1970, THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE, SOUTHERN APPALACHIA
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This film explores the true meaning of poverty in Southern Appalachia.
I doubt many people remember this because history is not really taught in schools much anymore but Fentriss county was once the home of a great American hero. It is also one of the locations this Film was shot. Does anybody remember Alvin Cullum York or maybe better known as simply Sergeant York? He was born December 13, 1887 and died September 2, 1964. For those folks out there that want to make fun of our southern brothers and sisters you might do well to read up on Sergeant York. I’ll even post a link here for you to save a little bit of time. Without these folks I doubt America would have existed at all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
Appalachia has a long history of sending heroes to war and underground.
@@Libbydoh Appalachia has a long history of having the heroes to send. It seems a lot of good tough people come from that part of the world.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology With woke culture spreading like fire, and the offended now serve as rulers, it is sad to think that Appalachia will be all we have left to pull from.
Almost as good as Chestie….
Thank you...much obliged.
I grew up in Eastern Tennessee and I am still here. I am on a farm that is close to the Kentucky and Virginia line. Grew up poor but very loved. Lost my momma in 2018. I still have my 84 year old little daddy. Daddy is building me a new chicken coop. He still works like a young man and this is due to his working his whole life. We still garden, have livestock, and work hard 8 days a week! We might be hillbilly mountain people but I would not change it for anything. I have a college education but I prefer farming and living the mountain way of life. God Bless the simple man and woman and the USA.
My father is almost 84 now.
He still works hard almost everyday, what I believe keeps him young and going.
Best of everything to you and yours. God love you.
Claiborne County?
You are blessed.
@shannonandsheila1 Richlands, Virginia? My dad's side of the family is from there
God bless you and your daddy for keeping the old ways alive
I remember when I was a little girl, 1976 or so, I lived with my grandma. My grandpa had a job making bricks. He had saved up his brickyard money and bought grandma a toilet. She sat up all night flushing it and crying softly. I'll never forget my grandma's happiness over an indoor toilet.
These days few people can imagine such simple happiness over something we take for granted. Wonderful memories, thank you for sharing.
I remember when my great grandma got her 1st indoor toilet. She was SO Happy.. seemed like the whole family showed up to help. It was no small feat. We take so much for granted. Like Running water in the house. "The good ole days" 💗
about that time there was a family that had a galvanized 2-1/2 gallon pail as a communal toilet , they dumped the bucket upstream
@UCEal0pw9qFyyHDA6gEjrb_g An old style septic and leech bed. If I remember right, it was made out of metal drums. Everyone thought it was fancy because it wasn't just an old recycled cistern.
It was a very hard life back then but a free at heart time
The man playing the guitar is my grandpa Robert South, the Banjo player is bill looper, the fiddle player is Orbit Hill, the old skinny man is Dillard Neal. The woman in the back ground carrying the baby is my grandma Virgie South she's carrying my dad Tim, also shown in the video is my uncle Roger and aunt Linda they are the kids carrying the water buckets. I didn't know about this video till my cousin told us about it, so it sure was an emotional video to watch. Papa passed away when I was young but I always took to the guitar and wanted to hear him play again for a long time and boy he sure can play.
Thank you so much for sharing those names. Delmar and Gladys were my grandmother and grandfather. Those kids running around are my aunts and uncles and my mother. I'd love to know everyone in the film.
Do you know Laura Brannum Ryker? If so, how is she doing. I haven’t heard from her for a while.
@OfficeofImageArchaeology I did. She has passed. There's several in that video that have passed. Martha (toots), Darlene, David, Laura, Chris, and of course, my grandparents. The Brannums. I live just down the road from where this was shot in Pickett County. There's still two really old houses still standing. There's also two more children buried there that my grandmother didn't mention. There were 15 total.
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@@OfficeofImageArchaeology I've emailed you
As a West Virginian growing up I couldn’t wait to get out into the big world, drive a fancy car and mingle with cultured folks but when you leave the mountains it creates a void in your soul that the city can’t fill and after a while you begin to long for those mountains and the simple honesty of the people until you have to return to heal your soul by sitting on the front porch in the evening listening to the whippoorwills singing in the woods as lightning bugs rise out of the meadow field and the bullfrog bellows on the creek bank. God I Love my Mountain Home
Logan, W. Va❤😊
I came from Raven Virginia well Mill Creek holler to be exact. Nothing like the hills....I live in Alabama the end of the Appalachian mountains... it's still the hills to me.
Yup too bad your over grown eastern states is overwhelmed with citidiots. Look at google maps its mangled with construction and trail heads filled with prideful folks. Sad..
I spent two years out in that big world and came back up my holler , under my rock and ant leaving again , was great at first got to meet few rock stars went to some big parties but at the end of the day I was just miserable away from home.and these hills are home , oh and for the record , No P-Diddy parties ! lol but if had the chance probably would of cant lie.
You know those kids may be poor but they sure are clean. Their mom was quite the woman for raising that many kids.
Thank you so much for those words of truth..our mom sure was quite the woman. I sure don't know how she did raise we 12 kids but she turned out some pretty good kids.
@@laurabrannum9215 that's because she loved you. Your family looked close knit. I would be very proud of your roots. You can definitely tell your mom cared deeply for her family.😊
Huh I WISH I KNEW THEM THAN🤗🤗
I grew up in East Tennessee, Anderson county area. Can I ask where this was filmed?
@Annamaria Alice Graham I beg your pardon maam, none of we 12 children are on "relief" . We've worked hard all our lives & the remaining kids still work hard. Our children are grown & we are all doing well for the way we were raised. Thank you very much & God Bless you.
So proud to have come from a time and place such as this. I was born in 58 to mountain people. I grew up running the woods, playing in gaint moss covered stumps and in the nearby creek. My daddy made moonshine till he got caught. When he came home from prison he became a logger. I dearly loved my childhood and wouldnt want it any other way. I love mountain people. These are my people.
100% My people are from the NC, GA, Tenn intersection. We were, we are, we remain hill people. Grateful my paw paw did not sell out and my cousins continue the old ways. Corporates have offered $$$ for the land but we continue to refuse. If the next 3 gen. grow up in the hills learning the life, then we have done our job.
You and me too. I was born in 58
I'm 70 years old and I've lived and worked all over the nation and I've been blessed with alot of friends along the way, but I never had better friends than those in the hills of East Tennessee - they were loyal down to the bone and they always had my back. I never had better friends. I miss them very much. I feel privileged to have known them.
Nicely said sir, good friends are more valuable than gold..
If you've nothing to eat, no way to wash, nowhere to lie down, it doesn't matter, if you have a friend. We watch out for each other. We know we're here on God's earth but for a moment. There's no second chance, no "do overs". We must do it right the first time.
