“We Are Appalachia”: We're not Southern, we're Appalachian. We have big mountains, skinny valleys, and we perch our houses on one or in the other. We're strong. We adapt. We always have. If we can't work on these mountains, we'll just work under them. I know that equates with southern living. But we're not Southern, we're Appalachian.
We're not country, we're Appalachian. We don't have a lot of folks wearing cowboy hats. We're not cowboys. We may have dirty hands, dirty faces, dirty clothes, but clean hearts. We get our hands dirty planting corn, beans, peas, potatoes, not enough to sustain an income, just enough to sustain our family. We like to prove we can do that. Sustain us. You know skin a buck, run a trot line, us Appalachian people really can survive. And we're not country, we're Appalachian.
There's nothing wrong with southern folk, country folk, city folk. We see their worth, each group of them, and appreciate what they do. But we're not them. Some of us have been amongst them, and learned from them, and loved them. Traveling into their worlds on the working backs of the people in our world. Just like everywhere else, that's what we want for our children. But it is often that we learn that nothing is better than what we had.
Hard work, big hearts, warm souls, level heads, wisdom, strength, perseverance, honesty, sincerity, and love. They send us to know better, to do better. We are our own. And to understand us is to love us. So just try to understand. We are Appalachian.
*Pictured is the Sandy Mash community in Buncombe County, North Carolina
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Winn Dixie had a great deal on pork tenderloin, so the wife pick up 20# and I spent the day slow cooking them on the grill over oak. We like to use this when we make beans.
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A concept: Saiki K country au
Hear me out:
Everything is the same, except they live in Texas and go to a public school
Maybe their names get Americanized too IDK 😳
'The Rambunctious Livin' of Shawn Kramer'
And instead of 'yare yare' he says 'boy howdy'
yee haw
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