My Appalachia - A Memoir 2 | Northern Lights, End of Time, Haint Woman, Ghost Dog
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- Опубликовано: 3 ноя 2022
- In this video series we are reading a book Sidney Saylor Farr wrote about her life in in the Appalachian Mountains and talking about the things that prick our minds as a way to celebrate Appalachia. The book title: My Appalachia A Memoir by Sidney Saylor Farr.
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Tipper, I have always been an avid reader. I am now 70 years old and have some serious health issues. Your reading is such a gift to me, as I am sure it is to others. Sometimes I just don't feel like reading. I have no interest in television and I can rest and listen to you. It's such a joy. Thank you.
I'm so glad you enjoy it 😀
Audiobooks are wonderful for those with trouble reading or the infirm. Sometimes local libraries will have free access to an online library where audiobooks and other things are available. Maybe worth asking about at your local library. ❤
I’m saving these as you post them in my favorites file so I can listen to them again and again… You do an excellent job of narrating
Thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoy them 😀
I'll be listening to these again as well. You do an excellent job of putting us in that time and place. Listening to the stories also makes the chores go by faster 🙂
I enjoy listening to your stories…reminds me of when I was little and had someone read me story books 😊
I'm so glad!
Oh Tipper. The Northern LIghts. When I was in college, I went to Maine with my roommate and we lay on her father's porch and watched the northern lights light up the sky. I didn't know you could see them as far south as you are, but how wonderful. Incredible.
They sound amazing. I've never seen them but would love too 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia It's quite rare, but yes, sometimes the Northern Lights will get pretty far south
I want to see them so bad. I live on Long Island so winter might be the only time away from lights. I have a space weather map app and we have been getting a lot of solar storms recently. I strong one the other day and the map of auroras had red in some locations. I only seen it depicted green so far.
I enjoyed this, as always, Tipper! Thank you for all your good work! 🙌🏼 💞
I've often heard our mountains called God's Country and after living here for most of my life I agree this is God's Country. Absolutely God gave us the signs we follow. They have been handed down through many generations. I love the old words folks used and I have heard many of them. I think this reading included many more of the old words and I love hearing them!
Thank you Tipper, as always, I enjoyed the tales of the past!!!!!!
Enjoying the language and the haints! Thanks Tipper!
I love these stories.
Just catching up on your readings. Another great book you chose for us to listen to and learn from. Thank you for sharing!
Excellent! Gotta love the wives tales! Sock around your throat for a cold. That's hilarious, wait till I tell my husband that one!! We have heard the fog in August makes for a bad winter. And of course the Woolley worm. The crow over the house we'd not heard but had a male cardinal fly in to our windows for months!! He would hit it so hard he'd wake us up. Were told that meant someone was going to die. Yeah, my husband shot that cardinal! We have a huge amount of Cardinals here in our holler!! ;)
Thanks so much for reading, Tipper! I love the books and stories read to us! I always look forward to them! They're always so interesting!
Tipper I love to hear you read. Your accent is so familiar and beautiful to me!! Reminds me of listening to my granny read to me as a child. I am from WVa but the accent is so Appalachian!! Thank you!
Great read, thank you Tipper. God Bless. Jean
Thanks Tipper. Love the beliefs of those folks. They were as one with the mountains and land.
Really enjoyed this reading.
I was enchanted the entire time. Thank you
One of the things I love about appalachian language is how the words somewhat give you a mental image of what they mean. A word like schrunchin' sounds, at least to me, like what it is. Those folks were so smart! Susan from TN
I'm really enjoying this book... thanks 🤗❤️❤️
Love this story it was so good from Canada 🇨🇦
Missed you last night. But another good chapter. I love all the stories of the haints.
this is great really enjoyed it!
This store was very interesting! You are a good reader, thank you. L
I love this! I missed the first 1 but will listen in a little. Thank you! I never heard of sulfuric apples, very interesting. I've seen Northern lights 2 times, so beautiful. I love that they believe God gave us these signs. God bless you and yours❤🙏🙏❤
Thanks Tipper!
I’ve been listening to Common Folks, and loved it so much I decided to listen to some of your other books. I just finished Dorie, and now I’m starting this one. We’re preparing for our Passover camping trip(we celebrate according to The Bible starting on the 14th), and it’s really been a fellowship listening to all these women share their lives and testimonies. I miss my Mamie(grandmother) dearly, and miss her storytelling and advice, especially now that I’m older and need it so much! I thank God he had me pay attention, and listen when I was younger, such a blessing he gave me to know and love my family! Thank you for sharing these words of wisdom, and precious life experience, we all need it more than ever! Blessings!!
