Appalachia People How They Enjoyed Life
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2023
- #appalachian #appalachianhistory #appalachia #donnielaws People of these Appalachia mountains lead a hard life trying to survive, but it wasn't all just hard work. They found ways to relax and enjoy this rugged country when they could. God bless and Thanks for watching. NOTE: Picture are just to tell the story and not actual pictures of the events. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL. THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS ! All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only.
Thank you Donnie again for taking the time and effort to make episodes like this one. You don't know how much it is appreciated by people like me and your regular audience. It's good not to forget how free and hard-working people of this country once lived. I hope youth of today have the opportunity to watch your videos and learn. Unfortunately, very few know our history.
I do to my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
What part of SW Virginia are you from?
@@PeppersMomI believe he is from Tennessee, I’m from Hazard Ky and enjoy his videos and stories!! Takes me back home to my childhood
My mama was a good quilt maker! She made quilts for all her kids and grandkids before she passed away! Good memories!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
This made my heart ache for the good old days of my youth. My grandmother thought nothing of packing a picnic lunch and rounding up all the kinfolk for a trip to Maggie Valley. We never thought things would change cause we still lived old timey. Then the world found Sevier County, and everything sure is different now. So hard to go home and see all the changes. Glad you show everyone the lives of real mountain people. I can show this to my grandkids to show them how it used to be. Thanks for the memories.
I understand that my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Love ❤️ the phrase "old timey," haven't heard that in decades but previous gens of my family used to say that. TY for that memory this morning, as I wipe a tear or two. That's what's important about communicating, comraderie & being together as human is recognizing what's important & enjoying the good in life-together. It's hard enough with it, and life is not much without it. I think we are all reading through these posts coming in from the far corners, ppl leading all different sorts of lives but Mr.Laws has brought us here together in recognition of these old times,better times as he has a gift for doing.
Thank you Mr. Donnie for this wonderful story. I’m hopeful that my children will hand down the recipes and traditions their dad, grandparents and I have shared with them. In this fast paced world it’s important to remember the people who made this nation so great. God bless you and have a wonderful weekend!
Awesome my friend. Me to. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
❤The simple pleasures in life are the best!
Amen my friend.
Absolutely 100%
I want to roll down that green slope of grass.
Beautiful countryside.
Thank you for keeping History alive
I was thinking that! 😂
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
I was born in a little coal town in southeastern Ky. I was raised north of Cincinnati Oh. It always seemed to me that my father and I were somehow reaching back to the mountains. We raised rabbits for meat. Hunted wild meat for food. And went back down home every chance we got. That’s always been home to me. I live out in the foothills of the appellations now where I raised my kids and grandkids and starting on the great grandchildren. I’ve always felt a sort of conviction to my family and giving them the best. That being a chance to know how to be self reliant.
I understand that my friend. Thanks for sharing your memories. God bless you.
I remember growing up our family had reunions. Now my dad was one of thirteen so they were big and fun times. What’s sad is when a family member passed away the reunions were less and less. Now we don’t have any. It’s so important to keep traditions going to pass onto the younger generations. Thanks for the memories. 😊🙏🏼❤️
Awesome my friend. Amen to that. God bless you. Your very welcome.
This is what is going on with my family, as well. Lost all Grandparents & parents on both sides, now we are the eldest generation, in our mid-50's, for our kids and grandchilds we are it. Unfortunately, no extended family. I feel like the immigrants that had come over long ago from different countries, left their extended family, starting over and holding a few long held traditions still once arriving here. Hoping the world lasts into the future & our family once again swells to more large in future,..meantime we are a small circle ❤
Your stories sure bring back memories, Donnie, although I'm a south Georgia girl. Hunting, fishing, sewing, the church, the community, were all so important to us. My husband is a Florida boy, and he tells me how it hurts his heart to see how Florida has changed, so many small towns have been swallowed up by cities...it is so sad how our world has changed. God bless you, I hope you have a wonderful weekend.🙏❤️
WOW that's awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
2nd comment, my daddy was a fine bluegrass player, played banjo, fiddle and guitar. He played all by ear self taught. He picked tmatoes to buy his first guitar and his sisters learned to play that same guitar. And i still have that guitar and his fiddles and his pride and joy. His White Eagle banjo. He was born in 1934. In the great depression. Hard times.❤
My grandma made the BEST breakfasts that I have ever eaten. I've never had anything as good since she passed on. She'd make the best biscuits and gravy that you ever ate! Biscuits, gravy, eggs, bacon, sausage, black berry jam, fritters, hocakes, pancakes, etc. We had fresh eggs from the hen house too, and boy was that amazing! The best fried eggs, scrambled eggs, omelets, and boiled eggs/deviled eggs! We had some of the best salted ham that I've ever eaten! And let me tell you, nobody today living can make cornbread like mamma made! When I was a kid, I'd eat cornbread in milk as a cereal, crumble cornbread and butter together for a treat, and she'd fry up some apples with cinnamon and sugar for the greatest treat of all! Pork chops and applesauce, fried potatoes, green beans, fresh corn, etc. Man, o' man!
