Growing Up On the Mountain: An Appalachian of the Great Depression (Part 1)
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Recently, after many years of listening to my grandma's stories of growing up during the depression, I decided to video-tape a couple of our conversations on the subject. A few hours in the editing room resulted in this finished product. She has lived a hard life, and the fact that she has overcome so much is so inspirational to me, as I hope it is to you too.
I could sit all day and listen to the old people talk. So much history.
River Birch yeski
I have the great honor and privilege to care for my grandmother as she lives out her last days. Shes 95 years young, and has a memory sharp as a tack. There will NEVER be another generation that could make it through tough times such as a depression. This lady has taught me so much about life. People seemed to have their priorities in line back in those days. Thanks for sharing the video of your beautiful grandmother! She's a gem for sure!😍
This dear old precious woman has faced a great deal of hardship, and adversity. We could all learn so much from her generation.
Our older generations are such a treasure. What they have to offer us is first hand info. I hope our schools stop selling them short and teach our children to respect and listen to them so we can accurately hand our true history down. When I was in school I had a teacher that assigned us to find and interview a senior citizen and then we read the reports out loud in class. What a great teacher, and an amazing lesson.
Amen!
My great grandma was born 1913 and lived through the great depression. That woman never wasted a bite of food and could save money like no other! She grew up in Leiper's Fork Tennessee. I never heard stories of them starving. But they were farmers. I loved listening to her old stories from when she was a little girl. I would give anything to hear them again. I wish the sound was a little better so i could make out what is being said. I love learning about people and places from long ago! Thank you for sharing!
AdrienneS1970 they didn't starve because they knew how to hunt and use native plants. My 93 year old Grandma still makes beans from scratch and makes poke weed salad 😁
Dandelion salad....They'd pick wild mushrooms, onion, mint....
I never got to hear from anyone that was in the Great Depression, where some where in Nursing home in Iowa. It was because no one had enough help that we could sit and listen to talk about it. So this is a great that you video taped this one for us. Thank you very much for doing so. And thanks to your grandma to tell the story. She is definitely a inspiration.
My heart broke for her. Looking for the rest of her story. What a wonderful women.
Old people are awesome......so interesting to listen to because they experienced so much that we can't relate to...
I always love stories like this of the people who lived in west by God, in the old days. Tough folk!
thank you for sharing a piece of your grandmother's life with us.
Oh would love to be able to hear this....someone needs to re-do the film with closed captions as the volume is not loud enough to understand what she is saying.
Mary Thornsberry my last name too Tommy Thornsberry
Try headphones that’s what I use with my iPad.
Yes please. I can't hear this either.
I loved hearing this remembrance. I feel bad for what happened to her. Her mom was real lucky and I'm sure worked hard to keep them together. Great hard working woman. I admire all she did and went through.
Absolutely loved this!!! Just noticed there's a part two! Can't wait to watch. Having grown up and lived a large part of my life in rural Appalachia, this really hit home.
A book needs to be written about this. Your grandmothers life growing up would be a best seller. WOW Found part 2
She reminds me so much of my momma, whose family was from Cow Creek/Booneville. Our Moores gave the land for the town of Moore's Station, later renamed Booneville, Ky. There are plaques commemorating my ancestors. I just love hearing these old stories! Precious and priceless. 🙏❤
THE PRODIGAL ESOTERIC You are absolutely gorgeous
@@disturbedpatient425 well, thank you so much! You made my day! :)
THE PRODIGAL ESOTERIC oh my, my late husband Ron Barker was born at Cow Creek!
It wasn't so bad for my Great-Grandparents. My Great-Grandpa was a coal miner in Virginia so they at least had an income. They had eleven children, and God helped them put food on the table for all of them.
Kelly your Great Grandfathers hard work put the food on the table
Wish I had done this, even just taking notes with my grandmother...She had so much to tell. She came over to the USA in 1900. I missed a great opportunity to share her story. So glad you didnt.
Omg, her daddy was murdered right in front of her. I just want to hug her and love on her. She was crying. :(
Thanks for sharing the story, photos and memories. We need more of these stories. Hope we never forget where we come from.
Such an awesome recording. Thank you for sharing.
We canned all our food from our big garden smoked all our meat ate squirrel raccoon and groundhog very hard living
Believe it or not it's not easy in the city. You have to work long hours every day just to keep the Bill's paid. There are a lot of people inthe city that doesn't care for there life or any others.
How do you can food? and how long does it last for ? I’m curious and thinking of trying it.
@@breejames6323 not easy, need a few books. And you will have to try a bit to get it right
I sat down with my great grandfather and wrote down some notes when he told me about his stories, and my great grandmother too. I lost the notes, sadly, but I remember some of what they said and I have written it down. Beautiful, important stories. My grandmother's favorite dress getting stolen, my great-great grandfather being born on the boat coming from Ireland, waiting until they were 18 to marry at their parents' command. Wonderful stories.
Very well done!
I so wish I had done this with my grandparents! My Grandmothers both grew up in WV and lived to be almost 100 years old. My Mamaw Lawson-Phipps grew up in Logan, and had lots of interesting stories. Even if I could remember all of them, I would never be able to get the details correct.
In many ways Appalachian had the depression easier than those in big cities. Because the big cities had no land to grow any food on.
You're absolutely correct. They were able to make it through that dark time because they all had gardens and grew every bite they ate, and canned it for the winter. the things they did not have the money to buy, they bartered.
Elizabeth Shaw qq
Elizabeth Shaw, my grandmother’s had big gardens, bartered vegetables for chickens and piglets, made quilts, slaughtered their own pigs and cows. The women canned and put up food in root cellars for winter. My grandmother’s made lye soap and medicine from yellow root and ginseng. Each cooked nettle weed, dandelions and fresh mountain mushrooms. I am from Omar, WV, as this beautiful lady was. My daddy is from Pine Creek also.
