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When you think Appalachian culture?

What symbolic images come to mind?

I am brainstorming for some ideas for some paintings. THanks.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    The Foxfire Books, hunting, canning, drying fruits and meats,

    corn liquor, bluegrass music, clogging, wildcats, bear grease, venison, homemade soap, root cellars, muscadines, trout, clear glassware left out in the sun all summer to become violet colored, womens hair pulled in tight buns, sunbonnets, aprons, calico fabric, train tressels, iron kettles, stone fireplaces, oil lmaps, winter squash, persimmons, hickory nuts, mules, overalls, fiddles, old women in black, sorgum syrup, bare feet, tin roofed cabins, red clay, springs, waterfalls, ginseng, apples, holler haints, outhouses, clapboard country stores

    Source(s): born and raised at the beginning of the Appalachian Trail at Bear Gap in Rabun Co Ga
  • 1 decade ago

    I usually think of the boy with the banjo from the film "Deliverance" http://www.destgulch.com/movies/deliver/deliv01.jp...

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