96 Year Old Appalachian Woman Answers Questions from YouTube
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- Опубликовано: 22 фев 2023
- This video is part of a series of interviews I did with Rachel Virginia Gibby Hicks. She grew up in the Junaluska section of Cherokee County NC. She is like so many of the wonderful elders I grew up with here in the mountains of Appalachia-full of knowledge, compassion, and humor.
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I interviewed my grandmother in 1977. She lived from 1889 to 1982. She said the greatest invention was indoor plumbing. I can't argue with that!!!
What a blessing ♡
When I was 16, I went to Nebraska and visited "Aunt Barbara." She was 100 years old. She was talking about the olden days and she said, "Everyone had Nothing." I'll always remember that. -also she said snakes got in their beds!
My mom would heat the water on the stove on Saturdays and put the water in one of those round tubs and we’d take turns taking a bath in the same water and mom would add more warm water each time. This was till 1965. Wow what memories
I love this! More people need to do these types of interviews. I have one of my mom that a man came and interviewed her. She passed away a year later so it is treasured!
I'm so glad you have it-what a treasure 😀
this makes me miss my grandmother SO much! she's been gone 12 years. young people out there, treasure the moments you have with your family.
Thank you, Miss Tipper. My own grandmothers lived to be 100 years old with clear minds to the end. What precious gifts in my life!
I just love her Tipper! She is a precious woman and I appreciate the gentle, skillful way you interview people. She is so fortunate to have her mind so clear and good at that age. I think she looks quite a lot younger than her age, too. Please tell her again how much we appreciate her. 🙌🏼 💓
We take care of my mother in law who is 96... 97 in July.
She's in great shape and a real go getter ❤️
Don’t let all that knowledge go away you’re so sweet Tipper to talk with this lady. We ask grand pop on his 100th Birthday what he thought was the best invention and he said electric power 😊 love when these older folks will tell you past history. God Bless her.
Thank you Eva 😀
Granny Hicks is full of knowledge. What a blessing she is 🙏🙏🙏❤
My mama will be 98 this year. She lived during the depression in Boston. Her fondest memories are about her childhood with all her siblings and her parents. Their food came mostly from welfare. Nothing was ever wasted and nobody complained about the meals. All the kids would heat up a brick at night and place it by their feet in bed during the long, cold winters. Dad married her because her mother kept their old black stove polished so nicely and he figured that mama would be a good housekeeper as well. They are both still alive and living in their immaculate family home that dad keeps spic and span. (Mama can’t clean anymore)
Dad said that the wheels are coming off now, and they need to move to a senior living place. They can afford a nice place but mama doesn’t want to live with a bunch of “old fogies”.
Thank you for the lovely chat with your very special friend!
Your parents sound wonderful! Thank you for sharing about them 😀
I lived in Maggie Valley and worked at Taylor Motor Co. weekdays and for Mr. Jack Grasty at the BP station on the weekends. This video reminded me of how kind and caring he was like many in the area i met. Not to mention how beautiful the area is.
My son interviewed my mom a few months before she passed away. He taped it and gave it to me. Sometimes I just need to hear her voice. Such a treasure! Love your talks with this special woman.
So glad you have that treasure 😀
Notice she liked the washing machine to give her time to do other things, but not relax. What a lovely person. Thank you Tipper.
She is a worker Robin 😀 Thank you!!
My mother was a worker too never sat down and lived to 98. I think that part of the answer to living a long life is keep moving along with prayer and other things ..,
Such a treasure!!! Oh Tipper, what beautiful things you’re able to bring to the surface with your tender interviewing skills. It’s such a gift! There’s so much to learn and preserve in the remembrances of our elderly friends and family members. Thank you Tipper & Mrs. Hicks ♥️
She’s right I’m 72 and my mom never taught me how to can I wish I knew how. She is wonderful
I only wish someone did this with my grandparents. This was a blessing!
A black walnut cake at Christmas was my Grandpa Rob's job. Only time we had one. I was probably 8yrs old when first remember him making one.He lived to be 90 yrs old.And been gone 30 yrs. Thank God for him and his great cornbread and fried greenbeans in bacon grease!❤
Soooo love your interviews with Granny Hicks! She is a fount of knowledge and history! Thank you, Tipper, for your time with her! God bless and love to all! 💕🤗🙏🏻
Loving these chats with Granny Hicks! I’m amazed at how many names she calls out. God bless her. ❤️
Her memory is amazing 😀 Glad you enjoyed it!
Me too , l can’t remember many names or events, and l’m in my 60s
Grams Hicks is amazing!
