Appalshop started as a film workshop in 1969, and 50 years later we're still making films about Appalachia. We also operate a radio station, a theater, a public art gallery, a record label, a professional archive, a filmmaking institute, and a community development program - all aimed at documenting and revitalizing the traditions and creativity of the people of these mountains. We tell stories that commercial industries don’t tell. We challenge stereotypes with Appalachian voices. And we do it all with artists who are from and committed to this region. Stream one of our films, come take in a live performance, or tune into our radio station from anywhere in the world.
Пікірлер
This movie has the boy walking by my mamaws house in the beginning, down on premium Kentucky ,Susie Noble
I miss Hasil ❤ he told me I got the Hunch 🎉❤❤❤❤❤❤
Nice stereo truck on 1.10
Great playing man !! 👍👏👏👏🎻 I’m a singer songwriter !🎤🎸
The UMWA killed coal.
This was so heart breaking
My dad was an independent coal operator, he always had a couple small mines running until 2010 in eastern KY, Pike, Floyd & Letcher counties. There was always a lot of drama & frustration dealing with the haul out of each individual mine, the truckers were always under cutting each other, they get mad at us & each other, the people who live in the holler the mine is in want their family or friends to get the haul, they can even sometimes resort to trying to stop you from mining so you cave & give the haul to the truckers they want you to give it too. The coal business is beyond tough, at the end, the big guy buying up the little guy is everyday business. For every 5 years in the coal business you’ll have 18 months of really prosperous times. The other is a fight to keep your head above water. They’ve mined about all of the profitable & efficient to mine coal seams out in the last 110 years, in eastern KY there’s not a whole lot of good mineable blocks of coal left, the biggest coal corporations going right now are fighting poor mining conditions & thin seams of coal & I mean 30 inches or less in thickness. A 30” seam of coal today is actually on the thick side of what is left.
We had many a JJN song featured during my time in the UPIKE choir 2011-2016 , I loved being able to sing traditional songs in a choral setting ❤️
I wish we could’ve got a follow up with the driver in the original film that would be cool 👍
Hes probably dead or still doing it.
Complimenti video stupendo e istruttivo saluti dall'Italia 🇮🇹
Thank you to the enforcement officers that turn a blind eye knowing what the suffering that is caused by issuing tickets
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Incredible. Humans can be a cruel species.
RIP
Hi Belinda 😊nice to know you. Yahweh bless you in Yahshua's name 😊
But there still our hills, Always Will Be.
What a beautiful representation of Eastern Kentucky and her people. Thank you Appalshop for this wonderful documentary. What a glorious job this family is doing for their community!
Really enjoyed this documentary. Long live the coal haulers! Thank you
Is the young woman who sang and played guitar still making music these many years later? She's so good!
I couldn't understand much of what Dewey was saying, but did he have any kids who carried on this fine chair making tradition? God love him, a tough old bird. Hand work all the way. Best regards from Scotland.
I'm 67, born and raised in the coalfields of southwest Virginia,(Dickenson County) and remember several in home, and in church funerals. There was always several members of the family, or close family friends staying with the corpse ( we called it setting up with the dead ) night and day, and making sure that insects of any kind didn't bother the dead. The more well to do folks in the neighborhood would sometimes claim that the family didn't have money to use the funeral home parlor, and had to keep the goings on at home.
I am sure that everybody watching this amazing craftsman would praise the value of that chair - but none of us would pay the true price to buy one - so that’s why everything is made in china, and sold at Costco
I was born and raised around Haysi, and the park was always there, so I never saw anything special about it. I saw it several times a year, especially in summer, and I'm sorry, but it just didn't excite me. It was just a place, that rude city people came to make fun of the hillbillies.
It's nice to see that cops lied back then as bad as they do now. The old trooper said, we're neutral. As neutral as the company paid them to be.
Thank you dear lady,daughter!So sorry for your ❤️ breaking
Love this. So proud to be your cousin. I sure love you all. RIP Mable...such a great person who all loved.
I’m crying in the middle of the night here in Louisville for my mountain home and her people, and so thankful for the women who raised me and the women who are keeping everyone going back there now 😭❤️
💚 - Aaron
What state was Mr Banks in? Great stuff!!!
Hi! I believe he lived in Premium, also known as Hot Spot, in Letcher County Kentucky. At the time, it may have been known as Johnsons Branch. - Aaron
This was excellent!
