Brother I wasnt born until the 80s but my mamaw n papaw mostly raised me and they was older i was raised as if i was born 40 yrs before and i wouldnt trade it for nothin exceptn my daddy couldve lived, this is y i long to cherish learn and share the appalachian heritage thanks for this
Same here brother but I know you's like me, we was both raised with the old way, in the old ways! The BEST ways! We definitely ones of the few that's a dyin breed cut from the same cloth!! God bless and God bless the mountains!!! 🙏
Yep, I grew up in those days. The days of real ice boxes, wood stoves and feather mattress. We went once a month to the store. (We walked or occasionally dad would hitch up the horse and wagon.) The larger town was 9 miles from our community,Mom and us kids hit the fields with dad during cotton season and corn season., then she still had to cook, clean and she did laundry on Saturdays. I started picking cotton when I was 6 years old. After my brothers all married and moved away I help dad on a 2 man saw cutting wood to stock up for winter.. On Sundaysvit was church and.dinners on the grounds...
Looord I'm so glad you got to experience that sister 🙏💙 what a blessing that was! Thank you so much for watchin and enjoyin Dusty! Love you and Norma bunches God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
Jarad, when I hear you telling these stories I can smell my mama’s and daddy’s den - the supper we just had, smoke and ashes from the fireplace, cigarettes lit with a paper match. You bring back good, good memories for me. Thank you.
Hey Robbi! Looord I'm so so glad I can bring all that back for ya. Good lord knows I've had soooo many ole memories fade away...ones like that definitely needs to be kept fresh to enjoy over and over. God bless and have a good'n
This was so wonderful 😊 listening to.. really loved the lantern light and book at the beginning.. I miss ole days too.. my favorite was running round bout dark when folks came over with their younguns.. playing hide n seek and eating cumumbers with peelings still on.. back then people just come over visit, wasn't no calling. You just go on over someone's house,get out and visit if home. Get caught up on the local news lol.. bout others really, gossiping I say..yea,times have changed. Thanks for sharing..u have a wonderful blessed night
Hey Lisa!! 👋😃 Thank you for watching and so glad you enjoyed it. Lord I miss the old days too.. so so bad. Yep I remember eatin cucumbers right off the vine barefoot as can be lol with not a care in the world. Yeah nowadays they'd lock us up somewhere wouldn't they 😂😂😂 Thanks again and mighty good jawin with Ya! God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
I fondly remember the wood burning stove! I was 6 years old and loved visiting my grandma in Mississippi. She lived next to deep woods and she cooked food on the cast iron wood burning stove. I remember the mornings: the smell of pine wood burning, fresh coffee, hot biscuits, bacon, etc! Wow!
Yeah I tell ya, even just knowing that smell is a true blessin. So so glad you got to experience that. Thank you so so much for watching. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Hi Jared! Sounds like your voice is getting much stronger! Yay!😊 Hope Queen Lora is doing better too! I always love to hear your stories of growing up in the mountains. My parents moved us from Atlanta to a tiny city in the foothills because my love of the mountains and horses jived with his idea of better taxes on his property! He still drove at least thirty-five miles a day though, sometimes more, to do his work so my family could do well. But there were old, old homes in town with friends, both elders and my age, and a church I could walk around the mountain to without fear that I loved far more than my modern house. I'd walk or ride my horse into town every weekend to be near to and learn from the people and culture that I loved. Atlanta has absorbed my town now and only those who grew up there know where things were. The church and all my friend's homes are gone. My own home is now a mid-rise office park, the mountain I lived on ground down and filled in with concrete. Like many, I wish I could go back home, but I can't! So your stories and the stories that our other kinfolk send in mean so much to me! Thank you for telling them so well! I can't go back but at least I'm not the only one who remembers that there is a different way to be and, in a lot of ways, it was better! Y'all take care now! May God bless you and yours. ❤ Edit: there are still wood stoves! They ain't cheap, but if you can put in the work and have the wood or buy the wood, they're cheaper than the bills we're asked to pay for heat these days! I'm helping my Goddaughter put in two this fall so she and her family can have cheaper heat. (her man hasn't a clue of how to do this! 🤫) She lives in the mountains now so I do get to visit! She and her family share my love of the old ways too!❤
Yessum were much better than what we was thank the Lord. And Loooord Nancy I'm so glad you got to experience that. And God bless you for learning from the older folks. Now many worried about that. Weather you was born here or not...if you have the hills in your heart.. that's all that matters! God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
Absolutely Beautiful!!! I so love seeing the old pictures and hearing about your childhood!!! God Bless You Jared and Queen Lora!!! You both are a true blessing to us all !! Keep it coming ❤🙏
I still recollect the old days. I remember when the only way into town after a snowstorm was with our horse drawn sleigh. Probably why I still keep a harness horse and buckboard here on the farm.
Hey brother! Yeah I don't blame you narry bit! Lord knows ya never know when it'll come in handy. Thanks so much for watching Steve. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Them there we’re the good old days brother. We’re the last of a dying breed my friend but least we can say we got to go through some of them there days.
