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My daddy was from West Virginia. So beautiful and such a unique history. Thanks so much for this video. I'll be pulling for Appalachia!!! ❤

Great video

i would Love to see how the people are doing that was in that documentary… The pregnant girl who was having her baby with Jason, i think about them often & wonder where they are now now! The guy would lost his brother, mother and father - is he still alive? I wish someone would do a follow up on them! Where are they now? Such a beautiful untouched place with the saddest souls living there.

I was born here in 1960

The citizens think the county will make a comeback. Good luck with that !

So much truth spoken in this little video. I grew up in Welch. Retired now and still live here. Billionaires were created here. And all of the money left leaving the community in ruins. My first memories are of the early sixties. And nobody has the imagination to see this place as I've seen it. Thriving. Bustling. You could quit a job today and start another tomorrow. A totally self sufficient community if you didn't want to go anywhere else. However, John Kennedy's handouts became a way of life here. One generation after another take advantage of the corrupt giveaway programs created by him. Not because they need or deserve them. Simply because they are lazier than hell and have more knowledge on how to play the system than most attorneys. I spend a great deal of my time in my own mind and in the past these days. Even when I'm busy with something. Thanks a lot for this. Don't know why I hadn't seen it sooner.

When they vote Democrat

Thank you for sharing. I'm from Ocean. Spent 20 years there. Left 1960 to the Air Force.

That. Is my home town and is one of the reasons I left u wanted more for my girl and it was a circle that never ended and I was one of the ones that got on that pill but I can say I'm glad I did leave I have not done pills in 15 years

Thank You for doing this. It is important.

Yup lived in kimball close to Welch in the 1970s. Wasn’t a bad place then

Nicest people in the world in WV. My family grew up there but I didn’t my Mom and her Dad And Mom And their family grew up down there I’m in mass. But Love ❤️ WV. Way more

Thank you sincerely for taking the time to create this video. I was raised and still live in, Oceana. Regrettably, like many in the area, I succumbed to the opioid epidemic in the early 2000s. Thankfully, I beat the odds and have been in recovery for almost 10 years. Although Oceana has seen an increase in resources in recent years, there's still a pressing need for more direct community engagement and a revival of our local economy. The decline of retail stores, as seen in our empty little strip mall, emphasizes the dire need for businesses to reinvest in our community. This realization has motivated me to return to school and pursue a degree in social work. My aim is to hopefully offer insight, as someone who has experienced addiction firsthand, to “decision-makers”. Maybe I can help them truly understand what those battling addiction require and the broader economic rejuvenation needed. Once again, I extend a million thanks for your interest in our community. Oceana has the potential to be so much more than just that small, Southern West Virginia town known as “Oxyana.”

Thank you for posting this video! My grandfather, and dad were miners in Hemphill! My dad spoke of Welch often! After the Korean War he migrated to Michigan, and then Ohio for work in the auto industry! He passed just short of two years ago! It was so nice to look on the mountains he so fondly loved and spoke of!

I'm from Glen Jean west Virginia, was very interested in your series on Welch, hope to see more

Mcdowell county is legendary because it went from 110,000 people to 17,000 people… and has poverty stats and only a 60-65 year life expectancy… the county barely has a grocery store, and used to be a thriving coal producing area

It so sad, this little towni all but gone,I would drive from bluewill to Gary,and Welch, iwork in mine pocahontas, my friends Sonny and Johnny I meet at Concord Collage years ago.i join the Airforce 25 years24 years DOD. HILL Af base UT. I was raised down in country pass Athens, Island Creek,Chases hill Wv.

Thanks Danny.. Very informative and I appreciate your concern over this Government induced drug problem, We live about an hour from McDowell county West Virginia and it is racked with poverty and drugs.. Government induced of course. Many blessings to your work I subbed you, I street preach these small towns hoping to take the gospel to these people and maybe offer some hope.

Wal-Mart was probably still making profits then. They bail when they lose to much profit margin before they actually have to because they really are losing money. In other words they were nit making enough money to care about it but could have let it stay to keep the people that worked their employed.

Beautiful place

La última vez que estuve en Oceana estaba recibiendo Descolorido que una Azada

I appreciate the research that went into making this video. Thanks.

What a beautiful little town this seems to be. Once again the "drug-people" (the sellers, the pushers and the users) have totally destroyed what once was beautiful. Not just in America, but all over the world !

