I have been to many countries with the US military and I saw many beautiful places in these countries but NONE of them are as beautiful as East Tennessee. Thank you Lord for me being born and raised and still living my 71 years so far in beautiful East Tennessee.
Emery and the Clinch where they come together is where l was raised. Use to take a wooden ferry to get to the other side of the river from Sugar Grove Valley to Kingston. As a child growing up there was only 5-6 houses in the valley. Boy.... l had a big play ground when I was a kid. Now the houses are door to door...
I've been to the ferry at Union County and talked with the man operating it. Told him that many of my ancestors lived around there but they've all moved away over time. My mom's family left that area of Union County in 1922 and moved to Monroe, Michigan to work for Henry Ford. When I travel to East Tennessee it's almost like being home, there is an attachment that I can't explain ❤
Awesome history as always. A lot of settlers came down the rivers settling new land. It would have been a sight watching the loading of the two houses on those barges. Thanks awesome job!!!
Wonderful! My Grampie was known as King of the river back almost 100 years ago. Taking logs down our mighty Saint John river. Waaaay before my time. Our river changed vastly after putting the Mactacquac Dam in in 1967. We too had many houses moved, islands under many feet of water. My Dad who is almost 90 said he would watch his Dad take the logs through the rapids, down in front of where we had our summer campers. Dad said now there is at least 100 ft of water there. How I would love to see the way it was. Keep the stories coming!! (You should do a collab with Acquachigger. He loves history and detecting for Civil War items.)
Before the dams were built here in East Tennessee they had what was called the May Tide. This is when the rivers would get up from all the Spring rains.I studied with his son Robert Emmitt. He said in 1886 his Father Gains Emmitt put his tool chest on a log raft in Hawkins Co. going down the Clinch river to Knoxville to sell the logs and floated down to Knoxville. When he got to Knovxille he had two shirts and two pairs of breaches and his tool chest. He opened a cabinet shop and made a good living. I so much enjoy your videos and hope you don't mind the stories that I share with you.
Another good video as all of yours are. We still have a couple ferry’s in operation in my area. One crosses the Tennessee River, at Danville and the other crosses the Cumberland River at Cumberland City. Before the coming of TVA the Tennessee River was divided into two parts, the upper and the lower. Mussel Shoals Alabama what’s the dividing point. Many attempts were made to construct a safe navigable channel through and around the shoals. It wasn’t until TVA came along before this was successfully accomplished. Those dams and locks are still in operation today. I was employed in the inland towing industry for many years until a medical condition force me to retire from it. I sure miss that way of life. Thank You Donnie.
Today is my lucky day. I found another video that I haven't seen. Donnie , I really enjoyed this video very much. I have such a fascination about river travel. I Love to canoe. Thanks for sharing, your friend, Louise
All those rivers run into the ocean, but it never gets full. Cool video, I'm not from TN, but it's not much different around here, creeks, rivers, and lakes churn up lots of memories, most are good memories. Thanks for the video Mr Laws.
@11:27 wow Thank you Donnie for doing these videos, I worked up in East Tennessee for 9 years and loved everyday most of my time was in Walland while working at the Blount Mem Hospital in Maryville. Ive spent time at two of dams you talked about and yes beautiful lakes,
That's a whole dam lotta dams Donnie! Fantastic history documentary, for this water freak it just doesn't get any better than this, knew I was gonna love it! I just can't imagine folks moving into these areas, knowing the Indians were there and watching. My canoe would have been full of something besides water, and it wouldn't have smelled too good!
My grandad and some of my dad's brothers use to float logs down the Powell river in the early 1900's ,they lived in lonesome valley ,at Bob Wiley bent.My dad wrote about this in one of his books.
I grew up in Claiborne county on the Powell river and Norris lake. Thanks for the entertaining history lesson.As always thanks for making these awesome videos .
I grew up on long island on the holston river. It has a very rich heritage from the Indians to daniel boone!! It was a very sacred ground for the indians! I have found hundreds and hundreds of arrow heads there while growing up!
