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The Polack MSgt

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Fri Jun 18, 2021, 03:50 PM Jun 2021

Today is the 1st Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday

Walter DeBarr released this video today to mark the day

Not often publicized, but there are Musicians, Artists, Poets and Writers from coal country that fall into the loose identity of "Afrillachian". Walter is just the one I know best because of my love of mountain music.

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Today is the 1st Juneteenth as a Federal Holiday (Original Post) The Polack MSgt Jun 2021 OP
Tanuki posted about them earlier and better than my explanation The Polack MSgt Jun 2021 #1
Thanks. I went to your Tanuki link but I saw your original op here first. abqtommy Jun 2021 #2
I guess I'm Affrillacian too then hailing from W. VA. live love laugh Jun 2021 #3

live love laugh

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3. I guess I'm Affrillacian too then hailing from W. VA.
Sat Jun 19, 2021, 12:29 PM
Jun 2021

I was born but not raised there.

We used to go on outings to the Blue Ridge mountains and the coal miners museum.

And I learned that cardboard boxes work wondrously as summer sleds on clear, grassy mountains tops.

It’s a beautiful place.

But I never took to country music.

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