My Life in Appalachia 4
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- Along with celebrating and preserving Appalachian heritage and culture I'm always hoping to shine a light on the good life that I live in the Appalachian Mountains of Western North Carolina. I hope you enjoy this peek into my life in Appalachia.
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You and Whippoorwill Hollar bring calm and joy to the soul....
I just found your channel, Love you hard working people
Your life is a replica of mine and Mr. Browns
Your Hills look just like here in Arkansas ,
Love watching real people real life! Xoxoxo
I'm from Rogers, Arkansas 😀 I wanna move back😊
Thank you! Our whole family LOVES your channel! We always say you and Mr. Brown are like people down the road from us 😀 And he reminds me so much of my brother Steve. I love your recipes-they are so good!! I hope you drop back by often your comment has made my day 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Whippoorill Hollar , is my favorite channel.
Ditto LOVE Whipperwill Holler. Just found your channel. 😊
@Whippoorwill Holler Lori, you and Mr Brown are hard working people also. You’re one of my favorite channels too!
We had wood for heat as kids. I remember dad always saying firewood would heat ya up more than once and as I got older I more understood what he meant. It would heat ya up cutting it, splitting it, carrying it to the house and finally when it burned in the stove.
I saw the "Kobalt" name on the wheelbarrow, and remembered that I'd once gone to one of their trade shows.
My daddy told me the same thing when I was growing up. We’d go back in the woods to cut up a tree and I’d complain about how cold it was and he’d tell me you get moving around you won’t get cold.
Ppl don't realize how resourcful us Appalachian folk are,we love music to,cooking,Growing a garden and telling tales.
Absolutely!! People born and raised are highly intelligent people, good hearted folk, and we can certainly make a way, while picking the guitar or fiddle and smiling. Thankful and blessed!! #livelikeappalachia
Tell that to the fools running this country -the media
Putting that wood in the center of a tire to chop it, is a great idea! I've never seen that before.
It's good to see a family that works together as a team.
I still remember those old wood stoves. As the oldest girl it was my job to take out the ashes, make the kindling, and split the wood. Carry it in sometimes my sister helped. I also got big enough to start the fire and sit up on weekends and keep it going. I went with a friend and help saw it down and load it up to bring it home. Some times if we had money mom would get a load of coal
I recently found your channel while looking for cornbread recipes. I have become hooked and subscribed. I know this will sound strange. You and your family are a treasure trove of Americana. From your recipes, to your stories, your Faith in god, loving family, traditions, ethics, morals and I could go on and on.
I do hope that your children can read some of the comments people have left and truly understand the meanings behind them.
I hope they will always be proud of who they are, their parents, grandparents and so forth. I know its hard in these times we live in.
Num
So true
For a woman who works with her hands, ALOT, has beautiful skin!
Like alabaster!
We loved this series, as we have all of the videos. It's a complete mystery to us how anyone could do a 'thumbs down' after watching this!
A good video needs no narration. The pictures and ambient sounds speak for themselves. This video proves that!
Thanks Papaw!!
I love your videos. I especially like the parts with no background music. Just the wind in the trees, birds and when you talk to each other.
Wood chopping isn’t for sissy’s! That’s darn hard work!
The crochet Afghan is beautiful btw! Makes me want to get mine out-and add to another project!
And of course the food!
I’d love to be a part of your family. What a beautiful life!
I miss having sassafras tea when I was a kid.My aunt would find it in the hills and mail it every fall.
Wonderful site ! Oh my but you brought back yummy memories ! I am Jim Waters now from Portland, Or. but had lived in Greensboro , NC from 1974 till 2005 then Up on the Va. state line with NC and Va. then till 2005 in The Roanoke, Rocky Mount area. This while recovering various combat injuries during service in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Sadly I had wanted to run a video production company in the Blue Ridge Mtns. I had been part of the Mountain Laurel Journal and video production co. My friends ran the journal for many years when I began being active while working as a documentary maker at WFMY-TV in No. three Emmy Awards gave me the drive to explore more. Besides that i shot with CBS Sunday Morning News doing On The Roads features. I began in the 70’s with CBS by hitting the road and driving the back roads till ideas fell in my lap. One day I was stopped at a small place for lunch when a few women told me they were in the midst of making Apple Butter their old mountain way. Nude! Oh my but that shocked me. Maybe not totally nude but mostly. They said stirring over a hot copper kettle all day got to be mighty hot. Do they took their tops off. Gee.. but odd. I went with them and managed to film in a way as not to show nipples. One of the women was the preachers wife too. Taught us to put sex outbid our minds and start loving the mountain ways. They Aldo grew grapes and made wine too..!