It absolutely amazes me how the older generation can remember details! Makes you wonder why it is that the later generations (like myself lol) can't hardly remember anything! I'm 39 and have to make lists of anything I need to remember because I'll forget if I don't have something to reference. My granny was that way before she passed. I swear she remembered the names of everyone she ever met and all their kin folk and how they were related
I am lucky...and my grandma left a diary...its not at my house, but at my mom's, just across town...I hope to be there in the next week, but I will definitely get out that book and read it. the one thing I remember my grandmother saying was that she loved her Lord and wanted to serve him.
What a treasure! So glad your family has it 😀
my grandmother lived in a one room cabin with five kids once. they would bathe in the creek out back with a bar of soap. she was always famous for saying that one could be poor with nothing, but they could be clean. I remember seeing that cabin when I was a child and thinking it was so small and I could not imagine 6 people living in that one room. it fell in and is gone now but I remember what it looked like.
Granny Hicks sounds like a lovely lady. The first washing machine I remember. Our mother had was an old wringer type didn't take. But one time getting your hand caught. Too remember not to do that anymore. Thank you and Granny Hicks for sharing
Thank you David 😀
Granny Hicks is so sweet! I can imagine she might be thinking “why are these people wanting to know so much about me or what I think”. Well, if she has thought or asked you that Tipper, tell besides the younger ones being fascinated by how things were done back when she was a child. Those of us who are above 50-60, well she reminds of stories our mothers told us how they grew up. I know for myself, I can close my eyes and it’s like I’m sitting in the living room with my mama telling me some of those stories again. Thank you for sharing her with us.
Ms Hicks can now add 'youtube star' to her long list of life experiences & accomplishments!!!
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Lovely video! I remember my grandmother had an old ringer washer and she did laundry every Monday. She grew up on a farm in Vermont and made her own soap and always kept a garden.
I could listen as long as she would talk . Use to be one of favorite ways of passing time. Still remember the smell of soapy water in the wash pan on the back porch. Baths in the Wash tub. Outside in summer and in the kitchen when it was cold. We had sliding seat in the two hole outhouse. Daddy fixed so left or righted handed you could move it. He didn't want Mama getting splinters. Built a bathroom in 66. Used to have hand pump in kitchen and on the back porch. Glad to be born when I was and raised like Mama and Daddy was. Granddaddy thought color tv was of the devil. The only time they ever had a serios argument was when Daddy got a color tv, Granddaddy had my brother put the black and white in their bedroom. Wouldn't watch the color. He was born in 1885. Sorry for going on, got carried away.
Thank you for sharing your memories!!
This little lady has a great memory. She seems to enjoy your visits and so do I. I have one aunt left on both sides and she is 97. Her memory is going and she’s unable to answer my questions anymore. I have an older cousin who has great stories. I live near Bristol, Va where the Carter family got started. Carter’s Fold is located in Hiltons Va where there is live music. It’s worth the trip. They have a web site.
You & your daughters are SO fortunate & blessed to have these women's knowledge. They don't think what they know is important. They HAVE no idea how amazing their wealth of information is; especially today. They've forgot more than we'll ever have a handle on. My granmaw had a 3rd grade education & knew the most about everything. And, she THOUGHT she was 'stupid.' It makes me sad..She was a midwife to women who couldn't afford hospitals for birthing babies.. She tended those women throughout their pregnancies. She could look at a woman & tell she was pregnant. Something about her neck, the vein in a woman's neck (?)... She just KNEW things.
These talks always takes me down memory lane. My parents were twelve and fourteen years older than Granny Hicks. I remember the outhouses in yards. My dad's favorite cake was black walnut. My mom would incorporate the finely crushed nuts into the batter, and then after it was icinged, she'd sprinkle black walnuts on top. When I first dated my husband, his parents bought raw milk from a farmer. I remember the large jars in the refrigerator with the heavy layer of cream on top.
I have really enjoyed watching your interviews with Mrs Hicks she is so precious. Give her a squeeze from me bless her heart!
My mother was born in 1928 and passed 2020 she rarely talked about her growing up but when she did her stories were much like Granny Hick's. Mother was borned and raised in the flatwoods of Tennesee so was daddy, daddy talked more about growing up than mother. Daddy was 14 years older than mother and her mother never let her forget. This series are a real treat thank you.
I bet her mother would never let her forget either if Daddy were 14 years younger than mother.🤣
Wow, she has a good memory. Precious lady!
I'm so glad you are doing these talks. So much of the old ways are being lost. One day we might regret not learning the old ways .
I am in my 70s and i still listen to the Carter family. God bless ms HICKS.
