Mountain Talk and the ways of the Southern Appalachian people
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- A look at how the People of Southern Appalachia Talk, Lived and the sayings they used telling their stories of a time gone by in these mountains. Thanks for watching. NOTE: Picture are just to tell the story and not actual pictures of the events. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL. THIS CHANNEL COVERS 12 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS ! All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only.
Grew up in Appalachia but have lived in Houston for the past 30 years. All my family have died or have left WV. I am sitting at my desk at work, listening to you talk, tears streaming down my face. If you aren’t from Appalachia, you just don’t get it. I sure miss those voices and dialects. Thank you for posting this.
Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
This makes me so homesick for days gone by. If I could go back I would sit at my Granny's feet and soak up her wisdon.
I wish I could to my friend. I miss them bad. Thanks for sharing.
@@donnielaws7020 I think we all do; I miss both of mine & wish I could spend my day-to-days with them. But bye and bye in Heaven I'll see them again.
@@peachmelba9333 Amen friend.
Yes, Lord what I wouldn't give to be able to do that again. I do miss my Nanny.
Mary Broyhill: Yes indeed ..
Whoever tried to tell you that your voice was fake has never known anyone from Appalachia. You are the real deal. Thanks, Donnie! 😊
Some still comment that from time to time. Thanks for sharing my friend.
you sound like you are from smokies to me Donnie.
I love your stories. Keep ‘Em coming.
Your voice ain't fake. That's how my daddy and his daddy talked. I hear that quaint twang in my own voice when I get het up!
I can't believe someone would call your accent fake. My Dad grew up in the mountains of western NC. My family originates from Madison County NC and it was my great uncles that were killed in the Shelton Laurel Massacre during the Civil War. I grew up hearing stories like these and talk like that. Thanks so much Donnie
I grew up in the holler of an old coal mining town in Virginia. My parents made sure I finished high school. After I graduated I joined the Navy and served 20 years. I’ve been all over the world, but the day I retired, I returned home to the holler of my childhood. There truly is no place like home. I built a small log cabin on my family’s property and take care of my parents as my cousin take care of their parents.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
I’m from Covington, Kentucky. I’m 66 years old and my teenage years were in the 70’s. I had friends that once lived in the mountains. They were good hearted people that accepted me as a family member. I learned a lot from them in my teenage years and had a great time tasting pop’s home brew. I will always remember when a friend of mine was working on this person’s car and I asked what he’s charging. He said she didn’t have much money so it’s benefits. Beer, cigarettes, and a meal that was down home tasting.
@@allennezi1674 I live in Big Stone Gap VA. My family has been in that area since the mid 1800’s. We look after one another. If a neighbor needs help, we help them. I remember when my Great Grandmother passed away in 1987 the whole town showed up for her funeral. My family members who have passed away take up half of the cemetery, because no matter where they lived in the USA, they all come home to be buried.
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Who says you talk poorly ? I can understand every word you’re saying and find your accent warm and calming .
You can my friend because your from the country my friend. A lot people outside of these mountains comment I can't. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Yep..me too..lol
I was born in georgia and have spent half my life in east Tennessee . i use to call my grandma ( memaw ) when i was little . havnt heard someone say that word in a very long time . and im only 33 . i understood every word in this video including your friend from kentucky
Pawpaw always said it was hard to get an education looking up a mules ass ! I so miss him and hate my little ones couldn’t know him and her as I did ...
I was raised in Pennsylvania, in the city. I can understand him perfectly.
Thank you sir for sharing this. I am a Black man from Memphis, West Tennessee. I am 41 years old, much younger than you are and obviously I was not around during the time of your video. Yet, for some odd reason I feel nostalgic while watching it. Your video reminds me of my childhood. How I somehow caught a glimpse of the time period you actually lived, which was you catching a glimpse of the time before yours that your grand parents lived. I remember going to an old store to get bologna as a child with my father and feeling like I was going 'back in time' as we entered because it was old fashioned. Like the one in your video. Being in that store then I did not know that I was literally living in the last days of a reality that does not exist at all now. Like how your grand mother called shopping 'trading', because they used to literally trade goods is you catching a glimpse of a reality that she knew that was no more by the time you were a child. We are all connected in this fashion and I guess it is our duty to preserve this history so that we are not forgotten. I hope I was not too confusing. I explained it the best way that I knew how. Take care my friend.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I can remember the smell of Ole country stores. All that tempting penny candy aromas. Got big chunk in baloney/ sandwiches made rite there in the store/ plus a cold drink. Moon pie if we has a few more pennies. Loved the store people. News from around world was spoken in those Ole country store
@@bettywhite8407 Thanks for sharing my friend.
You explained that very well! Hugs friend💕✨
Exactly
Man you bringing tears to my eyes
with this one..
God knows you are a true American
Historian.
Thank you again.
Thanks for sharing my friend. Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Hey
Hope you are well! Maybe you can visit my history channel! If you decide to visit my channel let me know you are coming over from Donnie Laws channel, I want to acknowledge him! Stay safe!
Amen to that!!!
@@donnielaws7020 Donnie you say that they mixed with the Indians. Which Indians? Were they mostly Cherokee or what? I know people from there say they are Irish/Cherokee. Were there any other Indian tribes?
@@saphireblue3563 I’m from this part and we are Creek Indians
I'm a 8th generation Tennessean. My mother side of the family is from Putnam county. My father's side is from Grundy county. I feel so connected to your stories. I remember my mother's mother telling stories. Unfortunately I lost both of them in 2021. And I miss the stories they would tell. And them as well.
So sorry for your loss my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.
If Only There Was More People Like You In This World, It'd Be A Lot Better Place🌻
Thanks for saying my friend.
Maybe not
We are still here in the mountains. Come join us.
@@nanab1579 I am to my friend.
@@nanab1579 we sure are!!!
My dad passed recently. His kin was straight from the mountains. Thank you sir for this. From the bottom of my heart ❤ to ya'll. Just wanted to add that my PAW was Cherokee. He was a tall dark man and he had worked in the cotton industry. He had three fingers on his hand. He only wore his gray uniform. Even on his day off.
They lived on Penny Park ..in Gastonia North Carolina..
I loved my Papa..
I'm sixty two and I still remember.
Your welcome. Thank you for sharing your family my friend. He must have been good and loving man. Worked hard all his life. Thank you.
I’d be so proud to have an amazing heritage such as yours 🥰🥰
My great granparents were half Cherokee
I know Gastonia. I lived in Mount Holly for years. My daddy died recently too. His mother was from Del Rio, TN. I miss spending my summers up in those hills.