That day’s work made quite a hit on CBS.. even Walter Cronkite got on the air and praised it. The Smithsonion Institute highlighted it and began to display copies of our videos in Wash. DC.
Over a few years I came to meet unique people.. many being strong women who carried on the strengths drawn from their family’s. Found men mostky learned strength from the women too.
Fell on a older man crying one early morning on a rock bench at a Blue Ridge overlook. His wife had just died from Cancer. He had been a famous fiddle maker in fact but stopped after her death. He told me his wife had pleaded with him to keep playing.. so I started asking him to play a bit. I knew Johnny Cash.. one weekend while visiting with Johnny, June and her sister at her old family home in Va. I asked Johnny to visit the old man with me . We drive down to his homestead .. thing was Johnny hadn’t told me he knew this Man from his earlier days.. what a shock I had and they had too. We sat around drinking coffee.. Johnny asked him to come on up with us for the weekend and play on Sun. Afternoon for a small gathering of local friends. So amazing and tearful, seeing this old man growing alive again.. in fact we all did. Music was so special.. Johnny sang a new song he’d been working on. June though was getting a bit sick. In fact this was yo be her last weekend home. Soon she passed on.. then a short while later so did Johnny. The family asked me to tell about that weekend at her viewing .
How odd.. few weeks later the military sent me on a mission to Afghanistan ... flew all night, jumped in using night vision gear and fought till my stomach was blown to pieces . Last mission for me.
If only my once good friends in the Blue Ridge had not turned to be good crooks. Stole money from our fund raising efforts to start video work. I grew so sad I left the mountains for good.
Good luck this winter and stay well. Jim Waters
Amazing experiences!
I’m learning something new every time I watch Celebrating Appalachia it’s really beautiful and relaxing up there too the music was the bonus.
Firewood, the gift that keeps you warm many times over. That wood sounds pretty dry. I recognize the sound of the “clink”.
Born and raised in the northern part of West Virginia. God I miss it. Trust me when I tell you it's in your heart and sole. God bless you all.
I have family in WV in Weston, where ever I am Appalachia is Home in FL my heart is in WV mountains.
Is your wife named Jenny ?
I'm seriously considering going back down to McDowell County this summer!
I love the background music so much!
I'm loving your videos, especially the music. Makes me want to take a trip to the mountains.
I so look forward to these videos, and when a new one comes out, I save it until I have time to sit down and really enjoy it! It is so interesting and wonderful to see these peeks into your lives. Thank you for taking the time to share and bless all of us! Sending love and hugs to you and your family today!
Wow! What a talented family. Again very fond memories. Back in my childhood, we all gathered at my paternal grandmas house and most of her children were musically inclined. The dining room table was pushed to the side of the kitchen and we kids would get under the table and watch the grown-ups play music and dance. I loved those times. Thanks for the memories.
Jeri Whittaker
I like how you cook everything I've seen so far from scratch🙂
Mom needs to write a cookbook!
I love your family and life style God bless you all🙏❤
I respect you. I'm mountin farmer boy too .. But everyone all over the world lives like you do in some ways nothing special to me.
Danny-thanks for watching! You're right people in Appalachia are much the same as everyone else, but lots of people think we still live in the 19th century 😀
This was a most enjoyable video..so relaxing..to watch and listen. Music's great!!
Love the channel without Doxxing yourself what area of WNC are you in? I'm around Northern Buncombe County, it feels like I'm at home watching your channel. It helps ease my mind I have a Uncle who's sick in the Hospital since Christmas Eve, his Mom my Granny is just beside herself, ya know I would rather take a beating than see my Granny cry and be upest. Any good thoughts and prayers would be appreciated, y'all stay safe, I really enjoy your channel.
Sorry for your uncle-I'll be praying for him. We're in far southwestern NC.
Have you cooked butternut squash in a crock pot? Wash the squash, don't peel or cut.Cook in the pot on low for 8 hours.
