Posted by Jon on December 08, 2006 at 17:13:14 from 199.159.117.62 user Jon.
In Reply to: Re: coals to.. was'Teach Your Grandmother' posted by Elizabeth on November 27, 2006 at 20:00:40:
The Appalachian Mountains in the southeast US, as Ed will bear me out I'm sure, have their own direct ties to the Scots-Irish of thew British Isles. No need to postulate an intermediate Nova Scotia link. In fact, many Tories fled the newly-formed United States for Nova Scotia at the close of the American Revolution.