The Flowers Family from Cutcane - Part 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ต.ค. 2023
- I was recently introdcued to the lovely Flowers family. They are a wealth of information about the old ways of life and about the mountains of Appalachia.
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Praying for your mother granny please give me a prayer im having a serious operation tomorrow my name is Sandra Leonard but my i have been called Sally ever since I was born by my grandmother
Sally, praying that your surgery and healing goes well.
I will pray for your operation!! I hope everything goes just fine. Will continue to pray!!
I love you interacting with this beautiful family.. They are so sweet. I'm praying. For your Grammy..We know God can and confront you all and her.Pray for safe travels.. Thank you for your wonderful videos. Love your channel..❤
Love and prayers for you Sally 🙏
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What a great loving family. Christian Parents, love for their neighbors.... Just think of how many people were able to go to church because of the kindness and love for the LORD the Flowers family shared. Blessed! 🤗🙏💕
Thank you for watching 😀
I can't imagine having to go fetch water and carry it up to the house all the time. Plus back in the day they didn't have things like washing machines or even indoor plumbing, so they had to wash all their clothes by hand in basins as well as bathe that way. Things have come a long way in terms of quality of life. There's a lot to be thankful these days if you really think about it.
I could sit and listen to them all day! I was a couple of generations away from the hard life they had but I heard lots of good stories about the old ways from my parents, grandparents and great grandparents. I think they should be proud of their hard work because it made them strong and gave them independence and a strong work ethic! Kudos to you, Tipper, for such a wonderful interview!
The ladies are sweet in their sister dresses. 😊
They are so sweet 😊
What an amazing wealth of information. The older generation are so important. I encourage my family to take advantage of getting stories from our elderly people because so much will be lost when they are no longer here.
I agree 😊 Thank you for watching!
@@CelebratingAppalachia You are welcome! My whole family love your videos,…I’ve got them all hooked! Thanks for creating such a positive channel!❤️
@@daisyandme72 I'm so glad you enjoy what we do 😊
It really pains me to see their generation almost gone. Generation Y and Z have no clue, with exceptions, of course, about sustainability and the hard life. Progress has made us shoppers, not choppers. From hunter-gatherers/agri/hort to Uber and drone delivery. Lord, help us is all I can say. Despite my doom and gloom, it was a joy to step back in time and remember my childhood in the hills of East Tennessee. Thank you, and I always love content.
Just think how much the world has changed with technology and "progress" in the last 10 years. My Mom is 82 and herr world as a child and mine (I'm 46) were two different places. Still yet an all together different place from what kids grow up in now. I can't imagine what people like the Flowers family have seen and done in their lives...what a fount of wisdom they could teach from! So glad you're doing this series so we can learn, too!
So many changes 😊 Glad you enjoyed this one!
It's so sweet that they are still close. Thank you for sharing Tipper.
I love that about them 😀 thank you for watching!
Nathan, thank you for introducing Tipper and Katie to this wonderful family. I truly enjoyed the stories!
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm so glad Nathan introduced me 😊
These videos are like mini documentaries, and extremely valuable to help preserve our culture, customs and history.
Thank you so much for this !
Hello Tipper👋. What a wonderful interview you've shared with us today. I truly enjoyed visiting with you and the Flower family. The story about going down in that well was amazing. They seemed like lovely people.I'm absolutely looking forward to the next installment of their story! Thank you.☕
Glad you enjoyed it 😊
I have to ask how is Miss Katie doing. I have prayed for her so much!!! Oh my goodness I could have listened to them forever!!! PLEASE let us know when you drop an other video. I hope it soon!!! Such precious people.
So glad you enjoyed it!! Katie is a little better. Thank you so much for the prayers!!
You are so welcome!
My goodness I could listen to these dear people all day! And 13 children? Bless them and their parents for being loving and United with their community. 🙏🏻❤️✝️
Wonderful. Memories are overwhelming me. What a blessing to hear from these folks.❤
So glad you enjoyed it 😊
God bless the Flowers family. Looking forward to more videos of them. Thank you Tipper 😀❤️
Thank you 😊
What a precious family. I’ve said it before, this rich history is a treasure! Thank you, Tipper for bringing this family into the limelight!❤️🇨🇦🙏
So sweet. I enjoyed this video. I love their interaction with each other. My parents had 9 children and when we get together everyone talks over the other. They were so respectful of each other. I can't wait for part 2. I'm saying prayers for granny.
I love hearing their lives, Oh my goodness my dad did a lot of the same things he only went to 7th grade. He worked on the farm after that. Life was tough but many happy times too. These people are so precious. Thanks Tipper
So glad you enjoyed it 😊
Tipper and Katie, Wow! ❤. Thanks for sharing The Flower’s Family. Their stories are an Appalachia treasure, with syrup, walking to school two miles and then after Seventh Grade 3 miles. Families like The Flower’s stories are what Appalachia history is all about. Wonderful video. 🥰❤️🥰😢
That was fun and interesting. I love to hear stories about the past. Looking forward to the next video. 😊
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love their story of their upcoming. Can't hardly wait to hear more. 😊
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Thank you Tipper! Beautiful Family ❤
Loved this precious video!! I wish people nowadays would have some of the values these elders had!! Thanks, Tipper! God bless and much love! 💕🤗🙏🏻
I enjoyed this so much! Sounds like stories my family used to tell. My grandmother was born in 1878, and although her 11 children are now all deceased, their way of life was similar. My grandfather had a saw mill and a threshing machine, as well as farming. Most everyone who could afford it and had a little gumption worked several jobs. I'll always be grateful for that hard work ethic they passed along.
