Backcountry Folk of the Kentucky Mountains

Backcountry Notes ^ | February 28, 2010 | Jay Henderson

[jay1949]

Life in the mountains of East Kentucky has been demanding since the early days of European settlement. In the many isolated valleys and hollows, it is a hardscrabble life, even today, yet many of the mountain folk wouldn't trade that life for the city, even when they could -- isolation and self-sufficiency being primary reasons why the first settlers came here to put down roots.

[IDontLikeToPayTaxes]

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[Bodleian_Girl]

Yea for an interesting article.

I loved Foxfire. 7 is my favorite.

[jay1949]

*ping*

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[mylife]

[IbJensen]

[Bodleian_Girl]

Hey, put me on your ping list, I’m kind of into stuff like this. That’s my people!!! More so in Tennessee, but you know what I mean. :-)

[mylife]

I remember churning butter with my great grandma as a wee kid.

I feel blessed.

[proudofthesouth]

Please add me to your ping list. Thx.

[mylife]

In the many isolated valleys and hollows, it is a hardscrabble life, even today. Yet many of the mountain folk wouldn't trade that life for the city, even when they could -- isolation and self-sufficiency being primary reasons why the first settlers came here to put down roots.

If any one word can describe this community, it is "determined." They were -- and many still are -- determined to live by their own creed. They cling to religion and guns and traditional ways as much as any Appalachians.

Bitter clinging squirrel gravey sucking So and So's..

[mylife]

The Quillan Family~Model Church

[OutsideDawg]

I recognize the Amran Shrine Hillbillies anywhere I see them.
LOL!

[OutsideDawg]

I recognize the Amran Shrine Hillbillies anywhere I see them.
LOL!

[dljordan]

I remember those. I’ve got all of them in a box downstairs. They’re full of great stuff.

[cva66snipe]

Like the song goes “Don’t it make you wanna go home.”

[cva66snipe]

Looks like some of my folks. :>} {Including myself} Overalls and coveralls the two most functional and comfortable pieces made for man. Makes carrying concealed a lot easier also :>}

[Free Vulcan]

My grandfather and grandmother were from the hills of southern Tennessee and norther Alabama. Poor as poor could be.

My aunt his a zillion pictures of my ancestors who lived just like this, and we have relatives that live like this to this day. That and all the memories of being down there as a kid.

Many people would see those pictures and would only see the poverty. Anyone from or with roots in the south feels one thing - PRIDE.

[Joe 6-pack]

Reminds me of the last David Allan Coe concert I went to!

[Peter W. Kessler]

Rodeo Song!!!

[chris_bdba]

Those look a lot like the photos my Grandma had from her childhood in West Virginia.