#tobaccoville

[intheholler]

Been reading your posts about the accent and all, and I wanted to share two horror stories I wrote in my accent. :)

Knock Three Times

Ol' Knocky

Also it's interesting reading your posts about it - I've always been proud of my accent and my home and not exactly able to empathize with people who internalize the prejudice and turn against their home. So your posts are helping me see that side of things more.

Maybe it's because I grew up in Mount Airy, and of course we pride ourselves on Andy Griffith and Mayberry and all that. So maybe I got lucky and didn't grow up around the shame as much.

As for people assuming we're "dumb" - in 7th grade I scored high enough on the verbal part of the SAT to go to Duke's TIP program. There was a girl there from Tobaccoville with the thickest accent I've heard yet. I hope she kept it and I hope she's proud of it.

Anyway I love your blog and I hope you keep fighting the good fight. :)

hi, thanks! also thanks for being here contributing a counterpoint perspective.

i'll explain it how i see it personally: it isn't like the accent is just a collection of sounds or something equally as simple. it is one of the accents and dialects that carries on its back something much heavier. this has to do with code-switching, which occurs in all sorts of sociolinguistic cases.

it also isn't necessarily us 'turning away from home' (i'd like to address that further in a minute).

so to the sociolinguistic point:

in my case--and in a lot of cases given by those who have shared their stories with this community here--we are queer, non- or ex-religious people with leftist ideals. the opposite of what people are adamant about associating this region with.

the accent has become like a hallmark of that kind of behavior we don't align ourselves with but are still stereotyped and harmed by.

it seems to be a common experience that we want to hide the accent so we aren't automatically pegged as being the exact opposite of who we truly are.

because so many people, consciously or subconciously, revert to their misconceptions when they hear it, before we even have a chance to show them we're of like mind. i say this as someone who moved away from appalachia for several years. it's a thing. i promise.

so if you're trying to see it from our perspective, i think that's an important thing to understand. lord knows there ain't shit wrong with the accent itself. to me, it's home-y and warm, soft and familiar and hospitable.

it's what the accent unfortunately implies before we can get a word in edgewise. it isn't fair that we are made to feel this way, and i am hoping by reclaiming my own accent as i have been, i will be changing minds for the better.

but socially--its HARD. its EXHAUSTING. and code-switching has historically just been so much easier.

also--and i say this gently--i struggle with your idea of "turning away from home," because it reminds me of something regressionists in the south/appalachian south say about young people leaving the region, calling them traitors. this us-them mentality simply needs to be dissolved.

i am not turning away from my home when i protect myself from hatred and vitriol based solely on how i drawl my "i" sounds. my home has turned away from me.

it was always mine, always ours. my ancestors--our ancestors--were generous, loving, community-driven, hospitable folks. these hateful fucks have stolen what it once was and projected an awful image out into the world instead. that's not on me. all i can do is try to set it right again.

thanks again for your thoughts! <3

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[deathlygristly]

I am reading an article about a fellow Southern girl who wanted to get rid of her accent and pretend she wasn't Southern because of regional bigots, and I....

It's painful. It's horrible. She's writing it from years afterward when she's grown and learned and now she regrets it and I want to feel pity for her but it's hard. Especially when she writes about trying to force another girl to get rid of her accent. That just makes me want to punch her.

I can't identify with her or empathize with her at all. I am trying, but it's hard. She feels like a traitor and a bully and an evil that I don't want to be near or have anything to do with. I know she regrets it now, I know she's changed and grown, I know the prejudice that she talks about, but it's just....

My reaction to that prejudice always has been and always will be rage, not destroying myself in an attempt to agree with the bigots and to change myself into what they value. I mean, if they want to be classist bastards they can be, but I will just call them out as classist bastards if it's appropriate in that moment and situation, and avoid them as best I can if it's not.

I reckon I ain't gonna ever stop saying y'all.

Readmore because length.

Reminds me of a while ago when we were walking on the Rail Trail and I was listening to everyone else walking on it talking, and I asked the spousal person "How come they don't sound like they're from around here?" He answered in his best accent: "'Cause they ain't."

It's the biggest city in the state, so a lot of people here didn't grow up around here. And even the people who did, like the spousal person and my in-laws, don't have strong accents, much less really deep accents like the girl from Tobaccoville one year at TIP.

I guess mine is middlin'. My mother grew up in Oklahoma and my brothers grew up in Louisiana before they moved here, and my father's family has been in the county I grew up in since the 1700s. So I had a lot of accents around as a kid and I had to go to a speech therapist for a bit to untangle them. Came out of that with some of a Southern accent but not a really deep one, like to the extent that a classmate once asked me if I lived in a big house. Which, of course, after my father died without a will and his family took our house I actually lived in a singlewide on our 12 acres of woods, but yeah.

I don't know. My accent and people who speak with it are so comforting to me. Was actually just listening to an episode of Old Gods of Appalachia in the car, and honestly I kind of like it when there's an emergency in the state and I listen to the state government press conferences and most of the speakers sound like home. At the beginning of the plague our governor's conferences were always nice to listen to, because he sounded like home and he also sounded rational and like he knew what he was doing, which as we know is a vanishingly rare quality in a US state governor.

It's just...I don't know. I guess I feel lucky that my environment and influences led me to happily embracing my home instead of rejecting it and forcing that rejection on others.