What you say is so true. It is too bad more people do not get it.
@@jeffhale2278 well said
Well they say some of the poorest tend to be willing to offer whatever they can,offer what lil to others from there heart & the giving person probably would get a gift down the line. Some might take advantage,give a little bit probably knowing they'd take the scraps but friendships are priceless. I HOPE schools & learing have changed for the Better.
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I’m beyond proud to be born and raised in southern WV and raising our 2 children in these beautiful mountains. My family has been in the WV mountains longer than WV has been a state. I want to pass on as much of our culture and Appalachian traditions to them. I’d ten to one rather raise my kids in this holler than a city. A day doesn’t go by without them being in the woods. My 7 year old daughter can already identify and name dozens of edibles in the woods, process game and cook it as well as start a fire. I want to raise them to be kind hearted & decent but also to be survivors.
I envy people like you and your traditions God Bless you and your family 🙏
That's one dumb, dopey state you live in there, Josh, my condolences. You have to laugh at the hilarity of decades upon decades of miner's singing folk songs about how hard and dangerous it is to be miners and how horrible the bosses are and how their lives aren't valued.......only to reverse course and say "But don't take away our mines! Let me vote to keep the scum bosses in power over my life forever!" The whole country has to be held back because of YOU clods.
@@TTM9691 I want everyone to see what Tic Toc can do to a person like Melody.
@@jonnydanger7181 Yeah me too. (my name's not Melody, moron, lol. It's the name of an obscure record by an obscure musician from the 60s-70s, I used to post his work on You Tube). A swing and a miss, half-wit. Anything else, dopey? Hey congratulations "Johnny Danger" (ooooo! I'm scared!), congratulations on your shallow, one-dimensional region. You're an embarrassment to the country. Always remember, slug: You ain't America. You're only a part of it. AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN THE BEST PART. You're the cousins nobody wants at the wedding. Any questions, diaperboy?
@@jonnydanger7181 PS: That's one stupid looking face you get there, "Jonny Danger". You people don't even know how to dress or groom yourself, holy fuck are you embarrassing.....
One night in west Virginia in a severe thunderstorm my fan belt broke I had sixty cows that had to be milked the next morning back before cellphones my family in the car two boys stopped and asked what was wrong long story made short they went and got a belt wouldn't let me get out fixed it in the rain and wouldn't take anything for it.God bless them.
Those were "Good Ole' Boys" and they are still around today.
That's the way we do things here in WV. We have our problems but there are still good folk here
I’ve given it thought and I believe a lot of that has to do with we were never raised to be suspicious of people. Here in WV, there’s no such thing as stranger danger. It’s a shame to see where drugs have put this place now,
There's a great country song in there somewhere
That's the most West Virginia story I've ever heard. They are the most hospitable, humble, hard working people that I've ever met.
Delmar and gladys was my grandmother and grandfather. Those 12 kids are my aunts and uncles except phyllis. That's my mother.
Thank you Francis, it is nice to meet another member of this wonderful and extraordinary family.
You're so lucky to have been born into such a loving family
I was wondering how the family was doing 50 years later. Thanks for sharing.
Where was this filmed at? My family is from east TN, and some of the footage from the road looked mighty familiar.
God bless you and your family!
God, I'm glad someone finally interviewed a mountain woman.
Watch the Darlene Chronicles
I'm from Ireland and had the great pleasure of visiting the beautiful Great Smoky Mountain National Park and other places in Tennessee in 2019 and walking a small bit of the Appalachian Trail, I hope to go back and I plan to walk as much of it as I can, this part of America is breathtaking.
Thank you Sir for your visit here, from an American. We hope to see you back many times! I would also love to visit the UK, my ancestral home.
Love Ireland! I was out in Greene County, TN the other day and the GREEN landscape reminded me of my 1988 visit to the Emerald Isle. Man, I gotta get back to Cosmona. 🥰
There's something about them mountains man I swear. The Appalachians are one of the oldest ranges on the planet. Looking out over those hills and valleys as far as the eye can see gives me such a deep sense of longing, like I belong out there.
I am from Ohio and had the great pleasure of visiting beautiful Ireland in September 2011. The sites I saw are too many to mention. I hope to go back and see parts I did not see like the breathtaking SW coast Ring of Kerry. The Great Smoky Mountains are spectacular and need to be protected. No litter, no walking off trail. Leave only your footsteps. Take care of the land, the animals and the plants. Just like the Wicklow Mountains.
Welcome to Tennessee anytime, my family is of Scots Irish Cherokee heritage. I used to love to hear my great grandpa talk about home and the beauty of the isle. I hope to be able to see it some day before all is gone forever. If you ever want to see one of Tennessee's best parks just give me a yell, we'll give you the red carpet treatment. Part of that park land was taken from my family by eminent domain to form the park. But we still enjoy our land as much as possible. Just look it up Fall Creek falls state park. In Van Buren county Tennessee.
That sweet, kind-hearted boy teaching his brothers the alphabet and to read...makes my heart burst with love.
I felt the same I wanted to hug them, they were all beautiful children brought up by honest respectable adults. That boy looking and listening to his dad was pure gold you could feel the love.
@@peterkeefe3227 by
Amen
That "boy" is in his 60s now-lol.
@@murderedbypoguesandparasit8988 amazing when you think of it. The people who we admire in this documentary are all either dead, or old. Time does fly, I turned 14 in December of '70, the year this was filmed. I myself am now 64. Wow, 64...
Some people don't understand that you can be poor but you don't have to be dirty and immoral.
My Irish great grandmother, who raised 9 kids in the slums of Salford, Northern England, had a saying, "you can be poor, but you can be clean" (say that with an accent)...her husband and 6 sons were coalminers, so imagine the dirt the tracked in!
If the goverment gets out of the way
"Greeting" stranded strangers w a shotgun is pretty damn immoral.
@Barry Dillard Ever more so in these "modern" times!
Being "dirty" is not "immoral". Being lazy may be, but dirty doesn't always represent lazy either.
Grandma said, Your Riches are your Family and your Health. That’s all you need.
Amen
Grandma is Right
@Princess Buttercup you are mistaking city poverty with country poverty. In the country we could be poor but eat fairly well. We grew a large garden and my mother did a lot of canning. We had a mostly vegetarian diet but I am currently 69 years old and still working for a living so my health was not destroyed by poverty. Neither was my family. In fact I will be talking on the phone later this evening with my 71 year old brother. We talk every week or so.
Yeah, until you or a family member gets sick and can't afford proper treatment and then die. Poverty is associated with increased morbidity and tends to destroy both family and health. Poverty is not virtuous.
