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What a inspiring story To honor my kin that came before me I make 2 small runs a year one corn one fruit never for money just tradition for a few friends and family solely for medicinal purposes of course I'm so glad I found your channel it takes me back to my childhood and the wonderful memories I have of it Thank you good sir
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller without our traditions and honoring those who came before us we have nothing the way I see it I suspect you're the same way I'm from the county that the courthouse shooting happened
Alcohol is an important product. I rarely drink it any more, but I always use it for cuts and scratches. It's useful in many ways. Incurable (according to doctors) wounds have been healed with alcohol applications. Mouthwash, spirit burner stoves. The pioneers would have known many uses. Keep up the important traditions. In my local area are many Eastern European and Italian migrants who make wine and spirits. It's a God given gift.
@@WhispersFromTheDark here's a story for you I'm not good at the technology thing The mans name is Robert Childress He built 7 rock churches in southwest Virginia A book was wrote about his life "The Man Who Moved A Mountain " by Richard C Davis It's more recent history but in the first half of the 1900's I think this is what you like to hear If by chance you've already covered I haven't watched all your videos but getting there
George was one smart man. He figured there was more than one way to skin a cat. It's nice to see some of the names are still active. I love the history on those once were towns.
Well told tale of the Loveliest Whiskey Tennessee ever distilled! I've been in Nashville more than two score years and every day they are bulldozing yet another piece of what made Nashville, Nashville. It's sad. Old log cabins torn down & replaced by tall & skinnies; Rotier's, where they made the best burgers in town, gone; Hog Heaven with it's pulled chicken & white sauce, gone; the old sulphur spring next to the Werthan Bag Plant, shut down by corporate lawyers when they turned Cab Holler into a series of upscale "lofts." The less than reputable old Black Bottom and nearby Rutledge Hill with their after-hours clubs, strip joints and adult bookstores are now the very respectable--and very boring--"SoBro"! My wife's cousin's blacksmith shop/lawnmower repair place on Jefferson Street, where the Geist's smithy tools used to hang on the wall, just barely avoided the wrecking ball, although the old house next to it didn't and god knows what they've done to the pioneer graveyard behind it. It goes on and on. At least folks in east Tennessee give a damn about their heritage; I wish folks around here did. Have a blessed Christmas.
My wife is a direct decendant of James Robertson. Nashville was founded with cost....Indians raided and killed several of their family.....Sterling Clack Robertson gathered & with money borrowed from his mother he helped finance many to move to Texas when Tejas was still Mexico...He became an Embrisario just as Stepen F Austin did...Austin managed to bring in the "famed 300 families", but Robertson brought 800...Sterling Clack Robertson was a man amongst men...similar to the no nonsense JACKSON. STERLING Robertson, son of Sterling Clack is responsible for the equine Texas bloodlines & directed the State's foundation and establishment. Vast t real estate was set aside for school funding, & that continues to be a rich source...God Bless Texas, God Bless Tennessee, & save us from the lunatics in politics that are destroying as much of our rich & benifitcial heritage...by the way, Sterling's mother was repaid with interest
Your in my part of the woods. Coal Creek (Lake City / Rocky Top now) / New River / Clinchmore. The Clinchmore flood wood be a good story and how it went around the church leaving it upright. The old stories from the Gentleman from Frost Bottom are great. Scott County succeeding from TN during civil war is another good one. Well done ...keep the stories coming !!!
I once heard a story about an Englishman complaining about some injustice and a Frenchman says " you English worry too much. In France if they make a law we don't like we just ignore it". Moonshiners must have had that philosophy.
The song was around long before Lake City agreed to change the name of their town to Rocky Top. The heirs of the Osborne Brothers sued the city after the name change for copyright infringement. And the developer who convinced them to change their name with promises of becoming a new Gatlinburg with tourists pulling off I-75 so they can say they have been in Rocky Top, Tennessee is long gone. The boom of Coal Creek is now the bust of Rocky Top. If someone with a little vision and a lot of cash would invest in this town, the potential is unlimited. It is situated in such a beautiful setting with 2 exits along I-75 and geographically at the half way point (a good day’s drive) between Detroit and Disney World.