So glad you've enjoyed the readings 😀
I think it was so smart of Sidney to record those men talking and telling stories. Thank you for reading Tipper.
It was! I wish I had done more of that 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia I hope you're doing some now while you remember it I know some of the old people you're talking to and I've seen them recorded but you need to write down what you remember about your Paw and your grandpa
I only found your channel a few months ago and have been watching some of your previous videos to get to know you and your family. This story you read today reminded me of a story I came across during my time as an elementary teacher. I am retired now and still have some of my favorite books and when I looked on my shelf I found the one that sounded so similar to the story telling style of this book...well, in the book description I saw it was set in the Appalachia mountains! No wonder it seemed famiiar. The name of the book is "When I was young in the mountains" by Cynthia Rylant. I look forward to hearing other chapters from the book you are reading.
These chapters were plum full of haints, natural remedies, mysterious goings on, & superstitions! Interesting! 😀
Thank you.
thank you
love it
You have wonderful videos keep the good work
Love your readings thanks for sharing!
Glad you like them!
I remember going with Granny to the smokehouse to get a pan of sulphur apples. Don't remember the taste but the texture was like fresh cut apples. Thank you for the readiing. Was able to (see) all the different events in my mind.
My dad was born in a rural western piedmont, NC farming community in 1905. He told us of folks gathering in the churchyard in May, 1910, in fearsome anticipation and awe to view the mysterious Haley’s Comet. At 41/2, he hid in his mothers skirts, terrified, for many gathered believed it to be an omen of the end of the world.
This brings back memories, have a wonderful weekend everyone 🍻
Thanks, you too!
I have only seen the Northern Lights one time in the mountains of WNC.
I would love to see them 😀
Because it's so rare it was both scary and beautiful.
I live about four miles from this place.l live in Lincoln county next to. Rockcasl.where this place is they call it now gumsulfer....that so great of this place so close to me..l have heard about all these stories.l am 66...and l heard of these northern lights..lot of these signs we still go by them.
I'm not sure how I stumbled across your channel...but now I'm hooked. I could listen to you tell stories all day. I'm excited to get to check out all of the other videos
Welcome and thank you 😀
The Bible verse about bleeding saved my Moms life after she delivered my brother and I who are twins. She had come home from the hospital and started passing clots of blood and couldn’t stop bleeding so my Granny got a lot of women from the church in the community and they came and they prayed that verse over my Mother. The bleeding stopped and they managed to get her to the hospital. My Mom had almost bled out and that verse truly saved her life so anyone wandering yes that Bible verse does work.
What was the verse? I forgot to write it down when she said it.
😊 God Bless you all!
Same to you 🙏
Thank you!
Another enjoyable trip to our heritage. Thank you so much! Unless you can experience the Northern Lights, you can not truly appreciate their majesty.
Enjoy your readings.
Thank you! 🤗
This book Tipper is a genuine way to Celebrate Appalachia, have a Great Weekend 🙂.
Hope you have a good one too Donald 😀
Enjoyed this ! Another great peek into the book ! I grew up on the headwaters of stoney fork creek in watauga county nc, just before it flows down into wilkes county, with elk creek on the other side of elk ridge. This is near Boone, out at deep gap . Doc Watson lived just up the road a piece. We had several old big walnut trees on our property and the "old timers" called them warnuts ..I had walnut husk stained hands many times . The northern lights (Aurora borealis) are very beautiful! I've only seen them a few times this far south . Last time was a few years ago . I remember watching the news and they sad a rare occurrence was going to happen in the northern half of north Carolina. We were going to see the northern lights . So I went out the night of , up on a high knob and looked north. So very beautiful! It did not last long and was faint green and pinkish...not as strong and vivid as our neighbors up north saw ...Hope we get to see it again down here some day....thanks tipper...appreciate you always...God bless...🙏❤
Thank you Ben! I would love to see them 😀
I was wondering if Warnuts meant Walnuts. This book is already very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
Thank Tippy , for sharing your stories from this book.
I enjoyed hearing about the food preservation and cultivation.
When religion gets separated from the constraints of family values, it goes into all the wrong places. With all of the counterproductive beliefs, you know that no one's belief is motivating them to take time to do the much-needed experiments.