@@tylerchambers6246 neither wealth nor poverty are virtuous. Wealthy people die just the same as poor people. Being fat and not having to work can be just as detrimental to a person's health. As far as illness goes, apparently you are not aware of the "Patients Rights". Federal legislation states that ALL people must be given medical treatment regardless of their ability to pay for it. At one time when I had no medical insurance my son was seriously ill. We took him to the hospital and he was admitted for treatment. We were asked to make monthly payments of whatever amount we could afford. Hospitals and doctors are willing to work with the poor. Most States have free medical for the poor, maybe all of them. It's the middle income people that suffer the most from high medical expenses because they don't qualify for government assistance.
Superbly filmed and edited. The kind of quiet, thoughtful filmmaking that has sadly been lost in the modern era of high gloss and short attention spans.
Very well said. Totally agree.
Now they hit the red record button on their phone, over dramatize everything that happens, upload it to youtube and call it a "film" as much as possible
This is what poverty looked like before prescription drugs.
Moon shine...first
Ha,I'm 49 and live in England our first house had an outside toilet. Kids nowadays genuinely do not know how easy their lives are.
Ualreadykno
@Holdma' Beer I would drink you under the table.
gibshredcamel no. before welfare, free medical, the internet and loss of job opportunity !
It’s so strange sitting here in the middle of an upper middle class suburban environment, and thinking back to visiting my grandparents home. They were sharecroppers living in a dirt floor shack, but there was no other place in the world I would rather be. The true love and simple honesty you felt in their home is something lacking in today’s world. Thank you for posting this, and thank you to the families that allowed the filmmakers to record their lives.
This comment touched my heart. Although I'm far from upper middle class, I too had grandparents from Rush Kentucky. They didn't have running water or electricity for the majority of their lives. Across from them was an older lady who raised her grandson "Greg" they had nothing. They never went hungry and neither did we. Greg and his friends grew up having g fun the old fashioned way. No video games or social media then. They didn't even own a television when I first met them. Folks from the church pitched in in the late 90s and purchased Greg and hid gma a double wide. One thing that stood out to me even as a youngster, is how much more genuine happiness these people displayed in comparisonto my friends back home. It was infectious and me nor my sisters ever wanted yo go back ho.e to Columbus. We didn't need or want for anything other than each other's love and company. Great comment Scott. Best wishes friend ♥
@@LJizy Thank you so much. It is nice to see there is still kindness in people out there. I hope you have a blessed day
It's probably true that you felt something unique and positive there with your grandparents, but don't think that there is not the same amount of love and honesty out there today. It just looks different is all
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@@sst6555 dang, props for going through it all and making it work. Makes me think that around the world we have more people than jobs...maybe people shouldn't have to work for their survival. Maybe food and shelter are a right to each person regardless of employment. Thanks again for sharing!
Never be ashamed! Be proud of your heritage, it made you what you are today. Real folks!
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I was raised in Roan Mountain TN and I am so very proud of my hard working, intelligent ancestors. I truly love my accent!
Its hard to believe that this is part of America the beautiful.
Here it is 2023 and I can hear the very same conversations today. That’s crazy. And I love how Gladys had received a discount from her doc for delivering her own baby. That’s an awesome story! ❤
Oldest of 7, we wore hand me downs and used shoes. I walked to school sun rain or snow. 2 room school house I was the only one in the 5th grade. I poached a deer every month for mother. Everything was made from scratch, I'd go back tomorrow even in my old age.
Hard good clean life dirt poor....
I grew up in middle Iowa, born in the 1950s and our acreage had running water in the kitchen sink but we had no indoors bathroom. An outhouse was down by the chicken coops. We had 2 bedrooms, 5 kids in one & momma, daddy and baby in the other. Mom raised chicken's for us to eat and she sold the eggs. Daddy was a trucker. Wringer washer out on the back porch, filled from a pump in the back yard. We didn't know we were poor & I look back at that time & smile!
I love your story, thank you. It sounds much like my own family and so many other Americans that made this country great. Thank you for watching
Thank you for painting that picture for me! It just made me smile from ear to ear 😊
I hope you enjoy a spectacular week!!
Iowa here too
Sounds like my grandma n papaw's when I was growing up. Great memories ❣️
If you were happy and loved you were rich.
My mother and father were part of the great migration north to work in the car plants. In the summer they would bring us kids back to Kentucky for the summer to stay with my grandmother . It was a beautiful simple time. We children would walk up and down the road barefoot collecting pop bottles so we could buy a treat from the local store. My Grandmother lived in a one bedroom home that she and my grandfather raised nine kids in. There was such a sense of community everyone looked out for each other. There was no sense of threat when you were out walking, until the drugs invaded that beautiful community along the creek banks . Church was amazing ,no one cared what you wore or if you were barefoot everyone just came to worship with all of their might and no one was in a hurry to leave. I love my heritage of faith and simplicity. Salt of the earth people who knew what being committed to family through the tough times was.
few of my great aunts went up North like that, on account of the car plants- got plenty of extended kin around Michigan that have roots down South
Amen! It was a much simpler time! I miss it and my wonderful family members that raised me well!
Same here. That was my summers as a kid going to the mountains.
Hookworms! Don't go barefoot when human and animal feces are present...
What you wrote really touched my heart. I also grew up in the hills of kentucky and remember very well those church meetings and collecting pop bottles to take to the country store. Love to you🥰
This absolutely fascinates me. I grew up a "hillbilly," a bit further west than Appalachia. Few people are aware of this particular culture. I joined the military, and went a few places. It is amazing how few people are aware of the Appalachian Culture. The man on the porch whittling reminds me of a wise man I met in Greece. He too was just an easy going man from the country. His wisdom and kindness were refreshing.
I never knew how poor we were until I started public school. I thought everyone lived like us..
Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time.
I felt the same way.but it was ok
You may think your poor, but your only poor in having material thing's, but I believe you can be the richest people in the world, just on your belief's, Love, and value's! I admire these rich people! 👌🏻😊👍🏻
I grew up so poor I was jealous of people that lived in the trailer park. I'm 56 and never had any real friends because you know the saying "you can take the boy out of the country - but you can't take the country out of the boy".
I have some serious trust issues that come from those days when the only food we had was mustard and onion sandwiches. Today I live well but am not happy. Think I was happier back then somehow.
I hear that a lot, I think it has more to do with where you’re living rather than when you’re living for the most part but recently it seems that is changing to both where you’re living and when you’re living. Thank you for watching
I'm was born in 1968 in eastern KY...I had the best childhood you could ever imagine, I didn't realize how hard my mom struggled to raise me, she worked so hard and I remember, I stayed with my Granny a lot but always enjoyed it so. I miss those simpler times and think of them often. I still live in the same county I was born in and if you think times were tough then you should see it now. I wish more docs were out there focusing on this subject.