This took me back to the good ole days.I grew up playing with nothing but cousin's too. There was so many of us, and so much land .4 or 5 to a bed too 😂. Wouldn't change it for the world. Lord bless brother
Amen to that Debra! I still cook a mess of beans and a pone of cornbread quite a bit. Yessum I do too. Thanks so much for watchin. God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
I can remember some of these days when Food smell so good cooked with wood stove, and the conversations full of laughter and being ticked to no end. Sitting around just being friendly and sharing with one another on the porch.. I remember the old black kettle sitting in the front yard boiling to wash clothes in.😄😄😄😄😄😄
My mom and us young'ns picked backberries for her to sell and have extra money,. Gosh I still hate them haha. Women in town bought them She made all my cloths just about it Miss it all
Loooord after that, I can imagine you so hate them lol. I was that way by blackberries 😂😂 for a LOOONG time I couldn't look at one without getting sick 😂 thanks so much for watching Elizabeth. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
This reminds me of a time when we went by and picked up my cousin pete and took him to church with us . Pete was a little unruled and my dad picked him up to take him outside for a little swat on the behind. Pete yelled out "oh Jesus help me, Uncle Don's gonna kill me". That was over 70 years ago and we still get a chuckle out of it.
Awesome!! Not many nowadays remember them ole stoves. So glad you do! Thank you so so much for watching. I truly appreciate it 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
One good thing about those stoves is they didn’t need electricity. The one my dad owns has a warming closet on top. My grandma used hers to cook on and heat her kitchen. She had a King O Heat in the living room.
My husband said when they were really young, he and his brother used to spend weekends with their grandma and grandpa on the farm. His job was to go collect the cows out in the pasture. He said those cows would be at the farthest part of the pasture, and if he didn’t know any better, he thought those cows did it on purpose! It gets pretty cold here in Nebraska.
Hey Annie!! 👋😃 lol Loooord thank ya kindly for sharing that. I wouldn't put it passed them ole cows a bit! 🤣 Thanks so much for watching. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
I had just finished cookin my dinner on top of my wood stove, kerosene lights burnin as I watched this. This is the best life. Hard yes, but so rewarding. My mom grew up with the old ways but passed when I was 10 and ma ma passed when I was 5 so I missed learning a lot from them. Funny thing is it all came natural to me. Raised 7 youngins off grid in a 758 sq' cabin. Oh how they complained that no one lived like we did🤣 They felt like they were being denied. Although none of them have chosen my lifestyle, everyone of them have come to me as adults and said, even tho we love our easy creature comforts we are thankful for everything we learned. At least when the power goes out we know how to git by 😉 Most folk these days have no idea how to survive without all the creature comforts and my gut feeling tells me they may need those skills yet someday. I still laugh about some friends of ours that called us during a big snow storm that knocked their power out back in the mid 90's saying their toilet was full, their food was going bad and they didn't know what to do all the while there was 3' of snow on the ground. I had to tell them to bury their food in the snow and to fill a large kettle or two with snow, melt it on the wood stove and bucket flush their dang toilet, wash their dishes and clean themselves with it 🙄🤣 Never have let them live it down but we all laugh about it now. 😉
Howdy kinfolk!! 👋😃 Loooord to me livin that way is a blessin!! And yeah that's the truth, folks don't know how to scratch their hind ends without modern thangs nowadays 😂. No tellin how many would starve with a garden next to them 😂. Thank ya kindly for watchin and sharing that. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Awesome video brother! My cousin and I had this conversation yesterday about how things were growing up and how things have changed. Things with kids are so different now for sure.
Hey brother!!! Thanks so much for watching and enjoying man. Yeah y'all are absolutely right. Lord the stuff kids get away with nowadays we'd have gotten a belt for lol. God bless and have a good'n brother 🙏
Hey Jared, I loved hearing how you were raised. You was talking about going to church and having to behave, and if you didn't you'd get a spanking when you'd get home. Well in my case if it was called for my momma would right then and there grab me up and take me outside and give me one. Talking about a walk of shame going and coming back in.😓 Didn't do that but once.
Hey Cheryl 👋😃 lol Loooord I can imagine 😂. I tell ya, I acted up ONE TIME and one time ONLY in church. When I got home Pa said "C'mere youngun!" My heart sank to my stomach 😂 Lord I didn't set down for a while after that 😂 but as you say... didn't do that but once! 😂 thanks so much for watching and enjoying sister. Love ya bunches God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
It's funny you're talking about wood cook stove. I put one in my house right about 5 years ago. You're right nothing taste as good as on a wood cook stove . God Bless
Howdy Miss Opal! Oh hey that's neat !! And Yes ma'am that's for sure 😁 if love to have me another one. Thank you so so much for watching. I truly appreciate it 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
Yup my mom worked in the fields, she was going to school while attending elementary, but seen her follks going through hard times, so she quick school to help support her family, yes no chlld labor laws back in the days
Wow brother I was born and raised here in California yes with the hustle and bustle but would sure would love to live like that, my mom and my grandparents, her parents and siblings were in Texas in the 60s they lived a hard life but sure remember running around the country like there was no tomorrow, they used a wood stove to heat up the little shack to heat up the house, my grandfather hunted rabits and my mom and her siblings would go out to the river to get fish, they lived a hard life, but they were all together which was most important,GODBLESS you brother and GODBLESS your loved ones GODBLESS all that are here oh yeah love me a good Ole bowl of beans
Hey Ruben! Thank ya kindly for watchin and enjoyin brother. Thank ya kindly for sharing that amazing family history. As long as you got the mountains in your heart... You're Appalachian in my book! God bless you Kinfolk 🙏 and have a good'n brother
One day, my uncle Lloyd and aunt Dot came by our house, while we were gone to the grocery store. Uncle Lloyd left a note, and it made us chuckle.. here's what it said... "We were here and you were gone. Now, you're here, and we're gone." 😂
My grandma baked cakes in a wood stove. No idea how she kept the temp right. My uncle told me how he and his pals would be gone all day on the ridges, covering miles, and adults just accepted that.