Wonderful history
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Again, love the interviews with Ms Hicks. She is amazing for the age she is! All her memories are so interesting!
Thank you Tipper!
Her memory is amazing at her age,great interview.
I wish I could get my grandma to talk about her early life, but she's stubborn! I'm an Oregonian, lived here all my life. My grandpa was also an Oregonian. But my grandma was from South Dakota. She moved to Oregon when she was a girl and helped her family pick fruit and vegetables as a migrant worker. In her day, you'd have to take a ferry to cross the Columbia river, and there was just a one lane road down the gorge, from Eastern Oregon to the Willamette valley. My grandpa fished for salmon with the native Americans at Celilo falls, before the dam buried the falls. And they'd go hunting for grouse and antelope in south eastern Oregon. I know my generation has seen wonderful advances in technology and stuff, but I can't help feeling a little regret that I didn't live in my great state when they did. I even miss the 80's.
Really enjoy listening to miss Virginia, precious lady.
Thanks tipper this was Awsome and I really love her clock it sounds so Beautiful .her story s are never ending .
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
What a lovely woman filled with history. I hope she is still doing very well.
She and I had the same maiden name! My ancestors came from Wales.
Love that 😀
I have loved all the videos about granny Hicks so awesome to hear about her life.😊
So glad 😀
Did Ms. Hicks say Mosteller?? My Spanish teacher in Middle school here in Florida was from North Carolina! He was musical too. Played Trumpet. Oh my.💕👍
She did 😀
Thank You Ladies for taking us along.
THIS IS AWESOME!!!!! GRANNY HICKS is such a blessing❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🥂🥂🥂🥂🥂 Thx you for sharing☆☆☆☆
You are so welcome 😀
So pleased to view this video! There's something really comfortable about listening to Ms. Gibby-Hicks' learned voice, talk while the clock chimes and tick tocks!
I could listen to her talk and reminisce all day. When I was growing up, I used to ask my grandmother to tell me about “way back when”. I wish I had, had a way to record it back in the day. Thank you for sharing. She’s such a wealth of information ♥️
I love it when you interview her. She has a wonderful memory and lovely stories. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida 😎🦩🌞😎
I knew there would be a mention of prayer meeting!
😀 Thank you Papaw!
I was a delight to listen to you Ms Virginia. You brought back memories for me of when I was about 5 years old, Daddy delivered fresh bottles of milk with the cream on top 😋 Ty Tipper for this enterview. It was relaxing.
She reminds me of my great aunt Betty, but we called her Tops.😁 Such a pleasure hearing her recounts of the past. Have a happy Sunday!🌅🌷😊
Wow. Granny Hicks is better than a GPS. She's got maps of at least half the state stored up in her head. She's amazing. I love these interviews.
I’m still watching..she’s Adorable 🥰
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I Love this. Thank you so very much for interviewing her. It brings back fond memories of my grandparents.
Mammaw was always involved with the young folks and always glad for them to have a good time. Momma's second oldest brother got a good job in the mines and saw to it that the family had a piano and an upright, hand cranked Victrola. The young folks would gather there and make music and play records and dance. A lot of people didn't approve of dancing, but Mammaw allowed it at her house. A good time was had by all. 🎶💃🎶
What great memories 😀
What a blessing to have this lovely woman tell her stories about how it was back in the day. God bless her; she's a treasure.
One of the gatherings my grandma had was quilting bees. I loved listening to the women talk and their quilts we're beautiful. Good memories.
That is wonderful 😀
This is so interesting she is a true Gem everyone should do this with their elders . I was wondering if she has talked about the difference in our winter's if she can remember huge snows or ice storms how early and late in the season it would turn cold when she was a child a young wife and momma?
Our weather seems so different even to when I was a child and I'm 58 I can remember it coming really big snows and it not melting and another coming on top of that . Huge icicles hanging off our roof . Even back in 77&78 we went out for Christmas break and didn't go back to school till almost the end of February all our roads was just packed down with snow and ice. I miss the winters like that I love winter weather heck I even enjoyed the ice storm the one we got a few winters ago we was out of electricity for over a week I didn't even mind that it made me think of being a kid and my momma cooking on our wood stove and using old kerosene lamps and my mammo reading the bible to me and my cousin by the flicker of the light.
OH my how I miss my mammo, mom and my sweet cousin who have all went to be with God. It's lonely in this big old world that's why I do enjoy your channel and especially look forward to you reading to us . God Bless you and your family 🙏
My parents were born in the 1930's, and had fond memories of listening to "The Jack Benny Program", "The Fred Allen Show", "The Lone Ranger", "Fibber McGee and Molly", and many other radio offerings.