I never tasted a store-bought cake until I was 12 or 13! Grandma or Mom always made cakes and pies at home!
That's so awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Thanks so much.
Love hearing about the old times. My grandmas and their sisters would all quilt together after we ate a huge feast that they’d prepared. Nothing like it. I’d love to hear you do one on their old time religion and such. Blessings to you and yours!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. I have a video on the old country churches. God bless you.
Hello from KY love your channel ❤️.I love how you keep history alive! Those folks didn't need our pity nor did they want it.They were talented enough to eek out a living and provide for their families.They sung songs had quilting bees,danced played musical instruments,cooked,lived and breathed their customs.Best of all Donnie they communicated with each other.We could use more of that with today's youth living in a battery operated world and looking at a phone all day long instead of being out in nature.Hope you have a good weekend ❤
Amen my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
He was quiet and reserved. Never knew he was going to be so famous.
I feel sorry for the generation's to come. They may have a lot of modern technology, but they miss out on the little things that we had growing up, like playing outside and just being kids .
Thank you.
God bless. 🙏
That's so true my friend. I feel for their future on these times. God bless you. Thanks for sharing.
The real beauty here is the fact that these people actually communicated with each other.The women taught the child how to do daily chores and Fathers taught the boys how to fish and hunt and farm. Very tight knit neighborhoods. Wonderful traditions to learn from. Thanks for sharing this heartwarming look at how these people enjoyed life, your friend, Louise
So true my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
I hope the wonderful music of the Appalachians is still taught to future generations. I'm thinking that getting together with friends and family, playing, listening and dancing to that music and sharing the joy is the best way to relax.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
I've been learning to sing and learning the old love songs or ballads that are in Appalachia. I know lots of songs, so I am carrying the torch.
I loved getting under the table in my Grandma's kitchen when Grandma, my momma, and my aunt's were quilting. I learned a whole lot more than I probably should have, lol but they always had the best time!!! ❤😊
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thanks, Donnie !! That brought back a lot of good memories growing up in the Appalachian Mountains , My great Granpaw played the fiddle 🎻 and always had a big garden , My Grandmaw made the purtiest Quilts and could make anything , very talented people, I really miss them ❤️ God bless my friend ✝️ 🙏 😇
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
In the mid 60s through the 70s when I was growing up in a rural part of Central Alabama, church dinners at the Baptist church the 7 of us attended were amazing. I truly miss those times. Church was packed every time the doors were open
Life was so less complicated back then. I did a lot of fishing with a stick and line my dad cut from his fishing rod. We never had cane poles.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
The region where my mother and her family hail from. ❤ I enjoy your channel Donnie. You keep them old folks long gone alive.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Hey Mr Laws. Thanks for your story. My mom had an old Blue Tick. I like hearing wet nose hound Dogs hunting at night. God Bless You Brother and Thank You 🙏 ❤🐾🐾🙏
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Mr. Huffman, who was an old coal miner from Pikeville, Kentucky, used to tell me about a game they played back home called, "Are you pleased, or displeased?". I used to love sitting out on the front porch with him during the summer in the cool of the evening and listening to him telling stories about his life, and the things he had learned from it. I'm so grateful that I had the opportunity to know he and his wife, and to live with them for several years. Because of that I was able to experience some of that lifestyle for myself, even in the midst of the hustle and bustle of Northern Virginia. I really miss those days.
WOW Thanks so much for sharing this my friend with. God bless you.
No place on the PLANET I'd rather be than the Hills & country I was Raised in.... Thank you for sharing Donnie...!!!!
Amen my friend. Your very welcome.
You are very blessed to be living life there
Thank you for sharing the ways of life of our ancestors and how they had integrity , honesty, creativity, and love for God , family , neighbors and country. God Bless you.
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much.