Cried reading your post. That was my Papap who raised us. He gave it all for his family from the time he was 13. The oldest of 7 children, he was orphaned soon after his family arrived here from Sweden. The old Swede, my Papap, the greatest Man I have found in my 64 years. Can't wait to see Him again.
Love this. Instead of letting all these wonderful stories die away, you should write a book. You narrate very well and if you wrote a book, I would buy it. Even a compilation of short stories of all your many memories of the people you knew and their lives. Then they could live on forever. I am a Canadian, by the way, so it is very interesting to hear the life stories of others.
Wow, Thank you kindly friend.
PLEASE write a book! You could write volumes. Binge watching after stumbling across your channel, so happy I did, and subbed. Can't thank you enough. For a long time, I was almost ashamed of my heritage, but cherish it now more and more and am proud of it, thanks in part to the measures to which you go to preserve it.
I absolutely love this. I'm from NC about 45-60 minutes from the NC VA state line. I'm very familiar with the accent, outhouse, lol. I've been teased for the way I talk in a good way and in a hurtful way. You brought back so many wonderful memories. I relate to more than the accent and outhouse, though, believe me. Thank you so much
There’s actually a book called foxfire. Supposedly a good series and it was written by high schoolers back on the 60s i think
@⭐heather⭐ You should hear our accents and how they can vary from northern NJ to the southern part where I live. The northeast part of the state is like a New York accent and down south Jersey here is like a Philly accent. I have met people from a small part of Salem County here that talk like they have a heavy, southern accent and some are difficult to understand. This is strange in a northern state but if the Mason/Dixon line didn't go around NJ, it would bisect it, right through south Jersey
Sir as being born and raised in Northeast Alabama listening to you share our history I have so much respect for you. You sound like someone I could sit on my porch and spend a evening with. You represent all us Appalachian mountain people in a bright light. So glad I found your channel
Awesome my friend. Thank you so much. Glad to have you. God bless you friend.
@@donnielaws7020, it's funny, you just said "awesome" in that last post. When you were a kid, people were not awesome. God was awesome.
He always is my friend. God bless you.
Donnie, you were telling my life with this video. Until I was 18 years old I lived in 2 small communities at the foot of Big Bald Mountain which straddles the TN, NC line. It truly has changed in all the years since then and I find I can only go home in my memories. By the way, don't ever change the way you talk.
Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Amen
Fox fire
Dear Mr. Laws, I am probably not your target audience. But I enjoy your videos and stories about people and the wonderful piece of America you show, full of love and respect! Thank you and best regards from the Netherlands... .
Wow, thank you my friend. Take care over thing.
Donnie, if there's anyway you could go out and interview some of these remaining old timers and record their stories, it would be absolutely wonderful!
I'm trying my friend. They are leaving us fast. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Donnie
I agree with Mr. Clark.
That would be wonderful. That would be worth it’s while.
Thank you so much for sharing this true
American history. They were and still are a very special breed of person.
And you were lucky enough to have been a part of it.
Thank you so much for sharing, looking forward to your future videos.
All the best,
Michele🇺🇸
Foxfire Books
That would be awesome! I’ve got a few old timer friends here in the smokies of NC that would be epic to interview! Great idea! 🙏
Agreed.
As a trucker who drives all across this country I can truly say with no fiction that the mountains in these here United States are absolutely beautiful and breathtaking.
Being brought up in the city by a southern raised mother who polished her 3 boys on southern morals and ethics I can tell you that I’ve always yearned for a simpler way of life, which is why I’ve moved me and my family to North Carolinian back country and we love it here. My moral compass wasn’t appreciated nor welcomed up north in the big concrete jungles of urban sprawl plight and crime and selfishness.
Being in the mountains does something to me, it soothes my spirit and puts me a place of mental serenity and peace that only God could give. The people have always been welcoming and despite what the movies and Hollywood may try to portray, my dark skin and African American heritage made no nevermind on how invited and hospitable I was treated. That’s why every time I get a load that have me traveling through the mountain, I get a warm fuzzy smile on my face that gets bigger the closer I get to them. I love your stories and wish I could get a whole 2-4hr compilation of them as they make my driving day that much easier. I pray that God continues to bless you with good health and long life and much much blessings Mr.Laws.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you!
I'll take the mountains anytime! Give me a cabin, land to grow a garden, chickens, hogs, rabbits, couple of dogs and I'd be happy!!! City life is to loud and fast! I loved staying with my grandparents in the summertime. They taught me everything I needed to know to make it off the land. I miss them so much! My granny grew up on Big Ridge and my papaw was half Cherokee! Such great times! 💖🤗☺️
Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful stories
I'm a proud hillbilly! Even though my family moved away from the Appalachian Mountains when I was still a child, I clung to the old ways and taught them to my children.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I loved this yeah .. we talk like that in our family.. we called it a toliet!!! Love these stories... Bless you ,!!!
You did a very good video. I do remember all your info. We all miss those folks and those good old days. Lot of fun then. I love your accent cause it real with that good spirit.
I have lived in the mountains of wv for 80 years and I know what it is like to be a hillbilly.
Same!
Thank you for your stories. History is slowly being lost and you're keeping it alive.
Glad you enjoy it!
That’s so true
Not only is our history being lost, they are trying to erase it or change it, sadly. 🥺
@@dicktimpano8807 Sad!
72 now, came to central FL. in 57 from Arkansas, not mentioned in Appalachian trail map but remember trading the pop bottles for candy, RC or an occasional loaf of bread. And of course
Oh my goodness!!! I absolutely love this video. Raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Western NC, I was ashamed of my accent, now thanks to people like you, I'm proud of my accent and my people. Thank you.
Thanks so much my friend for sharing this. Thank you. Your very welcome. God bless you.
I’m glad there’s folks like y’all that keep this stuff alive. It’s a history long forgotten in this day & age. Don’t stop, keep it alive.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Donnie, my BF’s people are from Breathitt Co and I was so fortunate to get to meet his 90 yr old Grandma Nannie who grew up and lived her whole life in the mountains. I’m a city girl and would sit down with her and listen to her stories about her life, fascinated by the images I could see as she talked… she’d say things like “ oh honey I don’t know much, I’ve never been off this mountain”…!! Then proceed to tell me about hoeing corn after digging two holes in the mountain to stand in so as not to slid right off the mountain while working!! Or delivering one of her 13 kids in the morning and being right back out in the fields helping again after noon!!! Things this city girl couldn’t fathom!!! I always told her I wished I knew half of what she knew!!! Raising 13 kids in a 4 room house all her life… strongest women I’d ever met!! Still 💜 I wish I’d written down all our conversations.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Same thing with my grandmother there was nothing that woman couldn't do. When she died a lot of the old ways went with her.