That fella makes splitting wood look easy. It’s not he’s done that for years.
I just love this family so much! Good people.
Love these videos!! I grew up this way; girl, do you need to sharpen your knife?? God bless
From the Kentucky mountains here. Looking to see what you all do a bit diffrent.
What a delight it is to tune in to your channel here! The music makes me especially happy. At the end, was that cherry divinity you were making?
Thank you and yes it was 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Well, eat a piece or three of that divinity for me, please!
I've been watching all your videos you all got a life lot of people dream of, need to carry the music to Nashville you never know
Thank you for watching and for the encouraging words 😀
Loving these blogs.... Pretty great life !
I could watch these all day !
I admire this lady. I see why she has her figure. She works and helps her husband. She is a virtuous woman. Be blessed 😊
That was SO fun!!! Thank you!!!🤗☺️💕♥️🙋♀️👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻❣️
Quite the seed collection. Were those buckwheat pancakes? Would be cool if maybe a text was under uncertain things. Just a thought. I'm sure it would add more work for you tho. Blessings!
Yes buckwheat pancakes! Thank you for watching!
I wish you would give the recipes of what you are making
Thank you mam for another Awesome video! I loved every minute of it. From enjoying the beautiful scenery driving those country mountain roads to baking the cake to preparing that delicious lookin breakfast to splitting the wood in the Tire and watching y’all tag team the hauling of it lol and everything else that I didn’t mention! Oh and enjoyed the music y’all made together as family! My wife and I have said many times if we could live any where else other than where we live it would be somewhere in the mountains of East Tennessee or Western North Carolina. MAY GOD CONTINUE BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!! 🙏🏻😇🙏🏻😇 Thanks Pastor Lon Howle
Thank you for watching, for the kind words, and especially for the blessing 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia you are very welcome 🙏🏻😇👍🏻
The tire trick to hold the wood while chopping is brilliant! I so enjoy your channel! Blessings🙏🏻💖
It works really well! Thank you!
I know right? It would've saved alot of swearing when it flies off if you don't hit it just right
Oh... the wagon. Yes, me and the wheelbarrow didn't work well together either
I love your channel. I'm still trying to catch up with all the videos but I will get there eventually. Love the hills and hollers. My people started out in North Carolina then settled in Kentucky and eventually came to southern Illinois. I recognize a lot of the folklore sayings and expressions I grew up hearing. We are all connected in some way.
Never seen anyone put a tire around like that pretty cool learn something new every day
Looks like a safer way of splitting wood too.
Thanks for another great video. I was raised like that. I am proud of my Appalachian heritage! Where I live this lifestyle is getting gone. Developers are buying up land and filling it full of houses.
Lloyd-thank you! Hope you have a great week!
7:40 that is some beautiful skillful wood chopping!
That's a great idea, putting that old tire on that stump to split wood.
Smart, too!
WOW wish my dad had known of this tire chopping idea,,,clever
Brown sugar syrup, anyone? This was served over hot biscuits with lots of butter as a breakfast treat back in the hills of Tennessee. Just put a half cup of dark brown sugar in a sauce pan with one cup of water and bring it to a boil. Let it boil long enough to thicken to a syrup, and you're set to go! (I hope I don't have the portions reversed!)
Like chocolate gravy, this doesn't sound good at all, but it is. It's just something else you can use to cover a biscuit, along with corncob jelly or sorghum molasses. Happened to think of this when I saw the buckwheat pancake. We used to grow our own buckwheat and take it to the mill to be ground. Your videos bring back so many memories! Thanks!
My Mom made that kind of syrup, we never had store bought. She made butter too from our cows.
I eat my peas with honey,
I've done it all my life;
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on my knife!
What a genius idea to put an old tire around the log while chopping! Keeps it all neat and tidy; and saves a lot of time, not to mention saving your back from bending down and picking them up in between cuts! Brilliant!! Love the "ride along" - sure would be pretty in the fall with all the beautiful fall foliage.
Looks like buckwheat pancakes???
Yes 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Never thought anyone in America eats buckwheat!
My husband grew up most days of his life until he was about 10 eating one plate size buckwheat pancake and dark syrup or molasses on them made for a mighty fine man
I sware that road used on the lead-in looks just like 19 heading out of Helen, Ga....
