"Hope you enjoyed the video" she said. That phrase doesn't begin to explain the memories these videos evoke. My mind is filled with so many memories that my mind cannot hold them all. You have them spilling out of my eyes and running down my face. Liquid memories I suppose!
There's nothing more relaxing than the sound of a water as it flows over the rocks in a brook ( Maine) or a creek in North Carolina. You a blessed to have creek on your homestead.
We have the rock piles like those, in the woods here as well. It’s really fun to come across an old cellar hole, old farmstead, garden, etc. It’s fun but kind of sad too, knowing that the folks who once lived there are gone now. I often wonder what it was like there, back in those days when the place was still full of activity. Thank you for sharing this ❤️
Where I lived my early years, 40's and 50's, in East Tennessee mountains rock walls were on everybody's place, especially around the garden. If it fell down or got knocked down it didn't cost a penny to repair. Your video made me want to go wading in the creek. The mountain laurel reminded me how we girls would pull the blossoms and stick them on our ear lobs. :-)
One of my uncles farmed up in Virginia. Every year we had to move rocks from a couple of fields into big piles at the bottom of the hill. Since the natural erosion exposed more each year, he had is convinced that they grew there like weeds until we were like 10 years old.
I come from a culture that is closely related to Appalachian, that of the Ozarks. We have a big pile of rocks at the bottom of the hill on my dad's place. There used to be a garden there.
In Tn, we have a very old family cemetery in the woods. When a plot was dug up the rocks they dug up were used as a fence around the cemetary. Its about 3 ft tall and surrounds the family cemetery.
I've heard that trees that have been around for generations can be called "witness trees" due to the number of events and changes that have occurred where the tree stands throughout its life.
There is a famous witness tree at Burnside's Bridge at the Antietam National Battlefield. There was a picture taken of the bridge post battle and the young sapling was barely over the sidewall. It is at least 60 feet tall now.
Many if not most old deeds and land grants used trees as corner markers. Also "stacks of stones" or as we say "piles of rocks" sometimes served the same purpose.
In land surveying terms ; Surveying corners are ‘witnessed’ by trees that have the distance and azimuth recorded to the surveying corner. In mountainous rocky areas , surveying corners are often marked by a stone cairn (pile of stones)
My friend bought a ranch in North Texas and in her front patio is a 300 year old oak tree the people she bought from called it the wedding tree because all the generations of their family from the early 1800s got married under it.
Found an old whisky bottle renovating an apartment building in mid town Detroit once. It was in a old wall cavity. Building was from the twenties, had cork and label( Detroit Rye whiskey) .
When I was a kid we called really old trees Grandmother trees. In middle school I had a good friend and neighbor whose grandmother was full Cherokee. She used to tell my sister and me stories her grandmother told her about her childhood and old stories she was told when she was a kid. Of course being 12 I didn't document any of those but I sure do wish I had.
I literally used to have amazing recurring dreams of running among the branches of an enormous "grandmother tree" (I don't think I had heard that term anywhere)
When I was a teenager there was nearby creek with pretty high banks and in one section there was a large flat boulder that I would reach by jumping. I could lay on that stone for hours just listening to the creek . Your video just reminded me of that from 40 years ago, thank you
I am an East TN native, but our family homeplace runs along the Cherokee National Forrest up in Limestone Cove (Unicoi Co) in TN, just across the line from Buladeen NC...and mama is from Erwin, TN which is just across Sams Gap from Asheville NC. We go for long walks too, and I LOVE It... the sound of the streams, the flowers, herbs, wild ferns, mountain laurel and rhododendron blooming... Daddy and Papaw always taught me to pull a mountain laurel leaf off and curl it up in half and take a drink out of the creek if I needed water while we were hiking. I love your channel here, thank you for helping keep our culture and history alive. I'm making my mamaw's recipe for Banana bread right now, sitting here waiting on it to bake while I watch your new video. I was hoping ya'll were gonna find some good branch lettuce. Kilt lettuce and cornbread would taste awful good right now too. My great grandaddy, Papaw and daddy, along with his brothers, always cleared every single field on their property with horse plows and all their rocks (and a lot of Indian arrowheads) are still stacked up to channel water runoff and bordered the edges of the garden fields as fence. I have seen rock corn cribs and I have also seen rock wall dairy's built in the creeks. I had to smile when the butterfly landed on your hand, my great granny, who was Scottish, always told me when a butterfly landed on you, you were being kissed by a loved one from heaven. I can still hear her brogue...she'd get so tickled when it happened to her when we were working up beans or something else from the garden, or even making apple butter in the back yard. Her giggle was a thing of pure joy. Sending you a big howdy, almost neighbor!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I believe it to be true... I've felt things many times, like your Katie does. It's just a "sense". Whenever I go up on the mountain with daddy, who still keeps the homeplace, our cemetery, the gardens and the orchards going at 83 himself, I get such a sense of tranquility. Our roots surely run deep. I've been sick the past couple of years and I've had to porch garden in containers, but it helps me keep my hands in the dirt. Daddy and Mama are already eating lettuce, onions, snap peas and he's got all kinds of stuff growing all over the place. I take it honest, that's for sure. I am so thankful I come from a family who celebrates our history - always over a good home-cooked meal, swapping stories/reminiscing and always good music and singing. I don't fall in love with many channels, but I sure have with yours. My boys (we have 2 sons) and our 2 granddaughters are in SW Virginia near my husband's homeplace not far from Abingdon and Bristol. We're about an hour and a half from mama and daddy and I just spend last week with them - for the first time in MONTHS and it felt so good to go home. My name is Jan, by the way. It's a pleasure to meet you. Now, as we say, I need to commence to gettin my supper dishes done and my plants watered before it gets too late (then I'm gonna go back and watch more of your videos with a good hot cup of tea and a slice of that banana bread!) Blessings!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia me too, I have missed them terribly. We cooked and planned our reunion. And I am going back for homecoming and decoration day in a couple weeks. That was another good video of yours. Most people that don't have a family cemetery just don't understand what that is.
My dad always saved the unusual things he tilled up with his tractor to show me. One was a stone with someone's name carved into it. Our elderly neighbor who built his house there couldn't think of who it could be, it was before his time. Also tilled up an antique coin some long ago farmer buried for good luck. Nothing of monetary value, but we all found it fascinating to imagine the people who lived there many years ago and find the tokens they left behind.
I used to hike with my family all the time in the West Virginia hills. I'm 65 and would still be doing some hiking, but I've got some very serious problems with my feet and can no longer walk. I sure do miss it!
@@kkr5428 Thank you so much for being so kind. My problems are due to diabetes. I do very well and don't worry about it too much, but I do miss hiking in the beautiful West Virginia hills!
Brother you and me are alike. I used to play with my dogs as a boy, I hunted as a young man and played with my grandchildern as an older man in the mountains of southern WV. I am now 67 and similar to you my leg no longer allows me to walk in my mountains. I now have to use an ATV. And just like you I miss walking in these wonderful mountains. There is so much you miss on an ATV it's just not the same as walking.
Lots of rock walls in the holler up the road from my place on Cherokee National Forest. Finally read recently the area they are in was the TVA work camp in the 40s. Took years to find that out. Love the video, more famlies need that kind of time together.
I live in the coalfield mountains of southwest Virginia and every time we plowed the garden we had to "rock" the garden and throw them off to the side which made a border wall around our great big garden. Sometimes our garden grew more rocks every year than vegetables! ...Our rock walls and borders were good places for snakes to hide. Our land was rocky and rocky land is always snake land.
