This Old Mountain Man's Love Poem Brought Me to Tears
4,921 views · Published 29 October 2017 · 2:25 · Indexed 8 November 2026
Channel: David Hoffman · 2017 · Film & Animation
To see how & why I made it visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VFIlLrNtKE. I was making my 1st documentary in 1965 with 81-year-old Bascom Lamar Lunsford. He remembered the beautiful poem that he recited as a boy to win a declamation competition in the North Carolina Appalachian mountains where he lived. We selected that he gave his speech at a hill behind his house. He recited this to me. I loved the poem then as I do now. But I do wish I had gotten closer up to him when I was filming. I stayed at the bottom of the hill. At 82 years old, Bascom climbed to the top for me.
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