Your video shows me that Country living takes a lot of work. It was great seeing you both working together.I envy that life!!
I enjoyed watching this on a cold Sunday night. From the Texas Wear, cast iron skillet and splitting the wood. All familiar to my own life. And what’s funny I cooked oatmeal and pancakes this week. Thanks for another great video.
Thank you Rick 😀
You take me back to my roots of sw va/ ne tn. My roots run deep in the mountains.
I love this,glad I found it.She does alot of the same stuff I do and how I do it.im in NW Alabama.
Wish I had a piece of log like that that I could use as a table.! :-)
Hi !! I have a friend who has family in your area, I have been looking on ancestry and I believe you or your husband are related !! Her family names are Trull, Bennett, Tilley,
That is neat! We don't know much about our genealogy past our grandparents 😀
Thanks, Tip, another silent video. Life in the mountains speaks for itself with no commentary necessary. You really do a nice job of capturing the moment and the life of Appalachia. Thanks!
Thank you!!
Love your videos, takes me back to when I was a child growing up in rural Alabama. The one thing that really took me back was seeing you put honey into your tea, when I was little and had a cold/cough/fever my grandmother would make me a cup of hot tea with lemon and honey and she swore the key ingredient to us kids getting better was the moonshine she’d add to the tea (wasn’t much but enough to get rid of what ailed is!! 😊) thanks for sharing your life, I miss the old days!
It's called a hot toddy . great for what ails ya
I know we're in the hills but for one minute on some parts of the roads reminds me Okolona in the back roads in t he 50s
My Irish ancestors, on both sides are from Tennessee. The families both eventually moved west looking for more opportunity and some of us ended up all the way in CA. I just really enjoy watching your videos. I see so many ways that remind me of my Grandparents, words, foods, attitudes etc. I had no idea where these ways and traditions originated. I’ve never felt at home even after 60+ years, until my husband and I moved to rural NE Oklahoma, on the Missouri border, where my maternal grandparents last lived and farmed.
I don’t know how to explain it but I am so comfortable here, like I can finally exhale! We plan to visit Appalachia as soon as the current virus situation is over.
Please keep sharing, I don’t care what you talk about! Thank you so much.
That makes my day-thank you!!
It always amazes me how you can portray the essence of Appalachian life in these videos. I guess it's because we just live it, not plan it or copy it. It gives me such peace to see the same tasks that have been so much a part of my life, continue it the lives of other rural folk. I watched my husband split wood for years and years and remember he said, "the wood warms the woodsman twice, once when he splits it and once when he burns it,"
Paula-thank you for watching! There is such joy in our everyday lives if we just notice it!
Beautiful scenery ! It reminds me of home sweet home in The Ozarks . The recipes you share and watching you cook is a delightful way to enjoy the day or evening . Listening to you share life and family with us reminds me of quality time with Grandma and Grandpa . Thank you very much !!!
That man reads the wood & knows where to hit to split with grain. Good idea for tire to hold wood. Nice job, Mr Wood Man.
C🔹
Thank y'all for a wonderful video. From the Hillcountry in Texas.
You're so welcome! Thank you for watching 😀
That’s true love right there workin together
Definitely no wasted movements either!! Bluegrass music 🎵🎵!! LOVE it!! I'm a bluegrass junkie!! Y'all are good!!!🎵😃
when its part of your day it isn’t hard! well maybe that 1-2 ft log is heavy! I once knew an old man that had the space between 2nd and 3 rd ties extended toward his ankle from a wood chopping shore.
Wow , a family band ! I'm gonna run and get my spoons and remember our family singing and laughing and " banging on the pots and pans " lol
What about the old jaw bone?
"Mountain girls" out here in Hawaii loving these vids!
And the airplane at the end brought me back ,to reality now I have to see the other side of life,January 12,2021
I used to live in Hendersonville - most beautiful place on earth!❤️
So relaxing! We live in the mountains of Colorado. 11,000 feet elevation. Love the mountain life!
Watching videos 3 yrs old .
I agree swearing has be come out of control and
Around us , and our older sons in their 30's ,their wives and our grandchildren we don't allow that in our home or property.
They all again...
April 24, 2024
Times are getting ruff .