What an honor it is to listen to this Angel. I could listen all day to her stories. Keep up the awesome work and videos you do.
I just love hearing Mrs Hicks tell about the old days and I love all the videos when you talk to the older people to just hear all there wisdom and how things was when they were young two of my grandsons always wants to sit and me tell them when I was young they are 13&15 , I am 66 but I pray I so they can tell there family some day can leave them with how things was when I was coming up
I wish I had taped my Grandmother and Great Grandmothers stories. I use to love hearing their stories. My Grandma was the first in town to get an electric refrigerator back in the 20s or 30s. Awesome story today ty🥰
Love that memory 😀 What an exciting time to be the first with a refrigerator 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia She said neighbors came by to see it lol
I could liaison to her all day long she such a sweet lady I just love to here there stories 🥰 hope to see more of these from the older generation .. Thank you for sharing 🥰 I still love to listen to the carter family sing 🎶
Love hearing about the older days by the people who lived them...
Thank you for another interesting interview!
Always enjoy these lovely videos!
I love to listen how things were in the past. Granny Hicks is a treasure! 🙏💕
Priceless!!
Awesome to listen too ..
Thank you for sharing. 🙏♥️🙏
“We didn’t wash our hair every week” 🥰
I wash mine every day. I’m sure I learned that from shampoo commercials and now it’s the norm.
I love this lady, so much! Thank you for doing this!😊❤️
I love this lady! You are so gentle with her
This was wonderful. Loved listening to the old clock too.
Wonderful stories... thanks Tipper 🤗❤️
That was wonderful. I love hearing about how people used to do things.
What a blessing to still have your mind at that age ❤
How precious 💗 She sounds like my nanny😊 So does Granny ❤️
I've passed down my grandmas medicine. Tablespoon of honey, teaspoon lemon juice, double shot of whiskey hot. Works every time
I enjoyed this conversation of the past. God bless you both.
Another wonderful conversation with Granny Hicks🥰
Thank you for doing these interviews ❤️ I live in Rabun county Ga ..so it’s all so familiar. My extended family lives in Asheboro Nc ..and my mamaw and aunts would always take me “visiting” when I would stay with them .. reminds me of those times . I can’t wait to see them again ...
Always enjoy these interviews with her . She is such a treasure! Thanks tipper ...God bless...🙏❤️
Special moments with living history. Thank you both!
So much to learn from our elders. I was able to gather a lot of wisdom from both sets of grandparents. I was blessed immeasurably. 🥰
I think it's amazing that you are videoing this sweet lady and posting it YouTub for the world to see most of all she will be around forever now for her family & friends to see. She is an amazing sweet lady full of history
Thank you so much for doing these interviews Tipper! Not only these but all of your videos are very informative. I just hope RUclips never goes away so I'll have all this knowledge to reference when needed!
Like these interviews very much. Glad you're talking to mrs Hicks and documenting history that otherwise might be lost.
I enjoy these talks you have with her. It brings back memories. My great grandma, I called her granny, passed away when I was ten. Dad would tell me stories about her that was very interesting. I've wished many times that I could have sat down and talked to her.
I've really enjoyed all of your video's with Ms. Rachel. She reminds me so of my Great Aunt Ida. I love to hear her telling how life was in her younger days. I relate & love to learn as much as I can because of my family history there. Thank you Tipper for sharing, & thank you Ms Rachel for sharing your precious life with me. You're a beautiful lady!
God Bless You, Both!
What a joy, blessing, and treasure the interviews
. With granny Hicks and granny. Thank you granny Hicks and thank you Tipper. God Bless all.
Blood line or Family Tree. More people need this knowledge.
So fascinating. I wish I’d ask my grandparents more about their lives.
Bless her 💛
I love the older folks (seniors citizens) to me there the Best Story tellers 💜❤️ ..I help out all the seniors in this area ..especially if there a government grant that can help up keep there Homes 🏠
I enjoy their stories too 😀
Hi friends have enjoyed this series have a day love from TEXAS
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
We love your content up here in WV. Keep it up!
Thank you!!
Tipper you’re such a wonderful gentle soul that just exudes within your content ❤
You are so kind-thank you 😀
I so enjoy your visits with Rachel. I remember washing my hair with red soap at Grandma Fergies and she yelled from doors (Belva-Jean) go get the calf out of the haystack, I run with my hair full of soap. Thanks for the memory. Grandma sink with a pump for cistern water. Drinking water come from the pump at the windmill. God Bless Jean
Love that memory Belva Jean 😀