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Reading books. Just like letters. Remember before technology how special it was to receive a letter that someone who took the time to sit down and that letter to you. How meaningful those were instead of what you're seeing right now. Text.
A very good reading
I just started listening to you read this book. I really enjoyed listening to you. I'm going to listen to all of them. I don't know if you've read other stories but if you have I really hope to hear them.
Thank you! There are several books you can find: Dorie Woman of the Mountains, Alex Stewart Portrait of a Pioneer, Mountain Path, and The Christmas Barn 😀
WATCHING FROM THE FOOT HILLS OF APPALACHIA IN ALABAMA. IN THE LATE 50'S WHEN I WAS ABOUT 9 OR 10 WE LIVED IN SYLACAUGA ALABAMA, ONE NIGHT THE PHONE RANG AND IT WAS MY MOTHERS SISTER ,SHE TOLD MOTHER TO TAKE US CHILDERN TO THE BACK PORCH THAT WE COULD SEE THE NORTHERN LIGHTS IN THE SKY.I DIDNT WANT TO STAY OUT THERE ,IT WAS SCARY TO ME,BUT I HAVE NEVER FORGOTTEN IT.
Never saw any haints while living in Appalachia. But I've seen more than my share since.
I love your reading cant wate to here the next one like to know how to do the apples
Stoney Creek Way is only 20 min from me! I think I'll go see it!
I'm loving hearing about the superstitious I've never heard of half of these, tgey are pretty neat 🙂
Once again a wonderful read. We are loving this book. Have a great weekend. 🍂🍂🍂🍂
Thank you! You too!
I enjoyed these two chapters. It was really interesting to hear about the Haints and ghost and superstitions that they believed in. Thank you, Tipper, for reading another good chapter. I look forward to hearing next weeks chapter.
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
My Father was from the mountains in Tennessee. He would be 98 years old if he was alive now. He had so many stores like these, and old timey recipes for illness cures.
Such knowledge he had! Thank you for watching 😀
Love your reading. We always planted garden by the signs. Never heard many haint stories but I'm sure they were told.
I have a vague memory of granny painting her porch "haint blue", which was a mildly blue tinted white that she would make with a little block of ultramarine and lime paint. It was supposed to keep spirits away. She also had tons of wind chimes on her porches for the same reason.
It wasn't just ghosts, it was also knockers who lived in holes in the ground, and especially the mines, so great grandpa had to take extra bread to throw down the mine shaft so the knockers wouldn't knock down the timbers and cause a cave-in. I don't remember what she called them, but she told us about the little people that live in the woods and you couldn't cut trees or pick berries around certain rock formations because it would give you bad luck.
My other great grandmother was the opposite, even though they both grew up and lived no more than 20 miles apart there entire lives. She believed in house wights, yard wights and wood wights and water wights (spirits) and she thought they brought you luck if you were respectful of their spaces and didn't farm there. You could have all the berries you wanted if you left about 1/3 on the bush.
There were so many rules to live by, that all revolved around whatever spirits lived around your home and property. But the one common thing was that all spirits could be appeased or kept at bay by a clean and orderly home.
It's amazing to me to hear words or sayings I've never said or heard but yet I know what they mean or talking about during their stories🤔🥰💕
I’m really enjoying this story! It sounds like the stories my Uncles would tell at night as we’d sit in the living room by the wood stove or outside by a fire🥰.
Thanks tipper for reading.look forward to every Friday.✔❤
Back in July I bought "Backwoods Witchcraft: Conjure & Folk Magic from Appalachia" by Jake Richards and he writes about a lot of the old cures and signs, and how they always went hand in hand with Bible verses. Very interesting. Many of the things that Sidney Saylor Farr mentions are mentioned in Mr. Richards' book, as well. Facinating subject! I loved hearing the description of seeing the aurora, too. I've only once caught a bare glimpse of one, as north as I am. Beautiful reading, Tipper. Thank you! Hugs
Thank you for the book suggestion. I just ordered it …sounds great.
i remember my granny waking me up to see the northern lights on sand mountain alabama , i don’t remember how old i was maybe 10
What a great memory 😀
Really enjoying this book. My Mom’s grandmother lived in rural Kansas and also had a number of superstitions that she lived by. My Mother didn’t seem to recall them or even consider them in her life, but my Aunt kept them in the back of her mind. I wish I could remember more, but there were some about not giving knives as gifts and you were not supposed to say thank you if someone gives you a plant. At least I think that’s how it went. They also had religious beliefs and the superstitions and religion went hand in hand at that time.