I'm glad we live and love little house on the prarie shows good values & the waltons.
All this evil now on TV.
Isn't good
We turned our TV off over 8 yrs ago and save over $200 a month & $2830 per year ...
We have dvd's of holsome movies & music.
God bless you all
Mrs josette
Montgomery County, Texas 🙏
Looking forward to you reaching 250,000 subscribers. Well deserved and certainly you have worked at it. Christmas blessing to all of you
That is a VERY nice knife at 4:32. Nice squash, too! I do believe that at 7:15 that is the first time I have seen this done with a tire. Very clever!! And the seed packets--this is first time I have lived where I did not have sufficient sun to grow whatever I wanted. Too much shade. The music is lovely. So wonderful! Thank you for sharing. As always, your sharing is a delight and an educational inspiration.
Don't look much different than some parts of Washington State., especially just outside of Seattle were old Mr. Bill Gates has his mega mansion,
Enjoyed the video. You all are such hard workers ❤❤ prayer's for Granny. Still catching up on older videos
First time I've seen anybody using a Go Devil splitting wood on youtube usually they got a double bitted ax and everbody knows you don't use that splitting...lessen it's all ya got...
After seeing your husband use the wood splitter the other day, I was just thinking to myself, "If he ever wants a workout and has time, he can chop the wood with an axe."
Most of the youth today need to spend a year in the Appalachians! They don’t know how to do a good days work. Heck, they don’t know who they are. It’s pitiful how lazy this generation is. It’s scary.
Reminds me of my days here in a part of rural WV. I live on a 5th generation family farm. I love it wouldn't trade it for nothing. What a great video thank you and God bless
I know one things for sure. You split, load, and stack a cord a wood a day you ain't be needin no trips to the Gym, or for that matter ya won't be needin any doctor's for alot of years. That is one of the best work outs ya can get for free. 😁
Can I still live there if I don't play a fiddle or guitar? I can chop wood 💪 and fix just about anything 🛠
16:01... Oh wow... I haven`t had Divinity in forever!!!! My mom made it when she was alive.
🌹 this is the only emoji i could find for this sweet gaL's eye on American tradition . ✌🌐
You do not say what you are making, just music and watching you do ‘something’.
Just subscribed!!! I always liked brown sugar and butter in my oatmeal. Thanks...Peace!!!
Bill
Bill-welcome! Hope you continue to enjoy my videos 😀
Always hated oatmeal, I'll stick to grits
@@shanedunn7475 I enjoy grits as well, just differently. (Butter. Eggs and Bacon)
My all time favorite cake, with cooked choc icing, 1234 cake.
Road and country side used to drive looked just like right outside Coquille, OR.
I told a guy one time about splitting wood in a tar like that. I told him I had a different size tar to fit each cut of wood. I told him when I got it split I would just roll it right on in the house.
I don't know where Matt seen the tire thing, but it sure works good! Saves lots of steps of chasing wood 😀
Is there anything you can’t do. You definitely Amaze me. 😊
I come from the hill country and a lot of it I am familiar with but then there is some I don't know what it is!
Nice video. Y’all sure have a very talented family. God bless y’all.
Vera-thank you! I hope you have a great week 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia y’all too. 🙏🙏❤️
I am binge-watching your wonderful videos and enjoying these without the distraction of talking-makes me feel less an observer and more a participant. Thank you for sharing your life and lovely family. By the way, do you ever rest??😊
😀 So glad you're enjoying them!!
Are those buckwheat pancakes?! My favorite pancakes ever! I was so sad when Aunt Jemima stopped selling them, I miss them very much. Now there's no Aunt Jemima either. My grandma raised me on those buckwheat pancakes. What is your recipe?
Yes they are! Here's the recipe: blindpigandtheacorn.com/have-you-ever-eaten-buckwheat-pancakes/
Can you please put the recipe for the pancakes 🥞 they look scrumptious
I really love your videos but I sure wish you would tell us what you are cooking.
Hi !! I have a friend who has family in your area, I have been looking on ancestry and I believe you or your husband are related !! Her family names are Trull, Bennett, Tilley, and everyone from haywood county !!
That is neat! We don't know much about our genealogy past our grandparents 😀
Matt reminds me of Steve Rogers chopping that wood 🪵