Yep sure enough, back then it was ok to do that. And the cakes, no idea how she done that but, they used them ole stoves day after day so they knew them good enough to know when to add more wood to make it hotter and when you let it cool down some. Thanks so much for watching and enjoying Kinfolk! God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Wow that was the life style that I had. My a wife was born and raised in a log house that her Granddaddy built here in the blue ridge mountains. Her granddaddy made his living of the land using horses to plow and work the land. The men in the mountains would get together and have a wood cutting in the fall with a saw hooked up to a old John Deer tractor and a long old belt to pull the saw.The logs were in stacks were grandpa had drug up there all year he cut them with a buck saw and a axe . The men would bring there pickups - 5 or 6 - to haul the wood down to the wood pile it was a all day Job. They heated & cooked with wood. I’m sure you experienced the same . Her Granddaddy use to tell me for every Man working there were 5 sitting behind desk in suits plotting on how to get there money. He had no education but he was plenty smart. All the old people are gone now and the old mountain is sad looking.They had men that would come around at night and come up on the porch and play music after bedtime and go from house to house.still have one of the old Stores left that used to be a Mill. Thanks for your story’s they bring back good memory’s ❤
Loooord brother what some amazing stories and family history right there!! Yep I experienced the same thing brother. I miss my wood stove and the smell of a good fire burnin. Yeah the elders are long gone and you're absolutely right, the mountains shows it! They're not as beautiful as they once was now thanks to development and highways and stuff. Thanks so much for watching and sharing that Kenneth. God bless and have a good'n brother 🙏
I get so wistful and kinda sad at this. I think people today are more lonely than at any other point in time in history, we NEED each other, no human can be self reliant alone if for no other reason than with out any other humans, a single human will go plum whack-a-Doo.
Abby that gets about the biggest AMEN I've ever given on a comment sister! That's the truest, most honest answer I've gotten so far!! God bless you sister 🙏💙
I never really lived that way, but all of my relatives did . This was the mid '70s. We lived in a semi rural area when I was a teenager, in a relatively new trailer. ( Built in 1974....typical trailer of the time) in central Kentucky. But all of my family, and a lot of the people I went to school with lived pretty much like you described ( tobacco was the main cash crop, and, really, what a big chunk of Kentucky did at the time. Tobacco farms were everywhere. I made money picking up deposit bottles. $5 to $60 a week, 1970s dollars. Harvest time was the best time for bottles. Lots of ways to get messed up fooling with tobacco.,but it was the cash crop of the time.Hard, hot, nasty and dangerous, but it was just how many families lived. Coal and wood were very common heating sources. My relatives had old school kerosene heaters ( I called them " Victorian Warp Cores")...that looked nothing like new ones. Cylinders about two feet tall on a box base, all made of steel. Got plenty hot, and people cooked on them. They were used to warm the house up until the coal stove got going Lots of houses wired for lights only...two 15 amp circuits. Had to get a socket adapter to plug stuff in. The lights would dim and the TV picture shrink when the fridge first kicked on. Lots of flash lights and lanterns...the power went off fairly often....and stay off a while. Digging worms for bait. One Uncle would flatten out cardboard, find a shady location, and pile it up. Keep it wet, and you always had worms under it....I remember a lot of just little stuff...
Hey brother! Thanks so much for sharing that amazing family history. Yeah ya know back at the cabin we kept what looked like a sandbox full of dirt and kept shredded up pieces of newspaper and coffee grounds in it. Like you said... We'd have worms all season! God bless and have a good'n brother
@@JaredKingTV I grew up simalar to this. When I was small in a rural community in Blue Ridge Va. In a mountain. Home no running. Water. Out house. And a wood cooking stove. But I never new we were poor. Life was. Simple and good back then. Wish life was that simple Today.
@@jeffscott8323 Amen to that brother! Same here. I didn't realize we were poor till I started school. Cause that's just how life was. That was normal to us ya know. Folks just don't understand, yeah it was some rough and hard times but I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.
We use to get 2 cents a bottle, which was ok cause there was still penny candy around. There was a little market not too far from the house where we'd cash in on the bottles. Nehi, RC cola and Dr. Pepper and such. 7-11 opened up just up the road and pretty much killed the little country market. There was some fellas I used to hang around with that lived back in a cove in West Virginia and they had no electric service. Their mom had a wood cook stove goin most of the time and in summer the kitchen was down right miserable. You can still find brand new wood cook stoves but the prices are crazy.
Hey brother! Lord yeah I looked into one a while back and WHEEEEW mercy at the price!! Thank ya kindly for watchin and sharing the amazing memories. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Yeah I miss them too. I remember my Mema singing and humming them while she'd cook or just in the rocking chair. Thank you so so much for watching. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Whole lot better time then to . Coke moon pie and a comic book all for a quarter . Dang I miss going to grandma's on Sunday for dinner and ya best not be late hahaha
WELL SIR I WASN'T BORN IN YOUR AREA,, BUT I WAS BORN IN THE HIGH TIMBER OF IOWA. YEAH IT WAS ALOT LIKE YOUR AREA. 👍 SAME KIND OF LIFE. SOME GOOD SOME BAD.