Tipper: We have thousands of miles of "stone walls" as we call them here in New England. Most were built 1810-1840 during "Sheep Fever" when so many farms went to raising sheep due to the high price of wool. They created a lot of grazing fields with rocks popping up always.
England is covered in rock boundaries. So pleasing to the eye. I also noted how that area has grown back, my relatives talked about when those fields were cleared how they could take short cuts & get from one holler to the next. How does that sweet girl of ur not get a million chigger bites out in the woods with shorts on?
Chiggers are more prevalent in pine forests. Grew up in South Carolina and chiggers would eat you up every time you went in the pine woods, 33 years here in East Tennessee I’ve yet to get a chigger bite here and I’ve hiked a lot.
This was so interesting! I never knew what those piles of stones were. When I was a child, we moved back to my daddy's old home place in north GA. There was a small clearing that had small brush and vines on it but no trees. My daddy called it the "garden spot" and there was a pile of stones near the edge of the woods next to the clearing. It was covered by moss and leaves and small plants were growing in it. I never knew what ot was. My daddy probably knew but I was too young to care, so I never asked him. Your videos always take me home. I'm so glad you're doing these videos!! Thank you!
Love your shirt. In the 1980s my parents retired to Warne and my Mom volunteered at the Folk School gift shop. I visited many times and love your area.
Born and raised in VA. I love the old stone walls. There are a lot of them in the area I live. Fauquier County has a rich agricultural history. There are also a lot of large horse breeding estates, mostly northern part of county. Dairy also has been huge although many dairy farms have sold their cows and moved to strictly agricultural. I remember hikes with my Dad and Sunday drives in the country with my Grandad and Great Grandmother. Definitely not a city girl!
We have a lot of old road beds in my area of Western NC too…most are old logging roads when all of our beautiful mountains were stripped of all the trees in the late 1800’s through the late 1920’s…I’m so thankful for our forest preservation and national parks! Love seeing your girls be as connected to the land as you and the Hubs. Great vlog! Blessings 💖🙏🏻
Cool find of the old bottle. I wonder what was in it? Hard to believe the wooded and really was once a cornfield. Interesting story behind the piles of rocks. Looks like y'all made a friend with the tiny butterfly. So pretty. When I lived in West Virginia, I saw many rock pile "fences" and always thought they were pretty. Tfs Hope you and your family have a fabulous week! 💕
In land surveying terms ; Surveying corners are ‘witnessed’ by trees that have the distance and azimuth recorded to the surveying corner. In mountainous rocky areas , surveying corners are often marked by a stone cairn (pile of stones). Also, when making a land survey, a surveyor takes GREAT STOCK in the location of fencing
A lawyer, well versed in land disputes and such, told me if you have an old fence or fence line, you have a pretty good case in any property dispute. And if you have an old fence AND an old man, you've got a cod lock. LOL
@@tablature6121 I’m sure you are correct. Judges decide ‘property lines’. Surveyors show the judge the evidence; deed lines , occupation (fences, cultivation,) lines. What the old man says is known as ‘Parol’ evidence. ‘Parol’ evidence is very helpful to the surveyor.
Here in New England we have rock walls we call them, they mark boundaries or separate fields, sometimes you come across old rock foundations or cellars, where an old house once stood. Thanks for taking us along🦋🦋👏👏
This is just great. Keep'em coming. Love the stories about old Appalachian. I read somewhere that some of those rock walls were built to protect Individual soldiers fighting in the war. GOD BLESS THE SOUTH
I've never been to your part of the country, it's beautiful! Thanks for sharing your walk with us. It's cool to learn the history of a place. Hard to imagine the cornfield now.
I think it is fantastic that almost four thousand people looked in as your family walked together in these beautiful woods just in the last 3 hours. Isn't that something? And, of course 2 ole soreheads were nice enough to say they disliked it! How could anyone not like your video unless jealous! I sure did enjoy watching you all today....a very nice time for you and me too. Thank you all.
@UCP87Uu3q9IDUpEl1xr8-VQA TIPPER, THANK YOU! WHILE I ALWAYS WOULD LIKE TO BE KIND OR REMEMBERED LIKE THAT....I WAS ONLY TELLING THE TRUTH AS I SEE IT! AND TIPPER I'LL BET YOUR DADDY MOVED HIS SHARE OF ROCKS AND STONES THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE! THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!
I hope this year brings happiness and love and prosperity to all American and to the worldwide, I'm Henderson Dwayne by name and if I may ask where are you from?
The trip up the creek and through the used to be corn fields was some gorgeous sights. My imagination clicked in and begin to see some of the old timers working their mules and horses in the big corn fields.My paternal grandmother was born and raised in Big Greenbriar in the Smokey Mountains and it looks similar to the area your in today,rock piles ,rock walls ,and sights of old chimneys, hog lots,and old pieces of tin where their old house was located. Thanks Tipper and all the family for sharing your trip today.Always Enjoy, God Bless You all and have a great week 🙂.(Like to know more about the bottle.)
I live in Southern AZ, and I have to say the shear amount of water you folks have out there is amazing... Everywhere you go you can hear water running off in the distance...
Such a beautiful place! I love the stacked rock fences .....also see them in the British isles .....love the butterfly , appears to be an Appalachian azure butterfly.....old saying is when a butterfly lands on you it is a deceased loved one saying hello....also heard it is just the butterfly feeling comfortable around you and trusting you because you have a gentle spirit ....it is always special regardless of why.... thanks tipper .....God bless ...🙏
When I was a youngun, I walked a lot then out in nature but as I got older, I developed some physical problems with ankles so walks were challenging. Miss those quiet adventures. My last walk companion was a cat which I thot was thrilling. No barking, no chatting of people. These days, the stores is my location of exercise. No roots, dips etc to cause me eating dirt. Too bad...
Thank you for this Sunday walk. My Daddy took us on a walk when I was a teenager on the property where my great grandparents lived when he was a little boy. It was once a garden field, bu now part of the woods on the edge of a State Park in NC. You could still see the terraces under the leaves some 50-60 years after. Cool to have family history like that. Enjoyed the walk. ❤️🙏🏻from SC, Jane
Thank you for another beautiful and informative vlog. I am taking a driving trip to Cherokee, NC and Gatlinburg because of your wonderful videos. I'm driving from Virginia Beach in July. Thank you Tipper for the inspiration!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you!! I am looking forward to the trip. It's a 9 hour drive for me but I will do it in 2 days. I am excited about the Cherokee Museum and driving through the Smokies. I want to eat at Paula Deen's restaurant in Pigeon Forge. I need some good Southern cooking.
I just love this excursion and about Katie’s hunches😊 Right beside the birch tree you asked Matt about was a “Calcumber tree” a small one but their leaves get to be as long as your arm…they are one of my absolute favorite trees and rare only grow in special places usually around waterfalls. I’ve also heard these called wild magnolia and umbrella trees…but I was taught Calcumber …and I’m native Alabamian.
I so appreciate your channel! I am a flat lander in Raleigh, but I love our NC mountains as if I grew up there. Thank you for all the rich knowledge and history you are providing. The Irish were known for being the best rock fence builders.