Good morning Mr Donnie, thank you as always for sharing. It’s like hearing my history that I do miss even though I know it was hard on our parents. We kids didn’t really know we were poor. The honest hard work and love of a mom and daddy was everything. Life was so good and Jesus was always in it🙏 have a Blessed Christmas❤
Good morning my friend. Amen to that. God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Thanks again, Donnie for bringing back fond memories. Hope you have a good day.
My mom's family were moonshiners from Allegheny mountain part of Appalachia. My grandma loved Nascar! Her mom (my Great grandmother) was buried on my 13th birthday so I really did know her and I remember her. They both (grandma and great grandma) played the guitar real well. And they danced so good! Thank you for the memories Mr Donnie! God bless you!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 ❤️
They had a inner peace of mind. It really is a magical place.
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Those women quilting reminds me of Mama and Grandma. I remember playing under the quilting frames while they quilted. Thanks for sharing and have a great weekend Donnie!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for your memories. Your very welcome.
When I was kid in Leslie Co, Ky every fall there was a stir-off to make sorghum syrup from the harvest of sugar cane. All the farmers in the area would bring their cane to the cane mill. The cane juice was then put into a large boiling pan where the cane juice was boiled until the juice thickened and the sorghum would rise to the top and all us kids would use a piece of cane to dip it out and eat it. Good Memories
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Donnie you do an amazing job on these videos I can't thank you enough you always brighten up my day! I know that God has given you this gift to share with all of us!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. Thank you so much. God bless you.
Great video Mr. Donnie! I grew up during those times in Northeast Alabama. You brought back a lot of memories from my childhood growing up. Thank you for the memories! Have a blessed day my friend!
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Donnie there are still alot of us old timers that can remember the stories your telling. My father grew up in the Piedmont regoin of NC in a house with no power or running water. In a couple decades we'll all be gone. Thank you for keeping the stories/history alive.
Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks so much for sharing this my friend.
Thank you Donnie for another great video. Times, and folks were a whole lot better back then. They would help a neighbor out and get along. Not like today, everyone is out for them self and society is evil and it is accepted in place of good. Too bad.
Take care.
Thank you friend for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Thank you ! Us Mississippi Delta folk are not so different from y'all! My two younger brothers use to beat the bushes with baseball bats to get the rabbits to run and I still love fried squirrel with brown gravy! Church homecomings, baptizing in the creek or river, fish fries, hog killings, and oh yes, quilt making! Both of my grandmothers quilted and I have quilts from each filled with cotton samples from the farm!
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Thanks again Donnie. These stories remind me of when I was little. We lived in a rural area and didn’t have much money. My Mom traded eggs or a chicken for corn feed or alfalfa. Life was great!
Brother Laws , you've done it again , you done went and took me back to my childhood. My Uncle's , Aunt's , cousins and Grandparents and on down the line. Well we all worked hard either on the farms or public jobs. Even if you had an outside job you worked the farm when you had the time. In school no problem get the eggs gathered or milk cows/goats by lantern light EARLY in the morning.
We knew how to have fun too , nearly all of us made music and when we all gathered up ; large times were had. I ain't gonna deny that some of my kin folks didn't make a little white mule , mule kick whatever you want to call white liquor. Wasn't any of those big 500 gallon black pot stills and propane fires. You could at times see what looked like giant lightning bugs on some of the hills. Shoot wasn't nothing copper pot still fires. One Uncle used to shake his head and say "if you can see their fires then they don't know what they're doing" ☠️ Running the dogs gettin a good race going with fox , raccoon to the wee hours. Yes Sir we had some bad times but the good times out weighed em by far.
God Bless you and yours and let's all pray for our Great Nation 🙏
Wars and rumors of wars is a sign give to us from the book of Revelations. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
That's so awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your sweet memories. God bless you and our nation. Your very welcome.
Sending prayers and thought for you. Absolutely precious stories, they take me back to my childhood. ❤
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Nothing like fried catfish, cornbread, greens/fried okra, and watching Ole Junior Johnson fly around the countryside.
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Such a beautiful countryside! Thank you ❤
Your very welcome my friend. Thank you.
That's great Donnie! I always loved the music. Your pictures are wonderful to see. The small general store is fun to see and brings back memories. When I was little a buddy of mine and I walked to the store, got a drink and a moonpie, the walk back, about 4 miles on the back roads. Thanks Donnie!!
Awesome my friend. Glad you enjoy them. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Keep on bringing back the memories of those old times Mr. Donnie. Sometimes old memories are the best. Thanks for another great video.