@@JaredKingTV Cushaw is actually a squash, though it looks like other gourds, which maybe they were gourds and I'm just thinking Cushaw. But Cushaw made a delicious pie. My grandmother made it, oh it was good. Understand I'm not a fan of squash, but another one was Butternut, where an uncles mother made it. They're both in the same category of being delicious just like Sweet Tater, 😋 😍 ☺ 😊
@@Noone-rt6pw yeah ya know I never was a fan of squash either lol. It may be Cushaw, my ole eyes ain't what they used to be 😂 but them pies sure sounds good!!!
Wood cook stove is perfect for a big pot of soup pinto beans and cornbread let them beans cook on the stove slow all day man mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm make ye tongue slap ye brains out now
If you remember these days.. HIT THE LIKE BUTTON 👍 AND SHARE!! 🙏 God bless
This brought back precious memories Jared. Thank you so much. ❤ God bless y'all.
Thank you so so much for watching and so glad you enjoyed it Angie 🙏 God bless and have a good'n 💙
Brother I wasnt born until the 80s but my mamaw n papaw mostly raised me and they was older i was raised as if i was born 40 yrs before and i wouldnt trade it for nothin exceptn my daddy couldve lived, this is y i long to cherish learn and share the appalachian heritage thanks for this
Same here brother but I know you's like me, we was both raised with the old way, in the old ways! The BEST ways! We definitely ones of the few that's a dyin breed cut from the same cloth!! God bless and God bless the mountains!!! 🙏
This sounds like a conversation between two Forsworn Briarhearts
Yep, I grew up in those days. The days of real ice boxes, wood stoves and feather mattress. We went once a month to the store. (We walked or occasionally dad would hitch up the horse and wagon.) The larger town was 9 miles from our community,Mom and us kids hit the fields with dad during cotton season and corn season., then she still had to cook, clean and she did laundry on Saturdays.
I started picking cotton when I was 6 years old.
After my brothers all married and moved away I help dad on a 2 man saw cutting wood to stock up for winter..
On Sundaysvit was church and.dinners on the grounds...
Looord I'm so glad you got to experience that sister 🙏💙 what a blessing that was! Thank you so much for watchin and enjoyin Dusty! Love you and Norma bunches God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
Jarad, when I hear you telling these stories I can smell my mama’s and daddy’s den - the supper we just had, smoke and ashes from the fireplace, cigarettes lit with a paper match. You bring back good, good memories for me. Thank you.
Yes me too !!
Hey Robbi! Looord I'm so so glad I can bring all that back for ya. Good lord knows I've had soooo many ole memories fade away...ones like that definitely needs to be kept fresh to enjoy over and over. God bless and have a good'n
I'm so so glad I could bring them back to you too Alice 😁🙏💙
This was so wonderful 😊 listening to.. really loved the lantern light and book at the beginning.. I miss ole days too.. my favorite was running round bout dark when folks came over with their younguns.. playing hide n seek and eating cumumbers with peelings still on.. back then people just come over visit, wasn't no calling. You just go on over someone's house,get out and visit if home. Get caught up on the local news lol.. bout others really, gossiping I say..yea,times have changed. Thanks for sharing..u have a wonderful blessed night
Hey Lisa!! 👋😃 Thank you for watching and so glad you enjoyed it. Lord I miss the old days too.. so so bad. Yep I remember eatin cucumbers right off the vine barefoot as can be lol with not a care in the world. Yeah nowadays they'd lock us up somewhere wouldn't they 😂😂😂 Thanks again and mighty good jawin with Ya! God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
Loved looking at the old pictures! Thanks Jared.
Thank you so so much Renee! God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
You. To. Brother. God. Bless. Y'all. Putting. All. This. Stuff. Together. Like. My. Grandpa. Why. Can't. We. Be. Like. That. Again. I'm. 62. Me. To. Brother. ❤
Amen sister I wish we could. Love ya bunches God bless and have a good'n Dawn 🙏💙
You can and many folks are going back to the old ways🤗
Memory Lane story day! Always love the pictures, they bring so much extra for illustration purposes ❤
Amen to that sister 🙏💙 Thank you so so much for watching and enjoying 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
I fondly remember the wood burning stove! I was 6 years old and loved visiting my grandma in Mississippi. She lived next to deep woods and she cooked food on the cast iron wood burning stove. I remember the mornings: the smell of pine wood burning, fresh coffee, hot biscuits, bacon, etc! Wow!
Yeah I tell ya, even just knowing that smell is a true blessin. So so glad you got to experience that. Thank you so so much for watching. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
That was real living.
