Vintage Video: Southern Highlanders

Mountain Woman with Child, from the National Park Service

This 1947 film from the Prelinger Collection gives a nice overview of an often overlooked part of the Southern cultural tapestry – our own hardy highlanders, edging out a living in the Great Smoky Mountains of east Tennessee and the western Carolinas.

 

 

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