@@donnielaws7020 there was an old Cherokee medicine man that supposeldy cursed long island saying there would never be any piece on long island! There were alot of cuttings and shootings that happened there! I have personally seen one man shot in the back of the head!
Chp. John Smith wrote that he saw 6 Indians in a dugout going up the Susquehanna river thru the rapids. I have done it in a kayak but it was very difficult..
That was a good one Donnie I live up in dover TN. Land between lakes on the Tennessee River but barkey is about five miles away im between both the rivers. Thanks for the history.
We had a ferry in Dayton,Tn.We used it to cross the Tn.River.A bridge is there now but I remember riding it as a teenager.The bridge was built in the 90's I believe.
My dad was born in 28 so he remembered the old river when he was a boy he told us about seeing cars drive across the river when it would freeze below where Watts bar is now that is a good video
Yet another great informative video from our friend Mr. Donnie. Thank you bless our east Tennessee friends.🔥 I learn from each of your hard effort videos. Firekeeper! GSM N.C🇺🇸🙏
My daddy was born and raised on cranberry creek ! ( western North Carolina) He told many stories about seglars and how they were so deep they couldn’t find the bottom to.
From a Keetoowah I say tis is VERY well done. Like everyone it missed a few things but very good! To track the path to the west follow the Blacksmiths, because horses wear shoes to you know. 🙃
@@donnielaws7020 I watched the video and then watched it again when my husband got home from work with him. You do a very good job! When my husband and I first got married in 1991 we rented a house on the Powell River just outside of Harrogate going toward Tazewell. We lived about a mile up the river from the main road. It was a good first little house. We lived there for about 6 months and then moved back to my family’s farm in Southeastern Kentucky. I was so home sick I couldn’t stand it. We live right on the farm I grew up on. Other than that 6 months I’ve lived here for 49 yrs.
I'm happy that I found something that I can watch that I enjoy and learn from it. Regular T.V. is so full of cussing and black and white people mixing. I have nothing against black people. In fact I have some good friends that are black and I respect them a lot more than I do a lot of white people. I just think since We are all different colors that God didn't want us to mix. I love your videos Mr. Donnie !!!!
There’s old locks all up and down the James river they say George Washington did the surveying for them. I fished the James a lot and all those old locks is still there but the wood gates have Rotted away but how they moved those big stone blocks to these places must have been heard next to impossible . But they had to have these to get the barges up the river being pulled by mules . I love seeing the things in your video you always have such good content thanks so much !!!’😅
Those are the correct boats Keetoowah Boats The Holy Faith Trail, The Santa . On The Savanna River, wind your way up to Cashier NC. You will find yourself between two rivers, follow them to the place they meet, Fontana Lake. Take the river out of Fontana to the next River, The Hegehogee (Tennessee) River, turn left and go to the Mississippi River, turn left again and go to the White River Take a left into the Arkansas West to Monarch Pass Colorado. Then just keep on HWY 50 to the West coast. 🤠 That is Coast to Coast always known to The Natives.
I live near the Susquehanna river and the damn in 1926 blocked the migratory path of fish.. One was known to get 250 lbs (Type of Sturgeon) that the Indians used as a main source of food.. In 1980 thay built a fish ladder so the fish could migrate.. 50 years too late.
Grew up in extreme NE GA mountains and spent A LOT of time in E TN. It was/is a national treasure. I've been everywhere, man, and still wholeheartedly proclaim it to be God's country (as my grandaddy used to say). Nowhere more special or beautiful to me. I live all the way down in Mobile now, but my heart's still in those mountains.
Thanks Donnie, I enjoyed this very much. Where I live is on/near the Hogoheegee River (South Fork Holston River). Do you have any information about Long Island that is a part of the River that the Cherokee fought to keep?