oh lord, jared--bless you for doing this work, amen
Lord sister it was an honor to do it. Lord knows I miss them ole days. Thank you so so much for watchin🙏 God bless and have a good'n 💙
I love ole pictures and stories like these thank you brother 😊
Hey brother!! Thank ya kindly man Yeah me too! God bless and have a good'n Kinfolk 🙏💙
Great story brother GOD BLESS
Thank you so much brother 🙏 God bless
Hi Jared! Sounds like your voice is getting much stronger! Yay!😊 Hope Queen Lora is doing better too! I always love to hear your stories of growing up in the mountains. My parents moved us from Atlanta to a tiny city in the foothills because my love of the mountains and horses jived with his idea of better taxes on his property! He still drove at least thirty-five miles a day though, sometimes more, to do his work so my family could do well. But there were old, old homes in town with friends, both elders and my age, and a church I could walk around the mountain to without fear that I loved far more than my modern house. I'd walk or ride my horse into town every weekend to be near to and learn from the people and culture that I loved. Atlanta has absorbed my town now and only those who grew up there know where things were. The church and all my friend's homes are gone. My own home is now a mid-rise office park, the mountain I lived on ground down and filled in with concrete. Like many, I wish I could go back home, but I can't! So your stories and the stories that our other kinfolk send in mean so much to me! Thank you for telling them so well! I can't go back but at least I'm not the only one who remembers that there is a different way to be and, in a lot of ways, it was better! Y'all take care now! May God bless you and yours. ❤
Edit: there are still wood stoves! They ain't cheap, but if you can put in the work and have the wood or buy the wood, they're cheaper than the bills we're asked to pay for heat these days! I'm helping my Goddaughter put in two this fall so she and her family can have cheaper heat. (her man hasn't a clue of how to do this! 🤫) She lives in the mountains now so I do get to visit! She and her family share
my love of the old ways too!❤
Yessum were much better than what we was thank the Lord. And Loooord Nancy I'm so glad you got to experience that. And God bless you for learning from the older folks. Now many worried about that. Weather you was born here or not...if you have the hills in your heart.. that's all that matters! God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
Absolutely Beautiful!!! I so love seeing the old pictures and hearing about your childhood!!! God Bless You Jared and Queen Lora!!! You both are a true blessing to us all !! Keep it coming ❤🙏
Thank you so so much Alice 🙏 Definitely lots more to come!! God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
I still recollect the old days. I remember when the only way into town after a snowstorm was with our horse drawn sleigh. Probably why I still keep a harness horse and buckboard here on the farm.
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Hey brother! Yeah I don't blame you narry bit! Lord knows ya never know when it'll come in handy. Thanks so much for watching Steve. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Great video
Thank you so so much Naomi 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
Thank you so much for this, brother Jared. I really enjoyed listening to your awesome story.👍😍👍
Hey Jan!!! 👋😃💙 Thank you so so much for watching sister! I'm so glad you enjoyed it 😁 God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Oh heck yea
CASSIEEEE 👋😃💙 thank you so so much for watching sister. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Very awesome video! Stirs up lots of memories. God Bless
Hey Brenda! Thank ya kindly for watchin and enjoyin sister 🙏💙 God bless and have a good'n. ps Check your email 😁👍
Great story & narration! Thank you Brother!
Hey thank you so so much for watching and enjoying brother!! God bless and have a good'n 🙏
That was an excellent story you always tell really good stories!!!😃😃😃😃
Thank you so so much brother 🙏 so glad you enjoy them man. God bless and have a good'n my brother 🙏
@@JaredKingTV you have a good one to brother Jared!! And I would give your comments a heart, but I have no idea how that’s done lol😁😁😁
I love your videos
Thank you so much brother 🙏
Them there we’re the good old days brother. We’re the last of a dying breed my friend but least we can say we got to go through some of them there days.
Amen to that brother! If younguns nowadays went through what we did... This new generation would have a lot more respect!
This took me back to the good ole days.I grew up playing with nothing but cousin's too. There was so many of us, and so much land .4 or 5 to a bed too 😂. Wouldn't change it for the world. Lord bless brother
Lol amen to that brother!!! I got a many of kicks to the face tryin to sleep 🤣🤣🤣 but, wouldn't change it either! God bless and have a good'n 🙏
BroJared! Great production as always!
SCULLY!!! 😃 HEY BROTHER! Thank you so so much kinfolk 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
Oh my Lord, I can sure relate to that big pile of taters. Dad would plow each row till they came up empty 3 times, then once more, to be sure.
Amen to that brother!!! Dig an dig an dig!! Every single one counted didn't it! Thanks so much for watching brother. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
I love all your old pictures.. thank you for the great memeorys. GOOD STORYS... SHARED SHARED
Lynn you're a true blessin 🙏💙 thank you so so much for being the amazing person you are! 💙🙏 God bless and have a good'n
My family pictures are some of my precious and priceless treasures
Amen 🙏
Wernt nothing like that big pot of beans and black skillet of corn bread. I still love it.
Amen to that Debra! I still cook a mess of beans and a pone of cornbread quite a bit. Yessum I do too. Thanks so much for watchin. God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
Precious family memories!!🥰♥️♥️♥️
Amen 😁💙💙🙏
You bring a lot of things back to myself with your stories Jared, thank you.
Hey Larry! Thank ya kindly brother. So glad you enjoy them and they can bring back some good ole memories. God bless and have a good'n
That very last picture brings back memories for me. Splitting Cedar shingles with Grandad's fro and maul.
Hey brother! Thanks so much for watching and so glad it brought back some good ole memories. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
I can remember some of these days when Food smell so good cooked with wood stove, and the conversations full of laughter and being ticked to no end. Sitting around just being friendly and sharing with one another on the porch.. I remember the old black kettle sitting in the front yard boiling to wash clothes in.😄😄😄😄😄😄
Hey Kinfolk!! Thank you so so much for watching. I truly appreciate it 🙏 God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
Best smell in the world to wake up to is the smell of bacon frying and coffee.
Looord BIG OLE AMEN to that sister!!! Thank you so so much for watchin Jana🙏 God bless and have a good'n 💙
Days gone by but fondly remembered by many.
Amen!
My mom and us young'ns picked backberries for her to sell and have extra money,. Gosh I still hate them haha. Women in town bought them She made all my cloths just about it Miss it all
Loooord after that, I can imagine you so hate them lol. I was that way by blackberries 😂😂 for a LOOONG time I couldn't look at one without getting sick 😂 thanks so much for watching Elizabeth. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
This reminds me of a time when we went by and picked up my cousin pete and took him to church with us . Pete was a little unruled and my dad picked him up to take him outside for a little swat on the behind. Pete yelled out "oh Jesus help me, Uncle Don's gonna kill me". That was over 70 years ago and we still get a chuckle out of it.
Looooord 😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks so much for sharing that! God bless
I do miss gathering on the porch with the neighbor hood folks. Those were good days. So peaceful.
Hey Kellie!! Yessum I miss them ole days more than anything. And yep sure was the good ole days. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Thanks, Brother Jared
God bless you brother 🙏
I’m 46, from Preston County WV. My grandma used a wood cooking stove. Those things are awesome. My mom and dad used one too.
Awesome!! Not many nowadays remember them ole stoves. So glad you do! Thank you so so much for watching. I truly appreciate it 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
One good thing about those stoves is they didn’t need electricity. The one my dad owns has a warming closet on top. My grandma used hers to cook on and heat her kitchen. She had a King O Heat in the living room.
My husband said when they were really young, he and his brother used to spend weekends with their grandma and grandpa on the farm. His job was to go collect the cows out in the pasture. He said those cows would be at the farthest part of the pasture, and if he didn’t know any better, he thought those cows did it on purpose! It gets pretty cold here in Nebraska.
Hey Annie!! 👋😃 lol Loooord thank ya kindly for sharing that. I wouldn't put it passed them ole cows a bit! 🤣 Thanks so much for watching. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
I had just finished cookin my dinner on top of my wood stove, kerosene lights burnin as I watched this. This is the best life. Hard yes, but so rewarding. My mom grew up with the old ways but passed when I was 10 and ma ma passed when I was 5 so I missed learning a lot from them. Funny thing is it all came natural to me. Raised 7 youngins off grid in a 758 sq' cabin. Oh how they complained that no one lived like we did🤣 They felt like they were being denied. Although none of them have chosen my lifestyle, everyone of them have come to me as adults and said, even tho we love our easy creature comforts we are thankful for everything we learned. At least when the power goes out we know how to git by 😉 Most folk these days have no idea how to survive without all the creature comforts and my gut feeling tells me they may need those skills yet someday. I still laugh about some friends of ours that called us during a big snow storm that knocked their power out back in the mid 90's saying their toilet was full, their food was going bad and they didn't know what to do all the while there was 3' of snow on the ground. I had to tell them to bury their food in the snow and to fill a large kettle or two with snow, melt it on the wood stove and bucket flush their dang toilet, wash their dishes and clean themselves with it 🙄🤣 Never have let them live it down but we all laugh about it now. 😉
Howdy kinfolk!! 👋😃 Loooord to me livin that way is a blessin!! And yeah that's the truth, folks don't know how to scratch their hind ends without modern thangs nowadays 😂. No tellin how many would starve with a garden next to them 😂. Thank ya kindly for watchin and sharing that. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Awesome video brother! My cousin and I had this conversation yesterday about how things were growing up and how things have changed. Things with kids are so different now for sure.
Hey brother!!! Thanks so much for watching and enjoying man. Yeah y'all are absolutely right. Lord the stuff kids get away with nowadays we'd have gotten a belt for lol. God bless and have a good'n brother 🙏
That was really nice, thank you. God Bless You and Yours.
Well howdy June! Thank ya kindly for watchin and so glad you enjoyed it. God bless and have a good'n
You are so quite welcome and thank you.
I love this. Nothing bets the good ole days. Kids nowadays would have no clue just how it was
Amen to that RY!! Thank ya kindly for watchin Kinfolk. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Jared - please consider putting these stories into a book 📚 I love them, I really feel I'm there
God bless brother 🙏
I definitely want to!! May do that one day when the channel grows and I can afford it lol
Good evening, just in time before my eyes get heavy.
Hey Lucy! 👋😃💙 Glad I uploaded just in time lol. God bless and have a good'n sister 💙🙏
Hey Jared, I loved hearing how you were raised. You was talking about going to church and having to behave, and if you didn't you'd get a spanking when you'd get home. Well in my case if it was called for my momma would right then and there grab me up and take me outside and give me one. Talking about a walk of shame going and coming back in.😓 Didn't do that but once.
Hey Cheryl 👋😃 lol Loooord I can imagine 😂. I tell ya, I acted up ONE TIME and one time ONLY in church. When I got home Pa said "C'mere youngun!" My heart sank to my stomach 😂 Lord I didn't set down for a while after that 😂 but as you say... didn't do that but once! 😂 thanks so much for watching and enjoying sister. Love ya bunches God bless and have a good'n 🙏💙
I remember those days and also remember those wood stoves I miss those days brther
I miss them ole days and the food off them ole stoves brother
It's funny you're talking about wood cook stove. I put one in my house right about 5 years ago. You're right nothing taste as good as on a wood cook stove . God Bless
Howdy Miss Opal! Oh hey that's neat !! And Yes ma'am that's for sure 😁 if love to have me another one. Thank you so so much for watching. I truly appreciate it 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
Yup my mom worked in the fields, she was going to school while attending elementary, but seen her follks going through hard times, so she quick school to help support her family, yes no chlld labor laws back in the days
Amen to that! Back then ya did what was best for the family.