@@vickierinehart4434 Amazing people. Whenever I’m feeling overworked and underpaid… I think of them and it kicks my rear RIGHT in gear!!!
Even do there’s an ocean apart…the stories from Appalachia resemble so much my people at the mountains..hard working people, seen a lot of hard time, knowing all about medicinal herbs, the way of cooking an how they appreciate what they have, God bless all of them…..
It's not too late ✌️
I’m a Southern Appalachian born and raised. I thank GOD Almighty every day for it!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Which God is that?
@@barneybiggles Our God and father of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ my friend.
@@donnielaws7020
What about the other 11,999 gods that have existed?
@@barneybiggles They are false gods. (And you have way underestimated their number 😆)
There IS only ONE true and living God 😁😁👍👍👍
Thank you Donnie for being who you are!
I'm proud to be in the circle of hard working, honest, dependable people.
I'm proud of my heritage and thank God I'm an Appalachian ridgerunner, stump jumper, holler hound and hillbilly. Love Y'all Donnie Laws!!❤
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Hello Mr Laws wow 😊how interesting I just came across your channel and you have me spellbound about the history, life and superstitions of the mountain people and may I say your commenting voice is very soothing and informative so I just wanted to say Hi from the Pacific coast of Canada British Columbia just above the state of Washington God bless and cheers Canada 🇨🇦
my kinlll
My Appalachian grandmother cooked on a wood stove until she passed in 1985. She didn’t want a “new fangled lectric stove” lol. She was literally the best cook I’ve ever known! Food prepared on a wood cook stove by someone who knows what they are doing is the best you will ever eat! I so enjoy your narration and your content Donnie! Keep em coming! Blessings from western NC💖🙏🏻
Thank you for that story. Thanks friend for sharing that.
YES. Cooking on a wood stove is an art. But the flavors of everything are just the best. I learned humane way to butcher chickens, hogs and ducks. Animals are not pets, except for your actual pets. We rose worked, stopped and rested according to the sun loved it
That’s all true…my ancestors separate from Appalachia by an ocean….I still smell these red beans and pork, white rice, ham , all outside cooking.
My "Aint" Hilah (step-grandmother) could make that old woodburner sing...half a dozen different temperatures, from simmer to boil. Biscuits, eggs, bacon and beans all came out perfect. My grandfather could percolate coffee but the rest was women's work. And we had a coffee can for used skillet lard for tomorrow and a slop jar under the sink for tobacco juice and scrapings, best fertilizer ever. Didn't waste anything. Both RIP.
Even in the "cities" out west, many places didn't have indoor toilets. A friend of mine tells of the 'shed' out back where the toilet was located for years. After they got indoor plumbing, it became a sort-of mother-in-law apartment (not sure if it had a toilet though! I think it was closed up by then). An immigrant family (Italian-German) with 7 children, a cousin and an aunt, all sharing a very small house. Good times!!!!
I'm British and feel nostalgic for these mountains. I'd live there if I could
Come on in my friend. Glad to have you. Thanks for sharing.
Probly those folks as much of us are from the UK.mine settled in the Good ole South of the USA.
I feel the same, and I'm fifth generation Australian. We've lost our way of talk - it's rare to hear anyone under 50 who sounds really Australian.
Mine were Welsh, English, and Irish.....landed at Baltimore in the late 1700s.
I was in Tottenham back a few years ago and there are ALOT of people there that look like my people.....
I grew up on a Mountain called Sand Mountain in extreme southern Appalachia...
I’m in those mountains!! ❤️❤️🤗🤗
This channel and Celebrating Appalachia is my absolute favorite TH-cam channels. I could listen to y'alls stories all day. I live in Alabama at the very tiptop but my daddy was born and raised in Kentucky. He had a very rough upbringing, he left home & his family when he went to war. Him and my mother settled down in AL. I lost him 2014. So watching these videos remind me of him, you sound so much like him! seeing how hard they had it makes my heart break. I would love to go an visit that part of my roots. I'll always remember his "booger" stories (that's what he called ghosts) and all the crazy sayings he had. Thank you for keeping this kind of life alive❤❤
WOW. Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm from eastern kentucky. I'm 32, lived there til I was 27. Been poor my whole life until now...
I didn't know I could do the same work and become somebody somewhere else.
I was born and raised in Kentucky born in 1946 went to one room school until 8th grade I still live here I tried different states but had to come back to hills of Ky wouldn’t live anywhere else i raise my garden can and dry my food still fish in the ky river just couldn’t live anywhere else
@@alicereece8772 Very, very few relatively unspoilt places like that left on this planet! Anywhere like that is worth far more than its weight in gold. I hope you can keep it and never have to sell up.
Even as a city boy I always had so much respect for poor, hard working, salt-of-the-earth folks. A man with a PhD does not impress me near as much as a hard working man with a family does. Thank you so much for your documentaries.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
I really enjoy the quality of your videos. It actually reminds me of some country places here in Australia..there is a big interest in the music of the Appalachians, we even have a banjo festival here of your music. Thankyou Sir.
Thank you friend. Thanks for sharing.
I’m from the Ozark mountains of Missouri and our old culture was very much the same way and I love Australia, I’ve been there several times
I'm only 53 years old, but I'm told that I'm a old soul. Proud to have been raised by mountain folks in Kentucky.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Were those pics you as a young boy and your family?
@@fyt00000 Not in this video, Just pictures to tell the story with.
Robert Crewz,
You should be proud, sir. You were blessed. Wishing you the best.
@@nathanielovaughn2145 Thank you.
I love hearing about the old way of talking. I remember that from when I was young. My grandma used to call cars “machines”. I miss the old days so much. Life was more simple and people were friendly and honest
Ye they where. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I've been made fun of all my life by some people because of my accent. But I am proud to be from East TN and proud of where I came from. There wasn't a week that went by growing up that we didn't have a pot of soup beans, cornbread, fried taters and whatever else momma threw together. It's a way of life that not many people have the privilege of knowing. Thank you for this video!
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless.
My nanny would make me fried chicken gravy and biscuit almost every morning I was there. I wish I could sit in that run down trailer in front of that old air conditioner one more time and talk to her again we didn't have much and was considered to be in poverty but to me it was home and I wish I could be there again just for a day.
My dad grew up in the Appalachian mountains in Kentucky, right on the boarder of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. He was born in 1946, he moved back after he retired. My dad says the same thing about how much things have changed. Heck, I’ve been going there to visit family since I was born in 1974 and I see a big difference. My dad bought 15 acres in the mountains and had his house built up high off the road. It’s beautiful there, especially in the fall and winter.
