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I'm from Bluefield. This was a very interesting documentary.

I went to WV Tech Montgomery WV as an EE from N.Va. in the mid 1980s. I started the WV Tech Trails & Outings Club and became a major rail fan of the region. I was always surprised with the large interest in river navigation in the 1800s that locks and dams were not continued above Gauley Bridge up the New River. The New River above Gauley Bridge might have had a lock system with dam to create a reservoir for barge navigation going at least as far as Hinton and Bluestone Lake. My WV Tech Trails & Outings Club did an overnight hike and campout exploring the abandon coal towns going east of the New River Gorge Bridge about 1984. These mining towns were kept busy though WW2 then abandon. I never realized how much industry was native to the region, but I did sense that long ago some large activities had had interests. I remember seeing the coke ovens seeming to stretch out to infinity along the C&O tracks at the Sewell now apart of Babcock State Park. It was decades later when I realized the C&O H8 Allegheny articulated steam locomotives had been stationed at Handley WV just a couple of miles from Montgomery, rated at the top horsepower of any main use steam locomotive. Much of the apparent vibrance of the region seemed to peak during WW2, a career life time away from when I became a student at WV Tech. Growing up in N.Va. I was use to constant history around me concerning the Civil War and tried to use that as means for appreciating the WV history around me. When scouting out the hollow known as Staten across from Montgomery WV I found stone works up on the sides of the hollow ease side that reminded me strongly of breast works I'd seen as fortification for Civil War battle lines. I mentioned this find to history professors at WV Tech and was quickly put down as there being no Civil War activity around the area. I looked into that and there was Civil War activity that specifically involved Cannelton Hollow. From those stone works there is a good trail route bring one up to the ridge over looking the town of Montgomery. The prominent rock exposure along the ridge over looking the river puts the view above any trees allowing great seeing. The route was like very close and down hill from the likely natural gas access road seen now on the mountain. www.google.com/maps/place/Montgomery+marina/@38.1887217,-81.3211386,236a,35y,142.3h,62.88t/data=!3m1!1e3!4m15!1m8!3m7!1s0x884ecfa81d597973:0x3acce5850ea572e5!2sCannelton,+WV+25136!3b1!8m2!3d38.1942723!4d-81.2959446!16s%2Fm%2F04c66rb!3m5!1s0x884ecfa14ba7a77b:0x5c4569eb656318db!8m2!3d38.1830674!4d-81.3353573!16s%2Fg%2F11w296szd9?hl=en&entry=ttu

Are there any WV travel or nature documentaries?

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What ya wanna know I live along the kanawah river. It’s beautiful in places

My family came too Virginia from Holland down the Appalachian trail .so We traded with native American people who lived there. AT A PLACE CALLED WOLF CREEK .BUTDURING WWII MY FAMILYMOVED TO BALTO MD.BUT AFTER THEWAR WE MOVED BACK TO BECKLEY.WEST VIRGINIA. WE HAD A STORE THIS WAS IN 1960. I CAN REMBER HOW STEEP THE ROADS WERE.LOL.LOL.NICE LIVE.

Detroit is a messed up city while Appalachia is amessed up region !!!!!!.

Rcis5s do not like to here talking about racism !! It distorts their false narratives !!!.

Has anyone focused on other decades in the 20th century?

Back when everyone worked if you made a little mountain dew nobody cared. When you took the jobs away and the guys came home from Vietnam alcohol was replaced with dope and the druggie who didn't want to work or couldn't find work turned to illegal drugs to earn money without having to work a real job and the honest people paid the price. It's pretty bad when Walmart cannot stay in business because they cannot afford the cost of business which they cannot make a profit when the druggie are stealing from them. Only a small family owned store can survive in that environment and they pay a premium price for everything because of that. Too many people living too far apart from each other to even afford to build a pizza place or some place nice for the kids.

Listen Homer, the coal we produce is used to make steel, and when coal fails the country fails, any dam fool knows that. When TV came along it killed the walk in movie theater, when idiots pushed for safety and fuel mileage automobiles went from steel frames and bodies to plastic and tin and remelt steel. I doubt if there is any new steel in a new American made automobiles. Make it fast and cheap as possible and pocket the profits. West Virginia coal and coal mining companies were doomed..

Yet when Juan Sanchez Villalobos Ramirez swims across the Rio Grande illegally, Dark Rain Thom welcomes them with open arms and calls you a racist for opposing illegal immigration. Dark Rain is too stupid to realize they are a pawn of the globalist agenda to enact global tyranny.

Amazing show I was born and raised in west Virginia where I still call home and probably always will

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I was born in Wheeling in 1939. Grew up in Point Pleasant. Graduated from High School there in 1957. Left for college out of state after high school and never came back except for family short time visits. I was ambitious and looked out of the state for opportunities. That plan worked well for me. I’ll always love the people, at least the way they were then.The culture is well depicted in this video. The most common name for people was “cousin.”Individualism and libertarianism were trademarks of the culture. Political corruption was fairly common and it held the state back economically. The infamous Democrat Flower Fund was typical. The scenery is spectacular. But the tourist industry is still.underdeveloped. I think WV was the greatest place in the world to grow up, especially in the 1950’s.