Excellent story Times was much simpler then ,all the laws weren’t In place to finance the courts,sheriffs,judges ,prosecutors, Lawyers ,(ETC) Thanks so much for this wonderful story
This sounds eerily similar to and old family story. Part of my family was from Bulloch County and our family was a large one but was set off in the northwest corner of the county. So around 1908 a couple of my relatives began a big push to split their side of the county off to form a new one. The story goes that my Great Grandfather and his brothers went up to Atlanta and reserved the fanciest hotel and their dining room and invited about 30 or 40 of the most prominent state politicians, specifically leaving and reps from Bulloch off the guest list. Well, the time came to say grace for the dinner and low and behold there were a few 100 dollar bills just under the corner of each plate. My dad said there was a sudden flury of hands snapping up the bills from under the plates. Well my dad never understood why his grandfather and Great uncles were so hell bent on forming Candler County out of Bulloch when the area had less than 1,000 ppl and almost all of them were just the family. That is until he began looking at all the public buildings and County politicians. Suddenly he saw that 4 of the 5 fou ding commissioners had the family name, same with the first sheriff and others. Then he noted the plaques on the wall stating that the courthouse, post office, hospital and schools were all graciously built by the families construction company. It all suddenly made sense why they spent all that money and a big dinner and entertainment for the Atlanta politicians, lol.
Hi, I just strayed upon your channel. I love your narration of the stories of Appalachia. I know nothing of this region of the USA but I'm learning. You've got a really interesting history. Best wishes from the UK.
I love this story. It's so interesting to learn about the history that has passed in Tennessee. I even like a lil sip of Tennessee Whiskey from time to time.
*_AWESOME Story Telling Skills_* ... Easy to follow story with relaxed narration style. Was able to 'see' how this story played out over time. George, a self made man, didn't let a few rules slow him down. George was a leader, not a follower. Would love to see what is on George's headstone. I bet it says something 'lovely'.
Had no idea how Lovely Bluff Road got its name; I live near there. There is spring water coming out of the rocks to this day. When I was a child, I remember my father taking his car out there and giving it a wash. That road is still one of my favorite drives. Thanks for a little back road history.
Good Morning JD. Thank you as always for another interesting story. You continually impress me with your unique delivery style, production and content. One of the most peaceful and joyful times of my day. I always go away, feeling like I just spent time with a good friend. Thanks again. God Bless! jj
Thanks for that feedback John. I pride myself on making videos my own way. Ive always felt like if you do things your own way, in your own style, its authentic.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I feel like many, many of the stories you bring us and the way you present them could be turned into movies. You have a gift my friend. ☺️ Not that you need me to tell you that. Or my opinion means much.
Great story JD. It looks like he would had been grandfathered in, but the laws are for the politicians and not the people. Man is not free. George was just a smart man and had them outsmarted for awhile. Not any bootleggers left that I know of anymore. Used to be a couple in the 80’s that was around. Snow Whites on Clinton Hwy. and Ed Tipton’s off Old Rutledge Pike. Of course hefty fees where paid to the police department’s to stay open. Hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Have a blessed day!
Goodmorning JD. Christmas is almost here. Im on the boarder of Mexico at the moment. Im glad I live in the U.S. after going over. Not a very clean place.. Its sad...
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller for sure! I'll be coming your way in April to see my son.. I have been to 14 countries in my life! I went to college in London.. I have more fun traveling than sticking in one place.. Is it cold there? Im in shorts over here..
nice story. There are many long lost hamlets that were alive until the 30s when the fed Gov't established the national parks up and down the Appalachia.
I so appreciate the history and the stories you tell. i only need to see these mountains, I get a lump in my throat and the tears come... dont know why this area affects me so. Such a hard life they lived but in my opinion, the best life when God and family really mattered. I was born in the wrong place and too long ago. Thank you again
Amazing! I'm 68 and I grew up in an area of south central Pennsylvania called "Lovely". I never gave much thought as to how it got it's name, but now I have to wonder if it may have been a brother of George's that started that place. I'm not sure how much land Lovely consists of, but there are several "hollows" in the Allegheny Mountains. Now you have me curious.
Now I have somewhere new to explore next time I’m up that way! Love roaming around and finding these little gems, even if there’s not anything left of them but the stories. I’m in north AL. ❤️
Never knew this story, and have lived in Rocky Top, (Lake City, Coal Creek, whatever in the hell you wanna call it) all my life. Awesome story. Really neat to stumble upon some history of our small town.