Awesome. Thank for sharing my friend.
My dad was a miner in Powhatan Ohio. Born in hazard Kentucky. I’m the third of my name.
My Father same. I am older than you. But our dads might have been same age range. He shared some ways he grew up with in his youth and passed on bits of wisdom and info about that. I remember everything he shared well. The people are different both there and coming from there now days. Still, it's better in many many ways in these places. Pleases there are some who continue with traditions and a better way of life. Kindness and common sense- the details go far and are appreciated. I'm so happy Mr. Laws is making these videos.
@@donnielaws7020 you are a good man. I would like to travel around and meet people in the hills and find other folks to play my banjo with as we sit and talk about stories of the days gone bye..
I grew up in Eastern ky Appalachian area I used to hate it as a kid but love it so much now since I've traveled around
East Tennessee born & bred! I had a teacher that always corrected my Appalachian accent, but I have found the older I get I cherish it! Most people that hear it the first time love it! #foreverahillbilly
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Their education came from hard work, grew up in this and still live here. Greatest lessons learned came from the old folks. Still learning from them.
Exactly my friend. Thanks for sharing.
As a fluent speaker of "the old language", Scottish Gaelic, from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, I want to most sincerely thank you for this video. You brought me back to my youth. We're not so much different, you and I. Different places, but in many ways, the same people. In saving this history and these stories, you are doing something invaluable. Keep it going!!! :)
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend
Absolutely.
Angus, our Appalachian Mountain range goes all the way into the maritime provinces of Canada. That makes you an Appalachian Highlander like us!
MacLeod, I sense a little plagiarism here. Can you honestly tell me that you're the author of your post?
@@dodgecrockett3474 'S urrainn dhomh sin a dhèanamh gun teagamh. An urrainn dhutsa?
Thank you Donnie, that brought a tear of joy to my eye. We were raised up in north Mississippi, but our talk was the same. What with tars, and fars. However we collected coke bottles it didn't matter weather it was pepsi, nehi, or double cola they were coke bottles. Back then (1960's) people prayed a lot, and outloud. I can still hear my old grandpa saying that same old prayer at the dinner table 3 times a day every day. The only choice we had about going to church was sometimes who we rode with. Now they are gone the old devil has crept up and took the church and the people and now it looks like old Glory too.
Glad you enjoyed it. Yes our history in leaving us bit by bit. We shall never forget it. We must remember it for my children's future. Even though they won't seem to care. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I grew up in north Mississippi as well and still live here. My mama talked like this she would say, "Arsh tater, poke for grocery bag and ate biscuits with onion for dinner ( most call it lunch). Her parents were sharecroppers and soup beans and corn bread was always for supper.
We still call it coke, 😆.
Love that!! We still pray every meal, out loud if there is more than one person at the table. And in restaurants, we will hold hands and say grace before the meal. AMEN!!!
OMG! De Soto, Tate & Marshall Co. here! Still here! So many memories! My granny was up by 3 & banging around the kitchen LOUD! If she was up starting her day, everyone else needed to be up, too! My first sense of the morning was the aroma of bacon frying & coffee brewing! I slept on a twin bed in the living room right outside of the kitchen! I'd lay there & just watch for a minute & then jump up to help her & with the farm & gardens! Sweet memories!
This is SO true! I’m from the Appalachian mountains and it makes me sick and saddens me the way outsiders judge us! And YES! We are a hardworking and close knit group! I miss the days gone by, but more so I miss my grandparents
It is so true ant it. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My great grandparents on both sides of the family were from southern Appalachia. I remember my great grandma and grandma cooking on a wood stove. Best biscuits and fried chicken you ever ate. Now live in Texas but have been told many stories as well enjoyed
I'm not judging you. It's the way of life and the way of the culture of the Appalachian people.
Love all your stories Donnie. You growed up just like me. I’m familiar with every one of your sayings.
And yes, best people you will ever meet.
My grandma and grandpa didn’t get electricity or indoor plumbing until early 60s. Ate a lot of soup beans and fried taters and cornbread. Also squirrel hunted with my grandpa. I’m 67 years old now living a very comfortable life but, my memories are precious to me.
Awesome. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm 78 good old Pinto s. Corn bread and tatoes .eggs from the hen house. Good cured pork all winter. Hog killing in November. For the winter season. Mom.making go home made sausage. Still would like to revisit those days. You wanted a cake you baked it from scratch. Go days for sure.
I am from Australia. Our family travelled through the Appalachian mountains in Virginia in 1997 . It was so beautiful . Thank you so much fir this documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have saved it. God bless you and your family.
Awesome my friend. Thank you so much. God bless you.
I was born in the early 60s and got a glimpse of this life with my Great Grandparents. I truly feel like I don't belong in this "modern world." My parents and grandparents have been gone for many years, and I understand the concept of "gone forever." Thank you for making these wonderful videos! They are greatly appreciated!
Awesome. Your so very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
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I love them too,I love country living. I’m getting old at 64 and still love it. I was raised in Nashville and moved 45+ years ago to East Tennessee ,I dearly love it and wouldn’t live anywhere else. I’m alone now but can do a lot for my age. Just wish things had turned out a bit different,there is nothing like working side by side and gardening raising cows and cutting hay.
@@Justme-jy7vo I used to do all these things with my paternal Grandparents. It never seemed like work because it was such a pleasure to be with them in whatever they were doing. If I could go back a few years, I'd probably live in East Tennessee also, or maybe North Carolina. Some of my best memories were made there.
This does feel foreign and un-natural especially the past Few decades. I'm glad to have lived in era where these ways were a norm.
I'm so proud of my Appalachian heritage (East Tenn)! Thank you Donnie for the great videos!
Our pleasure! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Right there with ya from WNC
Ditto!…Smokies of NC here neighbor. Blessings💖🙏
I might not speak southern enough for some or all the time, but I teach my son southern sayin's and what they mean. This may be 2021, but I feel our children still need to know what some older people mean when they say certain things. I'm from WNC too. Very proud to be born and raised and God willing will die right here.
I'm a northeast Tenn. girl myself. Wouldn't want it any other way. Am proud to tell it.
My dad always said "warsh." His mother said it that way, too. My other grandmother used to say "poke" and "over yon," short for over yonder. Location: southern West Virginia.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Oddly enough, Tom Landry (from South Texas) would speak of playing the Warshington Redskins.
I’m proud of my Southern accent. And I love all the different dialects we have! ♥️👌🏾
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
The southern accents (all of them) are music to my ears and I’ve never heard a movie star get it right. They don’t know the pure beauty of it.
