Appalachian Life

There have been clans tribes and family and folk

Who lived on the land

Th land referred to as

Appalachia

No utilities in those sacred hills

In the olden days

Just centuries of folk

Making it

Outside the crowds

Life’s basic survival skills

They learned and knew them well

there were lots of stews and roasted game on an open flame

Most recently Appalachians

And a culture came into it’s own

As a separate and unique culture for sure

Survival skills? Yep!

Not many really know Appalachians

Racists often write them off as

Simple ignorant hill people

The diaspora of Appalachians north

Undergirded the Industrial Revolution in this Nation

They were the tinkerers, the tradesmen

Entertainment heck yes

Hoop rolling and

Throw in hand clapping

foot stomping

On the wooden porch

A banjo, a washboard, a washtub bass and such

Their entertainment’

Heered for miles down the hollers

Hollering and hooting

Big smiles allround

Of course homade

Liquid fire in a mason jar

Accompanied a good

Full moon hootenanny!

Fools? No wise fools

Living off the land

Where’s they come from

tom tenbrunsel

Carl Sandburg Writer 2023

Authors Note: Appalachians are oft referred to as dumb hillbillies by righteous effete narcissistic northern racists whose heads are up their ass when it comes down common sense life skills, brilliant entrepreneurs, them so called hillbillies!