I was born and raised in Bramwell wva just bought a piece of property in maybeaury wva for a cabin to get away from the world's crap and have a little piece and quiet. I'm going to love it back in wva after 38 years.

Thank you for sharing this. At the risk of sounding greedy, more place! I was born in Fairmont W.V. but don't have much of a memory of it since my family packed up and moved when I was 7 years old. Thank you again.

It seemed like the Walmart was the only department store left in the town.

Since you made this video the local newspaper, the Welch News, closed in March 2023. It had been publishing for nearly a century but it had cut its operations from six days a week to five days a week to three days a week to one day a week to closing. As a former newspaper man I think the loss of any newspaper impacts the community.

i used to live in welch,,sad place

I’ve lived in Welch my whole life. Great people and place to live.

Oh my! I was born there. Such a sad place now. Shame on walmart

Has it been long enough that as a nation we can admit that “Poverty” won?

Welch also had some very good High School football teams.

.my mother was born to Barney and Bessie Colvardin Welch

I was born in Welch West Virginia in 1954 at grace hospital. My family we lived in Gary and Thorpe before moving out of state in 1962.

Those signs are surreal and ive never seen signs put up like that 😢

My ancestors are from there. Ive akways wanted to go. The history or Appalachia, i love as well. The beauty is amazing even though most of its citizens are lost, broken and hopeless. My heart breaks

Walmart shut down due to frequent shoplifting so I don't blame them

Walmart closed because of shoplifting they had too much theif

Omg 98-2000 I thank God for giving me the chance to live here ,now I can show my kids what was !!!

I totally support the poor, but we cannot expect business to keep employees when their losing money. I know alot of people hate Wal-Mart & I'm not a big Wal-Mart fan either. I'm also against welfare. It has destroyed generations & no I'm not rich I only make 48,000 a year. I love this country so much (not at a fan of democrats either but, I'm a proud paitrotic former Marine. Thank you so much for making this video. I would love to visit McDowell County soon. All because of your video. Thank you & God bless.

Do something on Powhatan, Northfork, and Keystone, all in McDowell.

Not as bad as Kennsington PA lol

Thank you Danny. My grandparents came to McDowell county to mine coal in 1902 from Reggio Calabria Italia. They raised 12 children and were very successful. My grandfather always said the worst thing brought into McDowell county was food stamps. Mcdowell county was called the most patriotic county in America. My dad’s brother was killed in WW2 after the death March of Battan. We supplied the coal that made steel to defeat Hitler and Tojo. What we got in return was blacklung or a loss of jobs when DC politicians decided to use the UMWA as a political tool and strike while my daddy was left trying to find a way to feed our family of 8. Then the big collapse came when the Democrats decided it was time to worry over a false narrative of climate change but dump 1000s of us into poverty and feed our children pills. Now the government wants to legalize drugs so they can become the drug dealers and rape us once again of our money. President Donald Trump saved our coal industry by keeping his promises to us. We have him about 96% of our votes. Bernie Sanders then showed up to bad mouth our president but was denied the use of our facilities and had to leave. Hope has returned to us in the form of jobs and not government assistance. Seems we’ve had all the “help” we can stand. Again, thank you Danny.

Why don't you raise awareness of the importance of that valley in world heritage. All of the flat area, indeed all of the land you drove on there was terraformed by ancient Americand thousands of years ago. There were 17 stone dams on the Clear Fork alone. The largest was 200 feet wide, 100 feet high and spanned the whole valley from ridge to ridge. They seem to have done this to turn what was a steep Appalachian valley like all the others around it today into rich bottom land. This is as important as Göbekli Tepe!!!!!! The foundations are still there, you can see some of them on Google Earth. Give the world a reason to spend time and money here for something other than drugs!!!!

So sad to know, hear and learn about my hometown, where I was born and raised. I'm saddened of how the miners lost jobs cuz of the industry now thriving and families relocating for a better life.

Graduated from Welch High School in 1953. Was a good place to live once upon a time.

Thanks for reminiscing A piece of history for McDowell Co. Never to Be forgotten. It's where My roots began. I can Still hind me way home! 👍❣️👌

Bittersweet watching this. Thank you

My Hometown. It is so sad to see that Welch is no more than a quarter of what it was in 1967. I have so many great memories of living there and going to school there.

I am from Danville, Virginia and moved to Welch, Hemphill area with my Uncle from 8 years old until 11 years old then returned back to Danville the summer of 1964. I had great memories of Welch, West Virginia