Donnie at Clifton Tn. befor they got the Bridge we all had to cross the Tn.river by ferry. It as big enough to put our car on the ferry and us and a man would take us across, Now downstream from Clifton they have a bridge.
people would build a flat boat, float all the way to new orleans sell their goods and sell the flat boat for lumber cause there was no way to get them back up the river.
I would love to hear see Simone tell about the Tenn c river water athority flooding and killing many poor people because no one tolde them flood was coming thank you guys
Question is, will there be anyone in the next generation to continue your legacy? History keeps on making more stories and it would be a shame if they weren't passed along which seems to be the direction we're headed. On dams, Idaho has a lot but I'm pretty sure Tennessee has them beat
They wanted to build a dam on New River way back then, but the people said NO ! It would have flooded everyone out and we’d have had to take a boat to get to our family cemetery ! It’s on the tallest mountain in western North Carolina.
I have been to many countries with the US military and I saw many beautiful places in these countries but NONE of them are as beautiful as East Tennessee. Thank you Lord for me being born and raised and still living my 71 years so far in beautiful East Tennessee.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Really enjoyed this video and I appreciate the way you present the history and tie it in to how it is today. Thanks Mr. Laws.
Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Emery and the Clinch where they come together is where l was raised. Use to take a wooden ferry to get to the other side of the river from Sugar Grove Valley to Kingston. As a child growing up there was only 5-6 houses in the valley. Boy.... l had a big play ground when I was a kid. Now the houses are door to door...
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I've been to the ferry at Union County and talked with the man operating it. Told him that many of my ancestors lived around there but they've all moved away over time. My mom's family left that area of Union County in 1922 and moved to Monroe, Michigan to work for Henry Ford. When I travel to East Tennessee it's almost like being home, there is an attachment that I can't explain ❤
WOW Thanks so much for sharing your story and memories my friend. God bless. A lot of people done the very same thing in these mountains.
Such beautiful country! Was very informative. Thanks Donnie! ❤🙏
The inspiration for Mark Twain and the dreams of so many lads, including myself when I was young!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Amazing seeing the true spirit and ingenuity of this great country. Wonder what happened to it.
Progress! Thanks you for sharing my friend.
Awesome history as always. A lot of settlers came down the rivers settling new land. It would have been a sight watching the loading of the two houses on those barges. Thanks awesome job!!!
That would be cool wouldn't it. How did they get them up there is beyond me. Thanks Bobby.
I sure do enjoy your history videos. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for watching my friend.
I have sat many a time as a kid watching the boats go thru at Fort Loudon..I sure miss those simple times..
Thanks for sharing my friend.
You are welcome my friend....
Wonderful! My Grampie was known as King of the river back almost 100 years ago. Taking logs down our mighty Saint John river. Waaaay before my time. Our river changed vastly after putting the Mactacquac Dam in in 1967. We too had many houses moved, islands under many feet of water. My Dad who is almost 90 said he would watch his Dad take the logs through the rapids, down in front of where we had our summer campers. Dad said now there is at least 100 ft of water there. How I would love to see the way it was. Keep the stories coming!! (You should do a collab with Acquachigger. He loves history and detecting for Civil War items.)
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Before the dams were built here in East Tennessee they had what was called the May Tide. This is when the rivers would get up from all the Spring rains.I studied with his son Robert Emmitt. He said in 1886 his Father Gains Emmitt put his tool chest on a log raft in Hawkins Co. going down the Clinch river to Knoxville to sell the logs and floated down to Knoxville. When he got to Knovxille he had two shirts and two pairs of breaches and his tool chest. He opened a cabinet shop and made a good living. I so much enjoy your videos and hope you don't mind the stories that I share with you.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Another good video as all of yours are. We still have a couple ferry’s in operation in my area. One crosses the Tennessee River, at Danville and the other crosses the Cumberland River at Cumberland City.
Before the coming of TVA the Tennessee River was divided into two parts, the upper and the lower. Mussel Shoals Alabama what’s the dividing point. Many attempts were made to construct a safe navigable channel through and around the shoals. It wasn’t until TVA came along before this was successfully accomplished. Those dams and locks are still in operation today.
