 You're listening to Traveling the Bluegrass with Alan Watts. Brought to you by H&R AgriPower and Farm Credit Mid-America. Deputy Kentucky Parks Commissioner Ron Renover says rattles are connected to Appalachian culture. The ladies of the home would not allow the fiddle to come into the home because they said it was a part of the devil. So how did it happen to be? Well, it was Friday and Saturday nights when the gentlemen would get together. They'd have their little hoedowns down in the barn, and they would consume bourbon. He learned two things from the fiddle story.