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The history of white ignorance,racism and violence still continues in 2025 😢

THE TIME FOR CHANGE,WAS PRESENT!!✔ IT TOOK A LONG, LONG TIME COMING!!🎶 🎶 🎶 BUT I KNOW A CHANGE GONNA COME!!, OH YESSSSS IT WILL!!! THANKS!! 😂SAM!!@✔🎉🎉🎉

I have so many happy memories of taking young my son and his friends for picnics and fun at WR ranch. They could run wildly around to their hearts content and or sit and watch the impromptu polo matches - joyous, carefree times. And the beautiful WR home. It was everything you hoped Will Rogers was, friendly, gracious, unpretentious yet somehow tastefully elegant. I am heartbroken for all those who lost their homes and businesses to these fires and I know that losing a historic house isn't at all the same as thousands of people losing everything they possessed. And, I still mourn for what was lost at The Ranch. Irreplaceable.

I am currently reading the book "The Hairstons An American Family In Black and White," by Henry Wiencek. Your video is the icing on the cake! Thank you for this historic presentation. My grandfather on my mother's side is George Marshall Hariston, who lived in Martinsville Virginia. We are Hairstons of color.

Baloney

Great narrator!

❤ DEO VINDICE ! ONE OF THE GREATEST AMERICAN GENERALS THAT EVER LIVED . ❤

God Bless General Robert E Lee Deo Vindice.

A sad story about the horrors of sharecropping. God rest his soul 💔

Traitor 😢

Traitor

Can you do a video on the “Cake” house near the DMV?

The huge lawns were turned into polo fields… 😢

This is so sad for me also. I had hoped to one day visit it and the museum. I've heard of Will Rogers all my life. A couple years ago while working on my genealogy I learned he is an ancestor on my paternal side. Since learning this I have done a lot of research on his life. I still would love to go visit the museum. RIP Will!

Thank you Gov Newsome and Mayor Bass for all your failed leadership and failure to prepare for wildfires

This ranch was NOT in Hollywood ! It is much nearer the coast in the Pacific Palisades area.

Our team mourns the recent loss of this treasured landmark; it's so sad that it won't be around for future generations to enjoy.

Tragic!!! So sad.. glad I got to visit. Loved the guest house

I'm so sad to learn that this estate was destroyed in fire. And apparently only some of the artifacts inside the house were saved. Ugh, so hard to accept.

Sad news to hear it caught on fire 2025

So very sad and sorry that it is now gone, consumed in that damn fire.

I very much enjoyed this video. My 5x great grandfather, John King and his two brother in laws, Andrew Joyce and Capt. David Lanier were landowners on Marrowbone River/Creek. I have located an indentured between Lanier and George Hairston with John King as security.

Not much of a heads up lol but they look cool 👍

Thanks, very interesting

Finding Waldo...no problem.... finding Wallace.... NOT!!!!😝😝😝😝🤘

can anyone provide the location of where the church stood?

Cool video! Any info. on the berryhill mansion located off current berryhill rd today?

Thank you

The first chud?

Outstanding history lesson

My daddy is the man on the right is my daddyDavid J Compton

Well done sir!

Love the videos Andy and co.

Awesome video

We usually went to the Family Drive-in for movies and once in a while to the Rives or the Martin or the Roxy in Martinsville, even though we lived a mile from Bassett. I remember going to the Stone only once. Someone in the balcony set off a firecracker and I thought it was a gun! I wasn't anxious to return. But I dearly loved Bassett, and it pains me to see what has happened to it.

Andy, I'm gonna start calling you the "Ron Howard" of Bassett. Love all these documentaries you and your team are doing. A job very well done. Thank you so much for sharing all these stories.

I love their Gaither Christian album

Love their music to this day!

How sad that these historical monuments have been allowed to disintegrate. This history will be lost unless more is done to preserve it. It looks like many of the homes are already irreparable. Has no one else taken an interest in preserving this history? I read the book that was written about the Hairston family. It was very interesting. I’d love to visit these places.

Responsible for the 16th amendment, income tax.

Where in Bassett is this?

She was, and IS, a true American hero. Thank you, Ms. Lacks.

Incredible...

When I think about all of these countries where people are starving and malnourished, I wonder why kudzu and other invasive edibles, including perennials, are not planted in those places as ever-growing sources of food for the people and animals. If it grows a foot a day as reported, the people in need will always have enough to eat. All parts of kudzu are edible, except the seeds and seed pods. The leaves, flowers, and the tender ends of the vines can be eaten.

awesome

Do Cassius Marcellus Clay next. It’s unbelievable that there aren’t tons of movies about him!

My Great Grandfather was born in that house. Henry Hairston Hurt.

i’m really curious on what the henry county school system used to be and all the schools that’s been used in henry county i was wondering if u could make a video on that is that’s not too much

Peter TP Hairston is in my ancestry tree as my 11th grandfather or so

I’m a double Hairston and I’m so invested in my roots