Awesome video my friend, brought back a lot of good memories of growing up on the holler
Hey man thank you so much for watching and enjoying. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
😂😂😂 I have that LOOK I gave my daughter. She knew exactly what it meant. 😂😂😂
LAAAAAWD 😂🤣🤣🤣 I bet she knows that look to this very day!! 🤣😂
@JaredKingTV She sure does, and I still use it. 😆
She now has her own look for her 13 yr old twins. 😆 🤣 😂
Bud I enjoyed your videos and God bless you
Hey Harry! Thank you so so much brother 🙏 God bless you
I was always curious if Woodstoves didn't do something for food. Appreciate the input.
Hey thank you so much for watching and so glad it could clear that up for ya! God bless and have a good'n
Watched this one at work great video brother
Hey Buck!! Thank ya kindly for watchin brother!
Wow brother I was born and raised here in California yes with the hustle and bustle but would sure would love to live like that, my mom and my grandparents, her parents and siblings were in Texas in the 60s they lived a hard life but sure remember running around the country like there was no tomorrow, they used a wood stove to heat up the little shack to heat up the house, my grandfather hunted rabits and my mom and her siblings would go out to the river to get fish, they lived a hard life, but they were all together which was most important,GODBLESS you brother and GODBLESS your loved ones GODBLESS all that are here oh yeah love me a good Ole bowl of beans
Hey Ruben! Thank ya kindly for watchin and enjoyin brother. Thank ya kindly for sharing that amazing family history. As long as you got the mountains in your heart... You're Appalachian in my book! God bless you Kinfolk 🙏 and have a good'n brother
@@JaredKingTV your welcome my brother 🙏 GODBLESS you and your family
One day, my uncle Lloyd and aunt Dot came by our house, while we were gone to the grocery store. Uncle Lloyd left a note, and it made us chuckle.. here's what it said...
"We were here and you were gone. Now, you're here, and we're gone." 😂
I had an old wood cook stove in my kitchen for many yrs helped heat the house
What a blessin that was! Especially when power went out lol. Thank ya kindly for watchin. God bless and have a good'n
Dude I really enjoy your videos. Could you imagine Walmart being like that . I been several Walmart trips nobody even spoke to me
Yeah I hear ya brother! Be Wild wouldn't it. Thanks so much for watching brother. God bless and have a good'n
My grandma baked cakes in a wood stove. No idea how she kept the temp right. My uncle told me how he and his pals would be gone all day on the ridges, covering miles, and adults just accepted that.
Yep sure enough, back then it was ok to do that. And the cakes, no idea how she done that but, they used them ole stoves day after day so they knew them good enough to know when to add more wood to make it hotter and when you let it cool down some. Thanks so much for watching and enjoying Kinfolk! God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Wow that was the life style that I had. My a wife was born and raised in a log house that her Granddaddy built here in the blue ridge mountains. Her granddaddy made his living of the land using horses to plow and work the land. The men in the mountains would get together and have a wood cutting in the fall with a saw hooked up to a old John Deer tractor and a long old belt to pull the saw.The logs were in stacks were grandpa had drug up there all year he cut them with a buck saw and a axe . The men would bring there pickups - 5 or 6 - to haul the wood down to the wood pile it was a all day Job. They heated & cooked with wood. I’m sure you experienced the same . Her Granddaddy use to tell me for every Man working there were 5 sitting behind desk in suits plotting on how to get there money. He had no education but he was plenty smart. All the old people are gone now and the old mountain is sad looking.They had men that would come around at night and come up on the porch and play music after bedtime and go from house to house.still have one of the old Stores left that used to be a Mill. Thanks for your story’s they bring back good memory’s ❤
Loooord brother what some amazing stories and family history right there!! Yep I experienced the same thing brother. I miss my wood stove and the smell of a good fire burnin. Yeah the elders are long gone and you're absolutely right, the mountains shows it! They're not as beautiful as they once was now thanks to development and highways and stuff. Thanks so much for watching and sharing that Kenneth. God bless and have a good'n brother 🙏
I get so wistful and kinda sad at this. I think people today are more lonely than at any other point in time in history, we NEED each other, no human can be self reliant alone if for no other reason than with out any other humans, a single human will go plum whack-a-Doo.
Abby that gets about the biggest AMEN I've ever given on a comment sister! That's the truest, most honest answer I've gotten so far!! God bless you sister 🙏💙
Have. A. Glass. Tea. Or. Coffee❤
Yes ma'am!
I never really lived that way, but all of my relatives did . This was the mid '70s. We lived in a semi rural area when I was a teenager, in a relatively new trailer. ( Built in 1974....typical trailer of the time) in central Kentucky.
But all of my family, and a lot of the people I went to school with lived pretty much like you described ( tobacco was the main cash crop, and, really, what a big chunk of Kentucky did at the time. Tobacco farms were everywhere.
I made money picking up deposit bottles. $5 to $60 a week, 1970s dollars. Harvest time was the best time for bottles. Lots of ways to get messed up fooling with tobacco.,but it was the cash crop of the time.Hard, hot, nasty and dangerous, but it was just how many families lived.
Coal and wood were very common heating sources. My relatives had old school kerosene heaters ( I called them " Victorian Warp Cores")...that looked nothing like new ones. Cylinders about two feet tall on a box base, all made of steel. Got plenty hot, and people cooked on them. They were used to warm the house up until the coal stove got going
Lots of houses wired for lights only...two 15 amp circuits. Had to get a socket adapter to plug stuff in. The lights would dim and the TV picture shrink when the fridge first kicked on.
Lots of flash lights and lanterns...the power went off fairly often....and stay off a while.
