Went to my first clan meeting on Saturday night

Dark Soul said:
Still having a problem with other cultures, white boy?
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Awesome. I love it when people show their true face.

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Dark Soul said:
At the 63rd Annual Grandfather Mountain Highland Games, met my clan, got invited to their cèilidh, outside at a small house, down an old gravel road in Banner Elk. There were about 30 people there, not including three guest fiddlers, one from Scotland, on from Australia, and the third from Deep Gap, NC. Got my kilt christened, treated to a small concert of traditional Scottish tunes by the fiddle band. A 15 year old bag piper from Tampa played two traditional tunes. Then a three guitar band played some great bluegrass. Danced with my wife under the stars in her new tartan skirt. Great times! Planning on meeting up with them again in Charleston this coming February.
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Being first generation Irish, I got to tell you if I never hear another bagpipe for the rest of my life I wouldn't miss it
 
RomanDmowski said:
Lol, Almost all of Appalachia & the Ozarks are almost devoid of Polish descendants.
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really coal country is full of them

Immigrants in the Coalfields

http://iia.uky.edu/immigrantsinthecoalfields

study of Wheeling’s Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, while shifting from urban historians’ traditional focus on large cities to a case study in a smaller Appalachian setting.

Wheeling was a center of West Virginia’s labor movement, and Polish immigrants became a crucial element within the city’s active working-class culture. Arriving at what was also the center of the state’s Roman Catholic Diocese, Poles built religious and fraternal institutions to support new arrivals and to seek solace in times of economic strain and family hardship. The city’s history of crime and organized vice also affected new immigrants, who often lived in neighborhoods targeted for selective enforcement of Prohibition.

https://wvupressonline.com/node/825
 
Dutch Uncle said:
Almost. Mostly, as with most things in evolution, the weaker strains naturally died out.
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guno said:
really coal country is full of them

Immigrants in the Coalfields

http://iia.uky.edu/immigrantsinthecoalfields

study of Wheeling’s Polish community weaves together stories of immigrating, working, and creating a distinctly Polish American community, or Polonia, in the heart of the upper Ohio Valley steel industry. It addresses major topics in the history of the United States in the first half of the twentieth century, while shifting from urban historians’ traditional focus on large cities to a case study in a smaller Appalachian setting.

Wheeling was a center of West Virginia’s labor movement, and Polish immigrants became a crucial element within the city’s active working-class culture. Arriving at what was also the center of the state’s Roman Catholic Diocese, Poles built religious and fraternal institutions to support new arrivals and to seek solace in times of economic strain and family hardship. The city’s history of crime and organized vice also affected new immigrants, who often lived in neighborhoods targeted for selective enforcement of Prohibition.

https://wvupressonline.com/node/825
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Lol, I said most of.
 
RomanDmowski said:
The Celts got conquered far earlier & easier than Poles did. Poland fought half of Eurasia & stood for a long time. Celts always lost 1 vs 1.
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Which continent did all human beings first come into being? Do you need a hint? Ask Dark Soul. He might know.
 
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