Probably helped a lot that my mother fully and gladly assimilated. As the spousal person says, you'd think it was her family that'd been here since the 1700s or earlier with how she talks and how she knows everyone. The one thing I guess she didn't get though is that she's always fully sincere when she blesses people's hearts. When I was little and I got sick she'd say "Bless its little heart" and she fully meant it.

Of course I think total sincerity just runs in my family, possibly riding on the spectrum genes.

Anyway, gotta go home now.

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[uispeccoll]

#ArtsyFriday 

The poem in this artists’ book feels perfect for this time in the semester, when final projects and wandering thoughts buzz in our heads. Featuring a poem on distraction and bats in the belfry by Grace Winn Ellis, a woodcut by Terry Schupbach-Gordon accompanies the text. Printed by Catbird on the Yadkin Press in Tobaccoville, North Carolina in 2012, a variant of this piece lives in our broadside collection, as well. 

--Laura

x-Collection PS3605.L464 B3 2012

[tony-hawks-underground]

Tobaccoville?????

[nycrhi]

Let’s face it, anybody that goes against Wall Street is considered The Enemy. 

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[alpine-insurrection]

clean ya out for all your juul pods too stg

[lauragirl53]

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[osmianannya]

Great Ways On How To Do Plumbing Right

Good plumbing maintenance is relatively easy, but failing to keep up with it can mean costly repairs. Here are some good ways you can take care of your plumbing, either yourself or with the help of a licensed professional. Take care of your house now and it will beneift you in the future.

Tobaccoville Plumbing Service NC

If you are paying someone else to do the plumbing in your home be sure that they are licensed in your state to do that work. Some people who have little or no knowledge of plumbing will try to pass themselves off as a pro. So you can see the importance of checking to see if your plumber is licensed. You should also see if you can find positive testimonials about the plumbers work.

On very cold winter nights, allow your faucets to trickle slightly, especially if your pipes are located in a crawlspace. The running water prevents the pipes from freezing as quickly as they would otherwise. You can catch the water and use it for other household needs to prevent wasting it.

If your pipes are prone to freezing, let the water trickle continuously in at least one faucet during weather that is below freezing. This will minimize the chances that the pipes will freeze and leave you without water. If water is continually running through the pipes and trickling out of a faucet, the pipes are less likely to freeze.

To maintain your garbage disposal and avoid malfunction, you should regularly clean it. By regularly using a mixture of dish soap, cherry pits and citrus rinds, you can ensure that your disposal runs smoothly and smells as fresh as one that is brand new.

Use lots of cold water when you run your garbage disposal. Cold water keeps blades sharp and encourage a smoother disposal. Hot water is not recommended because of what it does to greasy products.

While it may seem like a seemingly harmless thing to do, never run potato peels through your garbage disposal. The chemical make up of this seemingly harmless food allows the potato to turn into a thick, viscous substance that can wreak havoc on the disposal itself, with the potential to render it completely useless.

Drain the sediment from the bottom of your hot water heater twice a year to keep the hot water heater working at its optimal levels. Simply open the drain valve and allow the water to run out into a bucket until the water runs clear. Then close the drain valve.

Prevention will save you money in plumbing bills. The repairs that plumbers perform the most are for drains that are clogged. One major thing that causes clots is grease. It builds up over and time. You can help prevent grease build up by looking for a product on the market that will clean the grease out.

If your toilet is constantly developing moisture on the outside, you may want to consider turning up the heat in your bathroom. The biggest cause of “sweaty” toilets is cool and moist air. Believe it or not, this moisture could actually cause damage to your toilet, so it is crucial that you fix the problem.

Do not be surprised if a plumber charges you more than you expected. Many customers think that fixing a toilet or other drainage problem should be easy, therefore the price should be low. You must remember that not only does a plumber have to charge for labor, but they have to charge for parts that you need.

Do not, under any circumstances, put lemons down your disposal. Although the lemon smell will give your disposal a great smell, its acid can corrode the metal parts in it. Instead, use products that are made specifically for this use. You can purchase these products at most hardware stores or wherever cleaning products are sold.

If you are trying to decide on the material to use for your hose, stick with stainless steel. Stainless steel has a very solid construction and stays durable for many years, eliminating the need for replacement. Also, this material is less prone to bursting, which can yield severe plumbing issues.

As mentioned above, most periodic plumbing maintenance is simple and straightforward. Most repairs resulting from serious damage to your plumbing are not. Now that you know how to deal with the plubming issues in your home, you should be more prepared to prevent or mitigate the more serious problems that can result.

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source https://plumbinggiant.com/great-ways-on-how-to-do-plumbing-right/

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[a-wild-osborne]

North Carolina: Charlotte, Winston Salem, Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill are all SAFE. Raleigh and Charlotte also have a strong lgbt presence from what I've heard

Stay away from King, Statesville, Hillsboro, Boone, Elkin, pretty much anywhere in the mountains. Some people fly the Confederate flag in their front yard in King and the neighboring town, Tobaccoville. Also not safe for hijabi.

i feel like this is important for black travelers who are driving long distances:

but what are some sundown towns do y’all know of? like if someone were to do a cross-country trip, what are some towns they should absolutely not go through?

[nycrhi]

My thoughts are with everybody marching today, in DC and worldwide. Here is why I chose not to go to DC.