I forgot to comment on paperback's comment about Appalachian families proudly displaying coats of arms on their walls. One fiddle player that I met had a printed family genealogy on his living room wall. And he was very proud to show it to me. He had paid $50 to a mail order company to have this made up. His name was at the bottom, his father and grandfather above. There were then a few meaningless names above them before the name 'Bonny Prince Charley' was sitting at the top of the list. It was, of course, a scam. Yet more confusion to Appalachian heritage.
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