Denise, I agree with you completely!
I don't know if the times were simpler or not being I was born in 1980. But I think things were held to more of a social acceptability. Manners. Minding your own. No. Things weren't perfect. But most didn't think they were better then any other. Manners simple respect seem to have gone to the wayside.
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Is at the opioid epidemic
Why are they tougher now? Drugs?
Privileged adults and entitled children should watch this.
This family was very self sufficient in ways that many of us would think we wouldn’t survive.
God Bless them and people like them wherever they are now.
This family had so many smiles with practically nothing. ❤️
Well said Tracey
I'm originally from the mountains of western North Carolina the Appalachian mountains Boone NC
As a timber feller I still live it
@Liar Department your name is hilarious! :-)
In 2020, liberals call people like this “privileged,” because they’re white. And then wonder why they vote Republican.
This documentary proves something I’ve been saying all my life…. Class, self-respect, and respect for others doesn’t cost a dime, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with money/possessions (nor your level of education for that matter). My parents were both raised like this. They didn’t agree on anything for 55yrs, except for one thing… They were both on the same page about making sure I wasn’t a burden on society. Very loyal, considering, respectful, PROUD, hard-ass working people, that didn’t go looking for a fight form anyone, yet didn’t take an ounce of sh*t off of NO ONE. And, last but not least, they loved their country with the same level of passion that they hated their government with.
I agree, your comment about class, self-respect and respect for others, is very true.
Resourceful people, also.
Amen!!
Thank you, Phil LaMoore, so well said.
@Opal Allen My mother’s side of the family (Moore) are all from Virginia…they were up to their necks in this life.
Words from 50 years ago that are especiallly relevant today in 2020.
Not that long ago fifty years !
In that same area?
This looks to me to have been made more like 60 years ago, in the 1960's. That car and the young guy's hair look straight out of the 60's at the latest. The price for that baby delivery sounds in line with that time frame too. But then, they talk about a 1970 new car, so 1969 is like the 60's yet when the 1970 cars came out.
Trust me it was 1970
In most places it’s 2020, here it’s 1990.
I love Appalachia and everything about it. The people, the country, the music , the food. I live in Augusta Ky and have been blessed in my life .....I try to give back through several charities I volunteer with. Christian Appalachian Project is one. And as poor as they are folks take care of each other . Tomorrow Im gonna split a cord of wood for my 82 y/o neighbor ......he's done so much for me..
You have it so right. Poor people help each other, as is shown by charitable giving state by states. The poorest people give the greatest amount of their income to help their neighbors.
Hi Jay. I'm a black woman, 63. I've always wanted the opportunity to visit this area and just soak in the culture, history, etc., and have the opportunity to talk with and spend time with residents. Do you think such a visit can be arranged through the Christian Appalachian Project you speak of? I'm sincere and just know if possible, this would be the most spiritual experience of my life! Thank you!
God bless you and your family!
@@rg33jones90 you can rent a cabin or something and visit Hocking hills and Vinton Jackson County Ohio, Amish store off 93 towards Jackson and so much to see.
Thank you very much!
I'm from Swain Co. I was ten when this was filmed. All my folks lived like this .They were the salt of the earth. It was a special time to grow up there. Just thinking about it brings a tear to my eye.
I come from folks like this. I smiled and cried as I watched this little film. Some of the wisest people on Earth come from the Appalachian Mountains and surrounding areas. Thanks.
These are my people. Stories my great grandparents and grandparents were these people. I'm proud to have these roots!
Same here 😊
Me too. My family heritage goes back in the hills of West Virginia before it was ever called West Virginia. The sad part is that my ancestors back then were illiterate and were simple farm hands before some of them began working for the B&O Railroad, so it's very difficult to find more information about them other than census records. I'm still not sure if I'm English or Irish because I've found records for both and there's no telling which ones are the right ones.
You should be. ❤️. I’m from Eastern Ky. I’ve lived here all my life. I do believe we were targeted by makers of the various opioids over the years. Mountain people respect doctors and do not question them. Many became addicted upon receiving strong pain meds unnecessarily. Xanax and drugs in the benzo class were popular prescriptions too. Feel anxious, take a pill. They even push antidepressants for hot flashes now. I had a surgeon try to push gabapentin on me unnecessarily. I refused. She swore it wasn’t addictive.
Money can't make a wealthy soul. God bless.
Maybe not but money sure makes misery alot easier. A rich dude I worked for, years ago, told me that that saying about money can't buy happiness is what rich folks tell poor people to make them feel better, but it's not true. Having a house, a car, being able to go on vacation and go out to eat without worrying about what you're spending goes a long way to making a person happy. Being poor sucks, don't let rich people tell u any different.
@Alan Brown he was the richest one I'll agree! I would feel rich with an armful of puppies lol! That was cute.
@Alan Brown the govt, local and state, allowed coal, timber, and the railroads to use these folks to make HUGE profits...my granddad was a coal miner, he told us stories. Sad.
@Alan Brown it is. It's terrible and even worse, the local, state, and federal govts are in on it. They care more about being reelection than they do their constituents lives.
@@melindakelley3190Money may not buy happiness but it surely can buy comfort.
Rural people look poor to City people, most country people eat well and have families close,,, most have good lives now and back then. They keep their Elderly and sick at home with them, they do not put them away or tell them to go get your own place to live to the parents that raised them.
True that
I lived on a farm with my grandmother when I was very young. We had an outhouse, a wash tub and a water pump. I didn’t know we were poor 😊
Now, I’m college educated, I raised a family and they are all college educated too. I live an upper middle class life but I have happy memories of grandma’s farm ❤
My Aunt's church still has an outhouse. Most of my cousins have no internet and cells are spotty. We work to continue the old ways. You are so very lucky to have experienced that life.
The big brother helping his little brother learn to read? I'm crying. Beautiful soul 💟
Damn. And dad or grandad teaching how to tie a shoelace 😭👍💗
These people are the "heart & soul" of the United States. Bless them all.
Amen
How are they the “heart and soul” of this country?
@@jeffvanderwerf3561 coal miners, music, culture, comes from the appalachian people. Did the fancy city people fight the Civil war? No, us mountaineers won the war for the union, not the uptight snobby yuppies.
@@jackrapier6748 Excuse me?
@@jeffvanderwerf3561 How are they not???
I'm watching this from AZ. I'm amazed to see how genuine these people are. They are so very rich in my eyes..
Very rich in Freedom
I agree with you. And I will tell you something else. Just the fact you said that shows you are special as well to see that. So many people who want the wrong things in life. Its y I don't have many friends.
