@@karencombsstudio I have a dream to visit there, to put my feet where the fiercest battle of the Civil War took place. Suggested all read ‘The Widow of the South and sequel Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks….now deceased.
@@bonniewalker6340 I've read Widow of the South, but haven't read Orphan Mother. Will have to look for that. The Carnton Plantation is just a few miles (or less) from the Carter House. So much history in this area. Thanks for the recommendation! 🙂
@@karencombsstudio - the helper who choose to live in house separate from Carnton House, but stayed working on the cemetery the two ladies managed to put together, an Honorable endeavor for the deceased Soldiers from both sides. What a story… factual too!
Very very interesting! Thanks. I love the color of red on the roof of the brick house. It's gorgeous. All those witness trees. So very horrifically sad. I'm glad much is being reclaimed.
Hi Susan, so glad you enjoyed the video, the Carter house is really something unique. I also am glad more if the battlefield has been reclaimed I added a couple of links to some very interesting videos if you want to delve deeper into that location. So much history concentrated in a very small area. . . . Thanks so much for your note
Thank you so much! Your video really made my heart sing. I have been looking forward to taking this adventure with you. The history of cross stitch is truly vast and diverse. ❤
Hi Christine, so glad you enjoyed it, it was fun to put together. I felt like I was taking everyone along with me as I drove to the different locations. 🙂
Thank-you Karen, for this lovely travelogue into evocative early American and Civil War history. You are an excellent and inspired tour guide! The sampler is lovely.
Hi Karen, I was tickled to see your video on The Carter House Sampler! How lucky you are to live amongst the depths of history! I visited Franklin and took a tour of the battlefield and Carter House while my husband was in a Public Health Conference in Nashville around 1995 ...I have to say, back then it looked so much different. The road was very quiet and we roamed the battlefield and house with the tour guide. It was probably the most moving Civil War site I've ever visited except for Gettysburg. I wasn't stitching then, but quilting. I found the most amazing quilt chop on the main street in Franklin, stuffed to the gills with bolts of fabric! I've had the Carter House kitted and ready to go for a while now...I think I might just move her up in the queue! Thank you for the lovely walking history of "Polly" Carter! Hugs, Candace
Hi Candace, so glad you enjoyed our little field trip and thanks so much for your note! You are right, it certainly has gotten busy here. Then quilt shop that was across the street in the cute little shopping center was Stitcher’s Garden. It has grown into a huge shop and is now located in Brentwood. Thanks again for your note! 🙂
Karen- sincere thanks to you for this video. As a more ‘mature’ woman I now really appreciate history & thirst for information like this. Wow! I just loved this.
Thank you Karen for taking time and educating us! I watched this last night and loved it and, watching again! It’s so good that the property has been reclaimed and made an historical site. I’d love to visit this. You are a natural in storytelling and videography!
What an interesting video about the history of Mary, her sampler and her home and family. Thank you for the tour. I look forward to seeing your completed version of the sampler!
A few years ago I took my HS age grandson to Nashville and we stayed near Franklin, TN and visited The Carter House on a tour and learned about battle fought on their property. Grandson found the bullet holes in house very interesting. I cannot imagine living in cellar for many houses with their family, slaves and neighbors while battle going on. We took took of plantation in area and had fabulous BBQ dinner in downtown Franklin in grocery shop/restaurant with live entertainment as grandson was not old enough to visit Nashville music scene. Thanks for sharing video. I was never told about sampler on tour and did not see it as too many people gathered in rooms. Really enjoyed memory again.
Hi Sharon, so glad you enjoyed the video and thank you so much for your nice note. Sounds like you visited pockets in downtown Franklin, wonderful, barbecue, and often live music. It’s a great place. 🙂 Thanks again!
Karen, What a wonderful History lesson within my home state of Tennessee. You did such a beautiful job of touring the sites and guiding us as if we were there in person. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us and letting us meet Mary and hear about her life and stitching. I will be ordering & stitching this chart ASAP! Thank you again! xoxo
Hi Karen, this is truly interesting! It was amazing to see the cabin. she grew up in and the cemetery where she dis buried. So appreciate your spreading information about the historic site and Mary’s Sampler!
