Appalachian Mountains

This week we started learning about the Appalachian Mountains and the people’s way of life. Up there they have to make everything like clothes, quilts, baskets, toys, tools, and instruments. Back in the olden days they had to do this too. There music is around the church and they sing their troubles away. They dance with the rhythm of the music that plays. They tell stories of the olden days and things that happened to them. How it all started was that people from different places came to the Appalachian Mountains because they wanted to be free and to not use things they needed from the outside world. They saw that they could make a path up the little one that was already made, but the only thing was is that the Cherokee lived there. The Cherokee taught them how to farm and hunt in on the land they were on, but a fight for the land broke out. The Cherokee had to move up north until in a few years they would have to move to the west. It was a hard life up there. Everyone was poor and working on farms and other places. When the country needed coal they didn’t give them really any coal. They were very out dated. Now they still live like the ones before them and sing songs. I think that is the way that their history is found. Please read my poem and leave a comment.

Appalachian Mountains!

I have seen it all

How you hunt, farm, play instruments, and mine

I love my home up here

I NEVER WANT TO LEAVE IT

It was hard growing up here

I had to work everyday

So did my family

I work in a coal mine for many years

Never went to school

I would play my troubles a way and get back to work

My friends all died in the mine from the coal

It was cold and dark

I will never forget working with them and in that mine

I missed them then and now

I hope my grand kids will not do the dirty job

I love my home hope I stay here until I am lade here to rest

- Teresa Dominguez