I used to travel frequently to the FM tower on the top of Cross Mountain when I was employed in engineering at the radio station, stopping to get homemade sandwiches from the Sisters that owned the store/post office in Briceville almost 40 years ago...
Kind of related, on Roan Mountain Tennessee a nice hotel was built straddling the NC Tennessee border. The state line ran down the middle of the dining room. Reportedly, a sheriff was stood on the North Carolina side where drinking was illegal to arrest anyone who walked across the line. The state park keeps an old farmstead for tourist. Yes, the hotel isn't there anymore. Rumor has it, it was abandoned furnishings and all and some local homes boast furnishings from it. The immediate area still hosts an annual rhododendron or azalea festival.
I was amused with the part regarding the proof having to be cut down to 100 for city folk in Lovely's day. The average in Gatlinburg today is around 40-60 Proof 😄
That was a lovely story! Lol I really enjoy history and you do a great job of making it interesting. I have to ask one favor though…. As someone who spent her first 30 years in Kentucky, I need to tell you it’s pronounced, Loo-a-vul, (Louisville)🐝🤗❤️
Thanksgiving confession- so we arrived in Cherokee NC late at night, well after dark. the only place open was a gas station. So there we were, Me, my Wife, and my Son. What were we gonna eat? We literally had to shop in that gas station. So we picked the finest items and they were... 1 tiny bowl of raison brand, 1 generic slim Jim, and the sketchiest crock pot boiled peanuts you ever smelt. 😂
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller oh my brother you have just Been through one of the last .RITES OF PASSAGE of Western Man ..the old gas station food Saga... I work all over the UK So I have been through this a few times.. coming off a Building sites late at night in little towns were everything closes Early...I've lived to tell the tales of these experiences .. Wear it like a badge of honour my friend....you are part of a elite Club...🤠 Dee 🏴✝️
Wow that's amazing! It would have been so cool if they could have rounded up and recruited more people from the surrounding rural areas to increase the population size! 😕
I have a question how do you find the information. my great great grandfather made whiskey in Robertson Co Tennessee. had a store in town. but I know nothing about it except a few photos and jugs. the office still stands and the farm still has Pitt Brothers on the barns even though it has long since been sold. I'd like to know how to find out way more and how to research it.
Funny you ask that- I was actually researching the history of coal creek Tennessee and I was at the history of East Tennessee museum in knoxville researching their archives- newspapers- and research material when I stumbled across an old article about a lost city called lovely city… and the rest is history
With all these micro distillers and breweries it’d be cool to see someone open one tied to this story to keep it alive. Lovely’s log cabin distillery and bbq. 👍👍
Australians say their unique accents the result of their unique fermentation and distillery that effected the pronunciation of their ancestors - going back hundreds of years - so I began to suspect that the moonshine of Tennessee and Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas - going back hundreds of years - also effected their slow draw pronunciation. The "law" would come and confiscate the stash of cash from the moonshiners profits - but almost always let them keep their moonshine distillery - so the "law" could come back and grab a stash of cash gain and use it to buy a nicer car and an upgrade on their own primitive cabins.
wow, I never heard that before about the accents. Its really so cool how Appalachia and Australia are are connected. Ive learned so much from people like you
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I can't say for sure that it's true - but that's what the Australians are told and that seems to explain the "southern" accent in the usa. I wonder if the "hick" accent is the result of something in the water? Just kidding - or lead paint - just kidding - I don't know.
Thanks, JD. Another lovely story from our Appalachian past. I'd like to have a sip of Geroge's liquid gold- for medicinal purposes only- you understand. (Please forgive the pun. I couldn't help myself.)
About 100 years ago when I was in my 20s, when I first moved from Morristown/sevierville areas out here to Washington state. Some of them boys had a fit bc I knew how to run a still. So a few left handed cigarettes into the night, I gotta bending copper. We did a few runs. Then I got the hell away from it. I was in the service then n didn’t need any part of that out here. So idk what they ever did with the setup. But I was gone after a couple runs. Lol.
Those mountains in the opening look an awful lot like the Smokies. 😉 I guess it doesn't matter if it is the Appalachians, Cumberland or Smokies. It is all home.
@The Appalachian Storyteller Beautiful area. Nothing quite like Northeast Tennessee. Consider a tale of more of the Clinton area particularly Norris. The Norris Dam ,CCC Camps and Oak Ridge were unsung heros to the war effort.
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This guy had an idea and he didn’t let nothing stand in his way. That is one smart fella
I bet his town would have grown so big if prohibition hadn’t started. Sad to see the government yet again destroy something good! Loved this one!!
Thank you Amy
Agreed!
hear hear!
“Government” is the greek word for “we destroy everything”.
If you look at the map, lovely city Tennessee became lake city, tN, not so long ago the name was change to Rocky Top, TN.
Old Appalachian girl and I love these stories.
Thank you ma'am
What a inspiring story
To honor my kin that came before me I make 2 small runs a year one corn one fruit never for money just tradition for a few friends and family solely for medicinal purposes of course
I'm so glad I found your channel it takes me back to my childhood and the wonderful memories I have of it
Thank you good sir
What an awesome tradition you have to honor those before us. Thats great.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller without our traditions and honoring those who came before us we have nothing the way I see it
I suspect you're the same way
I'm from the county that the courthouse shooting happened
I would LOVE to hear your stories....my email is on on channel. Anything you tell me and want to share, is anonymous. I hope to hear from you soon.
Alcohol is an important product. I rarely drink it any more, but I always use it for cuts and scratches. It's useful in many ways. Incurable (according to doctors) wounds have been healed with alcohol applications. Mouthwash, spirit burner stoves. The pioneers would have known many uses. Keep up the important traditions. In my local area are many Eastern European and Italian migrants who make wine and spirits. It's a God given gift.
@@WhispersFromTheDark here's a story for you I'm not good at the technology thing
The mans name is Robert Childress
He built 7 rock churches in southwest Virginia
A book was wrote about his life "The Man Who Moved A Mountain " by Richard C Davis
It's more recent history but in the first half of the 1900's
I think this is what you like to hear
If by chance you've already covered I haven't watched all your videos but getting there
J.D. that story and your voice are both smooth as Tennessee Whiskey 👍
I took a pic of that and sent it to my wife, and she flipped me off. 😂
George was one smart man. He figured there was more than one way to skin a cat. It's nice to see some of the names are still active. I love the history on those once were towns.
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That's brilliant. Made my day because I'm facing a particular uphill battle... steeled my nerves better than a shot of whiskey. Thanks !🎉
Positive energy for ya my friend
Heres to the best
Cheers!
I am from this area and had no clue the history of Lovely Bluff. thanks for taking the time to bring this to YT.
Lots of history hiding in plain sight
Appreciate all the time and effort you put into making this story intriguing.
Well told tale of the Loveliest Whiskey Tennessee ever distilled! I've been in Nashville more than two score years and every day they are bulldozing yet another piece of what made Nashville, Nashville. It's sad. Old log cabins torn down & replaced by tall & skinnies; Rotier's, where they made the best burgers in town, gone; Hog Heaven with it's pulled chicken & white sauce, gone; the old sulphur spring next to the Werthan Bag Plant, shut down by corporate lawyers when they turned Cab Holler into a series of upscale "lofts." The less than reputable old Black Bottom and nearby Rutledge Hill with their after-hours clubs, strip joints and adult bookstores are now the very respectable--and very boring--"SoBro"! My wife's cousin's blacksmith shop/lawnmower repair place on Jefferson Street, where the Geist's smithy tools used to hang on the wall, just barely avoided the wrecking ball, although the old house next to it didn't and god knows what they've done to the pioneer graveyard behind it. It goes on and on. At least folks in east Tennessee give a damn about their heritage; I wish folks around here did. Have a blessed Christmas.
Thank you my friend- Nashville really isn’t even Tennessee anymore
It's happening cause a bunch of GDFYankees moving in & wrecking the place. Don't give two hoots bout nothing but money. Yankees..GO HOME
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My wife is a direct decendant of James Robertson. Nashville was founded with cost....Indians raided and killed several of their family.....Sterling Clack Robertson gathered & with money borrowed from his mother he helped finance many to move to Texas when Tejas was still Mexico...He became an Embrisario just as Stepen F Austin did...Austin managed to bring in the "famed 300 families", but Robertson brought 800...Sterling Clack Robertson was a man amongst men...similar to the no nonsense JACKSON. STERLING Robertson, son of Sterling Clack is responsible for the equine Texas bloodlines & directed the State's foundation and establishment. Vast t real estate was set aside for school funding, & that continues to be a rich source...God Bless Texas, God Bless Tennessee, & save us from the lunatics in politics that are destroying as much of our rich & benifitcial heritage...by the way, Sterling's mother was repaid with interest
I love this story! What a smart man Mr. Lovely was, but what a sad end to Lovely City....
Thank you my friend, have a lovely day
Born and raised in West Virginia. If you don't take care of yourself and family no one else will. Do what you gotta do.
well said
I'd love to hear, "Pass Me Not Oh Gentle Saviour" sung traditionally by an African American congregation. Sweet Song
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AAH... Thank goodness. I was craving another one of your videos to be uplifted from the turmoil, lol... 😁
Thank you for your support my friend, preciate you
Your in my part of the woods. Coal Creek (Lake City / Rocky Top now) / New River / Clinchmore. The Clinchmore flood wood be a good story and how it went around the church leaving it upright. The old stories from the Gentleman from Frost Bottom are great. Scott County succeeding from TN during civil war is another good one. Well done ...keep the stories coming !!!
send me any info you have on the church flood to theappalachianstoryteller@gmail.com id love to look into it
What Gentleman from Frost Bottom? I would like to see that one!
Thanks for sharing this great story.
Thank you Stephen, appreciate your support my friend!
I once heard a story about an Englishman complaining about some injustice and a Frenchman says " you English worry too much. In France if they make a law we don't like we just ignore it". Moonshiners must have had that philosophy.
Yup- law dog don’t go ‘round here
We always seem to have those uphill battles in life, makes us just a little more appreciative, I would think.
Thank you, JD.
Thank you Richard
The Osborne Brothers did a song about this area. The University of Tennessee uses it for their theme song. Good Ole Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee
You know thats an old song right that goes back farther than than the Osborne brothers have been alive.
Lake City was renamed "Rocky Top" FROM the song, it had nothing to do with that location
Yup and lake city was named that because of Norris lake- the first name for lake city was coal creek
The song was around long before Lake City agreed to change the name of their town to Rocky Top. The heirs of the Osborne Brothers sued the city after the name change for copyright infringement. And the developer who convinced them to change their name with promises of becoming a new Gatlinburg with tourists pulling off I-75 so they can say they have been in Rocky Top, Tennessee is long gone. The boom of Coal Creek is now the bust of Rocky Top. If someone with a little vision and a lot of cash would invest in this town, the potential is unlimited. It is situated in such a beautiful setting with 2 exits along I-75 and geographically at the half way point (a good day’s drive) between Detroit and Disney World.
@@stevegoins6426 meth rules that area
Excellent story
Times was much simpler then ,all the laws weren’t In place to finance the courts,sheriffs,judges ,prosecutors,
Lawyers ,(ETC)
Thanks so much for this wonderful story
Thank you Gary! preciate you
This sounds eerily similar to and old family story. Part of my family was from Bulloch County and our family was a large one but was set off in the northwest corner of the county. So around 1908 a couple of my relatives began a big push to split their side of the county off to form a new one. The story goes that my Great Grandfather and his brothers went up to Atlanta and reserved the fanciest hotel and their dining room and invited about 30 or 40 of the most prominent state politicians, specifically leaving and reps from Bulloch off the guest list. Well, the time came to say grace for the dinner and low and behold there were a few 100 dollar bills just under the corner of each plate. My dad said there was a sudden flury of hands snapping up the bills from under the plates.
Well my dad never understood why his grandfather and Great uncles were so hell bent on forming Candler County out of Bulloch when the area had less than 1,000 ppl and almost all of them were just the family. That is until he began looking at all the public buildings and County politicians. Suddenly he saw that 4 of the 5 fou ding commissioners had the family name, same with the first sheriff and others. Then he noted the plaques on the wall stating that the courthouse, post office, hospital and schools were all graciously built by the families construction company. It all suddenly made sense why they spent all that money and a big dinner and entertainment for the Atlanta politicians, lol.
yep, power and control go way back
A lovely story about ingenuity. Thank you
Thank you Janet
Hi, I just strayed upon your channel. I love your narration of the stories of Appalachia. I know nothing of this region of the USA but I'm learning. You've got a really interesting history. Best wishes from the UK.
Thank you my friend!
I love this story. It's so interesting to learn about the history that has passed in Tennessee. I even like a lil sip of Tennessee Whiskey from time to time.
Thank you Terry
I love Tennessee and north GA mountains region 🇺🇸🥰
Me too ❤️
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Easy to follow story with relaxed narration style. Was able to 'see' how this story played out over time. George, a self made man, didn't let a few rules slow him down. George was a leader, not a follower. Would love to see what is on George's headstone. I bet it says something 'lovely'.
I bet it does- have a lovely day sir
One clever man. Need more like him. 👍❤️
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Another gem , thanks 👍
Thank you John, preciate you brother
This lovely story made me smile. The ingenuity of some some people is truly heartening. Thanks. 😊✌️
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Your a young man but you have an old wonderful lovely soul, thank you for the stories
Yup
Had no idea how Lovely Bluff Road got its name; I live near there. There is spring water coming out of the rocks to this day. When I was a child, I remember my father taking his car out there and giving it a wash. That road is still one of my favorite drives. Thanks for a little back road history.
yes sir, thanks for watching and sharing your story about Lovely Bluff
Good Morning JD. Thank you as always for another interesting story. You continually impress me with your unique delivery style, production and content. One of the most peaceful and joyful times of my day. I always go away, feeling like I just spent time with a good friend. Thanks again. God Bless! jj
Thanks for that feedback John. I pride myself on making videos my own way. Ive always felt like if you do things your own way, in your own style, its authentic.
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I feel like many, many of the stories you bring us and the way you present them could be turned into movies. You have a gift my friend. ☺️ Not that you need me to tell you that. Or my opinion means much.
Love this! East Tennessee History right in my back yard.
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Johnson City here
This is an award winner Chanel.
I'm telling you you guys masters the narration Style of the old times.
Thank you my friend, I do my best to tell the story the way I feel it should be told. Preciate you Figgie Figueroa
Great!greetings from Finland
Greetings from East Tennessee 🇺🇸
Great video. God Bless America.
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I live just a few linear miles away. Such a charming story.
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Good job! I learn't something tonight!
Thank you friend, preciate you
Great story JD. It looks like he would had been grandfathered in, but the laws are for the politicians and not the people. Man is not free. George was just a smart man and had them outsmarted for awhile.
Not any bootleggers left that I know of anymore. Used to be a couple in the 80’s that was around. Snow Whites on Clinton Hwy. and Ed Tipton’s off Old Rutledge Pike. Of course hefty fees where paid to the police department’s to stay open.
Hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Have a blessed day!
Laws are made for politicians… well said
Great history another fascinating story thanks man interesting
Thanks Cade
I like interesting short videos like this. Well done.
Thank you 🙏
Goodmorning JD. Christmas is almost here. Im on the boarder of Mexico at the moment. Im glad I live in the U.S. after going over. Not a very clean place.. Its sad...
I’ve never been that far west- got to get out there one day
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller for sure! I'll be coming your way in April to see my son.. I have been to 14 countries in my life! I went to college in London.. I have more fun traveling than sticking in one place..
Is it cold there? Im in shorts over here..
nice story. There are many long lost hamlets that were alive until the 30s when the fed Gov't established the national parks up and down the Appalachia.
Yup 👍
I so appreciate the history and the stories you tell. i only need to see these mountains, I get a lump in my throat and the tears come... dont know why this area affects me so. Such a hard life they lived but in my opinion, the best life when God and family really mattered. I was born in the wrong place and too long ago. Thank you again
Thanks for watching my friend
It can truly be said, this was a lovely story. 🙂
Thank you my friend, have a lovely day!
Amazing! I'm 68 and I grew up in an area of south central Pennsylvania called "Lovely". I never gave much thought as to how it got it's name, but now I have to wonder if it may have been a brother of George's that started that place. I'm not sure how much land Lovely consists of, but there are several "hollows" in the Allegheny Mountains. Now you have me curious.
thats interesting, you never know!
No glass of whiskey here but definitely a big smile. Thank you for sharing lovely history.
Thank you ❤️
Now I have somewhere new to explore next time I’m up that way! Love roaming around and finding these little gems, even if there’s not anything left of them but the stories. I’m in north AL. ❤️
❤️ the string is still there and folks get water from it every day
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller Then I’ll make sure to fill up a gallon jug of that sweetness. That’s 10x better than a jug of whiskey in my book. 😂
Thanks, my family is from East Tennessee, Scott County, it's a totally different world.
Yes it is
This was a Lovely Story - Thanks!
Have a lovely evening my friend
Never knew this story, and have lived in Rocky Top, (Lake City, Coal Creek, whatever in the hell you wanna call it) all my life. Awesome story. Really neat to stumble upon some history of our small town.
Thanks for watching
I used to travel frequently to the FM tower on the top of Cross Mountain when I was employed in engineering at the radio station, stopping to get homemade sandwiches from the Sisters that owned the store/post office in Briceville almost 40 years ago...
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Great story and well told. I prefer Single Malt Scotch but I might have to have a sip of Tennessee Whiskey
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Kind of related, on Roan Mountain Tennessee a nice hotel was built straddling the NC Tennessee border. The state line ran down the middle of the dining room. Reportedly, a sheriff was stood on the North Carolina side where drinking was illegal to arrest anyone who walked across the line. The state park keeps an old farmstead for tourist. Yes, the hotel isn't there anymore. Rumor has it, it was abandoned furnishings and all and some local homes boast furnishings from it. The immediate area still hosts an annual rhododendron or azalea festival.
backdoor taxes anyway they can get em
There's still a hotel up through there
@@Idkhowtofkinread The Cloudland Hotel is the one I was referring to.
The Appalachian Trail runs past the Cloudland Hotel site. No hotels out there anymore.
Im right down the road from you. Johnson City area.
Great story! Thanks JD 🤗❤️❤️
Thank you Kathy
💕 I have always loved history. Thank you so much, for all of your research. 💕
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A lovely story accompanied by great photos. Still can’t stomach clickbait.
Have a lovely day
Thank you for sharing ❤
Thank you 🙏
Love this!!
Thank you!
HI JD ANOTHER OUT STANDING STORY IT WOULD BE AMAZING IF THEY COULD GET THIS WHISKEY STILL UP AND RUNNING AGAIN I LOVE YOU GUYS SO MUCH FROM TENN
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I was amused with the part regarding the proof having to be cut down to 100 for city folk in Lovely's day. The average in Gatlinburg today is around 40-60 Proof 😄
I know right- I try to avoid gatlinburg at all costs these days
Terrific story, JD! Thanks!
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How inspiring, thank you
Thank you Tammy
Now that was a lovely story...
Thank you! Have a lovely weekend
Another great video. Inspirational
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Livin' 75 miles east of Lovely City, TN, in a house built in 1900 and fed by a spring.
Awesome my friend
Awesome video man, keep em coming.
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That was a lovely story! Lol I really enjoy history and you do a great job of making it interesting. I have to ask one favor though…. As someone who spent her first 30 years in Kentucky, I need to tell you it’s pronounced, Loo-a-vul, (Louisville)🐝🤗❤️
Got it
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Yep
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Nice story. Thanks for sharing. Dadgum government!
Yup 👍
You had me until "Lewisville Kentucky" lol.
I failed at reading my script...
This was a lovely story.👍🏻
Have a lovely day my friend
LOL. Same to you, too, my friend.
Thanks my friend for that Terrific story.....I hope you had a
Great Thanksgiving Day ..
Dee 🏴✝️
Thanksgiving confession- so we arrived in Cherokee NC late at night, well after dark. the only place open was a gas station. So there we were, Me, my Wife, and my Son. What were we gonna eat? We literally had to shop in that gas station. So we picked the finest items and they were... 1 tiny bowl of raison brand, 1 generic slim Jim, and the sketchiest crock pot boiled peanuts you ever smelt. 😂
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller oh my brother you have just
Been through one of the last .RITES OF PASSAGE of Western
Man ..the old gas station food Saga... I work all over the UK
So I have been through this a few times.. coming off a
Building sites late at night in little towns were everything closes
Early...I've lived to tell the tales of these experiences ..
Wear it like a badge of honour my friend....you are part of a elite
Club...🤠
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@@dee4732 😂
That was a fun story, Thank You.
Glad you enjoyed it! thanks my friend
Wow that's amazing! It would have been so cool if they could have rounded up and recruited more people from the surrounding rural areas to increase the population size! 😕
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Best thing on TH-cam to date
Thank you!