Hi Kathleen, it was my pleasure. I enjoyed seeing Mary’s cabin and could imagine her stitching her sampler there. Thank you for your work so we can all enjoy (and stitch) Mary’s sampler. 🙂
Thank you I really like history and stitching of the past most ladies did sew and stitch even my grandmother in the early 1900’s before all the children she had working on farms being a preachers wife
Wonderful floss tube. I loved learning about this and appreciated the time you took to actually give us a grounds tour. The Carter sampler looks great ❤ I agree with your choice of lighter linen.
Hi Bridget!! so glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for your note. I hope you are doing well, I enjoyed spending time with you at the Hobby House retreat, it was so much fun!! 🙂
Thank you for doing this tour! Hearing the histories of samplers is always so interesting, but actually seeing the places where it was created and where this one still lives, gives so much more depth of appreciation! Again, thank you!❤
Oh, Karen! I thoroughly enjoyed this episode!!! Truly! Having gone to high school in Franklin in 1993 and taken a couple of tours through Carnton Plantation and once to Carter over the years, this just brought back so many memories. Franklin holds such a powerful history! Your videos made it all the more special by imagining Polly sitting on the porch with her sampler. I, too, envision little girls with their samplers, but to see their homes in person is quite surreal. Thank you for a pleasant video and a reminder that I need another tour ❤ I have this chart kitted with silks. I met Kathleen at Needlework Galleria last year! It was wonderful. I met you in Clarksville several months ago, but you may not remember me. We live nearby.
Hi Julie, thanks for your nice note, I’m so glad you enjoyed the video. Oh, kitting the sampler in silks sounds wonderful!!!! I enjoyed the meeting in Clarkesville so much! What a lovely group and it was much fun. Sounds like several of us live around the Franklin area, will have to think about putting together a little stitch group that meets occasionally. . . . 🤔
@@karencombsstudio I would be really interested in a close-to-home stitch gathering. ❤️ You got my juices flowing, so pulled out my Polly/Carter Sampler chart 😊 I’m eager to start her! I was at my EGA meeting on Thursday which meets in Green Hills once a month and a lady there mentioned your FlossTube and this episode in particular. She’s such a fan! A couple of other ladies wrote down your name so I feel confident you’ll have a few more followers 😘
I did the tour there as well, and it will always stick with me! At the end they took us to the building that some people were hiding in, and they turned off all the lights so we could see all the bullet holes in the wall! Was impressive!!!!
You are right, it’s a very interesting site to visit. I’ve been there 3 or 4 times for tours and look forward to going back. Thanks so much for your note! 🙂
I lucked up on this wonderful sampler at a recent retreat on a giveaway table and just loved it! I started looking more into the history of it and discovered a family connection to Polly! I have it kitted up and plan on starting it soon. I thoroughly enjoyed your episode and wonderful review of the site and lovely sampler.
Mary Polly was a popular name in my family. They were from Wharncliffe West Virginia. I love old fashioned names. 30 years is not a long time for a high school to exist. The colors for this project are beautiful.
Love the history. I have visited Franklin a few times and ask myself, "How did I miss this???" I hope to return and tour the house. Share these field trips any time!
Hi Sharon, so glad you enjoyed our little field trip and thanks so much for your note. I hope you are able to visit in Carter House, it is a fascinating place. If you have time, be sure to also visit the Carnton Plantation. It is not far and served as a field hospital during the battle and for months afterwards. Thanks again for your note 🙂
Thank you, Karen, for taking the time to share this! Since they don’t teach history anymore, it’s nice to see someone cares about it. So interesting and so important to keep these things alive. God bless.
Great job on the video! Love the history you showed us from the life of Mary Carter. I’m a member of DAR so the info on the cemetery honoring all the pioneers of the area was fun to see. No one like a history buff loves a cemetery more! Keep them coming, Karen.
Thanks, Sarah! So glad you enjoyed our your. It was fun to put together. I do enjoy (not sure “enjoy” is the right word) visiting old cemeteries. Fascinating to see the headstone, their design and decoration and read the inscriptions. One of my favorite visits was to Old Burial Hill outside Salem, Massachusetts. We saw headstones from the 1600s and they were so interesting in their designs. Thanks again for your nice note 🙂
The History Underground’s video is wonderful and so well done. I enjoyed your video! I started this sampler several years ago but haven’t finished it yet.
So glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for your note! I agree, History Underground’s videos are wonderful. I spent quite some time watching their backlist. 🙂
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This is exactly why I Cross-stitch. Preserving History. Thank you so very much.
Bonnie, I totally agree. Preserves the history and as we stitch, we bring the design back to life.