My grandfather and grandmother were Appalachian people they lived in the mountians of north Carolina. And I took much of my up bringing there
I still live in the Appalachian mountians in. North east Alabama, just below the Tennessee line, , part Cherokee mixed with scotts. And Irish and maybe some other too. Mountian people we are. Listening to you brings back memories of my granny and pawpaw. Long time back we called a coke,., a dope , can't say that no more people get the wrong idea, I still have my southern accent and proud of it too,, good old days gone by. Thanks.ps. I love to squrill hunt too when I was little boy,, we had rabbit dogs beagles and walkers too, back then. Hunting was just way of life with us in those days,, take care old friend,
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hey Duane I know that area well. From Nickajack to Guntersville, the Walls of Jerico to Sand Mountian, RusselI Cave to buck's pocket, I love every inch.
@@bryanburnside9783 Yeup. I love. The mountians. Nature. Born and raised in the Appalachia. Part Cherokee. My grandfather. Didn't live far from the reservation or res as we call it. But now I live in the lower Appalachia. We just good old home folks. Hope your doing well. Friend. Take care now,,.ps I love the bucks pocket erea. Nice little park. There,,
@@duaneholcomb8408 things keep going like they are and we'll get our shot at living off the land, Jackson county is a good place to be
@@littlet-rex8839 I'm sure we Will friend. Take care,,
Whoever says you speak poorly is crazy! Mr. Donnie Sir, I could listen to you talk forever! I absolutely love the stories of the Appalachia people and I’m honestly shocked as some sayings, words, and things like the push mowers! 😁 such good, people to the core. Thank you for this! Bless you! From Lisa in Canada 🇨🇦♥️😀
WOW! Your are very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
SPOT ON LISA , EXCELLENT SPEAKER , THOSE WHO. EXPERIENCED A HARD LIFESTYLE , LIVING DAY TO DAY WITHOUT HAVING MUCH . THEY HELPED EACH OTHER , THEIR FAMILIES & OTHER INDIVIDUALS , BARTERING REPLACED MONEY , WORKING SUNRISE TO. SUNSET TO LIVE DAY TO DAY ALL PART OF OUR U.S.A. HISTORY , REGARDS TO ALL , PAST , PRESENT AND FUTURE , OUR COUNTRY MOUNTAIN PEOPLE .
At 78 .I know about push mowers I have pushed them. Very hard to do. And brier sling. More hard work. Oh and the push mower did not have a gas engine..
I am 59. I mowed our yard and my grandparents yard with a push mower. Cut the grass good with just you pushing it. No gas! Hard work. Would love to have that old push mower. Once in a while there will be one for sale. These get gone quick. Both sets of grandparents had huge gardens. Some rented part of their land to neighbors so they could grow a garden also. My grandparents in Tennessee didnt have a bathroom, just a two seater outhouse. Small one for the kids and the bigger one for the grown ups. Sears magazines always in there. Cows walked all around their property. Just dodge the cow patties. Night time you used the bed pan. The same grandparents had a spring that ran through their property from the mountain. Best fresh cleanest water I ever had. It was always cold. My PawPaw had a dipper to get fresh water from the spring. My MawMaw made homemade lye soap. Best soap. It smelt so good. They finally got a new home built with a bathroom and running water. I was about 10 years old then. I have great memories of my grandparents. Loved to go to the beautiful mountains in Boone, NC and Bristol (Shady Valley), Tennessee.💞 My favorite is the Blue Ridge Parkway. 🥰 Your voice is geniune. Thank you for your channel!
I really appreciate and understand why you do what you do. I get an ache in my chest listening to you. I just turned 65 in July. My parents escaped from Hungary during the 1956 revolution in oct/ nov. I was 3 months old. They settled in Poughkeepsie Ny. My Dad worked for IBM as a chemist due to his 6yr in medical school. Prior to meeting my mom, he spent 6yr in the coal mine as punishment for not having proper paper work on his person when he was trying to cross the boarder to Austria. Things are changing fast and not for the better. I live in South Fl but I feel suffocated here. I yearn for peace and quiet. I dislike being around people anymore. I don't want to go back to NY...the town of Lagrange where I grew up. It's not the same. I got married when I was 15 to my 17y old husband...yes we're still married. Wish he'd retire so we can get out of here! I keep looking at land in sw NC. I don't care for a big fancy house. I want land to grow a garden and have chickens..and my dogs. Oh, I grew up sayin crick...think the Dutch started that. Lived next to a farmer who had dairy cows and that's how he said creek. He was Dutch. Keep doing this! You have a story and you tell it well.
Thank you so much for them kind words my friend. Thanks for sharing your story my friend. Please take care.
We are from the Newburgh, NY area before we retired to Lee County, VA.
@@raymondvarinakowalik5438 I know Newburg well...husband worked at Electra Supply for awhile then Dept of transportation in the drafting dept. Use to go to Minawaska, Mohonk to rock scramble. Beautiful area!
@@andreaszule1558 We used to hike the Hudson Highlands just to the south of Newburgh and across the river in Beacon (Mt. Beacon). And now we live in the Cumberland Mountains. Love it here ... so peaceful and serene.
@@raymondvarinakowalik5438 my husbands family came from Beacon, Cold
I’ll tell you what, the nostalgia that came rushing back in this video absolutely brought a tear to my eyes. I’m in my mid forties now, but understood the meaning and dialect of everyone of the old sayings. I’m so, so glad I grew up when I did, back when common sense was common. Thanks for bringing back those memories.
Awesome my friend. Thank you for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
@@donnielaws7020 thanks you Donnie, god bless you and yours as well my friend.
Making my heart cry, been home sick for a long long time. I'm from Alabama and I was raised up like the story's you tell. Brings back wonderful memories of my youth.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Me too. I Google Earth my areas about once a week just to look and feel it closer.
@@barbaratatton3855 Ms. Barbara, you made my heart ache. I grew up a Yankee in WNY, in a built up city. I hated it. My Dad and my Wife are from the Adirondacks, and my Wife and I moved up here 8 years ago, and I will never live in a city again. My first "boyfriend" (older than my Dad by 3 years) was born and raised in Asheville to migrant workers on a "bokker" farm. Somehow, he ended up in NYS, and alcohol eventually destroyed him. I loved his Mama. She was literally the feminine version of him; a tall, strong, deep voiced woman with tired gentleness and every word and movement came with thought. Lil and I shared the same birth name, and the same nickname. I loved her with all my heart, and now that I am close to 50, I realize now her distress at my naivete and blind adoration for her son. She was so good and kind to both of us. Although I know now I never got the real truth about his life, his Mamas or why the left Ashville, (Lil ended up in Maryland) but I know the crux of it came from leaving the one place in his life where it was both heaven and hell for him, and for deciding to never go back. His broken heart spoke like his words. Like yours, Ms. Barbara: simple but absolutely powerful. I wish I had had family and community that I felt I belonged to. Although my family of choice is miniscule, my Wife (who showed me the house she lived in as a kid with a double seater attached to the back of the kitchen!!) The woods, the mountains, the stillness and the simplicity are the family that renew me each day like my Higher Power
I hope you have a chance to visit home again. I may be wrong, but when the mountains call to you, there is no other place our weary, wandering hearts find peace. Peace to you!