As a Tennessean yes sir.. 7 generations from tn.
Thanks for putting this up! My Scotch/Irish family settled in KY/WV/Appalachia in the mid 1700’s. Bootleggers, coal miners, etc. It was wonderful to see such a documentary.
Your welcome, there are about 1600 films on this channel. It is my hope that there is something for everyone. Thank you for watching.
IMO what always seems to be neglected is how our families settled in these areas so long ago. My family from the NC, GA, Tenn area at the mouth of the trail sailed over in the late 1600's landing in New Amsterdam (NYC). Quickly they began migrating down to the NC hills. Our old ways seem hard and often backward to the rest of society. I often laugh when comments say "if they would travel they would ..." not realizing we in full knowledge of modern society. Most of my gen are like me and have multiple Uni degrees but we always return home to continue the old ways. Let people laugh. let them believe the stereo types. We will continue to teach the young our music, our ways of survival and we will never sell land to outsiders.
The best, kind hearted folks you will ever meet.
My people!! I'm sure the Canucker did something to deserve it. I'm just sayin'.
Amen!
Shooting people isn't nice. Just sayın. Canadians are literally the nicest people in the world.
@@mitchellheidtofficialchann308 who did they shoot?
@@Johnny53kgb-nsa in the beginning of the video, he mentions that they don't like strangers and that a Canadian film maker had been shot a couple of years prior.
"and I said how much are you offering to pay these people?" still holds true in 2021.
Right? There seem to be a lot of comments here from people saying they would take the Appalachian lifestyle over their own. Having grown up a poor hillbilly, and now a "city slicker," I will take my current life over my country upbringing. Both have been hard, but rural poverty is not the peaceful bliss many seem to think it is.
@@jonsnow1123 I like how you make it sound as though all of Appalachia lives in abject poverty while claiming to have a familiarity with the area. You come across as a snob at best. Please stay in your city.
@@juliebraden6911 First of all, I will stay in my city. Second of all MOST of America lives in abject poverty, it's just worse where you live. Sorry. Truth hurts.
@@jonsnow1123 truth doesn't hurt but you're still coming across as an ass. Your choice though and we don't miss you.
@@juliebraden6911 I hope you escape your abyss.
That man telling the boy how to tie his shoe reminds me so much of my papa.
Same here. I miss him so much. 😔
Same. It reminded me so much of my grandfather!
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52 years have past since this "film" was made, it is surprising how little has really changed in our society.
Some time in the mid 1970's I came across the "FOX FIRE" books. These books clearly showed how much wisdom, knowledge, and "self reliance" the mountain people really had, way back then. If you have never read these books, read the first two, at least, it can be "eye opening".
Strangely, today there is this huge movement to re-awaken those skills and knowledge, which was deemed as backward, lazy, and stupid, by our society for so long. I guess things have come full circle, so to speak. This is something everyone should see. ;-)
About the only thing that has changed is the introduction of meth.
@@pedalingthru2719 yeah that whole area is meth central now smh
Came here to make this observation. There was a brief period when this area was on an uptick before things like Right to Work legislation passed in the Reagan/Bush Sr Years that put the region back on a road to extreme poverty. And then opiates and meth showed up....
So true. The film is 2 yrs older than me and my family are further south, at the mouth of the trail. We have met modern society but we persist in our old ways, we rage on.
I grew up in SW Virginia and another Son of the Scotch-Irish. Tough, resolute people in the mountains. There's meanness if you deserve it and on the other hand, there's kindness up most every holler. If you have mountain folk as friends you should consider yourself blessed. Ain't no better people anywheres. "Hillbillys" are tough and can make it through hard times.
I live in southern Va. near the Tennessee and North Carolina borders.
Gen X I grew up in sw va, what I learned there has served me well!
@@theagamble30 Yep! Still planting garden to harvest and can this early fall.......Looks like hard times ahead?!!!
@@beth3531 Same, Rich Valley near Saltville and Marion VA.
@@MultiPurplegurple Chilhowie, Va. My great grandparents are from North Carolina. Scots/Irish Cherokee, grandmother was a Thompson. Call is not my name, so it confuse's people...
These people are heart and soul of America I don’t care about who said built the great country
@Ghost Lopez how so ?
@Ghost Lopez dickhead
@Ghost Lopez wow! you're somebody on here talking shit got anything else to do with your life? I have that name to trigger liberal assholes like you
@Ghost Lopez haha you're so funny you got an IQ of a turnip Bean
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Actually the Appalachian people are one of the big reasons why we won the revolutionary war Believe it or not
I'd rather be around these people than what we have roam in the streets today. These are pure good-hearted people
Very true..
Yes it would be nice if people had the integrity that they had then and don't forget their work ethics and their god-fearing ways . Three main factors missing in America from the government on down.
Race isn't a social construct
Society is a racial construct
its 2023 and somehow i wish i was back in time with yall because it is the end of the American life. America has been destroyed. R.I.P America
Absolutely agree, the lunatics are running the asylum.
God bless these people they're an important part of America and our history
The mountains are so delicious...I grew up in the mountains of Puerto Rico...same theme, poverty and lack of awareness of our Humanity...but I still remember the unity, self preservation with out help...and love.
Mountain people are the most caring of family and neighbor the love of God and family and country.
My ancestors came here in the 1700s from Scotland and Ireland and Wales. They lived all over. Tennessee, N. Carolina, Virginia, S. Carolina and Georgia. Riches ain't always counted in dollars.
My grandfather's side in Crossville Tenn built the biggest Flea Market in the entire state with help and was once named Dixon's Flea Market until step grandmother and son along with son's wife stripped a great man named Cordell Hull Dixon nearing the end of his life ! I asked him long ago where ancestors originally came from and he told me Ireland although i know absolutely nothing else ! Cordell Dixon was a fine human being and proud to be his grandson and only living human bearing his last name!! RIP Cordell Dixon !!
Who are you Beauty Queen ???
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@@garyjdixon7282 God Bless you sir....I know this flea market well. Take a gander there often. My grandchildren absolutely love the place. We now live in Crossville. Thank you for watching the film & sharing your story as well. Stay safe.
I was only 7 when this came out but I 1 thing I do remember growing up in the 70S people were much more loving and helpful I really miss the GOOD Ol ' days GOD BLESS everyone
You could literally pull quotes from this and insert them into today and they still fit.
I know.
It really freaked me out.
I was about 5 when this was made.
I grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains.
We are blessed to live in God's country.
Same here
I cannot get enough of Appalachian Documentaries.
When I close my eyes, I picture the people and land.
People I would want for neighbors.
What a wonderful look at that time and place.
I love learning g about this too. I’m fascinated. It’s one piece of the puzzle. Not who owns the majority of the land.