@@karencombsstudio I have a dream to visit there, to put my feet where the fiercest battle of the Civil War took place. Suggested all read ‘The Widow of the South and sequel Orphan Mother by Robert Hicks….now deceased.
@@bonniewalker6340 I've read Widow of the South, but haven't read Orphan Mother. Will have to look for that. The Carnton Plantation is just a few miles (or less) from the Carter House. So much history in this area. Thanks for the recommendation! 🙂
@@karencombsstudio - the helper who choose to live in house separate from Carnton House, but stayed working on the cemetery the two ladies managed to put together, an Honorable endeavor for the deceased Soldiers from both sides. What a story… factual too!
Thankyou for sharing,so interesting love the Sampler👍🇳🇿❤️🪡
You are welcome and thanks so much for your note!
Very interesting. Thank you
So glad you enjoyed it, and thanks so much for your note. 🙂
This was absolutely wonderful, thank you for sharing!!
Thanks, Joanna. 🙂 so glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for your note
Thank you for the tour, for those of us who are homebound this was a treat. makes me want to stitch the sampler. 😍
Hi Rosalia, I’m so glad you enjoyed the video, I enjoyed putting it together.
Such a treat to visit the locations and I’m glad you enjoyed our tour. 🙂
Very very interesting! Thanks. I love the color of red on the roof of the brick house. It's gorgeous. All those witness trees. So very horrifically sad. I'm glad much is being reclaimed.
Hi Susan, so glad you enjoyed the video, the Carter house is really something unique. I also am glad more if the battlefield has been reclaimed
I added a couple of links to some very interesting videos if you want to delve deeper into that location. So much history concentrated in a very small area. . . .
Thanks so much for your note
This was so fascinating. Thank you for the field trip. ❤
So glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for your nice note. 🙂
Thank you so much! Your video really made my heart sing. I have been looking forward to taking this adventure with you. The history of cross stitch is truly vast and diverse. ❤
Hi Christine, so glad you enjoyed it, it was fun to put together. I felt like I was taking everyone along with me as I drove to the different locations. 🙂
Thank-you Karen, for this lovely travelogue into evocative early American and Civil War history. You are an excellent and inspired tour guide! The sampler is lovely.
Hi Susan, I’m so glad you enjoy our little field trip and thank you so much for your nice note. 🙂
Love the history behind the sampler. Have always been interested in the Civil war,War, besieging deepening this battle. Thanks
Thanks for your note, Kathy. I'm so glad you enjoyed our little tour.
Very interesting and informative. Thank you
Hi Karen, I was tickled to see your video on The Carter House Sampler! How lucky you are to live amongst the depths of history! I visited Franklin and took a tour of the battlefield and Carter House while my husband was in a Public Health Conference in Nashville around 1995 ...I have to say, back then it looked so much different. The road was very quiet and we roamed the battlefield and house with the tour guide. It was probably the most moving Civil War site I've ever visited except for Gettysburg. I wasn't stitching then, but quilting. I found the most amazing quilt chop on the main street in Franklin, stuffed to the gills with bolts of fabric! I've had the Carter House kitted and ready to go for a while now...I think I might just move her up in the queue! Thank you for the lovely walking history of "Polly" Carter! Hugs, Candace
Hi Candace, so glad you enjoyed our little field trip and thanks so much for your note!
You are right, it certainly has gotten busy here. Then quilt shop that was across the street in the cute little shopping center was Stitcher’s Garden. It has grown into a huge shop and is now located in Brentwood.
Thanks again for your note! 🙂
Thank you, Karen, for highlighting some of Franklin's history!
You are most welcome. . . so much history in this area. 🙂
This was very interesting, Karen! I love history too
Thanks, Sheila! 🙂
Thanks so much for the tour, Karen! It’s always a treat to be able to put an antique sampler into it’s original context.
Hi Jackie, I’m so glad you enjoyed our little field trip, I enjoyed putting it together. 🙂
Thank you for your nice note as well! 🙂
Thank you for the tour. It was really interesting!
So glad you enjoyed it! :)
Fascinating video thanks for sharing.
Hi Linda, so glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
Thank you, thank you for such a wonderful tour. Makes this beautiful sampler come to life!
Thanks so much! So glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Karen- sincere thanks to you for this video. As a more ‘mature’ woman I now really appreciate history & thirst for information like this. Wow! I just loved this.
