Folk Streams Dot Net

If you love 20 or 30 year old documentaries about various Folk themes. Check out this site - folkstreams.net A whole list of wonderful free movies to watch.

One of my favorites is the Appalachian Journey video. Alan Lomax travels through the Southern Appalachians investigating the songs, dances, and religious rituals of the descendents of the Scotch-Irish frontiers people who have made the mountains their home for centuries.

YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE VIDEO HERE: http://www.folkstreams.net/film,128

Here is the trailer for it!




The Thresher Mill is the lone survivor among numerous small mills that once drew water power from the Stevens River and its tributaries in the self-sufficient community of Barnet, Vermont, in the 19th century. It continues to operate by water powered turbine on the south bank of the Stevens River as it falls to the Connecticut River in this northeastern Vermont town. It is architecturally significant as a working industrial component of the elaborate agricultural network carried over from the economic and social world of the Barnet Center Scotch settler/farmers of the 19th and early 20th centuries when subsistence farming, village life, and small local mils were indissolubly linked.

YOU CAN SEE THE WHOLE VIDEO HERE: http://www.folkstreams.net/film,187

Here is the trailer: