Mountain Path 7 | I Had a Visitor During the Reading!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- In this video series we are reading a book about Appalachia and talking about the things that prick our minds as a way to celebrate Appalachia. The book title: Mountain Path by Harriet Simpson Arnow. It's a fantastic book!
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Tipper
You are a bright spot in our lives. Here in the hills of West Virginia my wife and I truly enjoy and thank you for all you do.
Thank you so much Greg 🙂
"She'll be Packin Tales" All the 100K + subscribers here are Packin tales. Tipper you appear to be old hat at dealing with a black snake. Wonder what noise would have come from one of the GA Peaches, if the snake interrupted their music ? We all see you enjoy sharing your love for our way of life in these hills. You're a better story teller than most that come down to Jonesborough, TN for the story telling festival. Love the book & your delivery. Surely The Master has HIS hand on your life. Keep on strumming those Memory Strings.
Thank you Mark! The GA Peaches would have made a whole lot of racket and then got brave enough to try and catch it for a pet 🙂 My life is surely in his hands.
You are very poetic! Lovely!
storytelling fest? oh my what fun to be had at a storytelling festival 💥💥💯❤️
I loved this chapter. The children bringing in the crops was very interesting, and making the globe 🌎.
I can’t believe how calm you were were when you saw the black snake. I’d be jumping up and screaming. You handled that very well! I so enjoy the story. Thank you for sharing and reading it to us!
I loved the part about teacher being careful not to scare or intimidate Samantha when she first came to the school house. I think she’ll have a soft spot for her as the story goes along. Thanks for another great chapter Tipper!😊
I am so enjoying your story reading.
I love how the kids had great ideas about the world globe.
What a fascinating story. When you said "what jumps out at me" I looked at Buz and said "a snake" lol And you are so right about the little things bringing color and joy in our lives. Cant wait to find out about Samantha T and what all the secret looks the kids share are about. Have a great weekend. God bless yall.
LOL Yep you're right a snake sure did jump out at me in that one 🙂 So glad you're enjoying the book.
The chimneys standing alone, I used to see from the window of our family's old station wagon, when we were traveling back from grandmas' on Sunday at twilight after a weekend of visiting. Those chimney's usually had a great pile of broken wood and overgrowth at the base of them though. With the setting sun behind it and the large empty field all around it, it would've made me very sad except for my dad driving with mom in the front seat and my brothers and sister in the back surrounding me. It did make me feel strange and a little frightened as a young girl. A vivid sight that never leaves my memory. As a little girl, I wondered what happened to what was surely a fine home a one time and where did all the people in it go.
Thank you for the reading, Tipper. As always, I enjoyed it very much.
You're a magical story teller, Ms. Tipper. I've got my daddy listening to you read Mountain Path now. He's really enjoying it, too. We like to talk about the book & our speculations for what's to come after every chapter. Thank you for another great reading!
I chuckled at Louisa saying that Rye was Cory's child because she displayed such ingenuity at making a globe.
That's wonderful! So glad you are both enjoying the book 🙂
I look forward to this each week! I loved the description of the things in the classroom as well. You were remarkably calm when you saw the snake! I'd have had to go back inside.😄 Thanks for sharing this book with us!
I'm so glad you're enjoying the book!!
I love to see black snakes around our place, they keep the mice down.
The book continues to intrigue, and I so look forward to the unfolding of what all the mysteries are about!
I am moved by the children's curiosity and desire to learn, and their ingenuity with the materials they have at hand.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful book and your personal thoughts!
I'm really enjoying this book, which is weird for me because I don't even like audio books. I got excited when I got this notification. Thanks for this.
The part I liked was the description of Samantha T. It was so vivid that I could see her in my mind. I got a laugh at the something called garlic. I never ate anything with garlic besides bread and garlic salt until well into adulthood. Now I adore it and use it all the time. Next years garden will have a ton lol.
🙂 I thought the garlic part was funny too!
It all about the presentation. That is why you’re enjoying this. 😊
Prior to today's episode of Mountain Path I'd begun thinking of the story as a potential candidate to place alongside bleak and cheerless works of authors like Thomas Hardy and John Steinbeck, but this episode seemed to take an upward turn. Hopefully Louisa's adventure will become more positive as it continues to unfold. Fortunately you were unfazed by the blacksnake's visit, Tipper, and didn't end today's reading sooner than planned. Thank you for that.