Thank you for the creek, I was born and raised on a creek in Tennessee, when I got married I moved away from my creek and I still miss it, it ran beside our house and I went to sleep every night for 20 years to the sweet sounds of the creek, most of the time it was a soothing gurgle, then when we had a big rain it would become like a mad thing, rolling and tumbling, fortunately our house was on a hill and we would describe the high water as " It run wild, from bluff to bluff" I so enjoy your words and your world, I was born and raised about 40 miles west of Nashville Tennessee, but my people were Appalachian, they drifted from North Carolina down off the mountains to settle in Davidson, Williamson, Hickman and Dickson Co. Tennessee, so the speech is the same, we have the same ways, the same sounds, we cook the same way, I live in Indiana now and when I stopped at the vegetable market and said " oh those are some pretty Tommy toes" the lady selling those had no idea what I had just said, I explained, and she made a sign that read , Pretty Tommy Toes three dollars a box. I loved it, again thank you, Betty M
i really enjoyed this little walk this morning. I was remembering some of the exploring i have done in our hill country and finding rock walls. I know one that stretches for about 2 miles where they use to grow corn and such, then it was a field for sheep and or cattle. I laugh sometimes on our hill and the pasture at the bottom about growing rock as new ones are constantly popping up. Foot is getting better as i had a nerve block done, so soon ii will be able to roam this hill again and head to NC in the spring. I have some exploring to do up there!! Take care and keep those videos coming! The girls are just precious!
Medicine bottle is what I thought, too. I can remember the pharmacist putting medicine in bottles like that. The prescription would be pasted onto the bottle
Excellent video. I sure remember my folks taking those same treks up the mountains and swapping memories. Then I was much interested other than to see what we could find but oh to close my eyes and go back home. It is sweet to remember the sound of my mothers voice. Thank you
Omgoodness, I can relate to Katie! When I went to Pa to visit and hiked the Appalachians with my parents last week, it was 90 degrees and SO humid. 🥵 But so glad I got to do it. My dad had to fling a little black snake off the path, I videoed it, lol! Neat bottle she found! Looked pretty new. Nice fam hike!💖 God bless!!😊
There's LOTS of rock walls in PA, too. Especially in Gettysburg, but I suspect that was for different reasons...😉🇺🇸 Wow, that little moth or butterfly landed right on y'all!!😯💖🦋 It is just so uncanny the very many similarities your Appalachians are to ours!!💖
I hope this year brings happiness and love and prosperity to all American and to the worldwide, I'm Henderson Dwayne by name and if I may ask where are you from?
I love it! So beautiful and serene. That's time we'll spent. Katie and Corey should definitely investigate that area where the bottle was found. A woman's intuition is usually right. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
My uncle always told me that Rocky Ground never wears out . And i sure carried enough out of the tobacco fields. Never Ending. yancey county still has a place in my heart. With Love
Thank you for teaching me about where my Dad was born and both sides of my family settled for generations. My parents lived out in California where I am today. It lost my Dad when I was 4. My Mom 15 years ago. She was a first generation Californian. Her parents came from Appalachia and moved after WW2. It's only been in the last 10 years I've been blessed to reconnect with my Appalachian family and travel there. Unfortunately due to my daughter and I being immunocompromised we haven't been able to travel out there. Normally I would drive and explore the areas where we know my kin lived. I love listening to the stories of those still alive. You have your Oak trees and I have my Redwood Trees. I always wish I could sit and rewind time to see thier hundreds to thousand of years they have stood. We have mystery rock walls in the hills above the San Jose area and I've always wondered if they were the same as those in Appalachia.
Great video! I was just watching another video that was talking about rock walls "fences" like that and how to build them. I know them as "Dry Rock Walls" from learning about them. It's a really interesting wall building technique. That was a beautiful hike too. 💪🙂
Tipper, I was born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri. I love, love, love your channel ❤ I will be 45 on the 1st of November. I have a 25 year old daughter, a 15 month old grand baby and a 13 year old boy. For the first time in my life I am feeling my age and I'm okay with it! I don't know why I felt the need to tell you all of that?? I wish there was a channel like yours only about Missouri ♥️ However your channel is #1!! I see and have eaten a lot of the foods you cook, here in Missouri. Except "Streaked Meat" it's on my list of things to try before I die!! Have a great day and God Bless!
Thank you so much for taking us along on your hike. I love to learn new things. These days I can't walk very far; so depend on the kindness of ppl who share their outdoor lives. We love finding old bottles!~ One year, the school decided to build a new football field and they dug up the sheep meadow. My son would go up there almost everyday looking for cool rocks or pieces of glass. He found an old Coke bottle, intact, which was from a Coke bottling company up the road. The company is not there anymore. It's so odd for me to hear that a cornfield has gone back to nature. Where I live; the fields are all being covered in grotty housing developments. Blessings!
I love your family! More people need to take their children and go out Into the Woods and just explore instead of sitting home playing video games! I was raised going out Into the Woods and going hunting and just enjoying the outdoors and it was the best thing that ever happened to me!
Today you used a phrase I use that I picked up in Texas, “come a gully washer.” Were rock walls built during the Civil War when one army or the other was attempting to protect themselves? I really enjoy the creeks, or as they’re called in Virginia and West Virginia, runs.
I'm t@@oldgoat1890 that's why I asked. I've been to Gettysburg and Freedericksburg battlefields and seen the rock walls. I wasn't sure if they were to distinguish property lines.
On lookout mountain near Chattanooga, you can still find remnants of rock walls and earthworks (dirt walls) from the Civil War. You have to have an expert point them out, or you have to really be an outdoorsman to the point that you notice weird stuff. Lol
Wonderful hike … history ❣️….beautiful out through there … like you I’d wonder who all walked, rode , lived life along those roads , imagining the sounds of voices, horses, wagon wheels, and car wheels … the creeks are lovely … Tipper have ya had any bear encounters on your hikes through the years? I don’t know of any rock fences or walls close around us mostly what came out of fields being cleared for planting near us was trees and tree stumps … I’m sure there was some rocks dug up but probably not a big as the mountain rocks in those stacks . The bottle and the butterfly so fun to watch …and the big oak , majestic …How many eyes through the years did see it . What started with one little seed.
This is such a great video. Interesting to see how nature is claiming back a corn field but now with piles of rocks. Very well done. I especially like seeing your husband very knowledgeably walk through the woods toting his gear for the bush.
About 40 years ago, or more, I used to spend time out in the timber back home, looking for arrowheads, stone axes, scrapers, etc. I was looking up a hollow following where the water ran down, much like you show here, when I found a perfect axe head, made of granite. Out in the cultivated fields, the farm equipment, such as the discs cut into them, and cause damage to the stone, especially the arrowheads. After the rains and floods, I found axes, arrowheads, scrapers, celts, etc. out in the fields along the creek. It brings back a lot of good memories of fun times in the years gone by! Thanks for sharing!
Awesome video! Nothing like being out in nature like that. And the fact that y’all do it as a family 👍🏻🙌🏻 is great as well. Love hearing about the history of the rocks & the old corn fields. Nice butterfly footage too. 🙏🏻😇🙌🏻👍🏻☀️ Thanks for taking us along with y’all 👍🏻 enjoyed it.
Here in Pleasants county w.v.a. we find these in rows on steep hillsides that are recorded as indian graves..apparently they were warrior graves.there are also standing rock fences in other places in the woods..the grave ones are spaced almost exactly the same distance apart and face the sunrise.
What a beautiful nature hike with your family! Thanks for taking us viewers along. I think the old brown bottle that Corie found once contained cough syrup. That was long before the days of childproof caps.
One of my great aunts married a guy who lived in another state, 40+ miles away. That seemed so wild to me... back in the 1920s, no cars. Finally I realized that they were not traveling by the roads as we know them they were taking horses and traveling trails/roads that snaked through the hillsides. That would have turned a 40 mile trip into more like 12.
Oooooo, all that water and green! So very beautiful! But that humidity would tear me up. Desert heat promotes sweating for evaporative cooling. Your humidity is beautiful in results though!