You wouldn't want them all for neighbors. You've never grew up there in the hollers have you? LOL Growing up in a holler is like growing up in prison. You better mind your business when you're there or shit will get real quick.
@@ebogar42 I would fit right in.
I mind my business and expect others to mind theirs.
The solitude is like heaven to me.
I have dealt with crazy neighbors.
Several.
By the time I get finished, I end up being the crazy neighbor.
I prefer to not be enemies with my neighbors.
Life is hard enough as it is.
But, if it's trouble the neighbors are looking for, trouble is what they will get.
@@freedomspromise8519 Yeah, I've had a few. Our neighbor beside us growing up was the most paranoid man I ever knew. He would board up his trailer where you couldn't break the front door down. Pulled a gun on me once for going up the road too fast then said he was sorry after but he thought I was going for my gun after I didn't stop when I saw his crazy ass in the road screaming at me. Him and my uncle got into a fist fight once. They still don't talk. I don't talk to my uncle now either. He talked shit when me and his son was having an issue and we used to be close. Over the road a woman pulled a gun on me and my cousin for killing a snapping turtle and then gave me a job mowing grass. I have tons of crazy stories that happen in hollers. I don't usually have a problem with neighbors because I keep to myself for the most part and don't worry about whats going on next door. I don't remember anyone calling the police either growing up. Everything was usually solved in an argument and rarely a fight but it does happen. Especially while drinking. I don't have an issue with any of them now really but my uncle. I think it's because we were real close and the shit he said was fucked up. I wasn't too close to the other ones so it was more understandable I guess.
@@ebogar42 sound like you grew up in the same part of s.e. ky that I did.
Reminded me of the stories our Mother use to tell us of growing up on Hurricane in Elliott County Kentucky. She never complained about being poor and pretty much spent every dime she earned making sure us kids had everything. She was the best, one of 14 children, we lost her two years ago, not a day goes by we don’t think about her. We are making apple butter this weekend in her honor. Loved this video. Peace be upon you. 👍✌️😎
The work that went into those quilts !
I am from Somalia, Africa , this is amazing, thank you for sharing, good people,
great Documentary.
This film just popped up in my home feed on UA-cam. “When a number of people stick together, you can’t do nothing with them”. Great quote. Seems to be a forgotten people to this day. I love how they work together to hold each other up. The brother teaching his siblings letters almost brought tears to my eyes. And loved his comparison of poor whites to poor blacks and how you have to fight for your freedom. True dat.
I’m a black American. Born and raised almost just like these people. This film is a great production and the contents are true.
Honestly Sylvia I don’t think it matters what color you are, what country your from or what language you speak. In my opinion this film speaks for all of us. God bless
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology Did my comment offend you? If so I apologize for that was truly not my intent. I’m just appreciative of this film. For the way that I was raised as a poor black American I can relate. Thank you, and God bless you.
@@sylviaruth5008 no ma’am your comment did not offend me whatsoever. The reason I responded the way I did was to explain, and I did a poor job here I suppose, but there are people from all over the world that identify with what is found in this film. And I really do mean all over the world. When you have time take a look at the comments it’s incredible. God bless and have a great day.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology Thank you so kindly. I do agree with you. There are people all over the world with this similar lifestyle. Be blessed.
I remember going thru the mountains of VA in 1974 as an 18 year old with my guitar. Met many fine people and played some wonderful music with those lovely folks. Without a doubt some of the fondest memories of my life to date.
Im from ireland and travelled all over the states a couple of years ago. Honestly the most nice,honest and hospitable people i came across were in the applachia region. Would love to go back. A stunning part of america too.
It would be a privilege to have you visit again. I have 1st cousins in Galway in my bio family. However, i was raised at the entrance to the App. Trail. We are raising the next gen.s in the old ways. They hate the church's outhouse but they seem to love the rest of the old ways. They have the net now on their phones when reception is good. They can move away or go to Uni if they like. Thankfully, only a very few have left the mntns. The rest are perpetuating the old ways.
When I was in the U.S. Navy bootcamp Great Lakes in January, 1982, there were two genuine mountain men from the "hollers" in my company.
Larry Bolton was from Morning Star Kentucky so he told me. Crawford from hills of North Carolina. They were the oldest in company 006.
Larry Bolton was about 5'6" tall, blond hair blue eyes and missing a few teeth. He was one of the friendliest, nicest man I met. I would give him my cake from the chow hall. He had a unique squeaky twang when he spoke.
After completing the swim test Larry Bolton came up to me in a low voice, so as not to attract attention, and said, "You know, I shouldn't even be in the military, I have a partially collapsed lung. I had a hard time in the water". But he made it through no problem.
He was an Army vet who had come back to the service because the construction industry at the time was down.
Upon graduation, he was able to transfer his rank from the Army and boy was I impressed by the ribbons when I saw him in the Dress Blue Cracker Jack uniform (class A in Army). I think he was E7 or E8.
I met other people from Appalachia in my career and I found them to be down to earth and good hearted humble folks.
It's mind blowing when you realize that Appalachian mountains run clear into Vermont and Massachusetts. The Adirondack and Berkshire mountains are minor ranges in the Appalachian range. So proud to be an Appalachian American.
They also run into Canada.
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Yeah well...there's several sub ranges of the Rockies too. ..but, that don't make it all the same. The folks in these here hills and mountains from Kentucky on down thru Tennessee and Virginia and north carolina and Georgia...as said in the local vernacular...theys differnt. They don't dress the same, they sure don't talk alike. Most of these folks is scotch irish. Precious few Germans and polocks and Slovaks amongst them...like up north in Pennsylvania and up in them mountains. Nope...they ain't the same.
There's a little more disposable income running around the Berkshires but it would be kind of interesting if someone did an in-depth documentary on poverty in the Northern most part of Appalachians as a contrast.
@@mark-wn5ek You got that right! If y'all ain't got sweet tea and a lot of bbq, your definitely not southern Appalachian. Big howdy from the Johnson City, Elizabethton Tennessee area.
Thank you for this video. This brought back alot of good memories for me. I was born in 1959 in Eastern Ky, right across the river from West Virginia. Dad had been in the Airforce before my brother and I came along. He was a local barber because of his GI bill benefits. We raised tobacco and farmed to make ends meet. We slept good at nite, because we were tired at the end of the day. What a simple life back then.
Thank you for sharing this film with the world...it made me realize how much I miss home! It didn't matter how cold it was or if there was even enough food for everyone we had each other and I wouldn't have changed any of it for all the money in the world. Think its about time this mountain girl goes home!
I think that's so sweet that their big brother is trying to teach them how to read trying to teach them their alphabet they may not have a lot of money but they're so rich in other ways
Heart and Soul.