I love how the Second Lady to speak kept saying “of a night” . Loved this video. What a precious family. I look forward to more from them.
Praying for every member of your family and the community of people your Granny has.
You know how much I love these. Thank you so much Tipper. We all need the truth and wisdom of the generations who came before us and made the way for us.
What a jewel of an episode. I love hearing about their chores 😱(such hard work!) and how close they are were through the years! Salt of the earth folks. Thank you Flower family for sharing your memories with us and thank you Tipper for bringing their story to us all. ❤
What a treat to hear about the older times 😊❤
LOVE THAT! Thank you so much for the stories that are quickly disappearing.
Glad you enjoy it!
What a blessing and honor!
It’s so fun to fellowship, and almost become a part of the family with so much love and laughter.
Lovely video!
Wonderful family. Thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for watching!
13 Children How Wonderful and Blessed 🙏
Videos like these are a piece of history to go back on. Nothing beats a good story teller. I'm just amazed that the are all still here and still close. That's a blessing in itself.
Love you interviewing this beautiful family..I love it❤Prayers for granny .. Love the Appalachian way of life. Just like I was raised ❤
Love the name Ettaruth...My SIL's son-in-law's mother's name is Ettaruth...maybe spelled the same way. This family is such a treasure. The education that can be learned by listening to this lovely family is priceless. What a treasure. God Bless.
I really enjoyed this video! I would love to hear more stories for them.
Oh my the flood of memories the Flowers sisters sun bonnets unleashed.
My grandmother made and sold sun bonnets and other needlework to supplement her income.
Visiting my grandparents required getting on a boat rather than in a car and all the ladies on the island wore bonnets outside.
This was in the late 1960s to mid 1970s. Reminds me that the tide changes twice a day but small town ( island ) customs and curiosities change slowly...if at all!
Thanks for the trip down memory lane Tipper 😊
What a treasure!! This is gonna be a great series!
Thank you Johnny 😊
Wonderful! We can learn so much from the older generations!
Oh how I miss the days of listening to my parents talk about the old days, I could listen all day long .Thank you Tipper cant wait to hear the rest of it.
That's my kind of video! That's my kind of people! Nothing they talked about was unfamiliar to me except walking to school. I even got to walk to school when I spent the night with Joe, Billy and Neil, my cousins. They lived almost in sight of Almond School.
This is the second time I have posted this. The first time all I got was an arrow going in a circle.
Thank you Papaw!!
I love to sit and listen to all the old timers! We don’t have any left in our family, but my daughters in laws have a few and we just live listening to stories of long ago! Continued prayers for Granny! And hope Katie’s feeling better! I think I heard her talking about the well, but not sure if that was Corey! Love to all!
Oh that sounds so nice. Id love that. People would be better off like this. We are spoiled today. I love that generation.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
I could sit and listen to them talk every day all day long. Thanks for sharing
Oh what a sweet family. Wonderful hearing all their memories. Have a blessed week. 😊❤😊🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
So good to see such amazing people. Thank you
So enjoyed this. Loved them telling how they were thankful for Christian parents and how their dad took them and their neighbors to church in his truck.
What a delightful time with these sweet people! It reminds me so much of my grandmother telling me about her childhood days in Haywood County.
So glad you enjoyed it 😊
@@CelebratingAppalachia I’m looking forward to hearing more from the Flowers family.
I loved listening to them talk about growing up and I learned a few things. I think it’s wonderful how the neighbors would help each other with preparing the cane - and their daddy would take the whole community to church in the truck - we sure don’t have that sense of community any more.
Thanks for this video. The Flowers are obviously good people.
Going down in the well would have been an adventure.
They were adorable! What a great family. Sounds like they had a good life to me. Hard but good,
Thank you for watching!
What a dear family! I could sit here and listen to them all day. I don't believe they could have made me go down that well. That is a long ways!
Great to hear from folks that live a simple life. Their life has been similar to folks hear in the Ozarks. We still have a few people who get together and make sorghum syrup.
😊 Glad you enjoyed it
such an interesting video Tipper...and what a story they had to share of 'back in the day'....thanks for sharing!
Great video. I love hearing the stories of days gone by.
Glad you enjoyed
Oh, my goodness I so look forward to seeing all of the interview episodes. What a precious family - how fortunate you and Katie were to get to spend time with the Flowers family. I would be hanging at the road just trying to catch them outside so I could chat and hear all their stories. What stories they have to tell, I am sure.
The Flowers family is the real deal. Authentic. The gentleman in the bib overalls reminds me of my cousin in Kentucky: born in the '20's he had all the stories
from the 19th Century "old people".