I don't like spiders and snakes, and that ain't what it takes.....
Is this Dolly Partin singin back to Jim Stafford? LOL
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Love hearing this.
I'm so glad 🙂
Really enjoying this story Ms. Tipper! I've heard the saying "Between the devil & the deep blue sea" forever. The Appalachian people have a wonderfully rich history of creativity, ingenuity... many times borne of necessity. An object which beautiful as well as useful is truly wondrous. I believe Pettigoe is Irish. Samantha T. sounds very bright & industrious.
I am so enjoying your reading us this book. I love how all the descriptions of all the little details. I especially enjoyed the chalkboard and the stove turned into a globe. Luisa seems so kind and she is learning so much herself living there. The mystery just keeps getting deeper. I need to get my dad to show my mom your videos. I will give them a call tonight. She will love this story and also your recipes.
Thank you Melinda! I love the stove glove and the chalkboard too 🙂
You know, I love the beautiful way you see things. You are so expressive. Love the story.
Maybe he loved your story telling like we do. Thanks for sharing them.
Thank you Donnie 🙂
Just want to say your voice sounds and has a cadence very similar to my Maw's and it really makes me giddy to hear. Grew up in Alexander, NC and I miss the blue ridge mountains now living on the west coast. Your channel brings back a lot of memories and makes me itch to get back to some southern roots. Making boiled peanuts this season!! Thank you.
I liked the kids bringing their treasures to school and learning from them in this chapter. I, too, have little treasures I have collected. Seems like I might have gotten that pleasure from my grandma saving a few precious stones from the creek up on the farm. I do wonder, too, about the fireplaces of homes still standing. Sometimes I think they may have been able to move on to a better life or place. That was the case of my grandparents. Moved from up high on mountain to the valley which was closer for my mom to walk to the school. Shall I say I hate snakes! I tip my hat, Tipper! Thanks for this week's delightful reading. Waiting with baited breath for next Friday's reading.
I loved the collection of “treasures” the children brought in to the classroom. It reminded me of emptying my son’s pockets on laundry day when he was a little boy. Things like a pretty rock, a nut and bolt, a marble, a bottle cap…his little valuables. I could never throw them away. I would put them in the garage or give them back to him. ❤️
All I can say is I love this story, every character, the authors descriptive nature. I remembered when I was in school and was being taught about "homespun" then the"industrial revolution "....sometimes I wish it never happened. Hope that snake doesn't get in the hen house to steal eggs! I have to say when I saw the title of the video was that a 🐻 was coming out of the woods. Glad it wasn't!
I am thoroughly enjoying this book you're reading! And the black snake only added to the adventure! I used to read Anne of Green Gables to my students and they loved it.
I so love hearing you read!
The nature items the children brought in, made me recall in the 60’s, my grandmother helping us kids plant some “Indian corn, then having it for autumn
I can’t wait to see what the next chapter is about! Thank you ,Tipper, for reading this book to us!
Whoooo Hooooo, Tipper, you'd have to be getting a tall ladder to help me off of your roof if that big black snake would've been slithering by my feet. You handled that real good. I've played back that part 3 times. I giggle each time. This chapter was the best so far. Your voice inflections were like decorations on words. Thank you. 😊❤😊
🙂 Thank you!!
Love the book more and more. Looking forward to the next chapter.
I also loved the childrens treasures. I love that the class size is growing! It strikes me how hard Samantha T must work. How hard they all work, to provide for their families. Perhaps to also add beauty. I know very old quilts are so ornate and beautiful. With very little, stunning quilts were made.
I wish I could see those treasures on the table 🙂
I would imagine that even a reptile would enjoy a good story now and then. Don't let the name "Kansas" fool you, as I'm from Lake Charles, Louisiana. We had an old pond out front that had fish, frogs, turtles and -- for a short time -- a little five foot long alligator. Being I was an only child, I would often recite stories to myself. Once, sitting beside the pond, I was chatting away, when suddenly I glanced up and discovered that the gator had silently "cruised" over, floating about five feet from the bank. Regrettably, I don't believe that gator was there for a good story, but rather for the All-it-chomp-down Buffet!