The way they pronounce the letter R is beautiful
@@ripme6616 I noticed that also, nice sound
Yeah, he took my heart . Probably gets in a fight four days a week, but when it comes to the little ones, he was all heart and soul wasn't he?
Northeast TN here! I love my mountains, and my neighbors. There is a lot of love and kindness here.
I can remember growing up like this in Kentucky. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. You learn to truly appreciate things. My wife grew up not wanting for things in life and she doesn’t appreciate the things we have now. Luckily I’m pretty well off now to keep up with her ways. My son has no idea of how lucky he is and I’m afraid he’ll never know. 🇺🇸
I grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. I get it. People would come in from NYC or Albany and think that they were so much better than us.
Well, I am eternally grateful for the values that I learned in that mountain village I grew up in (Wilmington). They have kept me grounded my whole life.
I know all about planting tobacco, I have raised it for years, I love the mountains of NC, The Great Smokie Mountains!!
@@PeachiePeoney well there is some good land up for sale here in NC were I live. But I hope you find what you are looking for!!!
Listen to old crow medicine shows song "we dont grow tobacco round here no more". That song has a lot of truth in it
The slaves taught your ancestors how to grow it so you should know how to grow it
@@PeachiePeoney the original people of this country doesn’t have any chance of 1 acre
I love watching the man whittling. I can remember my daddy whittling when I was a kid. He could whittle anything I wanted him to when I was a lil girl. I had forgotten him sitting on the front porch whittling all kinds of stuff till I seen this video. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for your memories and thank you for watching.
This is how I was raised and why it absolutely kills me when people yell white privilege.... Well watch this film and tell me who is privileged in it!!!
Yeah no doubt get snowed in for 3 weeks in 96 and run your lights off a 12 volt battery
@New Comer i think he meant the opposite of that
Maybe not then... But now
When they say slave's came over on a slave ship, these are who they were talking about! Poor Europeans and south africas looking for a better life. They came by the thousands in the 1800s because they finally had ships with motors that could transport that many people, before ships they had sailboats so it was impossible to tranport millions of "AFRICAN BLACK" slaves in the 1600s and 1700s on sailboats (my people need to see this video) "BLACKS are indigenous to America, maybe 10% of the bloodline of Blacks is of African bloodline (most people think all whites had it easy here in America back then)WRONG POOR WHITES WORK THE LAND ALONG WITH THE POOR BLACK! If you were poor you were an indentured servant or what they call a slave! The people who owned the land were who you reported to BKA slave masters they came in all colors to black white brown yellow
“White privilege” is just a catch phrase used to divide the poor. It’s working. If the poor aren’t United they can be taken advantage of a lot easier.
I think it was Napoleon that said, basically: if all else fails we can just hire one half of the poor to kill the other.
Those quilts are art. Also it's crazy this was at the height of the Vietnam war.
My relatives are from the Bristol, Abington, Johnson City area. All the young cousins went to my Grandparents farm outside Abington during the summer - great times. I have a soft spot for the people of this area. Hard life but these people are tough and resilient. Beautiful mountains beautiful people.
What an absolute treasure this video is!! I grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains of NC & I know what a hard life my grandparents had, much like yours. We grew up on hard work & bluegrass music. What I would give to have my grandparents on video like this. Thank you for sharing these wonderful memories with all of us.
Your precious memories are food for the heart. Thank you
Scots-Irish family from the Bryson City area, but I was born in Asheville. Still have my great-grandfathers sword he used in the "war of northern aggression", and it had a bunch of nicks on it- asked a historian about it (maybe used in battle), but he said probably not, as those things were used as mulit-tools back then.
I grew up in north east ala. This film reminds me so much of being at my grandparents. No indoor running water. Outhouse. Sharecroping having to go to the center of the room to pull the chain to turn on the lights. I still can't get some people today to grasp that. We went every Sunday to granny's to eat. There were 14 children. Their spouses and kids. I loved Sundays. The house didn't have a level place in it. One porch falling off. Roofing shingles for siding. I loved staying with my grandparents any time I could. The importance of family was so strong back then. No one was left out, judged or shunned. Work was hard but we enjoyed the daily things.
Was great watching that ...im in the UK where its always been a different way of life but was great to watch all those wonderful decent people with all those happy children...that simple way of life in the country sure is better then any big city with its degradation and violence...watching that makes me wish i had that way simple way of life my self and makes me smile :)
TY. Wish I had space to explain the full truth. My family's from the mouth of the Appalachian Trail. Society to us is tighter than a girdle of a Baptist minister's wife after a country breakfast of biscuit & gravy. We send the young out of the hills to earn Uni degrees but they always return home. Well, 2 of the 42 first cousins I have did not. It's true, we grow and put up (can) our own food, we build our own homes & barns. The women hunt for food, the men preach and work. That is where we are misjudged. My family has country dr's, a lawyer, a judge and many teachers. We are fully aware that our language seems ignorant to outsiders (I am not using our language here), what the outsiders do not know is that we have post-grad degrees we do not flaunt. Come on over I will take you to an all day singing and dinner on the ground, (warning, our church has an outhouse), my cousins and I will play and sing our music for you. Don't bring anyone who works for the federal gov.... just don't. We don't take kindly to feds.
Awesome post. I have pictures of my family that were in those times. When the depression hit they didn't feel the effects of it, because the government was no where to be found. They raised everything and Nothing was motorized. Living in the mountains known only to God.
BTW, this little Documentary is a time capsule! Incredible. Did you know that some urban people like myself, have never seen a fellow like him?
Really? Well y'all come on. We live at the mouth of the trail. Many of my 42 first cousins have lived in ATL for periods, and all of the current gen ++ have gone off to earn Uni degrees. We have country dr's, a lawyer, a judge and a heap of teachers. We know full well that outsiders think our language and ways are ignorant, what they do not know is that we have lived in their world to earn our degrees but we all returned home. Our women hunt for food, our men folk preach and work. We will take you to an all day singing and dinner on the ground (uhh, the church has an outhouse so....) , feed you biscuit and gravy and all my cousins play our old songs and sing. Everyone is always welcome as long as you r friendly. No feds. Seriously, we don't kindly to the Feds - AT ALL. ☘☘☘
I have really admired the brutal honesty, and sincerity of those featured. IT’s history in real time.
I guess they have their hardships but I just admire their simple life and their ingenuity.
Absolutely, these are the kind of people that you could shipwreck on an uninhabited island and they would thrive. Their predecessors helped build this country.
Yes, VERY resourceful. Commonsense and innovative. Tough as a kid growing up tho as not a lot of opportunity. You are afraid and cautious of anything and everything that is not local/different. There is a naivety and innocence of the world. Double edge sword.