I was employed in the inland towing industry for many years until a medical condition force me to retire from it. I sure miss that way of life.
Thank You Donnie.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Today is my lucky day. I found another video that I haven't seen. Donnie , I really enjoyed this video very much. I have such a fascination about river travel. I Love to canoe. Thanks for sharing, your friend, Louise
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
All those rivers run into the ocean, but it never gets full. Cool video, I'm not from TN, but it's not much different around here, creeks, rivers, and lakes churn up lots of memories, most are good memories. Thanks for the video Mr Laws.
Your very welcome friend.
To Sid
Comes back as rain ....
Thanks Donnie. Beautiful video and fascinating river history.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
@11:27 wow Thank you Donnie for doing these videos, I worked up in East Tennessee for 9 years and loved everyday most of my time was in Walland while working at the Blount Mem Hospital in Maryville. Ive spent time at two of dams you talked about and yes beautiful lakes,
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
That's a whole dam lotta dams Donnie! Fantastic history documentary, for this water freak it just doesn't get any better than this, knew I was gonna love it! I just can't imagine folks moving into these areas, knowing the Indians were there and watching. My canoe would have been full of something besides water, and it wouldn't have smelled too good!
That's a good one🤣 Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
My grandad and some of my dad's brothers use to float logs down the Powell river in the early 1900's ,they lived in lonesome valley ,at Bob Wiley bent.My dad wrote about this in one of his books.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I grew up in Claiborne county on the Powell river and Norris lake. Thanks for the entertaining history lesson.As always thanks for making these awesome videos .
Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Thanks again Donnie.
Your welcome my friend.
Beautiful, Donnie! Lovely country we have!!🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thank you friend. Yes we do. Thanks for sharing.
I love listening to the history
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My cousin lives in Powell tenn.so when I go to see her in May I'm a gonna check these rivers out it does look beautiful
I grew up on long island on the holston river. It has a very rich heritage from the Indians to daniel boone!! It was a very sacred ground for the indians! I have found hundreds and hundreds of arrow heads there while growing up!
A lot of history there for sure. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 there is more history there than most historians want to check into!
@@chrishousewright9346 Yes there is my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 there was an old Cherokee medicine man that supposeldy cursed long island saying there would never be any piece on long island! There were alot of cuttings and shootings that happened there! I have personally seen one man shot in the back of the head!
Chp. John Smith wrote that he saw 6 Indians in a dugout going up the Susquehanna river thru the rapids. I have done it in a kayak but it was very difficult..
That was one rough ride. Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thank you, Donnie.
God bless..
Thank you for sharing this beautiful informative video!!! Brings back long gone memories.
Howdy Donnie- I sure enjoy the history. Thanks for sharing this. God bless
Thanks for watching my friend.
Enjoying your awesome presentation. thx!
Your very welcome my friend.
Loved the story of "river travel." Great photos.
Thank you and Thanks for sharing my friend.
I live in sharps chapel not far from the 33 bridge I absolutely love your history and knowledge of this area thank you sir
That's awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Thank you. Your very welcome.
Thanks for sharing I love listening to you tell a story you remind me of my Uncle Woodrow😁
Wow, thank you
Those folks must have been tough individuals
They don't make them like that anymore my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 that’s for sure
That was a good one Donnie I live up in dover TN. Land between lakes on the Tennessee River but barkey is about five miles away im between both the rivers. Thanks for the history.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Thank you. Your very welcome.
Thank you.
You're welcome my friend.
We had a ferry in Dayton,Tn.We used it to cross the Tn.River.A bridge is there now but I remember riding it as a teenager.The bridge was built in the 90's I believe.
Awesome Thanks for sharing this my friend.
My dad was born in 28 so he remembered the old river when he was a boy he told us about seeing cars drive across the river when it would freeze below where Watts bar is now that is a good video
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
WOW!!! Those 2 homes way up on that double barge is quite a sight. I would've loved to see how in the world they did that.