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
You make me wish I was 4 years old again.
This is how I grew up before we moved into the big city.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Having fun doesn't have to cost a lot of money. My great grandmother enjoyed her grand children coming to visit and cooking a good hamburger on a grill on a country back porch.
Having cool watermelon on the front porch on a hot summer day.
Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.
Our grandparents have all passed, but a fond memory of my husband & I was our grandparents bringing out the ice cream churn at get togethers; going way back, the kids took turns cranking, then later on, electric models. That's probably when things took a turn for the worse in society 😂 because you enjoyed more the hand cranked. Heard before that some families did the coffee can of ice & rock salt method, too.
@@jillconnelly8206 I remember the ice cream churns! And the Apple Butter churns. That is fun in my opinion and getting in the car to go ride around and look at everyone's Christmas decorations in their yards.
The Good Old Days!
Wouldn't it be something if we could take a step back in time and meet these folks. I would love to hear the stories they could tell us about their lives.
Mountain folks are so special.
Thank you for sharing another great video. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏💕🍀
That would be nice my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Those were probably the best days ever. Thank you Mr. Donnie for another great video. I surely did enjoy. Take care and God bless❤
Thank you friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Enjoyable lifestyle of one accord!
Thank you Donnie. I would love to share a cuppa coffee or a ball jar of shine with you. Hunting with my Grandad and uncles... I am 70 and my bed has a quilt made by the women of my family some while back. Church Socials...the potato salad the cobblers, dang I miss that. I would eat myself sick and love every minute. As to music.... I learned a few on guitar, banjo mandolin or dulcimer. Wish I still could. I am 70 and my fingers no longer work. Donnie we are all family. we knw the hardship, but we know the joy. Thank you for reminding me of my roots.
WOW Thanks so much for sharing your sweet memories my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Thank you, Donnie. I grew up in a great time. My grandfather was a federal player in the ozarks of Missouri. I remember so much about the time. Thank you for Jogging my memory one more time. God bless
Awesome my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
I remember when I was first married, my husband took me to Cave City Ky to meet his grandparents. We went to a country store and the store keeper cut us a big slice of Bologna and slice of cheese and made us a sandwich. For our treat we had an RC cola and chocolate moon pie. It sure tasted good!!
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Thank you for all the videos you post, Donnie. They're glimpses into bygone times (and, yes, Southern women can cook. My Ozark granny was the best cook I knew).
Your very welcome my friend.
Good morning Donnie! Oh do I love these videos! I wasn’t raised in the mountains, but was raised on the farm. I was too young to learn to shoot and hunt. But I love to hear that mountain music! You’re right….. a lot of good pickers there! And I remember watching a video of a man videoing a cemetery especially for nothing but prize coin dogs & champions! It was a site to see! Those men sure loved those dogs almost more than their families! My heart is always with the woods and the mountains no matter where I live. Blessings always! ❤️✝️
Good morning my friend. That's for sure. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Thank you for the memories! My grandpa was always doing something interesting in the gardens and the sheds. He whittled out amazing slingshots and contributed so many things to our childhood.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Hi Mr Donnie....when I was small catching fire flies. The sweet swing on the porch in a cool night. Picking blackberries. 5cent comic books...25cent Saturday movies...going to visit family on Sunday for a Sunday dinner....I was so so rich....I grew up never moving from my roots. And I'm 71 now and I am still so so rich. Not with things....you know what I mean. God bless dear Donnie
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
Thank you Mr Donnie! Love hearing your stories and the beautiful mountain music. God bless you and yours friend
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much. Your very welcome.
Thank you for sharing this Mr Donnie ❤ I feel sorry for the people that have lived in cities all their lives. There is something so comforting about the country. I've lived in the big city before. Everything is convenient, but it's definitely not peaceful. I definitely feel closer to God here in rural PA. There's nothing like looking up at the stars at night without light pollution dimming their shine❤ God bless you sir ❤
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Thank you! Sweet times back then simpler days but some of the greatest!
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
I like that old music 🎉❤
Awesome my friend.
I have friend who grew up there... a great story teller. Hearing your stories and the history really helps me to better understand her stories. Thank you Donnie, Im sure you make your people proud.
Thank you friend. Your very welcome.
