cry of the banshee wrotetraptunderice wrote
This could be the thing that leads me to actually claim my Kentucker genes. Fucking instantly the bluegrass just hits you and it clicked with me as I hope it does for you.
You're from Kentucky? My kin come from Arky-saw, haha.Some incredible woods back there.Lot of bugs, though. I lived in southern Missouri for a couple-three years when I was a kid, it was awesome, and of course been to visit relatives in Arkansas.
I've never been to Arkansas. But yeah, the Ohio valley is awful for bugs as well, but my mother's family is all from Kentucky. Growing up, I used to be dragged down to Williamsburg, KY each year for a family reunion, it's one of the last exits going down 75 before you hit Tennessee. My grandfather grew up there back in the holler, as they call it. I have no idea what a holler is, I guess a valley of some sort. My grandpa is the kind of guy who will drive down the highway and stop in order to pick edible greens that he'll bring home and cook. So absurd. This one type of plant if you eat too much of it and can cause you to have fainting spells, well, after my grandma passed away he accumulated a bunch through travel and had ate it for weeks and ended up in the hospital.
None of my relatives that I know were ever down in the coal mines, but I know I had some. The parts of my extended family I'm closest to moved north for factory and industry jobs with car manufacturing luckily. Lucky till now, I guess.
Edit: Oh, and Kentucky's mountains and woods are absolutely breathtaking. Everyone should drive through them at least once and I would offer listening Panopticon's Collapse to be the soundtrack. It blew me away a year ago when I did it.