Me to, That was job. Thank for sharing my friend.
Great video once again Donnie.
I appreciate that my friend.
I’ve busted many a bucket mouth in these waters Donnie. Great fishing in east Tn. brother
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Yet another great informative video from our friend Mr. Donnie. Thank you bless our east Tennessee friends.🔥 I learn from each of your hard effort videos. Firekeeper! GSM N.C🇺🇸🙏
Awesome my friend. Thank you very much. God bless you.
Another great video thank you for sharing
Your welcome my friend.
Very interesting! As always, thanks for the excellent content! 🤗
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Awesome sights to see on the water
Yes they are my friend.
Love your videos, thanks for sharing.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
everything is dn hill in mts great shows keep up the good y
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Beautiful as always, Thank you.
Thank you too!
My daddy was born and raised on cranberry creek ! ( western North Carolina) He told many stories about seglars and how they were so deep they couldn’t find the bottom to.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Another great story Donnie
Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
From a Keetoowah I say tis is VERY well done. Like everyone it missed a few things but very good!
To track the path to the west follow the Blacksmiths, because horses wear shoes to you know. 🙃
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Really ,very interesting. Thankyou.
You are welcome!
Another nice video. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, will do my friend.
Donnie your stories are always interesting and informative.
I appreciate that my friend. Thank you.
My great grandfather and his inlaws made their living hauling logs down the Powell River. They also lived on the river. It was a good life.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Ask him about monks corner on the river.
Great viewing‼️‼️ thank you 👍🏻😁locks are sooo fascinating … are they still in use today?? THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK… beautiful job 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Your very welcome my friend.
I love these videos so educational.
Thank you friend.
Awsome video . A piece of forgot history.
Thank you friend.
Excellent video - Thanks!
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Wr must have been kin...Bloody Bones and rawhide and staying with maw..Great story telling, cousin
I think most of us grew up like this in these mountains. Thanks you for sharing my friend.
My daddy was a fur trader and traded with sears and robuck for their needs. Daddy also was a share cropper ! He was hard core mountain man !
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
The Danville Ferry still runs across the Tennessee River today. It's a little north east of Big Sandy Tennessee
Thanks for sharing my friend.
There’s a ferry in Cumberland city and one in Danville TN that fun everyday.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Great history,thank you
Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Very interesting video, thank you for sharing, Terry.
My pleasure my friend.
Really enjoyed the video! Love the history.
Much appreciated my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 I watched the video and then watched it again when my husband got home from work with him. You do a very good job! When my husband and I first got married in 1991 we rented a house on the Powell River just outside of Harrogate going toward Tazewell. We lived about a mile up the river from the main road. It was a good first little house. We lived there for about 6 months and then moved back to my family’s farm in Southeastern Kentucky. I was so home sick I couldn’t stand it. We live right on the farm I grew up on. Other than that 6 months I’ve lived here for 49 yrs.
@@amyheltonwalker I know the feeling my friend. Thanks so much for sharing.
I'm happy that I found something that I can watch that I enjoy and learn from it. Regular T.V. is so full of cussing and black and white people mixing. I have nothing against black people. In fact I have some good friends that are black and I respect them a lot more than I do a lot of white people. I just think since We are all different colors that God didn't want us to mix. I love your videos Mr. Donnie !!!!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Really enjoyed!!!!
Thank you friend.
love this! thank you.
You're so welcome!
Nice video. I can't swim, so I couldn't handle that lol
I understand my friend.
Another great video!
Thank you friend.
Outstanding
Thank you.
I feel down home calling me eastern Tennessee is where to be
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Very awesome video handsome 😘
Thank you friend.
Really love your videos. We ride side by sides up in those mountains and this puts alot of the history together.
Glad you like them my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 My buddy also lives in Sharps Chappel near the ferry.
