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You welcome inside Appalachia.

I'm Mason Adams for more than... lot of folks in Appalachia grew up with cane chairs in ... A lot of it is touch, but a lot of it is like, my face is li...

I kind of do it by memory.

You almost can feel if it's right.

When I first started my golly, I depended on my nails and... there you go.

Here's a cloth.

I was diagnosed with uveitis in 2020 but the uveitis, it's...

I'm totally, totally blind in my left eye, and less than 2200...

I have no vision in my left eye.

I have to work with a magnify...

Seeing hand.

You know, it's a nonprofit.

They of...

This is a chair that's probably 100 years old.

When I used to do trash, you would see a lot of hand cane cha...

This is my this has been my hardest chair to take your t...

I first started working here, I was depressed.

I gave him a ... Before this job, my activities outside of the house were... most people have really no idea what certain things can do... what is the shape this?

I love you, like, brothers and sisters.

Oh, my golly sauce.

This place is so much more than jus...

This is my second home.

Let's put it like that.

Hang around with kids for very long at all, and you'll see t... all right, heads up.

Listen, we have a donation of buckets o... it?

Girl, that's in there, baby, got one shoot again.

It's called fatty go back, or fat pockets.

Fatty go back... Bennington, leg breaker, tornado shooter.

I have a bumblebee.

I scanned my cousin, a normal toe breaker made out of r... real spirit.

There's four of these at the school, a Milky ... a vampire.

Most all sought after marble in the school, you ... antique swirly iguana, half point a cheetah, dollar one...

So these are the ones that they would never play that game wi... Bumblebee, Nemo, you.

Every marble starts by being a rejected piece of glass, ... and actually they're not a marble until it turns round ... sure they're exact same size that way.

When they're roll... Now he's doing a quality control inspection, and he's picking ... And then there's the fun stuff.

There's the marbles that ... then once it is, we as children, there are five of us.

We often felt... Hey, how many wants to marbles on bowling today?

Anyb... just across the Monongalia river from Morgantown, West Virgin...

I would have never thought I was going to live in Osage.

I he... yep, I have this, this special thing for you look and look ... That's my girl.

Yeah, he got some good songs on that too.

Man, yeah, there you go.

That's him, there, man.... nothing from a journey.

Now I got to make it into hea... both my grandmother and grandfather and my dad grew... i got a six minute haircut and a two bit shame, you know, the train come down through All ... What you get out of that particular time frame was ... Everybody was so poor, but everybody looked out for e... see, they didn't take blacks or foreigners.

And I think tha... saying Osage, it gained a reputation as the place wh... see, it was about 300 houses on these hills here that they t... up there is I, 79 it crosses straight, straight.

This ...

Living with my granddad really touched me because he was old... Appalachian soul music I got porch picking from the other porches.

Moon.

Lived in those days since 2019 I live here and make music here.

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When you have a place where the musical tradition is ingrai... Last year we just started Osage gospel, Soul Community Choir did say all welcome.

Now when you give and you'll know, give.

As I do feel the sense of community blossom me.

I get... but Oh, happy days when I found out this choir was happening... of people that came from all over the world learning how... need somebody to be so far we stand to and we stand tall.... Virginia.

I'd searched a long time for like way to call W... Washington, DC, celebrate my birthday.

My birthday.

Celebrate my birthday.

Let it shine.

Let it shine.

Already.

These stories are part of inside Appalachia folkways project.

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