15:04 well that sounds like an idea for a future video " Metal Detection in The South" I love those crows constantly cawing in the background, I love the sound of the creek, I love Katie's boots (even tho you got hot wearing them they are practical!). I love a mountain hike and I love the butterfly that went from you to Matt, like it knows you two belong together. I love rocks in the creek, I love finding rock piles and making them. Im not so sure what the historical version of this was in the eastern pocosins but I am sure they had something just as fascinating, just as smart. Here they would have had a lot of floods and forest fires in the old days. People were so clever and smart back in those days. I think some of our creeks were definitely used as natural property lines. Such a cool video, thanks Tipper!
Yes I have seen many rock wall where I live in West Virginia. My father was very good at using rocks to construct walls and bridge foundations (without concrete). I also remember large dead American Chestnut trees. I remember one very large chestnut that we would walk into and play inside the hollowed out tree.
I'm hard of hearing most days so I like to use the closed captions for watching TH-cam videos. The auto generated captions on this video when it gets to the part where we see and hear the creek babbling says [APPLAUSE] when you hear the water flowin' haha. Thought that was spot on seeing as how we're celebrating Appalachia: what's more fittin' for a celebration than applause?! Beautiful video, Tipper; I'm hooked on the channel now!
My grandfather in NW Wisconsin would sometimes be asked to either build or repair a sled, sometimes called a sledge, that was used to haul rocks out of the fields. They used heavy draft horses to pull these devices over the sandy loam soil. Often they would pile the rocks in the corner of a field and build a stone fence. The glaciers deposited many stones that were rounded and ground down from the crushing ice. I got a kick out of the bottle Katie found. I rewired a house once that had a fearsome nightmare for an electrical system in it. Neighbors told me that a preacher, who was know to imbibe, wired it. I passed it off as gossip till I found several "Dead Soldiers" that looked like the bottle in the video. The bottles had been secreted in nooks and crevices in the attic. I love to just wander in the woods like ya'll do. If no one else wants to go I'll just go by myself and I'm as happy as if I had good sense.
@Norence Nelson - I grew up in the southern end of the glacially carved Finger Lakes in central/western New York State, and every spring we would go through the plowed fields loading up the round stones to move to the bordering Hedge Rows. Our general rule was "any stone approaching the size of a basketball gets moved". In the middle of our woods was a rounded boulder the size of an automobile that was always the destination for our family walks, a cool place to lay back and look up at the sky through the treetops. Wish we could have shot videos of our family outings in the early fifties like we all do now!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Loved your response, Tipper. I"ve been wanting to tell you of about a cooking tip I've learned: At our Walmart super center they have Farmland spiral ham scraps that are packaged about 2lbs. per package. If they have them near you they are a bargain that is tasty. In the aisles of the stores, they have refrigerated open top coolers. Look near the ham and cured meat section. Often the scraps are buried under Farmland cubed ham chunks (Also good). If you look the packages over there are many with big slices of ham in them. These are even better than ham hocks to put in navy beans or in fresh green beans. I also dice the scraps up and put them in scrambled eggs for breakfast. I call it "Scram". Also you might be interested in how pioneers cooked on a campfire when they were on the trails across this country. My mother went with my grandma and her aunt Rosie in a covered wagon from Kansas City, Missouri to Miami Oklahoma in 1918. Mama was only four but she watched everything they did in cooking. It is fascinating how folks one or two generations from pioneers retained the cooking skills of their ancestors. If you're interested in doing a video of this skill Contact me at 43torske@gmail.com.
The land I grew up on in Dickenson co. VA was surrounded by one of these rock walls, quite high in some places still. I spent a lot of time playing around that wall & on the path behind it. My granny told me the rock wall had surrounded a cornfield originally, probably around the time all the really big trees were cut for lumber. But there was one old beech tree left that was so big I could circle it with my arms wide open 3 times before I made it all the way around. Then they strip mined, & all that was torn out. Thank you so much for the familiar green views & bubbly creek sounds, & the additional education on those old rock walls! ♡♡
I go hiking in the Kettle moraine state park trails by me in WISCONSIN, it was a million years ago run over by a glacier. Many people that moved to the area, with their animals., would till up the fields and use the big rocks for a fence around their property and also help to keep their animals in and not wonder off, , parts of a Family homestead from 1830s is still there, unfortunately the home is gone, but the stone entrance to the home is still there, when I walk into where the house stood, I could imagine what it was like, I gave me goosebumps knowing someone lived here, they cooked, ate, slept and did Family chores.. I just wished there was a time capsule for us to use to go back in time to witness these events in real life... thank you for some sweet memories..
"Hope you enjoyed the video" she said. That phrase doesn't begin to explain the memories these videos evoke. My mind is filled with so many memories that my mind cannot hold them all. You have them spilling out of my eyes and running down my face. Liquid memories I suppose!
How beautiful. The words you used are absolutely poetic. You touched my heart.
There's nothing more relaxing than the sound of a water as it flows over the rocks in a brook ( Maine) or a creek in North Carolina. You a blessed to have creek on your homestead.
Crick.....
Agreed! So pretty!
In western Pa they're written as "creeks" , pronounced as "crik".
What an awesome video !!
A rare view of an American family spending time together.
Sadly, much too rare a sight.
We have the rock piles like those, in the woods here as well. It’s really fun to come across an old cellar hole, old farmstead, garden, etc. It’s fun but kind of sad too, knowing that the folks who once lived there are gone now. I often wonder what it was like there, back in those days when the place was still full of activity. Thank you for sharing this ❤️
I'm in the North too. In Minnesota, thankfully away from the horrors of the Twin Cities and the crazy people who run it.
Hello Kat how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Where I lived my early years, 40's and 50's, in East Tennessee mountains rock walls were on everybody's place, especially around the garden. If it fell down or got knocked down it didn't cost a penny to repair. Your video made me want to go wading in the creek. The mountain laurel reminded me how we girls would pull the blossoms and stick them on our ear lobs. :-)
Hello Delores apologies for being nosey but have you ever researched your family surname? Regards Colin
hello Delores how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
I can tell by his pack and belt attachments that your husband is well versed in bush life! Great video as always, love from Nova Scotia!
One of my uncles farmed up in Virginia. Every year we had to move rocks from a couple of fields into big piles at the bottom of the hill. Since the natural erosion exposed more each year, he had is convinced that they grew there like weeds until we were like 10 years old.
I come from a culture that is closely related to Appalachian, that of the Ozarks. We have a big pile of rocks at the bottom of the hill on my dad's place. There used to be a garden there.
The rocks are forced up by the freezing and thawing.
Thank you Tipper for taking us along on your lovely hike. I really enjoy how you point different things out.
I love the sense of curiosity and wonder that you have instilled in your daughter.
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Thank you ma'am. It is up to parents like you to bring up your children right; and you're clearly doing a fine job.
In Tn, we have a very old family cemetery in the woods. When a plot was dug up the rocks they dug up were used as a fence around the cemetary. Its about 3 ft tall and surrounds the family cemetery.
I've heard that trees that have been around for generations can be called "witness trees" due to the number of events and changes that have occurred where the tree stands throughout its life.
There is a famous witness tree at Burnside's Bridge at the Antietam National Battlefield. There was a picture taken of the bridge post battle and the young sapling was barely over the sidewall. It is at least 60 feet tall now.
Many if not most old deeds and land grants used trees as corner markers. Also "stacks of stones" or as we say "piles of rocks" sometimes served the same purpose.
In land surveying terms ; Surveying corners are ‘witnessed’ by trees that have the distance and azimuth recorded to the surveying corner. In mountainous rocky areas , surveying corners are often marked by a stone cairn (pile of stones)
I like that! Thanks for sharing
My friend bought a ranch in North Texas and in her front patio is a 300 year old oak tree the people she bought from called it the wedding tree because all the generations of their family from the early 1800s got married under it.
