Thank you for this video of the place where I grew up! I attended Hall Elementary and Hall Jr. High from 1971 to 1979 and remember the gym very well. The band room was a one room building that sat next to creek, just to left after you cross the bridge by the gym. The elementary school was to left of the jr high building, where it looks like an addition to the jr high has been built. There was a country store on the other side of the tracks from the school. We would go there during lunch and play pinball. The neighborhood where the school is was called the Lower Camp. I lived in the Upper Camp, where Mountain Supply is now. Our house was on the left just as you crossed the tracks on the way toward the cemetery and was said to have been a train station at one time. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know the house was very old and seemed very big to me as a kid. The house was owned by Clyde Bennett, who owned the mine where my grandfather worked. Beginning in the 4th grade, I was allowed to ride my bike from the Upper Camp to the Lower Camp where most of my friends lived. In the summer, I would leave early in the morning and not come home until the sun was going down. My friends and I rode our bikes, played Batman and Robin and cops and robbers, shot BB guns, waded the creek behind the gym, and swung on “grape vines” in the hills above the old ball field. I’d love to be able to go back in time and spend another day there as a kid with Dorm, Mark, Joe, Tony, Leroy, and the rest of the gang. I don’t know if they all are still with us, but I hope they are doing well. I also attended Sunday School at the Gray’s Knob Church of God, so this video really brought back lots of memories from my childhood in Harlan County. Thanks again for the video and allowing me to reminisce!
I love your story Charles! I'm going to pin it to the top of the comments so everyone who watches a video will have a chance to read it. I too wish I could go back to the little house I grew up in and spend just one day with my friends and family, how precious those memories are!
I liked this, we grew up in Gray's Knob and we walked to that little church at the end of the road. Now my husband is the pastor of that church. We went to Hall jr High.thanks for sharing this.
I was born in that hospital and raised right there in Grays Knob. My family still lives in most of those houses. You actually captured my amazing , sweet dad's grave there on the hill :'). Its still home to me...Thanks for posting this. I been missin' it somethin awful.
Just discovered your channel. What a blessing. I have always loved Kentucky. From the mountains of North Georgia. May the Lord continue to bless you and your wife. Thank you. 👍✝️🙏❤️
My grandmother Emily Sizemore (Burke is her married name) graduated from hall in 1954. Her and my grandfather Carmel Burke lived in Grays Knob. I have family that still lives in that area.
Great video Coyote's! Beautiful community! Has alot of my favorite things, mountains and a railroad! I love seeing these small communities, thanks for sharing them with us!
Thats it!!!…ive gotta meet u 2…..really want u to show me how to get to grays knob from the mcds…..guess i could go into the state police post but, ive been afraid of that place since they built it😉
My dad Archie Brock was born somewhere around Gray's Knob in 1930. We drove him through there about 5 years ago but it had changed so much he couldn't recognize any landmarks from his childhood. I was born at that hospital in 1959 when we lived in Cawood. He was pastor at Friendship Baptist Church in Cawood at the time. Thanks for the memories.
I have been to that little church at the end of the old road and I have played in the Hall High gym there. Man, I'm getting old. Had lots of friends that went to Hall high. One of my best friends in the world went to Hall high. He unfortunately passed away way too young in a motorcycle wreck. Just another great video by the Coyote's.
Another really good video by the way I was born in Tennessee I have been here all my life but went I turn 13 years old I made a new friend we started going all over TN and KY I love my home state but I fell in love with KY the folks who are in KY are so kind and there is one town that I love and that is middlsboro ky and one other thing I would love to meet you two one day. Next year if that is possible ok that's all I have to say God bless you two have a wonderful day
Thanks Willie! It's great to hear from you, we love Middlesboro too, and there's a lot of great towns in Tennessee, hopefully we can get to some of them and do videos on them. It would be great to meet you someday Willie, maybe sometime when we're in Middlesboro.
I used to live in Grays knob, somebody pulled a gun on me and tried to kill me, across from the school, but thank God a school teacher came out to her car and pulled her gun out, and she told the guy to put the gun down, she's saved my life.
I went to school there me and my sister and oldest brother and we use to sneak out with our friends on the back porch of the gym and smoke one would be watching inside for mr Walters in case he decided to see if anyone had went out there lol so we would throw our cigarettes in the creek lol I miss those days
As you leave the camp there is a huge rock called Big rock. It’s right above the old church. People hike to it all the time and they walk out on it and take photos.