Hi KC! You are so welcome, I’m glad you enjoyed our little field trip. It was fun to put together.
Thanks so much for your nice note! 🙂
Thank you for a fascinating video!
So glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for your noe! 🙂
That was such a great visit. It’s always too short but while I stitch my sampler, I remember our time together. ❤
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your note, I appreciate it so much. 🙂
Absolutely loved this video with all the information and inspiration. Thank you so very much.
You are so welcome! I’m so glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your nice note. 🙂
Thank you Karen for taking time and educating us! I watched this last night and loved it and, watching again! It’s so good that the property has been reclaimed and made an historical site. I’d love to visit this. You are a natural in storytelling and videography!
Thanks, Georgia! So glad you enjoyed our little tour and thank you so much for your sweet note, it is much appreciated. 🙂🙂
What an interesting video about the history of Mary, her sampler and her home and family. Thank you for the tour. I look forward to seeing your completed version of the sampler!
So glad you enjoyed it and thanks so for your note 🙂
Thank you for videoing this your! It is wonderful to be able to see part of the history of a sampler! Great job!
So glad you enjoyed our little field trip and thanks so much for your note. 🙂
A few years ago I took my HS age grandson to Nashville and we stayed near Franklin, TN and visited The Carter House on a tour and learned about battle fought on their property. Grandson found the bullet holes in house very interesting. I cannot imagine living in cellar for many houses with their family, slaves and neighbors while battle going on. We took took of plantation in area and had fabulous BBQ dinner in downtown Franklin in grocery shop/restaurant with live entertainment as grandson was not old enough to visit Nashville music scene. Thanks for sharing video. I was never told about sampler on tour and did not see it as too many people gathered in rooms. Really enjoyed memory again.
Hi Sharon, so glad you enjoyed the video and thank you so much for your nice note.
Sounds like you visited pockets in downtown Franklin, wonderful, barbecue, and often live music. It’s a great place. 🙂
Thanks again!
Karen, What a wonderful History lesson within my home state of Tennessee. You did such a beautiful job of touring the sites and guiding us as if we were there in person. Thank you so very much for sharing this with us and letting us meet Mary and hear about her life and stitching. I will be ordering & stitching this chart ASAP! Thank you again! xoxo
Hi Barbara! Thank you so much! I’m so glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much for your nice note!! 🙂
Hi Karen, this is truly interesting! It was amazing to see the cabin. she grew up in and the cemetery where she dis buried. So appreciate your spreading information about the historic site and Mary’s Sampler!
Hi Kathleen, it was my pleasure.
I enjoyed seeing Mary’s cabin and could imagine her stitching her sampler there.
Thank you for your work so we can all enjoy (and stitch) Mary’s sampler. 🙂
Thank you I really like history and stitching of the past most ladies did sew and stitch even my grandmother in the early 1900’s before all the children she had working on farms being a preachers wife
Hi Carol, you are so welcome. I’m glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your note. 🙂
Thank you so much for "our" tour! Very interesting! I grew up near the Chickamauga Battlefield and have always been interested in the Civil war.
Hi Connie, so glad you enjoyed our little field trip, what is fun to put together.
Thanks so much for your nice note ! 🙂
Thank you for doing this video. You brought that sampler to life for me.
You are so welcome! So glad you enjoyed our little field trip and thank you for your nice note! 🙂
I really enjoyed the tour Karen. The sampler is beautiful.
Thank you so much! So glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your note. 🙂
Enjoyed the tour & information. Thank you for taking the time to video this site!
Our pleasure! So glad you enjoyed our little field trip and thanks so much for your note. 🙂
Wonderful floss tube. I loved learning about this and appreciated the time you took to actually give us a grounds tour. The Carter sampler looks great ❤ I agree with your choice of lighter linen.
Hi Bridget!! so glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for your note.
I hope you are doing well, I enjoyed spending time with you at the Hobby House retreat, it was so much fun!! 🙂
I always enjoy you videos! The history is so interesting!
Thanks , Sue! So glad you enjoyed it and thank you for your note. 🙂
Thank you for bringing this sampler to life!