Oh Tipper it's so peaceful and soothing to be in the mountains with a babbling creek. The sound of the water is hypnotizing! I love the water!
Found an old whisky bottle renovating an apartment building in mid town Detroit once. It was in a old wall cavity. Building was from the twenties, had cork and label( Detroit Rye whiskey) .
When I was a kid we called really old trees Grandmother trees. In middle school I had a good friend and neighbor whose grandmother was full Cherokee. She used to tell my sister and me stories her grandmother told her about her childhood and old stories she was told when she was a kid. Of course being 12 I didn't document any of those but I sure do wish I had.
I like that-Grandmother trees! Thank you for sharing it 😀
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I literally used to have amazing recurring dreams of running among the branches of an enormous "grandmother tree" (I don't think I had heard that term anywhere)
When I was a teenager there was nearby creek with pretty high banks and in one section there was a large flat boulder that I would reach by jumping. I could lay on that stone for hours just listening to the creek . Your video just reminded me of that from 40 years ago, thank you
I am an East TN native, but our family homeplace runs along the Cherokee National Forrest up in Limestone Cove (Unicoi Co) in TN, just across the line from Buladeen NC...and mama is from Erwin, TN which is just across Sams Gap from Asheville NC. We go for long walks too, and I LOVE It... the sound of the streams, the flowers, herbs, wild ferns, mountain laurel and rhododendron blooming... Daddy and Papaw always taught me to pull a mountain laurel leaf off and curl it up in half and take a drink out of the creek if I needed water while we were hiking. I love your channel here, thank you for helping keep our culture and history alive. I'm making my mamaw's recipe for Banana bread right now, sitting here waiting on it to bake while I watch your new video. I was hoping ya'll were gonna find some good branch lettuce. Kilt lettuce and cornbread would taste awful good right now too. My great grandaddy, Papaw and daddy, along with his brothers, always cleared every single field on their property with horse plows and all their rocks (and a lot of Indian arrowheads) are still stacked up to channel water runoff and bordered the edges of the garden fields as fence. I have seen rock corn cribs and I have also seen rock wall dairy's built in the creeks. I had to smile when the butterfly landed on your hand, my great granny, who was Scottish, always told me when a butterfly landed on you, you were being kissed by a loved one from heaven. I can still hear her brogue...she'd get so tickled when it happened to her when we were working up beans or something else from the garden, or even making apple butter in the back yard. Her giggle was a thing of pure joy. Sending you a big howdy, almost neighbor!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I believe it to be true... I've felt things many times, like your Katie does. It's just a "sense". Whenever I go up on the mountain with daddy, who still keeps the homeplace, our cemetery, the gardens and the orchards going at 83 himself, I get such a sense of tranquility. Our roots surely run deep. I've been sick the past couple of years and I've had to porch garden in containers, but it helps me keep my hands in the dirt. Daddy and Mama are already eating lettuce, onions, snap peas and he's got all kinds of stuff growing all over the place. I take it honest, that's for sure. I am so thankful I come from a family who celebrates our history - always over a good home-cooked meal, swapping stories/reminiscing and always good music and singing. I don't fall in love with many channels, but I sure have with yours. My boys (we have 2 sons) and our 2 granddaughters are in SW Virginia near my husband's homeplace not far from Abingdon and Bristol. We're about an hour and a half from mama and daddy and I just spend last week with them - for the first time in MONTHS and it felt so good to go home. My name is Jan, by the way. It's a pleasure to meet you. Now, as we say, I need to commence to gettin my supper dishes done and my plants watered before it gets too late (then I'm gonna go back and watch more of your videos with a good hot cup of tea and a slice of that banana bread!) Blessings!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia me too, I have missed them terribly. We cooked and planned our reunion. And I am going back for homecoming and decoration day in a couple weeks. That was another good video of yours. Most people that don't have a family cemetery just don't understand what that is.
@@SerendipitySoulFluidArt hello pretty how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Ms. Pressley, you lower my blood pressure and bring me back to earth.
Me too!
She's better than any high blood pressure pill that any doctor could give you
My dad always saved the unusual things he tilled up with his tractor to show me. One was a stone with someone's name carved into it. Our elderly neighbor who built his house there couldn't think of who it could be, it was before his time. Also tilled up an antique coin some long ago farmer buried for good luck. Nothing of monetary value, but we all found it fascinating to imagine the people who lived there many years ago and find the tokens they left behind.
What a great find your Dad unearthed 😀
More precious than money
I used to hike with my family all the time in the West Virginia hills. I'm 65 and would still be doing some hiking, but I've got some very serious problems with my feet and can no longer walk. I sure do miss it!
I’m sorry you’ve lost your mobility. My dad has, also, due to side effects from chemotherapy, and I see how hard it is for him.
@@kkr5428 Thank you so much for being so kind. My problems are due to diabetes. I do very well and don't worry about it too much, but I do miss hiking in the beautiful West Virginia hills!
Brother you and me are alike. I used to play with my dogs as a boy, I hunted as a young man and played with my grandchildern as an older man in the mountains of southern WV. I am now 67 and similar to you my leg no longer allows me to walk in my mountains. I now have to use an ATV. And just like you I miss walking in these wonderful mountains. There is so much you miss on an ATV it's just not the same as walking.
My Pop-pop used to say "the only crop we could rely on was the spring crop of stones".
Haha that's my Johnston County NC yard.
Lots of rock walls in the holler up the road from my place on Cherokee National Forest. Finally read recently the area they are in was the TVA work camp in the 40s. Took years to find that out. Love the video, more famlies need that kind of time together.
I live in the coalfield mountains of southwest Virginia and every time we plowed the garden we had to "rock" the garden and throw them off to the side which made a border wall around our great big garden. Sometimes our garden grew more rocks every year than vegetables! ...Our rock walls and borders were good places for snakes to hide. Our land was rocky and rocky land is always snake land.
A friend who farmed in Wyoming always said his fields grew rocks, because every year he picked up all the big rocks, and let the little ones get big.
@@bobbarclay3203 Another good funny quip about how gardens seem to grow rocks every year and every time the ground is turned over and plowed.
And the snakes will help control critters than might eat the crops.
Tipper: We have thousands of miles of "stone walls" as we call them here in New England. Most were built 1810-1840 during "Sheep Fever" when so many farms went to raising sheep due to the high price of wool. They created a lot of grazing fields with rocks popping up always.
I'm from new England and always wondered why we had so many rock walls. Thank you for explaining that ❤️
I really miss it! I'm in NC now
It's
England is covered in rock boundaries. So pleasing to the eye. I also noted how that area has grown back, my relatives talked about when those fields were cleared how they could take short cuts & get from one holler to the next.
How does that sweet girl of ur not get a million chigger bites out in the woods with shorts on?
Chiggers are more prevalent in pine forests. Grew up in South Carolina and chiggers would eat you up every time you went in the pine woods, 33 years here in East Tennessee I’ve yet to get a chigger bite here and I’ve hiked a lot.
This was so interesting! I never knew what those piles of stones were. When I was a child, we moved back to my daddy's old home place in north GA. There was a small clearing that had small brush and vines on it but no trees. My daddy called it the "garden spot" and there was a pile of stones near the edge of the woods next to the clearing. It was covered by moss and leaves and small plants were growing in it. I never knew what ot was. My daddy probably knew but I was too young to care, so I never asked him. Your videos always take me home. I'm so glad you're doing these videos!! Thank you!
Love your shirt. In the 1980s my parents retired to Warne and my Mom volunteered at the Folk School gift shop. I visited many times and love your area.