Whent to hall two years I rember talking out of school at bunch time there was a little building you could get a r c cola and candy bars good memerys like to see yancy going up to mine old church on left grandmother lived up on hill some body burnd it down thank y'all so much
Shared this to my brother in California, & my son in Texas. Thank you for taking them back to the mountains they love, & miss so much. We're glad y'all didn't encounter a 🐻. 😂
I was talking about the battle tank parked next to the front door of the school, it's hard to see through the fence. Thanks for watching we appreciate it!
My boss can:t follow a gps we went down there going to challenge Academy to Work Lol kept saying it's on down but me and my help done seen the shcool lol😅
Thank you for this video of the place where I grew up! I attended Hall Elementary and Hall Jr. High from 1971 to 1979 and remember the gym very well. The band room was a one room building that sat next to creek, just to left after you cross the bridge by the gym. The elementary school was to left of the jr high building, where it looks like an addition to the jr high has been built. There was a country store on the other side of the tracks from the school. We would go there during lunch and play pinball.
The neighborhood where the school is was called the Lower Camp. I lived in the Upper Camp, where Mountain Supply is now. Our house was on the left just as you crossed the tracks on the way toward the cemetery and was said to have been a train station at one time. I don’t know if that’s true, but I do know the house was very old and seemed very big to me as a kid. The house was owned by Clyde Bennett, who owned the mine where my grandfather worked.
Beginning in the 4th grade, I was allowed to ride my bike from the Upper Camp to the Lower Camp where most of my friends lived. In the summer, I would leave early in the morning and not come home until the sun was going down. My friends and I rode our bikes, played Batman and Robin and cops and robbers, shot BB guns, waded the creek behind the gym, and swung on “grape vines” in the hills above the old ball field. I’d love to be able to go back in time and spend another day there as a kid with Dorm, Mark, Joe, Tony, Leroy, and the rest of the gang. I don’t know if they all are still with us, but I hope they are doing well.
I also attended Sunday School at the Gray’s Knob Church of God, so this video really brought back lots of memories from my childhood in Harlan County.
Thanks again for the video and allowing me to reminisce!
I love your story Charles! I'm going to pin it to the top of the comments so everyone who watches a video will have a chance to read it.
I too wish I could go back to the little house I grew up in and spend just one day with my friends and family, how precious those memories are!
Thank you Charles for sharing your memories with us. Precious. May God bless you and yours. ✝️🙏❤️
I liked this, we grew up in Gray's Knob and we walked to that little church at the end of the road. Now my husband is the pastor of that church. We went to Hall jr High.thanks for sharing this.
Thanks Debbie, and God bless you and your husband!
My family's cemetery Clem, Hall,Pace thank you for showing it !!!❤
Thanks for watching we appreciate it!
I was born in that hospital and raised right there in Grays Knob. My family still lives in most of those houses. You actually captured my amazing , sweet dad's grave there on the hill :'). Its still home to me...Thanks for posting this. I been missin' it somethin awful.
You're welcome, thanks for watching we appreciate it!
Very enjoyable excursion today....thanks.
Thanks Terry!
I have been to Gray's Knob, but it's been a while. Nice video!
Thanks!
Just discovered your channel. What a blessing. I have always loved Kentucky. From the mountains of North Georgia. May the Lord continue to bless you and your wife. Thank you. 👍✝️🙏❤️
Thank you for that blessing it means a lot to us and God bless you too!
So beautiful in the summer! Thank you so much for showing all of this.
You're welcome, thanks for watching!
Very interesting video. I liked it and that was a beautiful cemetery. Thanks again
Thanks for watching it Wanda!
My grandmother Emily Sizemore (Burke is her married name) graduated from hall in 1954. Her and my grandfather Carmel Burke lived in Grays Knob. I have family that still lives in that area.
Great video Coyote's! Beautiful community! Has alot of my favorite things, mountains and a railroad! I love seeing these small communities, thanks for sharing them with us!
Thanks for watching it Mitch, we appreciate it!
Very informative. We did not know about the Military School or grave yard. Pretty cool. Thanks.
Thanks for watching Kevin, we appreciate it!
