"Opa! Opa! Down in the Holler!": Many layers of history and lore near Pikeville, Kentucky. Sept 2020 скачать в хорошем качестве

"Opa! Opa! Down in the Holler!": Many layers of history and lore near Pikeville, Kentucky. Sept 2020

On my trip through Kentucky and Appalachia, I chose to stay in Pikeville, a small but pleasant city near the junction of the three states of Kentucky, West Virginia, and Virginia. In a relatively small area, one can: (1) visit the childhood home of Loretta Lynn (Butcher Holler/Van Lear); (2) explore various locations of the Hatfield-McCoy feud and gravesites of members of the two families; (3) visit Matewan, site of the massacre which, along with associated events, led to the federal government's passing of legislation to better protect coal miners; and (4) take the time to reflect at the Dils Cemetery. One will find some gravesites of the McCoy family here. In addition, one must think about (white) Colonel Dils who was forward-thinking enough to employ freed slaves in his businesses and to allow blacks to be buried in the same graveyard as whites. There is a heck of a lot of complicated history to witness and contemplate in this area of Appalachia from many different time periods in the USA. It is kind of mind-boggling to think about all of it. Of course, many of these locations are rural. I might even say that the final town here, Sarah Ann, site of the Hatfield Family Cemetery, is true "bumblexxxx" territory! "Please don't hunt me down, Mr. Hatfield! I am not the Real McCoy!: (...not a real quote. I just made it up! ....) Even so, it is very interesting to follow the saga of the Hatfield/McCoy feud. I can now put places to the lore! Funnily enough, I found a grave in "bumblexxxx" Sarah Ann of a poor non-Hatfield who hailed all of the way from the island of Karpathos in Greece. I can hardly fathom how he wound up in rural Appalachia. I had been to Karpathos in 2019 so it was very interesting to see his tomb marker just one year later in rural West Virginia in 2020. Maybe Nick the Greek was beckoning me to somehow link Karpathos with Kentucky like he did so many decades ago? Somehow, I was meant to see his gravesite. I am certain of it! The tunes here are (1) "Van Lear Rose" by none other than the Kentucky songbird Loretta Lynn and (2) "Sto parathiri, stekkosoun" by Greek songbird Nana Mouskouri. Opa! Opa! Down in the Holler! So much to see, learn, and remember in this part of the country. The Tug Fork River keeps flowing and the stories keep coming! And don't steal any more goddamn pigs!