There’s old locks all up and down the James river they say George Washington did the surveying for them. I fished the James a lot and all those old locks is still there but the wood gates have Rotted away but how they moved those big stone blocks to these places must have been heard next to impossible . But they had to have these to get the barges up the river being pulled by mules . I love seeing the things in your video you always have such good content thanks so much !!!’😅
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. So much history. God bless you my friend. Thank you so much.
Enjoyed this video ❤
Thank you friend.
Those are the correct boats Keetoowah Boats
The Holy Faith Trail, The Santa . On The Savanna River, wind your way up to Cashier NC. You will find yourself between two rivers, follow them to the place they meet, Fontana Lake. Take the river out of Fontana to the next River, The Hegehogee (Tennessee) River, turn left and go to the Mississippi River, turn left again and go to the White River Take a left into the Arkansas West to Monarch Pass Colorado. Then just keep on HWY 50 to the West coast. 🤠 That is Coast to Coast always known to The Natives.
Thank you friend for sharing this.
I live near the Susquehanna river and the damn in 1926 blocked the migratory path of fish.. One was known to get 250 lbs (Type of Sturgeon) that the Indians used as a main source of food.. In 1980 thay built a fish ladder so the fish could migrate.. 50 years too late.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Have lots'a Kinfolks livin' throughout these East Tennessee River Waterways. Some of 'em took up livin' & rasin' a Family on Islands in the Rivers.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Grew up in extreme NE GA mountains and spent A LOT of time in E TN. It was/is a national treasure. I've been everywhere, man, and still wholeheartedly proclaim it to be God's country (as my grandaddy used to say). Nowhere more special or beautiful to me. I live all the way down in Mobile now, but my heart's still in those mountains.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend
Thanks Donnie, I enjoyed this very much. Where I live is on/near the Hogoheegee River (South Fork Holston River). Do you have any information about Long Island that is a part of the River that the Cherokee fought to keep?
No, sorry not much. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Great job I love your videos
Glad you like them my friend.
Hey Donnie sir how are y’all doing I pray great Amen 🙏
Just fine my friend.
Donnie at Clifton Tn. befor they got the Bridge we all had to cross the Tn.river by ferry. It as big enough to put our car on the ferry and us and a man would take us across, Now downstream from Clifton they have a bridge.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
I notice catfish Dave uses the same music you do.
Could you give a list of your music and who did it.
Enjoy the videos
Thank you friend. Sorry friend it's all You Tube music library for creators.
Enjoyed again, Donnie Question.. Do you get CREDIT for HEARTLAND series, or does those other people get it❤
No I don't my friend. I just share their content.
Well I'll watch them later ,until you get back on your feet, get well soon Bless week
Mr. Laws do you ever do any trout fishing in any of those mountain streams ??
Not much on trout, But I love to fish the rivers and lakes my friend.
Alaska, Idaho and now Wisconsin, rivers were our highways, just a lot nicer to look at.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
people would build a flat boat, float all the way to new orleans sell their goods and sell the flat boat for lumber cause there was no way to get them back up the river.
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing.
I would love to hear see Simone tell about the Tenn c river water athority flooding and killing many poor people because no one tolde them flood was coming thank you guys
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Question is, will there be anyone in the next generation to continue your legacy? History keeps on making more stories and it would be a shame if they weren't passed along which seems to be the direction we're headed. On dams, Idaho has a lot but I'm pretty sure Tennessee has them beat
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Klamath falls Oregon is listening
Thank you friend.
Thank you sir,for the research.and god bless
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.
Thank You for hearing your intelligence
Your very welcome my friend.
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They wanted to build a dam on New River way back then, but the people said NO ! It would have flooded everyone out and we’d have had to take a boat to get to our family cemetery ! It’s on the tallest mountain in western North Carolina.
WOW, I m surprised they listened to you my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
part of Watauga Lake is in Tennessee.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Just a note, the background is drowning out the voice.
Hard to tell one from the other without a mixing board in a studio. Otherwise, all is well.
So sorry my friend
I’d like to seen them loading them houses on that barges now
Thanks for sharing my friend.
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