So glad you enjoyed it. You are right, brought it to life. 🙂
Thank you for doing this tour! Hearing the histories of samplers is always so interesting, but actually seeing the places where it was created and where this one still lives, gives so much more depth of appreciation! Again, thank you!❤
You are so welcome! It was fun to put together and in so glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Oh, Karen! I thoroughly enjoyed this episode!!! Truly! Having gone to high school in Franklin in 1993 and taken a couple of tours through Carnton Plantation and once to Carter over the years, this just brought back so many memories. Franklin holds such a powerful history! Your videos made it all the more special by imagining Polly sitting on the porch with her sampler. I, too, envision little girls with their samplers, but to see their homes in person is quite surreal. Thank you for a pleasant video and a reminder that I need another tour ❤
I have this chart kitted with silks. I met Kathleen at Needlework Galleria last year! It was wonderful. I met you in Clarksville several months ago, but you may not remember me. We live nearby.
Hi Julie, thanks for your nice note, I’m so glad you enjoyed the video.
Oh, kitting the sampler in silks sounds wonderful!!!!
I enjoyed the meeting in Clarkesville so much! What a lovely group and it was much fun.
Sounds like several of us live around the Franklin area, will have to think about putting together a little stitch group that meets occasionally. . . . 🤔
@@karencombsstudio I would be really interested in a close-to-home stitch gathering. ❤️
You got my juices flowing, so pulled out my Polly/Carter Sampler chart 😊 I’m eager to start her!
I was at my EGA meeting on Thursday which meets in Green Hills once a month and a lady there mentioned your FlossTube and this episode in particular. She’s such a fan! A couple of other ladies wrote down your name so I feel confident you’ll have a few more followers 😘
I truly enjoyed seeing this episode. It was so interesting. I would like to visit there. Thanks for the tour.
Hi Jill, so glad you enjoyed our little field trip. It was fun to put together. Thanks so much for your note, I appreciate it. 🙂
Thank you Karen. This is very interesting. Makes me want to go and see it.
I’m so glad you enjoyed it and thanks so much for your note. 🙂
I did the tour there as well, and it will always stick with me! At the end they took us to the building that some people were hiding in, and they turned off all the lights so we could see all the bullet holes in the wall! Was impressive!!!!
You are right, it’s a very interesting site to visit. I’ve been there 3 or 4 times for tours and look forward to going back.
Thanks so much for your note! 🙂
I lucked up on this wonderful sampler at a recent retreat on a giveaway table and just loved it! I started looking more into the history of it and discovered a family connection to Polly! I have it kitted up and plan on starting it soon. I thoroughly enjoyed your episode and wonderful review of the site and lovely sampler.
Hi Margaret, so glad you enjoyed the video and thanks so much for your note!
How exciting to find a family connection to Mary!!
Thanks again! 🙂
Mary Polly was a popular name in my family. They were from Wharncliffe West Virginia. I love old fashioned names.
30 years is not a long time for a high school to exist.
The colors for this project are beautiful.
So glad you enjoyed our little field trip! 🙂
Love the history. I have visited Franklin a few times and ask myself, "How did I miss this???" I hope to return and tour the house. Share these field trips any time!
Hi Sharon, so glad you enjoyed our little field trip and thanks so much for your note.
I hope you are able to visit in Carter House, it is a fascinating place.
If you have time, be sure to also visit the Carnton Plantation. It is not far and served as a field hospital during the battle and for months afterwards.
Thanks again for your note 🙂
Thank you, Karen, for taking the time to share this! Since they don’t teach history anymore, it’s nice to see someone cares about it. So interesting and so important to keep these things alive. God bless.
Hi Mary! So glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much for your nice note. 🙂
Thanks - that was so interesting - now I have to get out the chart and stitch the sampler
Hi Debbie, so glad you enjoyed the video and thank you so much for your nice note. 🙂
Great job on the video! Love the history you showed us from the life of Mary Carter. I’m a member of DAR so the info on the cemetery honoring all the pioneers of the area was fun to see. No one like a history buff loves a cemetery more! Keep them coming, Karen.
Thanks, Sarah! So glad you enjoyed our your. It was fun to put together. I do enjoy (not sure “enjoy” is the right word) visiting old cemeteries. Fascinating to see the headstone, their design and decoration and read the inscriptions.
One of my favorite visits was to Old Burial Hill outside Salem, Massachusetts. We saw headstones from the 1600s and they were so interesting in their designs.
Thanks again for your nice note 🙂
The History Underground’s video is wonderful and so well done. I enjoyed your video! I started this sampler several years ago but haven’t finished it yet.
So glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for your note! I agree, History Underground’s videos are wonderful. I spent quite some time watching their backlist. 🙂