.. there is no 'one' southern accent you meant no disrespect, but dont know what your talking about..

[purzheen]

Sorry, didn't mean any offense, but I don't accept his 'Crackerhood' if he doesn't sound like a Southerner. We fought for freedom from Northern oppression, as you might recall, and if he had true Southern parents and really did grow up in the Glades, he'd sound Southern (as do hundreds of the remaining old timers who lived off of farming and poaching). I'm sure his story is cool nonetheless.

[Escagedo3rd]

Fantastic! I'm from Florida but my folks were Cuban and they lived off the(spam) instead of the land. Still this video gives me goose bumps! I love this land! Thank you!