Around the holidays, like Thanksgiving & Christmas, I believe these celebrations are cultural because in my family we always put up the Christmas tree the day after Thanksgiving. We always celebrate both holidays. We have a lot more food at Thanksgiving than Christmas. A very cultural tradition in our family is around Christmas, we bake cookies…Read More

American Hollow is a great documentary, however, it has some positive and negative aspects.
Two positive aspects of the documentary is that it shows what happens here in the mountains and it shows the way we do some of these things. Two negative aspects are that it shows some stereotypes that aren’t true and the side that many people don’t see…Read More

The American Hollow has many traditions that follows the lives of the Bowling family as they fight to survive in dirt-poor mountains. Iree gave birth to 13 children, but only two have left to fight for better lives in Ohio while the rest have married and started their own families back home. Uneducated, unemployed, and violence and alcoholism go…Read More