The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #15729   Message #142698
Posted By: catspaw49
30-Nov-99 - 01:18 PM
Thread Name: American Hollow documentary
Subject: RE: American Hollow documentary
If I can, I will group. I'm such a techno wiz that I keep having problems taping through the freakin' Jerrold box though. I will try to get it on tape for you...It is really worth the watching.

As someone who worked for the Appalachian Volunteers and the Council of the Southern Mountains, I gotta' tell you it was well done. And my comment above is apprpos to the region although for better or for worse, the family structure is changing. Although I understand Clint, there was always a certain grace associated with the people there, a sort of purity. I'm not waxing poetic...there were some real shitkickers too, but the 'times they are a changin'" even in the upholler communities. make of it what you will.

Art, the Ritchie home shows that same blend of the old and the new....but the family remains close to their roots and the land. And BTW...do you enjoy listening to Edna as much as I do? Same as Jean, but different. In some ways, more pure and true to the "sound." A lot of daughters/nieces and grandkids also have that same voice, kind of amazing.

Spaw