1940 Applalachian Pioneer's Mountain Life And Their Children

1940 short-film showing the life of the people living free around the Applalacia range. Out of reach from the new-deal culture, and it's beliefs. Living off the land, and their own resources. They built strong family communities in the Appalachia region, and required a little more convincing to take a hand out. 1940 movie, by the university of Kentucky.

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• appalacian
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• mountains
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• america
• pioneers
• farming
• virginia
• carolina

[BLUEMOONGRASS]

This video takes me right back home to East Tennessee in the early 1950's. Seems everthing I have seen in the video I have lived too. My folk came from cutters gap' Del Rio Tennessee the land of CHRISTY. This was the time of pure and honest hard workin people that still had morels they stood on that' lived off the land. Seems I have traveled everwhere and seen most all and the' one thing that still stay's fresh on my mind is my time in the APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS.

[Druidbw]

This is how my mother lived in Northern Canada 1950's.

[Sheri451]

My Aunt and Uncle used to live in the Appalachain Mountains of North Carolina, There used to be a house across the road that looked just like that house those poor people lived in, they had to go to an outhouse to go to the toilet, they bathed in a washtub. My cousin Jennifer was worried about them. Even now there are people that suffer like that, they need food, and toothbrushes, and soap and shampoo.

[EmeraldTriangle80]

By the New Deal era, the last remaining sections of Appalachia that hadn't had a large exposure to the outside world began to be introduced to new ideas for good and bad. But remember, most places in Appalachia by the 1930's had been influenced by "outlanders" for the last 50yrs with railroads, coal mining, and settlement schools.

[kesmarn]

Wonderful little short film. The description accompanying it should be tossed, though. The New Deal was a true life saver for many. And to imply that Appalachia was completely untouched by the outside world is contrary to history. Coal mining, unions, strikes, input from universities on better farming methods --- a lot of that "lefty stuff" made it to the hills. And that's a good thing.

[TheGoingwolf]

Same here BLUEMOONGRASS from hills of East Tenn born in mid 1940s and grew up there.Will always be home even thou i left there to serve in the military and get a degree from one of better know colleges in the midwest.GO PURDUE!!!!

[gasttheplast]

@Druidbw me too.

[tonlo92]

These people look wealthy compared to how my Grandma "Maw Maw" lived. She didn't get her 1st pair of shoes until she was a teenager. Her mother made their dresses out of potato sacks. She told me their walls were covered in newspaper mixed with a paste they made. It looked like wallpaper but it was just newspaper. When she passed away last year she had over 50 pairs of shoes (not expensive ones) & she said she would never again not have a pair of shoes to wear.

[ginaven1]

@oacmre I live in south appalacia,have all of my life,We had gardens and sold some of our food and put food away,we made it. Wasn't fun as a small child getting up at 6am working in the garden all day,but we all had to. My dad came down with TB so we had to help. The outside world makes life look worse than it is.

[oacmre]

@ginaven1 i know what u mean, i am from a much poorer country ( with better climate though), so i know how hard the life can be when u dont have many things in life

[ginaven1]

@oacmre You don't know you are poor until you are told or see others have more,that's the way it is.you garden put food away (can) etc,it doesn't hurt people,we had to appreciate what we had.

[ginaven1]

Thats good food,I was raised poor,and ate like that and to this day it's even better