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\u2018Culture of Honor: The Appalachian Murder Ballads\u2019 is an exhibit of large-scale narrative paintings touring US museums, with accompanying lectures and musical performances. The work explores America\u2019s cultural mythologies. In particular, how folkways from the Scottish borders, traveling to the Appalachians in the 18th<\/sup>\u00a0century, flourished in the wilderness, and expanded the frontier West. This fierce and proud folklore still affects us today, with its views of male and female roles, and its ready acceptance of violence as a form of retribution.<\/p>\n

\u2018One is occasionally tempted to abandon the role of historian and to frame what social scientists call a theory. Whenever a culture exists for many generations in chronic insecurity, it develops an ethic that exalts war above work, force above reason, and men above women. This pattern developed on the borders of North Britain, and was carried to the American backcountry, where it was reinforced by a hostile environment and tempered by evangelical Christianity. The result was a distinctive system of gender roles that continues to flourish even in our own times.<\/em>\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

From \u2018Albion\u2019s Seed\u2019 by David Hackett Fischer<\/strong><\/p>\n

RECENT SUBSTACK ARTICLE: America Vs. the World<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Ballad singer Lucretia Speas performing at the Greenville Museum of Art<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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With ‘Mountain Bitters’ at Revolve, Summer 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Exhibit History:<\/strong><\/p>\n