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I love this so much. Your reading is delightful! I can't wait for the next chapter! Thanks
You are so welcome 🙂
Thank you Tipper. Your narration is impeccable, your fellow Appalachians should be very proud of you for bringing the Appalachian culture to the forefront. I’m a lifelong city dweller and this channel brings me great joy. Your daughter’s channel is delightful, as well.
she painted the stove like an Earth and it said Louisville Ky , I once knew a man who was a part owner of the Louisville Ky. stove company . ...I agree about the saying of the devil and the deep blue sea...Samantha T is impressive to my mind, she can disappear into thin mountain mist . I see her, having learned survival way back . Fascinating. Thank you Tipper this was so enjoyable!! 💯❤️
The language, and those descriptions are so wonderful! I very much look forward to each and every chapter. I know I've said it before, but thanks again. It's so nice to just take a few minutes to myself, and sit quietly, and listen. I feel calm and soothed, and that is priceless! Hugs
I'm about the same way when it comes to snakes swingin' by to see what's what.. but put a big ol' hairy spider on my shirt and I'll give the firehouse siren a run for its' money!
Thanks for the video Tipper. ❤️Mountain Path❤️Appalachia ❤️
The description of the girl, starting at her feet and moving up to her dark eyes and then her hair is just what gets me there in that school house. It’s something to focus on and uses familiar parts of humanity..
Thank you Tipper for filling my lonesome room with the familiar sound of your voice. ❤️
Glad you enjoyed this one Randy 🙂
You are very brave....the snake would have sent me to the house!
What a great story. I’m so glad for your explanations after the chapter! Thank you so much!👍❤️
I can picture all this in my mind, the people, place, everything, as you read tipper ...I picture the same as you about the girl ....my dad growing up near boone , told me about when he was growing up , if they needed something they didn't have, they made it and used everything till it was worn completely out.....I agree with you about the standing chimneys, such beautiful works of art , and I think about the people who lived there, their lives and how it must of been .....thanks tipper ...God bless....🙏
I loved this chapter. I am amazed that you were not thrown into a tizzy by the snake. I would have jumped on top of the table. I live on the farm I grew up on in Desha Country in Southeast Arkansas and Choctaw Bayou yes through our farm and Cypress Bayou is on one corner and we have always had more than out share of snakes. Snakes scare me when I see one and I always make sure to let the King Snakes and the Striped Garter Snakes go where the please. We have many cotton mouths and other moccasins here. We have plenty Of alligators here. My sister spotted a five foot alligator in my front yard five years ago.
I am so enjoying listening to this book! I look forward to it all day and sometimes I have listened to two as I am trying to get caught up. I was late getting started. I laughed out loud at the description of the garlic! That was really funny. There are so many things that I love about this story. The rich characters are just the best. I am starting to feel like I know them and I know, without a doubt, I will miss them when the book is finished. Who would have ever guessed that Mr. Snake would be interested in Mountain Path! I guess he just wanted to hear the story too.
I know this sounds silly but I feel like my kids and grandchildren when they were young and I’d read to them when this book is over I’m going to say oh please just 1 more story. You are very brave I would still be running if I’d seen the snake even at 71.👍
It seems at this point her students are beginning to like her a bit more. I like the fact the students are opening there mind by getting a bit creative, with finding away to make a globe for her. This is something you don’t see much in our young people today. Yes, things that were made yrs ago seem to last, I think that’s what today’s generation can learn from people of past generations if we take more time to get that something done, rather than be so, rushed that the quality will be much better and, things will last a bit longer as they should. Thank you, Tipper, I am really enjoying your reading of Mountain Path.
Well, this installment was quite exciting with the newest student peeking in the door. I'm betting she will turn out to be a very bright child that has had no way to learn thing about the world till now. I look forward to seeing how this evolves! Thanks Tipper! I've loved every one of your posts...they are so real and it seams to me that there is little left in the world that is real.
I look forward to the next chapter!
Enjoying the teacher remembering she was told not to pick a side. Gingerly wading through the nuances she sees and feels.