In my Dad's family, one of the big ghost stories was "Raw Head & Bloody Bones". My Grandma, who was a mix of Scots-Irish and Cherokee, loved to scare the pants off the kids in the family. She told about "Ol Raw Head and Bloody Bones"....and I can't remember how her story went, but I do remember being scared to death that they were in my bedroom closet...behind every door...in every dark room. lol Another story in that family was about a headless horseman who rode with something chasing him and he disappeared in a graveyard.
I was also told a story about when my Grandma's baby brother Elbin died. One of the ladies in the family went outside and saw a white casket flying through the air near the house the night before he died. Dad told the story as truth...or at least I thought so...still not sure if he was trying to scare us or if it was actually supposed to be true.
I love the old Appalachian language like saying, "Well, Sir" before starting a sentence. My Dad did that a lot. One of my kids would ask, "Pa Pa, what time is it?" and he would answer, "WELL, Sir she's forty-'leven." as a joke.
What a great book!
Loved this one Tipper. The old superstitious and 'old wives tales ' are just up my alley, as well as the 'ghost stories'. I wish I had one to listen to everyday while driving to work. Stay safe Hun
I was always told not to cut my hair unless there was a full moon. So I've always done that, cause your hair grows faster. And that's true enough.
I enjoyed hearing tonight's reading - I have known of the big balls of light that go through the woods at night. I believe scientists can explain better than me but I understand that there are balls of gas given off by the earth (possibly something underground that has decayed or leaked out and it glows in the dark until it dissipates. Kind of like the ocean waves that sometimes glow, or lightening bugs, or certain fish that glow. It sure would be scary if you didn't know what it was. I don't think I would be afraid since I think it would be fascinating to see something that rarely happens. I also know of several places where gravity doesn't work the same as normal. There was a little rickety old house that someone discovered up in Wisconsin that you couldn't stand up straight. You would lean to one side and that would feel level to you and it would make people laugh as they tried to walk. The owners charged a $1 to walk in the house. Then when I was a teenager, the kids in our church went to summer camp near Tampa, Florida and there was a hill that you went to the bottom of the hill and put your car in neutral and it would then go up the hill by itself, like being pulled up by a rope. They charged money to park on the bottom and it was also fun to experience. Somehow gravity gets messed up - maybe a magnetic field or something. but no one ever was able to explain that one. I just figure that one day we will understand how all the strange things work - just as if you lived in 1890 and somebody told you that one day we would walk on the moon or fly like a bird across the ocean. One day it is going to be all known but right now, I just enjoy thinking about the amazing things God has already done for us. Do you remember that old song that goes 'would like to swing on a star, carry moonbeams home in a jar, and be better off than you are? then you better stay in school - or you'll grow up to be a mule, hey haw. I certainly would like to collect moon beams in a jar and maybe someday, I'll learn how to do that LOL.
Thank you Mary. I don't remember the song but it sounds like a good one 😀
Highly enjoyable! Thank you, Tipper. What interesting cross-sections of childhood experiences live on in our minds. Those recollections of birthdays and moments of increased responsibility, are particularly interesting. So many elderly folks I’ve spoken to- rarely remember specifics from their early years, with the exceptions of tragedies or birthdays. Perhaps the heightened emotions or sense of self importance on that day, imprints our minds? Just find that interesting.
Never heard of planting by the signs until I was a young adult in the 80's. I met this older gentleman; he was in his 70's at the Coop as I was getting feed. We started talking and I learned for the first time about planting by the signs! From then on that's what I did. I found it so interesting. I had a lot of fails but I pushed through, and it seemed to work.
Thanks for the Friday evening read.
My granny and grandpa were of no religion. They did also plant by the moon and planets. Granny insisted I always plant my peas and potatoes on St Patrick's day....I fear if I didn't she would come haunt me! lol
When my sister and I were kids we each had a wart and mama cut a potato in half, gave each of us a half and had us to rub the potato on the wart and throw it behind our backs across the road and into a field. My sister heard hers hit the road but I didn't. You weren't supposed to know where it went. Her wart didn't disappear but mine did!
My grandmother used to always say that if it rained on Easter Sunday it would rain for seven more Sundays that has held pretty true throughout my life also I don't know if it's a Superstition or not but my Dad could help people find a well by using a forked peach tree limb I think they called it witching or winching
I love to hear you read and appreciate you doing so for us.
I believe in the old farmers almanac 100% .these are God's ways of helping us in life.