Such a wonderful video, so well put together. It always amazes me how similar my growing up in Northern Ontario Canada is to what you talk about. The only thing we didn't have was the moonshine. Best times in my memory was when
Dad played fiddle and Mom piano before we had tv . Church socials and every woman had their special dishes. The little corner store etc . Thank you for bringing back some of my favorite memories too. Keep Safe❤Keep Well❤
WOW that's awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
We used to camp and fish every Labor Day at lake Sateetlah. Great memories.
Thanks for sharing your memories my friend.
Every year I go on vacation in those mountains people ask me why? Donnie I tell them heritage. Nice video Donnie
I understand that my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.
Nope god bless you for your narration and your videos you my friend have a gift
Love these old mountains.
Thank you friend.
Thank you for This Mr. Donnie. I grew up fishing,hunting, camping, running rabbit boxes. Thanks to my parents. I did learn the basics of trapping from my dad. He's been gone a few years now. But I did get to share how far I've went with trapping with him before he passed.. thank you for bringing up some good memories for me. You keep up the great work!
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you.
I always look so forward to your new episodes, brother Donnie! Thank you so much for the memories! My grandmother made a quilt top for me years ago that remains a treasure. She made the backing by cutting Bugler and RJR cigarette tobacco sacks and sewing them together. A lot of effort and love went into that! ❤ Wishing you and yours Shabbat Shalom, my brother, and may G-d bless y'all richly! Have a wonderful weekend, and I'm already looking forward to Monday's "As The Ridge Turns". Please continue to pray for the peace of Jerusalem, dear brother!
Amen my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Your correct Donnie they were fantastic quilt makers
Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Thank you Donnie I just love learning about your history and the ways folk lived back in the day it's so important to keep a record of it all for the future. I always enjoy watching love from the UK ☺
Thank you Mr. Donnie, from the beautiful appalachian hills of New York state.
Hello my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Hello sir from west TN, thanks so much for sharing such a rich history of our beautiful state.
Hello friend. Thank you. Your very welcome.
Mr Laws, you are a kind soul .Thank you Sir !
Thank you friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Really enjoyed the video, brings back a lot of memories of when I was young and growing up in north Georgia and east Tennessee.
Makes me see what I am missing now. 👍👍👍
Thanks for the video old man, I enjoyed a lot of the same things growing up here on clinch mountain. Choose Jesus Christ today folks.
Amen my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
@@donnielaws7020 GOD Bless
God bless the moon shiners too! Amen!
God bless you my friend.
Thank you so much Donnie for letting people know what our heritage really is!God bless you!
Your very welcome my. God bless you.
Such a nice stroll down memory lane Donnie.....simpler times and pleasures....
Thanks again for the video Brother.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.
You expressed it very well Donnie.
I never could put it to it as well as you did. Great job Donnie.
Thank you so much my friend. I really appreciate that.
Thank you Donnie for always giving us a colorful good story.❤
I sure do love that music. OL' JD has a style for sure.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks, i now remember the newspper on the walls of our house and stuffed in the cracks of the wall.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
Hi Donnie! We, your Audience misses You & praying You get well very soon!❤
Thank you friend. God bless you.
Thank you!! What a great story! I appreciate them!!
You and your wife have a wonderfully blessed weekend! Stay warm!!😊
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks so much.
Good morning 😊
So beautiful ❤️ thank you for sharing this. I know it was hard but it was a peaceful blessing you worked hard for what you got they loved hard and at the end there was God and family.
Good morning my friend. Amen to that. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.
You show us the most amazing photographs with these fantastic stories ❤❤❤
Your very welcome my friend.
What a beautiful video you've brought us today Donnie! Everybody has to relax and enjoy the fact that we're alive and have family and friends every once in a while! The creek, the horses, the local store, and church socials are all fond memories for me. You've even touched on the one thing that made me admire my mountain foothills neighbors more than anything else as a child: the idea that even work could be turned into something fun! Quilting and building are much easier when you can laugh with your friends and family while doing it! Thank you for doing these videos! They will be a treasure for generations to come one day, just as we treasure our memories now! Take care please! May God bless you and yours.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
Thank you Donnie for all of your videos. God bless you and yours.