@@7lilly5 💜. Thank you for sharing this sincere and beautifully written expression of your experience. Your message is clear and vivid imagery with words. Lovely. I understand 💞
I'm Alabamian too, nice to see someone else from around here
My grandfather was the last of six generations to live in and work in coal country, West Virginia. He headed to Washington DC, looking for work during the depression. That's where he met my grandmother, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Grew up exactly as you except for the city part, in a coal camp 4 miles from a town called Appalachia VA. still there. I loved the slow pace of life. Can still remember the sounds and smells of the old days. Really the only thing besides all the ken folk that I miss is that cook stove in the summer time. Brothers from another mother. Keep the history alive Mr. Laws.
Thank you so much my friend for that comment.
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I have some very dear friends that live in Big Stone Gap. It is beautiful up there.
Where at? Andover………Inman……..? Inman had bad sulphur water when I was a kid.
I'm a 16 year old kid from Memphis but these mountain videos are INTERESTING! cool too💥
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I absolutely love this! I had an idea years ago, to give a simple notebook to everyone in my family 🎯 aunts, uncles and cousins, etc.... Ask them to simply write down stories of growing up, memories, whatever they wanted to write ☺ Then at the end of each year one person gathered them up and handed out new notebooks 🖤 Its a beautiful thing to have all these memories of your family.....
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 ☺ Awww, it's my pleasure! Thank you for keeping our Heritage alive!!
@@jamiejessee7196 Your welcome.
For almost eighteen minutes I felt like I was back in time at home. Thank you.
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
My Daddy was from Blue ridge Mts of North GA. He never lost his mountain ways nor speech. He would say stuff like: PO-lice, Ku-cumber, Hep it ( help it)
Chim-bly (chimney).
Nor did he ever lose his respectful manners towards God & all people.
He loved stories, parables, filled with what he would call kitchen table wisdom.
He always had a garden, & would make all 5 of us kids come pull weeds. Or pick vegetables, especially green beens.
I hated it when I was young but they are still some of my most cherished memories now.
Thank you kindly for sharing. Peace and blessings. ~CJ
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Grandma was from E.TN
Beautiful place.
You are bringing back memories.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Glad you enjoyed our home land.
@@delorestaylor8114
Yes very much. I lived in E. TN as a teen. Miss my kinfolk.
Donnie, I was raised in Central west Georgia. We didn't have an indoor toilet until 1967. Before that, we had indoor cold running water to the kitchen only and a well. A big storm took out the shed over the well and blew away the bucket and the outhouse.
I know the feeling. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Ha ha!! that is very descriptive! I have a friend who had the same setup out here in the west - about the same time too! that's funny about the storm taking out the toilet (although it probably wasn't at the time!). thanks!
I tried to soak up as much as I could from my grandparents before they passed. They were part of this culture. It's good to hear someone talk about that way of life as so much of it has disappeared.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I can’t tell you how much I enjoyed watching this. This is my childhood and these mountains stir something in me. Thank you.
Thank you so much for sharing your story. I was born and raised in Northeast Alabama. I worked multiple jobs to gain a formal education because we were poor, and I always felt outsiders looked down on us. The truth is, I miss my granny slopping the hogs, and I miss the way we all depended on one another. It was hard but in many ways preferable to the way I live today. I have the accent as well and while people call me Doctor, I still get "the look" when I speak. There's something to be said about a simple, hard-working life.
Well said my friend. I understand completely.
I worked at an assisted living as an activities coordinator. I became very aware of the history slipping away. I was lucky to get in contact with the local high-school and they created a class for the kids to come in and interview the residents. I loved watching the expressions on the kid's faces when they heard the stories. Different life then, simple but HARD.
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing.
I grew up in NW MT & N ID and remember pop being called pop! Baloney Sandwich and chips was a treat to us too! I now live in E KY and absolutely LOVE IT! I would be so blessed to find me a granny that would be willing to teach me to sew and anything else she is willing! We live back in a holler and LOVE, LOVE IT!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I would love to find one to
I love to listen to him , r relaxes me, I'm from NC. , I'm 61 yrs.old and I do remember hearing most of this from my parents especially my daddy.. Thank you for sharing. I Love your voice !
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
I live in northeast Alabama, the foothills of Appalachians. Your voice is so incredibly soothing to me. You sound like family ♥ I used to love listening to my elders talking about the good ol days when I was little. Thank you so much for these videos! And double thank you for using your real voice!!!
Oh thank you! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Gadsden here
@@loriehumphries5716 Me too! Lol
I grew up in the foothills of the Pennsylvania Appalachians, and have a deep respect and awe for the mettle and determined-minded simple lives our ancestors lived. I love learning about the people and their skills and traditions laid out so well in the Foxfire series of publications.... peace.
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
“It’s changed so much in the last 50 years “, you said the god’s honest truth in that one.
Thank you friend.
Your manner of speaking brings tears of joy to my heart. I, like many of my generation, moved away for work. One of my biggest regrets is losing my accent. I feel like I’ve lost part of my culture. Thank you for what you do with these videos. From the bottom of my heart god bless you. ❤️❤️
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love this! So many of these words show their early English heritage, which is where my grandparents came from. I find it absolutely fascinating. Thank you so much for sharing! ❤️
Awesome. Your so very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Most of us in the Applachian Mtns of Southwest VA, East TN, and Eastern Ky come from the Scots- Irish that came here in the late 1600's and early 1700s. That's why we talk the way we do. My grandmother and great-uncles, great-aunts plus I remember my great- grandmother and some of her generation of Aunt's and Uncles. They really sounded Scots- Irish. My mother and her siblings talked that way. My generation talks just a little different with a few words. My children do not talk like me. My grandchildren doesn't understand a lot of what my generation says and I have to interpret. My daughter went to Pikeville Medical and one professor was a native of Pikeville. Not many of the students were from this area so they always looked to my daughter for the interpretation.. one day the professor said something about his breechie lag. She got so tickled when they looked at her clueless.