Digging worms for bait. One Uncle would flatten out cardboard, find a shady location, and pile it up. Keep it wet, and you always had worms under it....I remember a lot of just little stuff...
Hey brother! Thanks so much for sharing that amazing family history. Yeah ya know back at the cabin we kept what looked like a sandbox full of dirt and kept shredded up pieces of newspaper and coffee grounds in it. Like you said... We'd have worms all season! God bless and have a good'n brother
When times were the best. America that I'd like to see again.
Hey Jeff! Yeah brother same here man. Thanks so much for watching. God bless and have a good'n
@@JaredKingTV I grew up simalar to this. When I was small in a rural community in Blue Ridge Va. In a mountain. Home no running. Water. Out house. And a wood cooking stove. But I never new we were poor. Life was. Simple and good back then. Wish life was that simple Today.
@@jeffscott8323 Amen to that brother! Same here. I didn't realize we were poor till I started school. Cause that's just how life was. That was normal to us ya know. Folks just don't understand, yeah it was some rough and hard times but I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.
We use to get 2 cents a bottle, which was ok cause there was still penny candy around. There was a little market not too far from the house where we'd cash in on the bottles. Nehi, RC cola and Dr. Pepper and such. 7-11 opened up just up the road and pretty much killed the little country market.
There was some fellas I used to hang around with that lived back in a cove in West Virginia and they had no electric service. Their mom had a wood cook stove goin most of the time and in summer the kitchen was down right miserable. You can still find brand new wood cook stoves but the prices are crazy.
Hey brother! Lord yeah I looked into one a while back and WHEEEEW mercy at the price!! Thank ya kindly for watchin and sharing the amazing memories. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Hey Jared and Queen Lora
Kevin!!!! Hey brother 👋😃
I feel like it was better back then. Maybe harder, but definitely better. ❤
Amen to that 🙏
I miss the old church songs 😢
Yeah I miss them too. I remember my Mema singing and humming them while she'd cook or just in the rocking chair. Thank you so so much for watching. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
I ENJOY THESE VIDEOS !!!!
Hey Nancy 👋😃 thank you so so much for watching and enjoying sister 🙏💙 God bless and have a good'n
Yup cold drink n apple pie. Store bout ❤
Amen to that brother! Lordy I miss them ole days.Thank you so much. God bless and have a good'n
Sounds like me and you were raised the same way brother
Amen to that brother! Ain't many of us left that was raised in the old ways anymore is they
I didn't grow up that way but my step mama and my dad knew our toys better than we did!
Hey Wayne!! Thank you so so much for watching brother 🙏 God bless and have a good'n
Whole lot better time then to . Coke moon pie and a comic book all for a quarter . Dang I miss going to grandma's on Sunday for dinner and ya best not be late hahaha
Amen brother lol I heard that hahahaha
I just came across your channel and I am really enjoying it! I live in the foothills and can email some old pictures you might be interested in.
Howdy Tami! I'm so glad you found my channel and YES I'd LOVE to have some old pictures! My email is kingjared1981@gmail.com
Like a video version of the Foxfire Books!
Yeah I gotta check into those lol everybody keeps telling me that lol
I think Farkas can tell you the good old days more than I can when the lights come on you have to go home I think
Yep I remember that too!!
@JaredKingTV you remember Farkas
The look, that'd make ye behave!
YESSSSS 😂 AMEN to that brother!! Thank ya kindly for watchin Daniel. God bless and have a good'n
My aunt cooked on a old wood cook stove and them pintos were delicious now
Yes sir I believe it!!!! I miss them ole days brother
WELL SIR I WASN'T BORN IN YOUR AREA,, BUT I WAS BORN IN THE HIGH TIMBER OF IOWA. YEAH IT WAS ALOT LIKE YOUR AREA. 👍
SAME KIND OF LIFE.
SOME GOOD SOME BAD.
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Hey Anita 👋😃💙🙏
sup brother from another mother 👋
SYKOOOOOOO!!!! 👋😎 Always awesome seeing ya kinfolk!!
@@JaredKingTV 🤙
There's a good folklore Channel it's called folk walk and he makes pretty good videos about Slavic folklore go check it out it's called folk walk
Ok cool thanks man! 😎👍
And back then, if you got offended by the old men raggin on you, you got tagged on that much more!
LORD YEAH!!! 😂😂🤣 thank you so much for watching Kinfolk. God bless and have a good'n 🙏
Note the Cushaw with the taters.
Yep they'd use old gords for all kinds of things.
@@JaredKingTV Cushaw is actually a squash, though it looks like other gourds, which maybe they were gourds and I'm just thinking Cushaw. But Cushaw made a delicious pie. My grandmother made it, oh it was good. Understand I'm not a fan of squash, but another one was Butternut, where an uncles mother made it. They're both in the same category of being delicious just like Sweet Tater, 😋 😍 ☺ 😊
@@Noone-rt6pw yeah ya know I never was a fan of squash either lol. It may be Cushaw, my ole eyes ain't what they used to be 😂 but them pies sure sounds good!!!
@@JaredKingTV that's it
Wood stove it's good food yummy
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HEY STARLA 👋😃💙
Wood cook stove is perfect for a big pot of soup pinto beans and cornbread let them beans cook on the stove slow all day man mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm make ye tongue slap ye brains out now
WHEEEEEW LAWD YEAH brother!!! Thank you so so much for watchin Randle 🙏 God bless and have a good'n