PBS- Appalachia-History of Mtns & People

Subject: PBS- Appalachia-History of Mtns & People
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 12:44 AM

Has anyone been watching this series on PBS? Apparently they are rerunning it; we missed the first run and we missed the first two of the reruns, but the one this week, the third, was really good and I look forward to seeing the last. I was hoping Jean Ritchie would be in one of them, but if so I've missed her. Anyway, it seems to be really good. Here's a LINK. (And, yes, I did search for a thread on it and did not find one.:-)

Thanks,

kat

Subject: RE: PBS- Appalachia-History of Mtns & People
From: GUEST,Russ
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 11:18 AM

Thanks for the heads up. I Don't have a TV. I'll ask my daughter about it.

I hope it is not another poor ignorant hillbillies expose.

To me it is interesting that "Appalachia" seems to be slowly ceasing to be a pejorative term in some contexts.

However, I just heard the big growing region in California called "the new Appalachia."

The more things change....

Russ (Permanent GUEST from the heart of Appalachia)

Subject: RE: PBS- Appalachia-History of Mtns & People
From: Jayto
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 04:47 PM

I got to watch some of it. I really enjoyed what I did get to see. I had my tivo set to record all of them but the tivo crashed and I missed some and lost what I had recorded before I got to see.
cya
JT

Subject: RE: PBS- Appalachia-History of Mtns & People
From: katlaughing
Date: 11 Jul 09 - 11:09 PM

Russ, one of the things that was neat was it explained how that hillbilly stereotype came about and how ignorant it was. Hope you get to see them. You, too, jayto.