Contrary to claims that most of the people were of Scots Irish heritage the 1790 census says that 83% of the surnames of settlers were of English origin and 11% Scottish but for some reason this is rarely mentioned. Even the so called Scots Irish should really be called the Scots English in Ireland. Very few would be ethnic Irish. Droves of commenters extol their Scots Irishness as if they are some kind of super race many of whom probably have no Scottish or Irish ancestors.
Thank you for sharing, I really miss listening to the elder people in my family and the neighbors. This made me think how I use to hunt and fish with my dad coming up, it was the best time of my life !! I really love hearing you talk, Im from Natchitoches La.and we talk funny too.Lol. i live in SHREVEPORT now.
Your welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend. Thanks for sharing these memories.
Hi Virginia, I also live here in Shreveport lol and we do talk funny! In my opinion we sound like E. Texans more than Cajuns
@@erinstaley2885 My family is from E Tx and I am proud of their accent and heritage and love.the Piney Woods and rivers!
Made my heart ache I lost my Mom in 2019. I'll tell you the times we had together, oh Lord how we would laugh. I truly understand how you feel about reaching back in the past oh how I wish I could have that back as well. Yep even here times were tough but love was full. God bless you and yours and thank you for sharing this beautiful story.
Your so welcome friend. Thanks for sharing your story. God Bless.
You’re voice is the best thing I’ve heard since Dick Proenneke! It’s like hearing my Grandfather’s voice again... 🙏🏻
Thanks for sharing my friend.
As a woman from the heart of the southern Coal Fields of WV, I can honestly say I grew up hearing everyone talk like that & I still do myself. I know "proper" english but that is not who I am. My mommy was from eastern KY. I came along late in my parents life & if my daddy were still alive he would be 103. People find that hard to believe but it's true. Thanks for the wonderful videos. We country folk have more common sense than most. I have a thick appalachian dialect.
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@@Joned9954 🙏🏻 God Bless You!
@@Perfectly-Imperfect I love talking and being around that have lived this way. Good people. My parents lived during the depression. We didn't have a inside bathroom until the 60's.mama canned everything she could. They had a garden ever year.
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@@Joned9954 My parents were alive during the depression to & I remember they had a garden and canned until they just weren't able to anymore. I remember people having outhouses to lol I wish we could go back to those times. The world is crazy these days.
I so appreciate your stories, your memories and taking me back to when I was a little girl coming up in East Tenn, Grainger County to be exact. So I'm a Appalachian girl and my ancestors I believe were the Melungeon people. I'm Native American/African American and some European decent. There are several races in my family and I sure do miss growing up in the holler in my hometown. Thank you again for your video and you're right, those good ole people are dieing out unfortunately, but thank God I have all my memories of all the good ole times in East Tenn. God bless you, Donnie!!😇🙏
P.S. You now have a new subscriber after seeing this great video. Thank you!🙏
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I really enjoyed this and was reminded of some stories my Mom would tell us about playing in the coal yards as a child. She grew up in Chevrolet Kentucky. I grew up in Bell County Kentucky in Middlesboro, home of Lee Majors. I love these mountains and I've never wanted to live anywhere else. Thank you for this.
Thank you so much for sharing this my friend. HOME,
How cool. I was born and raised in Middlesboro as well. I moved away for about 10 years. I finally came home. No where else I want to be either! No place like home.
This is how my granny talked and how I grew up and I’m from Spur Texas !! This brought back memories of my granny and I cried watching this we even called the windows a winder light I learned to can when I was 9 years old
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
God bless you, Mr. Laws. Thank you for these videos. I am so blessed to be living here, in East Tennessee. I thank God I am living here, every single day!!
You are very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
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I loved hearing every word you spoke,,it took me back to my grandparents as well. 57 years ago they both passed within 1 month of each other. I was 7 , but I loved them dearly. Thank You for sharing
Thank you. Sorry to hear that my friend. I never meet my grandfathers. They where gone before my time. Thanks for sharing.
My meemaw always called gravy “Dooley”. The couch was called a de-van. And if I asked a question that has yes as the answer, she would answer it with “Does a dog have a tail?” I miss sitting on the back screened in porch snapping black eyed peas. Watching my grandad graft a pecan tree to get it to produce. Lots of good memories. Also I could understand every word you said and the recording of your friend. Enjoyed every second of your video.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My folks were from Louisiana and we had a Devan too. And someone a little on the slow side "didn't have enough sense to pour piss out of a boot, with the directions written on the heel." My father had lots of colloquialisms and sayings. Smokin' Tailor-mades, for instance, meant one was doing well. (Well enough to buy packaged cigarettes) "Scraping the bottom of the barrel" is a good one. City folk have do idea of its meaning but I wager that all y'all know.
My grandad from Virginia called gravy, dravy.
Thank you for sharing these stories. I was born in 62 in southern ohio and i lived like this until the early 70s. My grandkids today dont believe me. So many people take for granted how they live today. In my opinion it would do most people in this world alot of good to have to live like this.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
I agree the kids nowadays would never make it if they had to live like this but I think it would really good for them an eye opener.
I was born and raised in western Pennsylvania and we always said pop instead of soda, git instead of get , worche instead wash and a few others. When I first moved to the Harrisburg area
I still used those words and some of the locals thought it was funny now 40 yrs later I speak differently but I'll still throw one out there occashionally. Until they passed I always called my father Daddy and my mother momma. I miss those days.
Never forget where you are from. Thanks friend for sharing.
This Buckeye gal talked the same way- reckon I always will- a lot of good folk in my heritage as I bet there are in yours. God Bless, you hear?
@@peachmelba9333 You to my friend;
I think I usually said 'pop' growing up in the west, although I probably say 'soda' more now (although I don't drink it, so I don't say it too often!) Git was also quite common and still is. however, wash has always been wash and never warsh. My friend from NY said a lot of 'strange' pronunciations! Like 'dowel' for 'doll'. 😉
Western PA here too. We still say pop lol. I do remember warsh from when I was little. Wow haven’t thought of warsh in a looking time.. Oh we mostly call them cricks too
Some of the best videos on TH-cam! Thank you Donnie for keeping these memories alive. God blessings for you ✝️
Your very welcome my friend.
Donnie, I love your presentations. I come from Appilachian stock. My ancestors moved to North Florida in 1835. My grand parents spoke like you, and I have tried to preserve their way of talking in my daily life. I really appreciate your videos. Thanks for what you do.
Wes Bassett.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm 72, came to central FL.
