Posted on 02/09/2025 12:57:20 PM PST by Eleutheria5
I have posted clips from my documentary before on YouTube and have been asked many questions in the comments about it. So I decided to tell the background story. My video presents the entire interview.
It is a strange and sad story and my doc details the efforts that my team over a nine-month period to investigate it. We concluded that, even with the minor errors that Nettie Mitchell may have made in telling it, the basic story was true.
I took the interview that you are watching here to the executive producer of PBS American Experience series and she gave us the funds to make a one-hour documentary that both investigated the story and dramatized it titled Sins Of Our Mothers.
Some of the people that you see in this film clip corroborated what Nettie told my cameraman back in the 1975 when he recorded this interview. And I complement PBS for running a story like this involved with the Oedipus complex, Puritan sin (really sin in any culture), the sex abuse difficulties young women endured when they went to work in the mills of Massachusetts back in the mid-1800s.
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Very sad.
What PBS calls “news” is Massachusetts back in the mid-1800s
What is the sinful secret?
Quite.
Or in musscum countries TO FRIGGING TODAY!
She became impregnated at age 13 while working at a textile mill, and accidentally married her own son! Lawsy!
Zelda Dawn, what’s that flower you have on...
Delta Dawn.
1. Did her son/husband kill the man who impregnated her?
2. Did her son later gouge out his eyes?
TRUTH IS A DISTRACTION...npr
No such luck. He was adopted out, and later met mommy and married her, unaware of his incest until a few years later. No offspring. As for daddy, he was the boss of the mill, and probably did that to a passel of young girls, sort of like Diddy or Epstein would have done had there been no birth control. Don’t know if her offspring gouged his eyes out. She didn’t kill herself either, but she was so thoroughly ostracized by her erstwhile family that in her old age she starved to death all the while living a short distance from them.
See post 9. There are a lot of questions as to whether Nettie Mitchell’s rendition of the story was entirely true.
There’s a bathroom on the right.
Always with the alliteration. Would it have been so bad in another ballad if she were “Poor ol’ Ruby Wet Dress”? Anyway, how many farm boys are “up from New Orleans”? It’s a big, dirty city.
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