Thats it!!!…ive gotta meet u 2…..really want u to show me how to get to grays knob from the mcds…..guess i could go into the state police post but, ive been afraid of that place since they built it😉
My dad Archie Brock was born somewhere around Gray's Knob in 1930. We drove him through there about 5 years ago but it had changed so much he couldn't recognize any landmarks from his childhood. I was born at that hospital in 1959 when we lived in Cawood. He was pastor at Friendship Baptist Church in Cawood at the time. Thanks for the memories.
I have been to that little church at the end of the old road and I have played in the Hall High gym there. Man, I'm getting old. Had lots of friends that went to Hall high. One of my best friends in the world went to Hall high. He unfortunately passed away way too young in a motorcycle wreck. Just another great video by the Coyote's.
This is the kind of response to our videos we love. Thanks so much for sharing this with us Stan, we appreciate it!
Another really good video by the way I was born in Tennessee I have been here all my life but went I turn 13 years old I made a new friend we started going all over TN and KY I love my home state but I fell in love with KY the folks who are in KY are so kind and there is one town that I love and that is middlsboro ky and one other thing I would love to meet you two one day. Next year if that is possible ok that's all I have to say God bless you two have a wonderful day
Thanks Willie! It's great to hear from you, we love Middlesboro too, and there's a lot of great towns in Tennessee, hopefully we can get to some of them and do videos on them. It would be great to meet you someday Willie, maybe sometime when we're in Middlesboro.
Nature has a habit of always winning.
I used to live in Grays knob, somebody pulled a gun on me and tried to kill me, across from the school, but thank God a school teacher came out to her car and pulled her gun out, and she told the guy to put the gun down, she's saved my life.
Wow! That's scary, I'm glad that teacher showed up when they did!
I went to school there me and my sister and oldest brother and we use to sneak out with our friends on the back porch of the gym and smoke one would be watching inside for mr Walters in case he decided to see if anyone had went out there lol so we would throw our cigarettes in the creek lol I miss those days
As you leave the camp there is a huge rock called Big rock. It’s right above the old church. People hike to it all the time and they walk out on it and take photos.
Thanks for sharing that with us we appreciate it!
I’ve often wondered, what is a “knob”? My mamaw and papaw use live on the knob in Highsplint, but I never knew what knob meant. Thank you
You know I've wondered about that myself, maybe somebody will help us out and tell us what it is
Proud Hall Jr. High graduate 1988. Go Gamecocks! The field Mrs. Coyote referred to was where our football team practiced. We called it “The Rock Pile”
Thanks for watching James, and taking the time to comment, we appreciate it!
Whent to hall two years I rember talking out of school at bunch time there was a little building you could get a r c cola and candy bars good memerys like to see yancy going up to mine old church on left grandmother lived up on hill some body burnd it down thank y'all so much
Thanks Rick, we appreciate it!
lecher county Making ?
What are you talking about brother?
can't spell real good but my family came from pine creek KY Mayking
That's a great idea we'll check it out! Thanks so much for watching.
Miss coyote “ you walk yourself right on up that little hill, I’m sitting right here “. 😂😂. I would have to agree with her. I can’t outrun a bear.
My wife says thanks Kenny for seeing the wisdom in not wanting to be mauled by a bear. LOL. Thanks for watching our little adventure we appreciate it!
Shared this to my brother in California, & my son in Texas. Thank you for taking them back to the mountains they love, & miss so much. We're glad y'all didn't encounter a 🐻. 😂
Thanks so much for sharing the video we really appreciate that! So glad you guys enjoyed it so much that's why we do these videos.
Worked at the School sent us up from Frankfort
It was called a water buffalo.. Its a M149 ....
I was talking about the battle tank parked next to the front door of the school, it's hard to see through the fence. Thanks for watching we appreciate it!
@@IgnitedCoyote Ohh sorry I thought you was referring to that tank mounted on that trailer...
Was that Hall High school before the Jr high
My boss can:t follow a gps we went down there going to challenge Academy to Work Lol kept saying it's on down but me and my help done seen the shcool lol😅
6:42 did you just say "this is the community.. nice place.. white community"???? I hope I'm mishearing you.
You misheard, my wife said nice community, QUIET community.
@@IgnitedCoyote thank God. The auto-captions translate it to “white” just so you know