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yael aravah . piney life in the barrens.

Welcome to piney lives project.
Yael Aravah is an Israeli documentary filmmaker who found herself in the midst of the pine barrens, new jersey.
(she will tell the story in her personal blog)
The pine barrens is America that she never knew. She was fascinating with the natural scene and want to understand the life in the place, She start search for the meaning of the name "the pine barrens", " jersey pine", and the "pineland" and found the pineys. And the harsh story of an ethnic group of people that suffered the worse degradation that a group of people can bare. They have been called “morons” and “feeble minded people” the governor of new jersey even suggested that they will be sterilized.
Yael is meeting the nowadays local people and talked to them.
The first question she is asking them is “do you consider yourself a piney”. their answers
Become a series of short films. That are part of the bigger project. she is working on.
Piney is a historically derogatory term for the inhabitants of the New Jersey Pine Barrens, The Pine Barrens have sandy, acidic soil considered unsuitable for traditional farming by early settlers, who called the land "barren". The area is forested mainly with pitch pine and scrub oak. Many areas are swampy with cedar forests that grow along brownish-red, fresh water called "cedar water." The red color is actually created by the high level of iron in the water.
She found out that the Living conditions in the "Barrens" were considered inhospitable, and those that lived there were considered to be the dregs of society: fugitives, poachers, moonshiners, runaway slaves or deserting soldiers. Often poor, pineys were forced to make a living in any way possible. They collected and sold sphagnum moss or pine cones, hunted, fished, and lived off of the land. Some of the pineys included notorious bandits known as the Pine Robbers.- "Pine Robbers" were loosely organized, criminal, gangs and marauders who were British sympathizers and Loyalists during the American Revolutionary War and used the Pine Barrens of New Jersey to wreak havoc in the area. The pine barrens created densely forested terrain where concealment of guerrilla and criminal activities could easily be carried out.
Pineys were further demonized after two eugenics studies in the early 20th century, which depicted them as congenital idiots and criminals, most notably the research performed on "The Kallikak Family" by Henry H. Goddard[1] and Elizabeth Kite.[2] In a 1939 guidebook, the Federal Writers' Project largely endorsed Kite's eugenicist and ahistorical depiction of Pineys, and added that "a staff correspondent of the Newark Evening News reported that U. S. Navy blimps must be careful in their flights over the area. The Piney bootleggers, suspecting that the low-flying blimps are seeking illicit stills, are quick on the trigger; frequently the small dirigibles return to Lakehurst from training flights with bullet holes in the fabric."[3]
Pineys often fostered stories of how terrible the Pine Barrens are or how violent they were in order to discourage outsiders and law enforcement from entering the Barrens. The Jersey Devil stories often had this effect also. Today, pineys tend to wear the label as a badge of honor,[4] much like the term "redneck" has been embraced in the Appalachian Mountains and the Southern United States.
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