It makes sense to me that the momma started praying when she saw the northern lights there in her front yard. I doubt she'd have read about them in any books at that point. It's hard enough to look up at the sky with no lights on around you and see the immense numbers of stars and feel like you are so tiny, enough to be overwhelmed sometimes. Kind of frightening, depending on how good your view is, to be honest. Thank you, Tipper. I very much enjoyed this.
I have truly loved your reading, I’m from the area your reading about and have many friends there, reading was a passion of mine but now it’s hard to read old eyes😊 so I will keep all your reading so I can hear it from time to time thank you so much.
I’m 69 and when I was a little boy we saw the northern lights over Greenville SC! It was the winter and very cold out on our front porch watching them!
Love this part of this story all the old superstitions and the ghost stories, alot of the superstitions we know here thank you Tipper for a wonderful story God bless
Ghosts!
Enjoyed very much. My dad was born in 1914 and he grew up in the Arkansas Mts. He would wrap a dirty sock around his neck when he had a sore throat. He carried the nut you spoke of in his pocket. He found one on our place in Tx. I never can remember what the name is. He said it was for good luck. He planted his garden by the moon. All so interesting.
I’m from the flat land of Florida but I’ve heard of most of the superstitions . We were country folks .
Thank you Tipper! I really enjoy these audiobooks!😊🇨🇦
We always planted by the Farmer's Almanac. When I was a very young woman, I poo-pooed it and I planted my peas in the full moon. Need I say what happened? The old neighbor saw my peas on top of the ground and gently corrected me. Later when I moved to Florida, the ocean is affected by the pull of the moon. A woman will go in labor more often in a full moon. Oh, and a blizzard with low pressure would also bring a baby into the world. I also saw the Northern Lights one very, very cold December night in Ohio. Won't forget it. My sisters and I have had some ghost stories living in an old house built in the mid 1800's. I had a vision in a brand-new house in Colorado one night and wondered if a pioneer girl had a bad end on our property along the Poudre River. Our dog often had strange protective reactions there and he was usually a very happy little guy.
Thank you for watching and sharing your experiences 😀
Hey Tipper, I hope this finds you well! My elder close kin were all religious folks and were always talking of the signs for planting and when to address medical issues. As a child, I had to have a couple of surgeries on my left hip. I clearly remember my dear late mother explaining to the doctors her belief in the timing of the surgeries by the signs. She was a very religious person and as you explain in this video, believed the signs were of God. To those who see this and think it somewhat of a contradiction to religious teaching, I can only say that it was just my people's way. On another topic you bring up, in my Knox County, about 20 miles west of Sidney's Stoney Fork over a couple of ridges was a place known as "Booger Mountain". "Booger Mountain" was on old 25E between the small communities of Gray and Baileys Switch. My papaw G. Shelby claimed that the "boogers" there were the ghosts of Civil War soldiers that were buried on the mountain. We have lots of kin buried in and around both communities. My papaw showed me the two graves that he claimed were the graves of those two Civil War soldiers when I was a teenager. I do remember us driving to see the "haints" on a few occasions, but I never recall seeing them myself. Thanks for another reading and for the memories it stirs.
Thank you for sharing that information Gordon 😀
All the superstitions most of those that my family on my mom’s side were exactly the same. Loved this part.
So wonderful to hear these stories. My brother in law plants garden here in Texas using the old Farmer's Almanac. Thanks for reading enjoyed.
Glad you enjoyed it Frank 😀
And all those new moon sayings caught my attention since the new moon is how many of the Lord's Holy days are set to.
So fascinating. I learned so much. I grew up around black walnut trees but have never heard warnuts. All of it is interesting.
Thank you Rhonda 😀
Thank you for reading. ❤️
You are so welcome 😀
Thank you Tipper I so enjoy your readings.
You are so welcome 😀
Miss Tipper, lots of insight and a good reading. have a good weekend.
Thank you! You too!
One of the tales I remember was my grandmother telling about a black Panter walking the railroad track in n.c.
I remember all the superstitions my grandma would tell me and my brothers but the one I remember the most was about the black cat crossing your path when you were going somewhere she would almost turn around and go back home she really believed it was bad luck.
I've heard that one too 😀
❤ Love stories like these!
Glad you like them!
I found there's a place at the top of Michigan, that you can go in the winter to see the northern lights. Its on my to do list this winter. Thanks so much for reading to us, its a lost art.
I love your content and the memories it brings