Comments on: Appalachian Shudder

By: Missy

Missy — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:26:43 +0000

Ok…i think that would be my hell too.

By: Comtesse

Comtesse — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 02:57:54 +0000

@Warren Turner Hey, I come from small-town America, so I know how frightening and soul-destroying it is!

By: Scoobidy

Scoobidy — Mon, 02 May 2011 00:49:16 +0000

I LOVED the paragraph #6 that ‘Comtesse’ wrote. Halarious! And it also rings true for me as well. In particular, the animal rights activist part.

By: anthony

anthony — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 04:40:46 +0000

im sure the artist tried to squeez as much drama as possible from the people photogaphed. a suburban pop culture audiance loves that shit. they generaly have little experiance with the “genuine”.

By: Warren Turner

Warren Turner — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 01:56:01 +0000

@Comtesse My fear of them is based on their pure embodiment of small-town America mentality – which is death to me. What an insulting thing to say!

By: Marcel

Marcel — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 22:45:23 +0000

I have an interest in Scottish clans.
Napier is one of them and the name is fairly common in Scotland.
Take in acount too that a lot of Scottish people emigrated to more or less all continents and would have married “locals” or other immigrants.

Also, Scottish clans intermarried. A woman from another clan marrying a Napier would be named so after her husband.

Napier might come from “Naperer” (a person taking care of royal linnen) or from Nae peer (No equal).

Hence, your heritage is of a Scottish clan, now spread over the world and with many famous people in it.

I´ve posted info on clan Napier, including crest, coat of arms and tartan (should you decide to get a Napier kilt).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clan_Napier

http://images.google.se/imgres?imgurl=http://www.clannapieramerica.org/mediac/400_0/media/tartan.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.clannapieramerica.org/794/836.html&usg=__3lQt0njmyZC_g4AqJsBVUmLwblg=&h=266&w=261&sz=20&hl=sv&start=2&itbs=1&tbnid=QyawJf7q123bhM:&tbnh=113&tbnw=111&prev=/images%3Fq%3DNapier%2Btartan%26hl%3Dsv%26tbs%3Disch:1

http://www.clannapieramerica.org/mediac/400_0/media/tartan.jpg

By: MoxieHart

MoxieHart — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 23:45:15 +0000

I just got back from visiting my parents in Pennsylvannia who moved back there after retirement. It took two or three generations before my great-grandparents moved to Eastern PA from West Virginia so I’m really only several steps removed from this. Still, while I hate fetishizing the poor, these people seem to have more dignity than the meth-addicted Wal*Mart inhabitants of Hazelton, PA.

By: RobertB

RobertB — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:20:50 +0000

@Comtesse
Well, that’s not so bad… I *like* bluegrass. Oddly, though, my grandfather *hated* the banjo, and in fact took great pains to distance himself from his poorer relations. So it almost goes without saying that I spent as much time as possible down in the holler with them, instead of up on the hill.

Not that I’d be any more welcome than y’all. I run a Dixie Chicks fan site, for goodness sakes!

By: Comtesse

Comtesse — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:32:39 +0000

Well, nothing makes me shudder more violently than the killing of an innocent animal. The hog killing is just the ultimate horror in these photographs. I actually find Shelby’s photographs to be quite beautiful… in their own frightening way. But I appreciate what you’re saying – there was something honorable in the people in the documentary. I just sense that a gay animal rights atheist liberal like myself might not be particularly welcome in their world!

By: Comtesse

Comtesse — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 04:27:21 +0000

Oh, come on – don’t be so politically correct. You hear banjos when you look at those pictures too – just admit it!