I believe that is true and will be again. Young people have no idea where food comes from and how you help it grow. When our kids were young, we put in small gardens of beans, tomatoes corn and later potatoes. Next year we put in fruit trees. We also settled on enough land to raise a nice garden. I saw where a fe was younger kids were saying they should kill the old people. Kiddo, we have our guns , where you gonna get yours. We have stockpiled amunition, did you? They do not have the ability to think past 4 people attacking an unaware person then run. You might not know how old we are. We don't care how old you are. As it was quoted in the movies, you can't handle the job.
Heroic example of the power of the human spirit.
My grandparents on my dad's side were born in Bell Co KY in 1922 and 1924. My grandma's dad was the foreman at the mine in Fonde KY til 1942. They moved up here to MI for work after the mines started shutting down. Grandma (who's 93) still has their ration cards from WWII. I learned everything important I know from them...
I was born in Bell County. 1964. My mother also. My dad was born in Jarvis Holler. Over in Barberville.
What Are We Complaining About TODAY ??
she is wounderful !! this was so interesting.thanks for sharing!
Love that tune! It's from O Brother Where Art Thou.
Great film! ima add 2 my playlist so i can watch all parts l8r, but part 1 has me deeply involved. the lady reminds me alot of my late grandmom, who was born in 1919. great story! impressive!
Folks were born 1918 / 1919. Mom grew up in Kentucky, they had a small farm & had eggs, milk, and could barter with those. Dad grew up in town & rarely had what he wanted to eat. In the depression, if you had a farm, you had it good.
Loved this so interesting thank you so much
My family-both mom and dad's sides are from Appalachia- WVa and NC. I grew up on a farm in Appalachian-the oldest of 5 children on a farm. Started working on the farm as a toodler..
This is my great aunt Garnet. Elmer was my paw paw.
WELL DONE, THANKS SO MUCH FOR SHARING, I LOVE HER!!! :) ~Peace!~
My Grandfather Clifford Jarrell was born in Logan County in 1916. Lived in Cabin Creek, I wonder If your grandma and my grandpa ever crossed paths.
Watching in April 2020....thank you for this video friend!
I wish I lived there
very interesting, very smart of you to interview her like this, grandpartents go to fast :)
NoName21234 ertuivbkp
It would be great if I could hear it without having to hold my speaker to my ear. I could hear interviewer much better than the woman being interviewed.
All my family hail from sand mountain in Northeast Alabama. I have our family Mason bible. A treasure trove of names.my daddies mama was a drain and my mamawas a Wilson. I have heard the stories and loved to hear them all
I think I can tell she had a hard time talking about all that. I couldn't imagine
The sound is terrible...you can't hear the lady being Interview!
RUclips it on your TV, I had no issues
Thanks for sharing!
Martha Ann Maynard
The narration voice is so soft that the music overshadows it. I really want to hear it though.
Well done. More please.
Hello there your mother is so cute bless her heart ❤️❤️❤️❤️
.... keep it up .. lest we forget.
God Bless
i love her accent it sounds just like my grandmother and family from eastern kentucky
sultanofthesands1 sad ain't it us younger folk don't have the accent anymore we have Standard American ones if we were in California you wouldn't even realize we ain't from there
In the 60s we were raised like that
My mother grew up in Omar. Her maiden name was McClellan & was related to Adkins & mccoys. Went to Gyan valley high school. That's pretty much all I know of her growing up years. If any of y'all have more info, please share. Her parents were Burvie & Ballard McClellan
Precious ♡
Well carp. I can't hear this clip
Very hard to hear the narrator.
sign at 0:28, you don't see that anymore
If you’re having problems hearing you should try headphones. I’m 74 years old and they work for me with my iPad.
I saw the foto with the man with the sign saying he wanted work, not charity. In today's times people not only want,but demand charity and refuse work.....
my grandma's step daddy's last name was Maynard. Her mom's last name was Nelson before she married
Ma’am,
Is your family kin to Emory Browning? He married Elaine or “Ailene”. I’m not sure the year they were married but they lived in Monroe County for some years.
My family are the Carters, Baisdens and Lowe’s (during that time)
Why did that post sign in the beginning say "cet" a job instead of Get?
good job:)
my great grandfather fell into a band saw at his job in Kentucky..my people we're raised up in Burnsville,and Hazzard.
do these fascinating people have any 'family' memories of life before the protestant reformation., for instance 'catholic' days?...i'd be very interested.
Yes the earth is flat & the center of the universe. The Spanish want to question people.
Difficult to hear the person talking
hey can you please tell me what music you used? thanks
adverntent hustla that song at the very end, that's on the soundtrack to the movie Oh Brother Where Art Thou ... the one with George Clooney.
does anyone know the intro song???
I can't hear her , the audio is terrible!
what state?
West Virginia I think.
Can't hear it
That's America today. taxes, losing jobs
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Who is the lady with the 2 children hiding their faces! My mother was born a Hicks1 Just wondering looks like she might be kin!
That is a Pulitzer Prize winning photograph by Dorothea Lange. It is public domain.
Mountain Girl I think was California where that was taken.
The audio is deplorable on this. I have headphones and still can only make out every other word.
cowboy6591 I’m using a Bose speaker to hear it.
I CAN BARELY HEAR HER
This is liberalism, and government control.
Wolf Pak what are you talking about..... the lack of government control..... called deregulation..... caused the Great Depression..... it also caused the Great Recession..... and it’s continuing practice will cause the next crash very soon
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