Its always nice to hear the, GOOD PART OF A STORY... 😊 The BAD PART is, MORE THAN LIKELY, VERY, VERY BAD !!! 😢 You understand ! ❤
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I'm from grundy va right in the middle of the Appalachian mtns lol
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That was some pretty slick thinkin on his part, & very ambitious! 😆
yes sir
Now every time I'll hear the song Tennessee Whiskey I'll think of Mr. Lovely.
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Lovely story 😊
Thank you for the Lovely comment
Great story I wonder if there’s a jug of that whisky siting around in a tree stump.
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Super neat story!
Thank you!
Reminds me of the Lost town of Franklin!
yes ma'am
I have a question how do you find the information. my great great grandfather made whiskey in Robertson Co Tennessee. had a store in town. but I know nothing about it except a few photos and jugs. the office still stands and the farm still has Pitt Brothers on the barns even though it has long since been sold. I'd like to know how to find out way more and how to research it.
Funny you ask that- I was actually researching the history of coal creek Tennessee and I was at the history of East Tennessee museum in knoxville researching their archives- newspapers- and research material when I stumbled across an old article about a lost city called lovely city… and the rest is history
I loved that. Government overreach...has always been a thing. 😮
Thank you!
Hensley Settlement is my favorite. You don't hear about so many of these places.
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What a great story
Thank you 🙏
With all these micro distillers and breweries it’d be cool to see someone open one tied to this story to keep it alive. Lovely’s log cabin distillery and bbq. 👍👍
Right on- that would be cool
Dang, good story but was constantly distracted by the fake corn pone imitation Mark Twain! Lol
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Australians say their unique accents the result of their unique fermentation and distillery that effected the pronunciation of their ancestors - going back hundreds of years - so I began to suspect that the moonshine of Tennessee and Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas - going back hundreds of years - also effected their slow draw pronunciation.
The "law" would come and confiscate the stash of cash from the moonshiners profits - but almost always let them keep their moonshine distillery - so the "law" could come back and grab a stash of cash gain and use it to buy a nicer car and an upgrade on their own primitive cabins.
wow, I never heard that before about the accents. Its really so cool how Appalachia and Australia are are connected. Ive learned so much from people like you
@@TheAppalachianStoryteller I can't say for sure that it's true - but that's what the Australians are told and that seems to explain the "southern" accent in the usa.
I wonder if the "hick" accent is the result of something in the water? Just kidding - or lead paint - just kidding - I don't know.
Think I may have found one of my next stops
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Lewisville is in Texas. Loo-uh-ville (or Loo-ee-ville) is in in Kentucky.
I failed
Awesome
Thank you!
thanks for the info. jack daniels is tennessee whiskey. bourbon can only come from kentucky.
Yup, so silly that they invented those rules as a way to keep others from cutting into their market share.
Whiskey can only come from Ireland, boys.
Loved the video. 👍🏻
Thanks, JD. Another lovely story from our Appalachian past. I'd like to have a sip of Geroge's liquid gold- for medicinal purposes only- you understand. (Please forgive the pun. I couldn't help myself.)
Thank you, have a lovely day
About 100 years ago when I was in my 20s, when I first moved from Morristown/sevierville areas out here to Washington state. Some of them boys had a fit bc I knew how to run a still. So a few left handed cigarettes into the night, I gotta bending copper. We did a few runs. Then I got the hell away from it. I was in the service then n didn’t need any part of that out here. So idk what they ever did with the setup. But I was gone after a couple runs. Lol.
Cool story , thanks for sharing
Correct me if I'm wrong but since the town already existed, wouldn't they've been grandfathered in with the law change?
Apparently not back then
Your gun ownership rights are grandfathered into the Constitution but that doesn't stop the government from trying to take them away.
Very sweet story
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Nice story, but what is the place shown in the video thumbnail?
Looked like a lost city, and since lovely city didn’t have any photos…
Those mountains in the opening look an awful lot like the Smokies. 😉 I guess it doesn't matter if it is the Appalachians, Cumberland or Smokies. It is all home.
Those mountains were actually in Morgan county Tennessee inside of Frozen Head State Park part of the Appalachian Mountain chain
@The Appalachian Storyteller Beautiful area. Nothing quite like Northeast Tennessee. Consider a tale of more of the Clinton area particularly Norris. The Norris Dam ,CCC Camps and Oak Ridge were unsung heros to the war effort.