We use to say that we were poor, but we never went hungry. Raising a garden is still the thing to do. My granny fed 12 kid's on homegrown! She canned all the vegetables and fruits. They had a chicken coop, corn crib, and a smokehouse for the hams to cure!
Thank you for this wonderful Documentary of Appalachian Life. My family was from West Virginia and generations had hard/ poor upbringing. I was born in '73 & remember using out- house, our first indoor bathroom and pumping we'll water. Reminiscing, I loved seeing the part with the family reunions ; watching Elders play banjo and guitar.
You’re welcome. I’m glad you found my channel. That’s the only place you’ll ever see this particular documentary. You’d be amazed at how many people identify with these folk. Thank you so much for watching.
Hello from Trade TN..spent my day today getting wood in and stacked trying to prepare for winter..spent a bit of my evening watching this and thinkin about my daddy and memaw...im poor but happy, tryin to keep it simple and help my neighbors and god willin i will do it all again next year.
Hows life going now?
Much respect to these poor white mountainsntain people. 50 years later, many of the older people are probably dead, may they all rest in peace. They are like many of our ancestors in here in lreland years ago. Politicians are the same everywhere. Their talk is very cheap.
Emphasis on white huh...
@Jules Moules and why do you say they are not Irish?
@@Bornjamerican24 Whats that mean?
@Jules Moules Scotch and Irish, you simply don't have the slightest damn clue what you speak of.
@@jdlyonsky scot-irish of Ulster is my heritage.....
Utterly fascinating. Thank you for uploading.
After 54 years, our politicians are no different still. Promise everything, deliver nothing.
That woman is so captivating. She has a unique gracefulness.
Thank you for the video. Really enjoyed it. Oh, i was a teen back then myself.
Humility & soft spoken. They remind me of my roots. How my dad loved to smell the air and ponder on God's Word.
My father's side of the family lives in the Appalachian mountains and it's a tough life. Some left and went back. Many of their ways are things I have learned to incorporate into my life. I only wish I could grow tomatoes like my grandfather! I would also love to go back to a simpler way of life. The big city isn't all it was once cracked up to be! This is very much like I remember visits to the relatives. People weren't well off financially, but they were loving, clean, fed you well, worked hard, and honest, unless you asked about the local moonshine still. Some of the sweetest water you ever tasted comes out of those mountains.
Anita Hamlin, that's for sure on the moonshine. You start asking questions about that and conversation is over. Time for you to leave.
Used to🤔
lol "honest" then mentioned their illegal moonshine stills. They aren't all honest and a lot of them you don't want to fuck with. Growing up in hollers is like growing up in prison. You better know the rules which the main one is minding your business. lol You will get into a fist fight if you don't.
I was born and raised in western Tennessee. We didn’t have mountains to speak of but my people were exactly like this. Thanks for a bittersweet trip back in time. Be safe and well.
I was told by a linguist that I had southern roots because of my expressions and way of speaking. I grew up in the upper midwest, and so did all of my parents and grandparents. However, my mother's grandparents were from Mexico and Kansas, and my father's grandparents were from Germany, Kentucky, and Georgia. I hear so much of how both my grandparents and parents speak in this video, despite never living anywhere but in the upper midwest. They just didn't have the southern drawl. Sorry to ramble, I find language so fascinating.
Language is a combination of communication, expression, identification and pride
Thank you for sharing but that’s a mountain drawl or speak as some say . :). ✌️
I didn’t grow up in a state that borders Canada.
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Read the "Foxfire" books. You will learn a lot of marvelous things about basic survival techniques.
Yes ! I remember these when I was a kid informative and helpful books !!! They are worth the time to read !!!😁
Love those books
Just ordered the 45th anniversary one, thanks for the recommendation!
Straight up people, not to be messed with, but with a very warm heart- thanks for this rare opportunity to see the true people not a cartoon we normally do 👍
I read these when I was @ 14. Lots of interesting tidbits and lore.
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Every once in a while I come back here and have a watch because the wise words being shared is as true today as it was back then. Whittier, North Carolina Swain County
You are absolutely right, and I would say about 90% of the people that watch this have come to the same conclusion. And that’s a lot of folks. I keep wondering how it’s not possible that the rightful president does not occupy The White House. When voting people think their vote is the most important thing, not true. The vote counters are the most important thing.
Love this! My ancestors came from Appalachia…I remember people living in extreme poverty, and living much like these folks. I can’t pick one thing, but that music!! We used to go to “music parties,” the talent is unbelievable…sure made me tap my feet ❤️
This is the most civilized mountain talk I've ever heard!!
Even in 1970 there were public schools these children could attend close by. Some parents would not make their children go to school but even in those days a basic small education could get you a good paying job if you were willing to go find a job. Even in 1970 there were a lot of good paying factory jobs to be had. It was not easy leaving home a place you grew up at but if you were willing to escape poverty you had to make that move.
I can take you to 100 places just like this right now. Some only 15 min from my house and I'm less than 100mi from Nashville. Most people look down their nose at them because of their lack of "stuff" but you won't find better people anywhere. I'd rather just sit and talk with them than just about anything. When you've never had money, you don't know any different.
Same. Anderson, roane, Morgan, Campbell and Cumberland counties all still have folks still living like this. Thank God I'm from those lines of people. Tough, hardworking.
My Heart Melts Looking Into the eyes of those Precious Children.God Bless Them All.💞
These folks are not perfect, but I respect them. They endured much hardship, and their descendants still do. I might be one of them, but my grandfather, through hard work, his wits, and the grace of God got his wife and kids out of the hills in 1920. Today his great-grandkids are highly-educated professionals who are trying to make the world a better place serving the needs of others (through their hard work, their wits, and the grace of God. As I near the end of my natural life, I honor the memory of my Appalachian forebears, who, I think, would be pleased that their faith, industry, and compassion live on. I wish I could send my love back up the line to all my folks who got me here, and all those yet to follow.
Thank you for your insight and memories, and thank you for watching.
I grew up poor in wv I an remember having lil or nothing to eat and inviting someone who had nothing to dinner .if we had it we shared god gave it to us he could take it away we always found a way to get by
50 years ago people were talking about "chaos and an end of the American way of life". Sounds all too familiar.
That struck me right to the heart!
And it is the same people behind this chaos too!
My grandparents lived in Ruleville, Miss. Their house was surrounded by a cotton field. It was built just like this one with a tin roof. My grandfather was a cotton farmer. They grew many vegetables. When you are poor and living in the country you are content with what you have. Some of the best memories I have is when I go and stay with them.
Most Americans were poor back then, don't feel left out