Your very welcome my friend. God bless you.
dude! I hope you see this! the algorithm just raked your channel up and I've been watching your videos ever since all day long! you can see from my walls I was an outdoorsman hunted and fished until my health no longer permitted it! I've played banjo all my life until life stopped permitting that too, but I can SOOO greatly relate to the times your channel talks about! thank you sincerely for your videos and the reminders of times passed so long ago that todays generation will never experience unless they stumble upon you channel the way I did. I'm sure the rest of my day will be spent listening to these great memories of how us folks lived in the past and how hard life was yet so enjoyable! in the past 2 years I've lost my mom, my daughter and 10 months ago my wife of 45 years left me so believe me when I tell you your videos are a blessing to find! the youtube algorithm FINALLY did something I agree with! lol God bless you brother! keep on keeping on!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. I'm so sorry for your loss. God bless you. I hate to hear that. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. So glad you enjoy them. Our times are being forgotten. Thanks again my friend. Take care.
My daddy's people were Southern from 1799 at least, in Virginia, and before the war lived in western North Carolina; after the war they moved to eastern Kentucky. Later they moved to Arkansas, then Texas, then Oklahoma, and then my parents moved to California, where I was born. But I'm an adopted Texan, and my attitudes and speech are Southern.
I don't know it, but I suspect my daddy's people drank corn likker, and for all I know they made some too. In those days you might not see but a few dollars cash money in the whole year, and turning extra corn into whisky was just survival.
Another way Southerners entertained themselves was sacred harp singing. At one time just about every Southern family had two books if they didn't have any others - the Bible and the *Sacred Harp* . It's beautiful music, and it's still going. It's even in some foreign countries now.
Thanks for the video. My heart's Southern, and when I watch one of your videos and listen to your voice it's like a piece of home.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend with. God bless you.
Donnie you make me long for simple times so much going on in the world I long for the days where we help each other thank you so much for your stories it brings back memories of growing up
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
A lot of the Appalachia folks were descendants of immigrants from Ireland and Scotland----so the music evolved from the "Old Country" too. I have a friend who plays folks music in a little group, kind of like blue grass, some older than that too. Really nice video, thank you!
That's so true my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
I took guitar lessons in Asheville from Warren Haynes at a place on Merrimon Avenue called Pick n Grin before he was famous with the Allman Brothers. Marc Pruitt owned it. He and his brother were renowned bluegrass pickers.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. That's amazing.
Another great video Donnie ! It was a simpler time. People had better values back then. There was trust , respect and a sense of community. I miss it. Thanks Donnie !
Thank you friend. That's so true. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
Thank you I'm finally understanding where my mother came from. She was a Stewart from Jackson County NC. My Dad was from Kentucky.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Hey brother, just now got the notification for this! Another amazing one as always Donnie. Lord knows in the hills we had to do something to pass the time. Boy them ole creeks were fun to swim in but WHEEEEEW they was mighty cold! Haha don't thank they was ever warm! God bless and have a good'n my awesome mountain brother 🙏
Thank you Jared. God bless you my brother. Thanks so much for sharing this. I'm still not over this stuff yet. It's been rough.
I just love your channel Mr. Laws. I love the old photos you show and even more, the history and stories you tell. They are so facinating. I love to hear how people lived and what they did for entertainment, etc. you are the best speaker. I may not be from the Appalachian but I love the mountains and the people and the history as if I did. I used to talk to my Grandmom a lot when I was in my 20’s but never wrote anything down. It’s almost like you believe they will never get old and you will always have them to talk to and one day you don’t. So sad😢. When I was little my Grandmom taught me a child’s bedtime prayer in German. I honestly don’t know if I was 5 or six. But now thinking back. I wish I would have asked my mother or father to write it down. But when you are little, you just do not think this way. Thank you again. I want to say, May your Christmas be Blessed with the gift of love and light of our dear Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.❤. Karen
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories and thoughts. God bless you. Your very welcome. Merry Christmas.
This makes me melt a bit. Thanks Donnie. I'll remember this tomorrow in the morning when I wake up, then I'll smile . Thought's, These moment's come natural in down times and you record this wonderful message. Thanks for this reminder. Tom
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Hello Donnie my Dad Grandfather great grandfather great uncles lots played the violin. They made there entertainment get togethers with the neighbors. I think better people then than now. Enjoyed your video. Have a great day.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Thank you Donnie what a treat this was with my coffee on this South Carolina morning, much love to you ✝️💜🪖🧂🇺🇸
Awesome my friend. Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
I enjoyed the history on the Appalachia thank you for sharing with us.God bless.
Thank you friend. God bless you.
My grandmother Alsup had a quilting frame hung up on the wall. That way, she could roll it up and get it out of the way once she was done. 😊
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
One more comment you Touched a lot of hearts with this video, after reading all the comments we all agree. God Bless you my friend Thank you for reaching our Hearts!
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you. Your very welcome.