More about our Scottish heritage here in the mountains: I happened upon an interesting series on Kentucky Educational Television a few nights ago. You can see the tv schedule here. It traces the familiar music of the mountains from the hills of Scotland to the mountains of Kentucky, where it spilled over into mainstream American music.
It reminded me of family get-togethers when I was a little girl, when most of the older generation was still around. Inevitably, someone would pull out a guitar, and the singing commenced. At the time, I didn't have a lot of appreciation for it--it wasn't "cool" to my 80's child ears--but now I miss the opportunity to encounter my history so closely. Those were the same sounds, or perhaps only slightly modified, that my ancestors most likely heard when they settled into the rolling valleys along the Cumberland River.
Thursday, August 2
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