@50:17 The town you see in that frame, Welch WV, is an absolute ghost town now. We as a State have been used and abused by every form of industrialization to come along, first the railroads, then the timber and followed by coal and now Natural Gas, , but we survive, Montani Semper Liberi , we will ALWAYS be.

Two years?!?! To what? Repair and dig out? These people did not build but inherited most the infrastructure of this country !

Miss Bill Kelley who commented on here. I taught his son and daughter. Bill was a gem of a guy. I lived on Randolph St. too and played outside at night unafraid. My mom remarried my dad and we moved to So. Chas., then Spring Hill, St. Albans and back to the west side. Both of my parents worked on Capitol Street so I knew downtown. My first time on a farm at Blue Creek scared me-- chickens jumped on my feet. Smile. I've been all over WV and have loved what I saw. There's no place I'd rather live than here! West Virginians are special people with big hearts!!❤ If you need help, West Virginians have open arms and hearts.

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The way the Indian woman describes the attacks her ancestors attempted against the 'invading white aliens' is exactly how they got that land in the first place. What we know aa native Americans today were not the original land occupiers in North America. The evidence is continuously being unearthed, literally. The history of our land is greatly faded into the psst but archeology is revealing some, slowly. At present, it seems the likelihood of ever knowing substantial facts about those peoples is going to be near impossible ax they were either eliminated entirely or entirely assimilated without carrying forward any lore. We are simply the current occupiers and as impossible as it would seem, eventually something new will happen here if life continues for centuries into the future. The difference, most likely, is we will leave ample evidence of our history. Unless our end is worldwide & catastrophic. Or the 2nd reign of Jesus begins.

I'm not from Virginia, I was born and raised in Indiana, but seeing all of this makes me miss the way things were back in the day. It just isn't the same now and I truly do miss it.

I've swam in that river.

Hey you got to remember those ole boys Still chew a lot of tobacco in that state

West Virginia is the best place!!!

1:26 I've worked in Nitro years ago. Hardly anything there now. Sad.

I was born place called Chashes Hill WV. 1951, near Island Creek back in the Hill,past Anthens Concord Collage.we had our own School house,only went to the 8th grade .my grandfather was half white,my grandmother Cherokee. We were a Black community, the state School Commission closed our school in 1965 bus us to all White School Pipestem wv.8th grade only,then to Hinton High, go Bobcats.it was very hard .I never knew the different between white or black. I made good friends at Pipestem. The Spanlers,Medows,packs Lions, Nellie's, finish high school,in Hinton Wv. No jobs in west Virgina. So I join The USAF. Best thing I ever did, I had four ceareefield, worked launchpad space Schulte. I come home when I can. I really miss my Friend BOW BUTTLER. My name is KELLEY DAVIDSON Jr I live in UTAH, HILL A F BASE. One day I would love to make a movie of my Travels around the World. And to all my friends in WV. GOD BLESS there Souls 44:57

Why bring up the bad things, everything has a bad side, look for the good and not the bad ❤❤❤, i was born in w va, never should have left, but like so many others, i left thinking there were better things on the other side of the mountain, i was wrong, i lived with tears in my eyes, for many years, longing for home, im 79 now, still longing for w va, so all you w va bashers, ive lived in a few places, none are perfect.❤

West Virginia is God's Beautiful country ❤️

Forced donations to the party??? Yeah the politicians have always been dirty!!!

US elections have been RIGGED for decades....

Graduated Parkersburg HS, Go Big Reds!

People don't even sit out on their porches liked they used too! Too many Electronics!! I miss Drive-In Movie Theaters.

Gone are the Good Ole Days...

I think the big difference was our country wasn't being ran by

My Mom was born in Wheeling, WV, in 1951.

"Not so good for black people" ? That is the stupidest remark I have ever heard.

In West Virginia, local politicians talk along party lines.....whether its their ring or not.

Nothing romantic about this era, especially if you were black!!!

I love life when it was so humble! I hate todays living, all about sex,greed and the all about ME,ME,ME

ALL of these so called doctors that were giving lobotomies back then on people were nothing but quacks. They were not doctors!! Doctors today aren't worth a shit either in my opinion. Especially if they come from another country.

Very well done !

Good grief, to much music

The turnpike was a waste of money for us people that had to pay for it that don't even live there it was stupid that's why Ohio and Virginia didn't want to have tolls on the road was a smart thing

The Indians picked up the lighter canoes(birch type) and xarried it back up stream on their heads.

My uncle built a dug out canoe. It was HEAVY.

My grandfather was a klansman.

W listened to The Grand Ole Opry on Saturday night. Often we powered the radio with a car battery. Daddy would hook up the radio on the front porch and open the windows and crank it up. Wouldnt br a light on in the house in the summertime and we would just sleep where we were comfortable. Only on Saturday night. 😅