Since a family of Scaggs originated on the Maryland Eastern Shore I thought I would collect several clips of accents and music from there for everyone's enjoyment. The accents are distinct enough that you can imagine that when ancestors from this part of Maryland moved to places like the mountains of Virginia or Tennessee the locals and younger family members might have thought they were from England, Ireland or Wales.
Below is a comedy routine about some guy going back home to Maryland and coming back with his accent reinforced:
Below is an interview with an Eastern Shore waterman and his wife.
Below is Sheriff Pete Richter and his band singing the Kent Island Blues and other examples of some of the music they enjoy playing:
It's interesting to compare these accents to local ones spoken by many of our Skaggs relatives in Virginia, Kentucky and West Virginia.
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