And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Robinsville, NC is about 80 miles west of my home. The area one of the last bastions of mountain folks and sadly it's disappearing fast as the NY, NJ and other Yankee state "migrants" flow in driving BMWs and Mercedes to the newly constructed gated-communities demanding the latest this and that. One of the best and maybe compellingly melancholy quotes in the video is said by an Appalachian woman: "We didn't know we was poor till the government came along and told us we was". Everything is relative I guess.
Awesome video! I'm from NC, so I had to watch the whole thing. These people aren't 20 years behind, they're 50 years ahead! They never lost an appreciation of God and their neighbors, which is why their culture is so delightful.
Robinsville, NC is about 80 miles west of my home. The area one of the last bastions of mountain folks and sadly it's disappearing fast as the NY, NJ and other Yankee state "migrants" flow in driving BMWs and Mercedes to the newly constructed gated-communities demanding the latest this and that. One of the best and maybe compellingly melancholy quotes in the video is said by an Appalachian woman: "We didn't know we was poor till the government came along and told us we was". Everything is relative I guess.
ReplyDeleteAwesome video! I'm from NC, so I had to watch the whole thing. These people aren't 20 years behind, they're 50 years ahead! They never lost an appreciation of God and their neighbors, which is why their culture is so delightful.
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