Thank you and Bless you for what you do. And the Flowers'. Prayers and Greetings to your brave Mother.
This Family is So Sweet with a lot of Good Stories.
Sandra you be in my prayers I am sure you will have a full recovery .All things are possible in the name of our Lord ! My God Bless You .
I loved this video. Sure wish it was longer
I could listen to them tell stories for days
Great interview, thank you.
This wonderful family the Flowers have so much wisdom from their experiences of growing up without all of the luxuries of electricity, plumbing, grocery stores, etc. They are more humble and grateful than a lot of us who had all the luxuries. They also are much stronger than a lot of us for growing up that way.
I love how they worked and went to church with their neighbors. Quite a few of my neighbors don't even speak English. I tried to communicate with them and it didn't work so well. I just smile and wave now.
Though life was tough (very tough) for their family, these folks still reminisce and speak of those times with love, grace, and humor. So sweet! Can't wait to see Part 2. And 3, and 4, and... 🙂Thanks for sharing this Celebration! 💚
Thank you! These are salt of the earth folk, look at those beautiful dresses! I look forward to more visits, what a treasure! 💛
This is so cool! Really grateful to "meet" the Flowers. Please thank them for us, for sharing their stories!
Loved this family. Hope to see them more. Those were the good ole days.
Precious family.. I am one of eleven children so I can totally relate to the closeness and love they have for one another.
Oh this is going to be great hearing about they're life😊
😊 Thank you Krissy
Oh, what a wonderful opportunity to learn about their family and the past!🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
❤ so sweet that they allowed you to interview them. Yesterday and today are so different.
Wow the Flowers family has lots to tell to make us all feel lucky we had it easier. Their poor Mama with 13 of them! Yikes Can’t wait to see part 2! Prayers for Granny hoping today was still looking up.
Oh my , I enjoyed that . Looking forward to part 2
Praying for granny also love the flowers family thanks for sharing them with us
Such a great video of these wonderful people ❤❤❤
There is so much to garner from these invaluable stories! I'm looking forward to the next installment of this interview! Thank you Nathan, Tipper & Katie
I can sit and listen to stories like this all day ❤
My great grandfather was in the sugar cane field line of work. Nice to hear Flowers family accounts of what they did way back when it gives me a better glimpse into what great grandpapa did. ❤ Can’t wait for the next Flowers video. 😊
I enjoyed listening to this family telling a bit about their lives…looking forward to more..sending prayers for Granny & all the family ❤
I know Charles they’re good people. Nathan is a good guy too, looking forward to the rest.
Loved listening to these ladies.
That family is so wonderful. Thanks so much for telling us about them. Praying for granny
Tipper this is wonderful, I really enjoyed this and look forward to the next episode. My grandfather came from a family of 16 children,they had an acre garden, my great grandmother would fry 4 to 5 chickens at a time, 8 boys and 8 girls.
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Thank you for watching 😀
Thank you so much for sharing this with us! I can’t wait for more. We too often forget how hard life was back then. But I think folks were all the better for hard work and neighborliness. I’m praying for Granny, I think of her often. She is such a blessing to y’all. Prayers going up for your family too.
Thank you for the prayers 😊
Thank you for sharing this history. They remind me of my great grandparents who were born in the early 1900’s.
Please let the next video be longer than this one. I love them and hearing them talk about their life.
God's Word says the generations will become wiser but weaker. I guess there are many ways to measure wiser. I truely don't see a large scale display of wisdom today, especially not in our government. It sounds like the Flowers family had more strength and were wiser than the typical family today. Thank you wonderful siblings 💛💛💛💛💛 you have hearts of gold.
What a treat
That's a great family with wonderful memories of their upbringing! Thanks for doing the interview. Blessings.
I love taking Cutcane Rd back from Blue Ridge when not in any hurry which is most always. Such a beautiful valley.
What a wonderful visit, can't wait for the next one. God Bless. 💛🧡🤎&🙏🙏er's for Granny. Jean
I grew up about three miles from Cutcane and was blessed to know the area before tourism took over.
Prayers for granny and her continued treatments. I’m glad she’s tolerating them so far. I am a stage three colon cancer survivor. 14 years now. Apropos to nothing, we have a flowers family here in North Carolina near Raleigh. That is a old time moon shining family. Lol they’re kind of infamous. But we have a flowers plantation here that is a huge development. You’ll have to ask them some time politely if their kin to the flowers in Clayton NC.
So glad you are a survivor!!
What a joy! I’m so excited to hear all of them! Thank you so much Tipper, what a blessing. ❤️
Terrific interview, a precious family. Hard work does keep one out of trouble. Very sad to see how easy we have it today. Tobacco was still being grown here in northern NC when my boys were growing up. Tobacco paid my husband's college tuition and my boys were able to buy their first trucks, a blessing that they know what hard work is. Looking forward to hearing more from this family.
What a lovely family!
They are! Thank you 😊
Great video 😊 I can't wait to see the rest! I just love hearing our elders talk about the past and how different things were back then. I could listen to them all day
I love to hear stories of life in the past ty for sharing❤❤❤❤