There are rock fences all over Kentucky, not just in the foothills. Also, thank you for inviting us along on your family trek.
Hello beautiful how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
That bottle is more than likely a patent medicine bottle. Ball used and still does make bottles and jars for commercial use
Born and raised in VA. I love the old stone walls. There are a lot of them in the area I live. Fauquier County has a rich agricultural history. There are also a lot of large horse breeding estates, mostly northern part of county. Dairy also has been huge although many dairy farms have sold their cows and moved to strictly agricultural. I remember hikes with my Dad and Sunday drives in the country with my Grandad and Great Grandmother. Definitely not a city girl!
Also from Fauquier county, I love those old rock walls, especially north of Warrenton.
I love and miss Fauquier County. I had a house on Old Bust Head Road near Manassas Gap. Hope you can keep some of it undeveloped.
We have a lot of old road beds in my area of Western NC too…most are old logging roads when all of our beautiful mountains were stripped of all the trees in the late 1800’s through the late 1920’s…I’m so thankful for our forest preservation and national parks! Love seeing your girls be as connected to the land as you and the Hubs. Great vlog! Blessings 💖🙏🏻
Sweet 🙏 It is so interesting the way the earth reclaims the patches we attempt to make our own, and quite quickly too.
My people are from Paint Rock Tennessee and you guys make me feel at home
I knew a man who paid his kids and grandkids a penny apiece to pick up rocks.I love walks in the woods. Thanks Tipper.
How did i miss this video! Daddy teaching his daughter the lessons of the woods, I love it! Pass it all on to them girls Matt and keep it alive!
This hike reminds me when we would go up to the copper mines up on the mountain behind my old house
It was, being Continental Village in Garrison, NY we would find all kinds of stuff due to the history of that location.
Love to hear all about the old ways.I enjoy all for your videos.
Cool find of the old bottle. I wonder what was in it? Hard to believe the wooded and really was once a cornfield. Interesting story behind the piles of rocks. Looks like y'all made a friend with the tiny butterfly. So pretty. When I lived in West Virginia, I saw many rock pile "fences" and always thought they were pretty. Tfs Hope you and your family have a fabulous week! 💕
In land surveying terms ; Surveying corners are ‘witnessed’ by trees that have the distance and azimuth recorded to the surveying corner. In mountainous rocky areas , surveying corners are often marked by a stone cairn (pile of stones).
Also, when making a land survey, a surveyor takes GREAT STOCK in the location of fencing
A lawyer, well versed in land disputes and such, told me if you have an old fence or fence line, you have a pretty good case in any property dispute. And if you have an old fence AND an old man, you've got a cod lock. LOL
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I’m sure you are correct.
Judges decide ‘property lines’.
Surveyors show the judge the evidence; deed lines , occupation (fences, cultivation,) lines.
What the old man says is known as ‘Parol’ evidence. ‘Parol’ evidence is very helpful to the surveyor.
Your videos are as refreshing as the streams you take pics of.. The world needs more of this.. Thank you
Glad you like them! 😀
Love looking after running water beautiful thank you
Here in New England we have rock walls we call them, they mark boundaries or separate fields, sometimes you come across old rock foundations or cellars, where an old house once stood. Thanks for taking us along🦋🦋👏👏
This is just great. Keep'em coming. Love the stories about old Appalachian. I read somewhere that some of those rock walls were built to protect Individual soldiers fighting in the war.
GOD BLESS THE SOUTH
I've never been to your part of the country, it's beautiful! Thanks for sharing your walk with us. It's cool to learn the history of a place. Hard to imagine the cornfield now.
I think it is fantastic that almost four thousand people looked in as your family walked together in these beautiful woods just in the last 3 hours. Isn't that something? And, of course 2 ole soreheads were nice enough to say they disliked it! How could anyone not like your video unless jealous!
I sure did enjoy watching you all today....a very nice time for you and me too. Thank you all.
@UCP87Uu3q9IDUpEl1xr8-VQA TIPPER, THANK YOU!
WHILE I ALWAYS WOULD LIKE TO BE KIND OR REMEMBERED LIKE THAT....I WAS ONLY TELLING THE TRUTH AS I SEE IT!
AND TIPPER I'LL BET YOUR DADDY MOVED HIS SHARE OF ROCKS AND STONES THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE! THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN!
Thank you for sharing the beauty of your home with us today! On a trip to Ireland in 2007, we saw those rock “fences” all over the countryside.
Hello Shari how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
I hope this year brings happiness and love and prosperity to all American and to the worldwide, I'm Henderson Dwayne by name and if I may ask where are you from?
Many's the time I have picked rocks after plowing and made piles of rocks like that.
The trip up the creek and through the used to be corn fields was some gorgeous sights. My imagination clicked in and begin to see some of the old timers working their mules and horses in the big corn fields.My paternal grandmother was born and raised in Big Greenbriar in the Smokey Mountains and it looks similar to the area your in today,rock piles ,rock walls ,and sights of old chimneys, hog lots,and old pieces of tin where their old house was located. Thanks Tipper and all the family for sharing your trip today.Always Enjoy, God Bless You all and have a great week 🙂.(Like to know more about the bottle.)
I live in Southern AZ, and I have to say the shear amount of water you folks have out there is amazing... Everywhere you go you can hear water running off in the distance...
Such a beautiful place! I love the stacked rock fences .....also see them in the British isles .....love the butterfly , appears to be an Appalachian azure butterfly.....old saying is when a butterfly lands on you it is a deceased loved one saying hello....also heard it is just the butterfly feeling comfortable around you and trusting you because you have a gentle spirit ....it is always special regardless of why.... thanks tipper .....God bless ...🙏
Another great vid. Thanks for helping me reconnect with my roots in Appalachia
I love you videos, so peaceful , I learn so much
Hello Connie how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
I wish more families would take walks in the woods together. It may be harder for some folks to do.
When I was a youngun, I walked a lot then out in nature but as I got older, I developed some physical problems with ankles so walks were challenging. Miss those quiet adventures. My last walk companion was a cat which I thot was thrilling. No barking, no chatting of people.
These days, the stores is my location of exercise. No roots, dips etc to cause me eating dirt. Too bad...
It has been three years since I have hiked. I just don't have the will yet.
How funny, I had JUST thought about y’all….wondering if you’d posted any new content and I’d just managed to miss it. 🇺🇸❣️
I love your picture
Thank you for this Sunday walk. My Daddy took us on a walk when I was a teenager on the property where my great grandparents lived when he was a little boy. It was once a garden field, bu now part of the woods on the edge of a State Park in NC. You could still see the terraces under the leaves some 50-60 years after. Cool to have family history like that. Enjoyed the walk. ❤️🙏🏻from SC, Jane
Thank you for another beautiful and informative vlog. I am taking a driving trip to Cherokee, NC and Gatlinburg because of your wonderful videos. I'm driving from Virginia Beach in July. Thank you Tipper for the inspiration!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you!! I am looking forward to the trip. It's a 9 hour drive for me but I will do it in 2 days. I am excited about the Cherokee Museum and driving through the Smokies. I want to eat at Paula Deen's restaurant in Pigeon Forge. I need some good Southern cooking.
How nice to go for a walk in the woods with people who know it! Thank you!
I just love this excursion and about Katie’s hunches😊 Right beside the birch tree you asked Matt about was a “Calcumber tree” a small one but their leaves get to be as long as your arm…they are one of my absolute favorite trees and rare only grow in special places usually around waterfalls. I’ve also heard these called wild magnolia and umbrella trees…but I was taught Calcumber …and I’m native Alabamian.
Beautiful hike. I did think what about bears? Love family time in nature actually enjoying simplicity and beauty of life.