I recognized every word you said Donnie so I can vouch that there’s nothing fake about your voice. Hearing mountain talk again brought tears to my eyes. My Mamaw and Papaw from Southeast KY and Southwest VA talked just like your family. They’re gone now and so are my parents and almost all my aunts and uncles. I rarely hear people talk like this anymore, but when I do it’s like being home. Thank you for keeping these memories alive.
You don't talk bad Donnie, I could listen to your voice all day, and your mountain stories, I live in England, a city called Manchester, and we think we have a strong manchester accent, but I love yours, it's very soothing, thanks for telling us these stories, they are really interesting, love from England 🌞🌞👍
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I can hear this peaceful way of living in your voice. I love it. I was born in the 50's also and love it that I got to live in those peaceful times. Thank for letting me peek into your wonderful world. ❤
Your so welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love Dolly, and I understand her wanting to get something going (economically speaking) up in the Smokies, but last time I was through there it was wall to wall tourists. They've done TOO good of a job promoting tourism. Gatlinburg is like a Disney version of something that used to be authentic, but is now destroyed and can never be again. Like someone copied the original and airbrushed over the parts they didn't like and turned it over to the marketing department.
Got W. Virginia roots, would love to go back and check it out. Haven't been back in 20 years.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks, Donnie, love your stories. I was also born in 1957 so Things sure have changed since then. Who would have thought about computers and cellphones back in the day? I loved my Grandmother right up until she passed and I was 17 she told the lady who was sharing the room in the hospital before she died. She told that lady that I was her favorite. Well, I guess it wouldn't take much to know that she told me stories and jokes she never even told her own family. Yes sir those were the good old days. My dad's mom lived in Woodstock New Brunswick around Bloomfield. She talked just like you all the time. We called it the southern drawl. She was taken at age 53 but still, I remember her like it was yesterday. You have never lived until you sit at the feet of your grandparents for the things they could tell you would make you laugh and sometimes frighten you. Thought I would share a little with you. Have a good one.
So true my friend. Thank you for sharing this story. Your very welcome.
It sure us nice to hear you talk reminds of my Dad and I used to stay with my Granny during the summer and even though she passed when I was ten her stories and just who she was has guided me through my life . I love the fact that you are keeping our people history alive
Thank you so much my friend.
Love this SO MUCH!!! I was born in 1965 to parents that were born and raised in (Jackson County) McKee, Kentucky. My daddy got a job in Lexington, Kentucky when I was born so, that’s where I grew up but, I always knew of my hillbilly heritage through my family. When I was younger, I got made fun of and called a hick by the city kids. At that age, I felt embarrassed because they made it sound like a bad thing. As I got older (and bolder 😉) I began to NOT care what others thought and I embraced my hillbilly heritage. I was gonna be me, take it or leave it 😃 I’m a country girl at heart and proud of it. That will NEVER change. ❤️
Awesome Thanks for sharing that my friend.
My family is from sand Gap Jackson County. There by the frostette.
@@ricktempleton3415, yep!!! I know exactly where that’s at. Nice to meet you!!! 👍
My friend you are apparently are quite a few years younger than I am. I very much relate to what you are saying. I am from SC and see the same language and its variances and I also see the evolution in time and place. I hope there will always be people who will remember as time goes on. We all have to progress but we do not have to forget. Thank you.
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Your welcome my friend. Time changes and so do we, But I will always remember our past. Thanks for sharing and God Bless.
Borm and raised in the Appalachian all my life and you are absolutely right about this remember It thanks thanks. MR LAWS FOR FOR THE MEMORIES GOD BLESS YOU
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Thanks for sharing true life. Donnie, I love that you took time to explain the”Real People”. These people are my people I relate. My mama was from Tennessee, daddy from Georgia. Our people were hard workers and poor. Rich in life. Thank you for sharing…
Well said. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.
Donnie thanks so much for taking us down memory lane. That’s what makes this and your other stories so awesome. The changes that have be made over a few decades is not good. Thanks again for another awesome story👍👍👍.
Glad you enjoyed it Bobby. Thank you so much for your support my friend. God Bless.
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Happy day to you! Hoping you can visit my channel soon, it’s a history channel! If you decide to visit my channel let me know you are coming over from Donnie’s channel, I want him to get the credit! Stay safe
Your welcome. Thank my friend for sharing.
I was raised (for the most part) in Oklahoma and I understood every word you said! My maternal grandparents and great-grandparents came from West Virginia, but they lived in the city rather than the mountains. My paternal grandparents and great-grandparents were from Arkansas. I remember sitting and listening to the grown-ups talk and tell stories from way back. I miss that so much. Thank you for sharing this with us....I hope you keep talking and telling stories. I'll be listening.
Thank you and thanks for sharing friend.
Was there a few years ago on Thanksgiving loved every inch of that ground.Many of the grave yards had so many markers for the children that died from diseases that we are inocculated for now and we for the most part take it for granted.Those residents were a tough people and overcame many adversities.....
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Donnie, thank you for celebrating the people of Appalachia!! I was born in Northern Virginia, however, I lived in southwest Virginia... Buchanan County, the town of Grundy and in the little area of Lee town. I discovered your channel by accident and I'm glad I did!! Thank you for the memories that came flooding back😊
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Hey there, I'm born raised in Buchanan Co. too. Harman mostly. Proud say we deep hillbilly mountain people living up convict holler off 460.
Born and raised in Honaker va….worked at island creek coal co Beatrice mine….moved to hickory no because mines were not steady work….miss it lots.
Man this brings back memories of my childhood. My grandparents, my great aunts and uncles. About the only thing left in my family now is the language
Thank you friend for sharing.
TH-cam recommended this. I loved this...it brought back so many memories. My grandma and grandpa lived and grew up "a way back yonder in a hollar" somewhere around Harriman Tennessee. I wished I had recorded and written down the memories too. I miss the stories and their way of speaking. Thank you for making this!!
Your so welcome my friend.
I grew up here near ash cabin holler.
Dear Donnie I was born in Salem Indiana and grew up in Kentucky I now live in France 🇫🇷 when I am home sick I put on your videos I am so proud of my roots I love ❤️ my people I thank God I found you love connie huff dieudonnie bless 🙌 you
Awesome! Welcome! Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you.
Donnie, I just love your videos and try not to miss any of them. Though I was raised in the flatlands of NW TN, I find many similarities in how I was raised to these videos. My daddy plowed with 2 mules on rented land. I used to can most of our vegetables from the garden I grew. My husband hunted doves, quail, fished so many nights our supper was what we grew or killed. Being 72 yrs old now, I've seen many changes too.
Please keep sharing your videos. They're better than any tv or website any where. 💗
WOW! Thank you. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.