"Hillbilly Elegy"

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(09-22-2020, 08:14 PM)Belsnickel Wrote:

He just really got under my skin with his stuff. As a southern Appalachian with a long history of hillbillies in my family his observations of the region rubbed me the wrong way and after reading some of the books responding to him it only got worse.

My paternal grandmother's side is from Front Royal and had been since the 1700's. Granddaddy and meemaw. Lots of Irish surnames in those lines.

Granddaddy's father was like 60 when he had him with his 35 year old wife. For some reason they moved up to Baltimore when he was 10 in the 1920's, all 10 kids aged 26 to 3 in tow. His sister married my meemaw's brother, so I guess that's how they met. I think she moved up to Maryland and they got married, because by the time WWII started, he was working at Ft Meade up here. 

200 years, that family lived in that area of VA. Fortunately we stayed here lol