The stacked rocks were brought over from Europe. I remember farms properties being surrounded by stacked rock fences. That was in Scotland.
I so appreciate your channel! I am a flat lander in Raleigh, but I love our NC mountains as if I grew up there. Thank you for all the rich knowledge and history you are providing.
The Irish were known for being the best rock fence builders.
Thank you for the creek, I was born and raised on a creek in Tennessee, when I got married I moved away from my creek and I still miss it, it ran beside our house and I went to sleep every night for 20 years to the sweet sounds of the creek, most of the time it was a soothing gurgle, then when we had a big rain it would become like a mad thing, rolling and tumbling, fortunately our house was on a hill and we would describe the high water as " It run wild, from bluff to bluff" I so enjoy your words and your world, I was born and raised about 40 miles west of Nashville Tennessee, but my people were Appalachian, they drifted from North Carolina down off the mountains to settle in Davidson, Williamson, Hickman and Dickson Co. Tennessee, so the speech is the same, we have the same ways, the same sounds, we cook the same way, I live in Indiana now and when I stopped at the vegetable market and said " oh those are some pretty Tommy toes" the lady selling those had no idea what I had just said, I explained, and she made a sign that read , Pretty Tommy Toes three dollars a box. I loved it, again thank you, Betty M
So glad you enjoy our videos! Thank you for sharing your memories 😀
i really enjoyed this little walk this morning. I was remembering some of the exploring i have done in our hill country and finding rock walls. I know one that stretches for about 2 miles where they use to grow corn and such, then it was a field for sheep and or cattle. I laugh sometimes on our hill and the pasture at the bottom about growing rock as new ones are constantly popping up. Foot is getting better as i had a nerve block done, so soon ii will be able to roam this hill again and head to NC in the spring. I have some exploring to do up there!! Take care and keep those videos coming! The girls are just precious!
Just beautiful, and the History lesson was enlightening. Thank You 🙏
Brown bottle could be a prescription bottle, for coughs ? Cod liver oil...
Medicine bottle is what I thought, too.
I can remember the pharmacist putting medicine in bottles like that. The prescription would be pasted onto the bottle
I was thinking Laudanum.
@@jkocol you maybe very right since that was very available back in the day.
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Laudanum will cure what ails you.
any bottle that says not for resale like that your looking at late 30's through late 60's. more than likely liquor bottle.
Thanks for taking us along. 😊
Excellent video. I sure remember my folks taking those same treks up the mountains and swapping memories. Then I was much interested other than to see what we could find but oh to close my eyes and go back home. It is sweet to remember the sound of my mothers voice. Thank you
Omgoodness, I can relate to Katie! When I went to Pa to visit and hiked the Appalachians with my parents last week, it was 90 degrees and SO humid. 🥵 But so glad I got to do it. My dad had to fling a little black snake off the path, I videoed it, lol! Neat bottle she found! Looked pretty new. Nice fam hike!💖 God bless!!😊
There's LOTS of rock walls in PA, too. Especially in Gettysburg, but I suspect that was for different reasons...😉🇺🇸
Wow, that little moth or butterfly landed right on y'all!!😯💖🦋
It is just so uncanny the very many similarities your Appalachians are to ours!!💖
Hello Misha how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
I hope this year brings happiness and love and prosperity to all American and to the worldwide, I'm Henderson Dwayne by name and if I may ask where are you from?
I love it! So beautiful and serene. That's time we'll spent. Katie and Corey should definitely investigate that area where the bottle was found. A woman's intuition is usually right.
Thanks for sharing your adventures with us!
I remember those rock walls in the woods in New Hampshire when I'd go there to visit in days gone by.
My Sunday is made, thanks for sharing, Yall!
My uncle always told me that Rocky Ground never wears out . And i sure carried enough out of the tobacco fields. Never Ending. yancey county still has a place in my heart. With Love
I hope he's right cause ours sure is rocky 😀 Thank you for sharing his saying I'm going to start using that one 😀
Thank you for teaching me about where my Dad was born and both sides of my family settled for generations. My parents lived out in California where I am today. It lost my Dad when I was 4. My Mom 15 years ago. She was a first generation Californian. Her parents came from Appalachia and moved after WW2.
It's only been in the last 10 years I've been blessed to reconnect with my Appalachian family and travel there. Unfortunately due to my daughter and I being immunocompromised we haven't been able to travel out there. Normally I would drive and explore the areas where we know my kin lived. I love listening to the stories of those still alive.
You have your Oak trees and I have my Redwood Trees. I always wish I could sit and rewind time to see thier hundreds to thousand of years they have stood.
We have mystery rock walls in the hills above the San Jose area and I've always wondered if they were the same as those in Appalachia.
Great video! I was just watching another video that was talking about rock walls "fences" like that and how to build them. I know them as "Dry Rock Walls" from learning about them. It's a really interesting wall building technique. That was a beautiful hike too. 💪🙂
Tipper,
I was born in Oklahoma and raised in Missouri. I love, love, love your channel ❤ I will be 45 on the 1st of November. I have a 25 year old daughter, a 15 month old grand baby and a 13 year old boy. For the first time in my life I am feeling my age and I'm okay with it! I don't know why I felt the need to tell you all of that?? I wish there was a channel like yours only about Missouri ♥️ However your channel is #1!! I see and have eaten a lot of the foods you cook, here in Missouri. Except "Streaked Meat" it's on my list of things to try before I die!! Have a great day and God Bless!
Thank you Rebecca!! Sounds like we have much in common 😀
Beautiful country scenery. My idea of paradise! I’m proud to be here and be a subscriber. Thank you for sharing this with us...
Thank you very much!
Thank you so much for taking us along on your hike. I love to learn new things. These days I can't walk very far; so depend on the kindness of ppl who share their outdoor lives.
We love finding old bottles!~ One year, the school decided to build a new football field and they dug up the sheep meadow. My son would go up there almost everyday looking for cool rocks or pieces of glass. He found an old Coke bottle, intact, which was from a Coke bottling company up the road. The company is not there anymore.
It's so odd for me to hear that a cornfield has gone back to nature. Where I live; the fields are all being covered in grotty housing developments.
Blessings!
Hello shala how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
Beautiful place with all the nature intact. I enjoyed the dictionary part. Thanks for taking us with you. Take Care and Stay Safe.
I love your family! More people need to take their children and go out Into the Woods and just explore instead of sitting home playing video games! I was raised going out Into the Woods and going hunting and just enjoying the outdoors and it was the best thing that ever happened to me!
I am so much enjoying the walk and the explanation of things as we walk.
I love these kind of videos! Reminds me of my old home in Poughquag,Ny...we lived near the Appalachian trail. Adventures!
Today you used a phrase I use that I picked up in Texas, “come a gully washer.” Were rock walls built during the Civil War when one army or the other was attempting to protect themselves? I really enjoy the creeks, or as they’re called in Virginia and West Virginia, runs.
@@CelebratingAppalachia There is a lot of them at the Gettysburg battlefield.
Here in Nsw Australia we call them gully rakers
@@travcat66it's a good example of the more we think we're different the more alike we are.
I'm t@@oldgoat1890 that's why I asked. I've been to Gettysburg and Freedericksburg battlefields and seen the rock walls. I wasn't sure if they were to distinguish property lines.
On lookout mountain near Chattanooga, you can still find remnants of rock walls and earthworks (dirt walls) from the Civil War. You have to have an expert point them out, or you have to really be an outdoorsman to the point that you notice weird stuff. Lol
Found an old warranted flask at our cabin in western pa last week when I was mushroom hunting! Do y'all go mush huntin?