Thank you for sharing this and making it. Mabel is/was my great aunt and the world is a little bit dimmer without her beautiful light in it. Proud of her and cousin Gwen for their work in their community
Well Done!! This short film shows the epidimy of this little community in Letcher County Kentucky. The coal mining memories of a wonderful lady Mabel and her daughter Gwen and their family are portrayed in this!! A loved People they Are!! Thank you Appalshop and thank you Gwen for giving back so much to this community 💗
Love you so much, Gwen Johnson! You're doing such great things for the community near and far! I hope we'll get to come visit you again in East Kentucky soon.
Mabel was the pillar of the community for so many reasons and Gwen is following in her footsteps. I always gave Mabel a big hug when I seen her. This family is my cousins but that is not the only reason I love them. You ladies brought a tear to my eye.
Excellent.
Bravo!! Very well done. This is such a beautiful representation of such beautiful Appalachian souls. Thank you for highlighting what is the greatest wealth of our communities, our families.
Thank you so much for saying that, Michelle. - Aaron
What a man I could watch him all day wish yong men were half the man they were years ago God bless him 💚🙏
That was great. Thank you
A true Gard patriarch and patrician.
Folks this is what is referred to when you hear people talk about real man. Enjoyed this video
Handmade chairs for $2.50 Now, they'd be at least $250
Watching this gives me a long lonesome feeling,,, not in a rush,,,not exited or complaining about not being behind on his work,,, no complaints whatsoever,,,, I got a kick out of how he hollered at the passing car,,,then says he,, I don't even know who that is!!😂 Just good hard working,,,my Dad did some hand carving and a lot of other wood work. This was just an awesome video,,,thank you for posting....
Fabulous man, Fabulous work.Wow.
Great documentary, way ahead of it's time thank you
What a wonderful voice!!!
The power and precision in this man's work is unbelievable. Respect
Rocked my babies in a Dewey from my grandmother.
It's shocking to me that so many young $rich youth don't have a clue how the world works. In the end they chased worthless dollars and never knew true happiness.
As a dump trucker who hauls coal (and asphalt and limestone /aggregates since you can’t just rely on hauling coal only these days) the guy @ 15:55 REALLY got under my skin. Almost every ounce of coal that’s trucked is hauled by independent trucking companies who have no connection with the coal company or its owners besides agreeing to haul their product for pay…..small trucking companies absolutely even single truck owner operators ABSOLUTELY loose money when strikers hold us up when we’re just trying to feed our families, victimizing people who don’t have the luxuries they enjoyed for years as union members…..I’ve never had health insurance, paid vacations, or been able to only work 40 hours and actually survive on that. A majority of dump truck companies in Appalachia pay their drivers a percentage of the trucks gross instead of an hourly rate and every minute those wheels aren’t turning you aren’t just costing the trucks owner money (unless it’s an O/O, but the argument is the same) if it’s driven by an employee you’re stealing food from their family because you’re too proud to go work for a non union mine or accept that you’re going to have to lower your standard of living to the level a lot of us are already at. I’m not anti-union, and I agree with most of what’s said here, BUT this one guy is just such a clueless A-hole I had to say something to educate those who might just agree with him without knowing the facts. That “half hour” (probably longer, it serves his argument to underplay their actions here) that truck sits will VERY likely cost that driver an entire load that day….coal buckets are making several repeat trips through the day 99% of the time and we have to start loading when the company starts loading trucks and be loaded before the loaders quit and go home at the end of the day, and we time things very carefully to ensure we maximize the trips we make since were paid by weight hauled, not by the hour or mile. One half hour of being stopped would cost me my last load on at least 2/3 of my work days…..and if you’re getting 4 loads a day, that little turd blocking your truck in just cost you 25% of your income for that day…..imagine that over a whole week, you’re talking about taking 25% of a man WHO IS NOT A SCAB’S income as part of your strike. If they were blocking scabs from entering the mine I’d say I agreed 100%, but holding up a truck that’s not owned by or driven by an employee if the company you’re striking against IS WRONG. If it were me I’d have absolutely gotten out of the truck and demanded he move, if he didn’t I’d have called the cops and he could rot in jail for all I cared, and if he got violent I’d have been forced to pull my CCW on him. I say this as a warning to people who agree with hurting independent truckers who have nothing to do with the company not caving to their demands during a strike until their demands are met…..we truckers don’t take being basically forcibly detained by anyone lightly. If you’re wrong, you’re wrong.
A strong man and a pleasure to watch this I would have loved to learn how to make chairs from this man ,watching from Ireland 🇮🇪
that grandpa could sneese and kill a man, damn they where build diferent like my grandma 80 years old on her knees working the earth killing snakes by taken it from the tail and just wip in the air braking the spine