Wonderful hike … history ❣️….beautiful out through there … like you I’d wonder who all walked, rode , lived life along those roads , imagining the sounds of voices, horses, wagon wheels, and car wheels … the creeks are lovely … Tipper have ya had any bear encounters on your hikes through the years? I don’t know of any rock fences or walls close around us mostly what came out of fields being cleared for planting near us was trees and tree stumps … I’m sure there was some rocks dug up but probably not a big as the mountain rocks in those stacks . The bottle and the butterfly so fun to watch …and the big oak , majestic …How many eyes through the years did see it . What started with one little seed.
Enjoyed the hike with you all. Thanks!
This is such a great video. Interesting to see how nature is claiming back a corn field but now with piles of rocks. Very well done. I especially like seeing your husband very knowledgeably walk through the woods toting his gear for the bush.
I love our NC Mountains ❤️❤️❤️❗️Thank you for the beautiful adventure 💜💜Rita💜💜
I L💙VE CALLING NC HOME 💙❣️❣️
What a relaxing video. Such a pretty place and I love your accents. That bottles was cool!
About 40 years ago, or more, I used to spend time out in the timber back home, looking for arrowheads, stone axes, scrapers, etc. I was looking up a hollow following where the water ran down, much like you show here, when I found a perfect axe head, made of granite. Out in the cultivated fields, the farm equipment, such as the discs cut into them, and cause damage to the stone, especially the arrowheads. After the rains and floods, I found axes, arrowheads, scrapers, celts, etc. out in the fields along the creek. It brings back a lot of good memories of fun times in the years gone by! Thanks for sharing!
Amazing finds Roger 😀
Awesome video! Nothing like being out in nature like that. And the fact that y’all do it as a family 👍🏻🙌🏻 is great as well. Love hearing about the history of the rocks & the old corn fields. Nice butterfly footage too. 🙏🏻😇🙌🏻👍🏻☀️ Thanks for taking us along with y’all 👍🏻 enjoyed it.
Thank you Pastor Lon 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia you are welcome mam! 🙏🏻😇😊👍🏻
Here in Pleasants county w.v.a. we find these in rows on steep hillsides that are recorded as indian graves..apparently they were warrior graves.there are also standing rock fences in other places in the woods..the grave ones are spaced almost exactly the same distance apart and face the sunrise.
Wonderful video 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
In the Ozarks of Arkansas they made the rock fences as well.
What a beautiful nature hike with your family! Thanks for taking us viewers along. I think the old brown bottle that Corie found once contained cough syrup. That was long before the days of childproof caps.
Hello sandi how are you doing today hope you are safe over there?
One of my great aunts married a guy who lived in another state, 40+ miles away. That seemed so wild to me... back in the 1920s, no cars. Finally I realized that they were not traveling by the roads as we know them they were taking horses and traveling trails/roads that snaked through the hillsides. That would have turned a 40 mile trip into more like 12.
They went the way the crow flies
Oooooo, all that water and green! So very beautiful! But that humidity would tear me up. Desert heat promotes sweating for evaporative cooling. Your humidity is beautiful in results though!
15:04 well that sounds like an idea for a future video " Metal Detection in The South"
I love those crows constantly cawing in the background, I love the sound of the creek, I love Katie's boots (even tho you got hot wearing them they are practical!). I love a mountain hike and I love the butterfly that went from you to Matt, like it knows you two belong together. I love rocks in the creek, I love finding rock piles and making them. Im not so sure what the historical version of this was in the eastern pocosins but I am sure they had something just as fascinating, just as smart. Here they would have had a lot of floods and forest fires in the old days. People were so clever and smart back in those days. I think some of our creeks were definitely used as natural property lines. Such a cool video, thanks Tipper!
Yes I have seen many rock wall where I live in West Virginia. My father was very good at using rocks to construct walls and bridge foundations (without concrete). I also remember large dead American Chestnut trees. I remember one very large chestnut that we would walk into and play inside the hollowed out tree.
I'm hard of hearing most days so I like to use the closed captions for watching TH-cam videos. The auto generated captions on this video when it gets to the part where we see and hear the creek babbling says [APPLAUSE] when you hear the water flowin' haha. Thought that was spot on seeing as how we're celebrating Appalachia: what's more fittin' for a celebration than applause?! Beautiful video, Tipper; I'm hooked on the channel now!
Love that 😀
My grandfather in NW Wisconsin would sometimes be asked to either build or repair a sled, sometimes called a sledge, that was used to haul rocks out of the fields. They used heavy draft horses to pull these devices over the sandy loam soil. Often they would pile the rocks in the corner of a field and build a stone fence. The glaciers deposited many stones that were rounded and ground down from the crushing ice. I got a kick out of the bottle Katie found. I rewired a house once that had a fearsome nightmare for an electrical system in it. Neighbors told me that a preacher, who was know to imbibe, wired it. I passed it off as gossip till I found several "Dead Soldiers" that looked like the bottle in the video. The bottles had been secreted in nooks and crevices in the attic. I love to just wander in the woods like ya'll do. If no one else wants to go I'll just go by myself and I'm as happy as if I had good sense.
@Norence Nelson - I grew up in the southern end of the glacially carved Finger Lakes in central/western New York State, and every spring we would go through the plowed fields loading up the round stones to move to the bordering Hedge Rows. Our general rule was "any stone approaching the size of a basketball gets moved". In the middle of our woods was a rounded boulder the size of an automobile that was always the destination for our family walks, a cool place to lay back and look up at the sky through the treetops. Wish we could have shot videos of our family outings in the early fifties like we all do now!
@@CelebratingAppalachia Loved your response, Tipper. I"ve been wanting to tell you of about a cooking tip I've learned: At our Walmart super center they have Farmland spiral ham scraps that are packaged about 2lbs. per package. If they have them near you they are a bargain that is tasty. In the aisles of the stores, they have refrigerated open top coolers. Look near the ham and cured meat section. Often the scraps are buried under Farmland cubed ham chunks (Also good). If you look the packages over there are many with big slices of ham in them. These are even better than ham hocks to put in navy beans or in fresh green beans. I also dice the scraps up and put them in scrambled eggs for breakfast. I call it "Scram". Also you might be interested in how pioneers cooked on a campfire when they were on the trails across this country. My mother went with my grandma and her aunt Rosie in a covered wagon from Kansas City, Missouri to Miami Oklahoma in 1918. Mama was only four but she watched everything they did in cooking. It is fascinating how folks one or two generations from pioneers retained the cooking skills of their ancestors. If you're interested in doing a video of this skill Contact me at 43torske@gmail.com.
The land I grew up on in Dickenson co. VA was surrounded by one of these rock walls, quite high in some places still. I spent a lot of time playing around that wall & on the path behind it. My granny told me the rock wall had surrounded a cornfield originally, probably around the time all the really big trees were cut for lumber. But there was one old beech tree left that was so big I could circle it with my arms wide open 3 times before I made it all the way around. Then they strip mined, & all that was torn out. Thank you so much for the familiar green views & bubbly creek sounds, & the additional education on those old rock walls! ♡♡
I go hiking in the Kettle moraine state park trails by me in WISCONSIN, it was a million years ago run over by a glacier. Many people that moved to the area, with their animals., would till up the fields and use the big rocks for a fence around their property and also help to keep their animals in and not wonder off, , parts of a Family homestead from 1830s is still there, unfortunately the home is gone, but the stone entrance to the home is still there, when I walk into where the house stood, I could imagine what it was like, I gave me goosebumps knowing someone lived here, they cooked, ate, slept and did Family chores.. I just wished there was a time capsule for us to use to go back in time to witness these events in real life... thank you for some sweet memories..