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👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻thanks Tipper .. CANT wait to hear what’s next
Holy cow Tipper! This sounds like me! Scotch Irish, Spanish, Italian, Turkish, Austrian, Norwegian, Filipino, Norwegian and Cherokee! I had Thank my DNA along with the knowledge from other family members! Thank you alwrays so very very much! Your Seattle "kin folk"! This has been so very fun to follow! The way you describe the parts of the story that you liked, were so very descriptive that hearing your reminiscences were just as wonderful 🥰
I am COMPLETELY ENAMORED with this story. ♥️♥️♥️
I love how Rye uses her imagination. Kids today miss out on a lot because they are exposed to so many technical devices that do the thinking for them.
Tipper i used to have two big black snakes that lived in the barn for years, i like them being there but you never know where they will show up and scare you.
I really enjoyed this chapter of Mountain Path. I don't think the book would be as interesting if I were just reading instead of listening to you. Teacher sure has some talented students. Ready for the next chapter.
I am SO into this story!!! I am so glad you added this kind of entertainment to your channel!
Creative story. ❤️ You’re brave with black snakes.
I have to get this book, I found it on ebay at $60. I was born in Lexington, KY, lived in Berea for two years, before moving over to Liberty, KY.
Nice little story to listen to while I’m doing chores. Thank you!
Enjoy when you do the little kids voices it so cute, I hope Samantha comes back to school.
I have been enjoying all of it from you reading. I wait to hear more. Thank you
I just love this book. I can hardly wait to get to the next chapter each week.
I am thoroughly enjoying listening to you read this. I was born and had grandparents and family in eastern Kentucky. We moved away when I was 6 but I got to go back and spend much of my summer vacations there with my grandparents. Those are some of my best childhood memories. They had little and never showered me with “gifts” but I never expected and never missed things. They loved me so unconditionally which was all I needed to be happy and loved spending time with them. I’m 75 now but remember that time as some of the best! I’m familiar with most of your “words of Appalachia” and so enjoy being reminded of them. God bless you and your family always.
So glad you're enjoying the book 🙂
My parents and ancestry come out of Eastern Kentucky as well. My mom's family comes from Pike County.
Fascinating. Thank you for your story Joyce. And thank Tipper for jogging your memory. I am enjoying Tipper reading this to us also.
;*). bonnie
@@lisaanderson2900 My family is all from Magoffin and Johnson County.
Love the visual writing and reading!!! Than you!
Great chapter Tipper, things are heating up for teacher!
Be safe out there ❣️🐍
I am really enjoying the story. Thank you for sharing.
100K 💥 Congratulations
Thank you so much 😀
I was out on a trout trip and feared I had missed this reading.
I would never miss one of your great vid Mrs. Tipper
I appreciate that 🙂
Can hardly wait for the next one! Thankyou
Best part of the book is your reading of it! 😊
Your reaction to that black snake was totally unexpected, but PERFECT for who you are. I laughed and laughed thinkin' how that snake must have hated havin' to sliver away from the soothing sound of your voice. 'Til the next chapter...♥️
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I missed last Friday's reading, so I got a double treat today! Thank you so much, Tipper! Great observation about the origin of "between the devil and the deep sea". Also, in another segment, you mentioned the word "loaferin'". My Dad used that term & I hadn't heard or thought of it in years! Your program is a real favorite of mine now! Can't wait to find out what "the trouble" was all about....and what the story about the man and the fiddle was too! I'm thoroughly hooked! And as per your vocabulary lessons...I was amused this week when I heard one of my Appalachian friends talking about gettin' hacked off! Tipper, you are enriching my life😊
Rita-that is wonderful!! So glad you're hearing those old words and enjoying the book too 🙂
Mercy!!! Brave one you are, Tipper!!! 😳 I would have had to finish the chapter in the HOUSE!!!!!! I know black snakes do good, but it's still a snake! LOL
I always heard "between the devil and the deep blue sea" too.
Oh my, how I am loving the language....brings back memories of older relatives in eastern North Carolina.
Got so tickled at "the teacher is the mailin' gettin'est critter I ever seed." 📪
Don't you just love that?
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Congratulations on your 100k subscribers. That was very fast and I’m not a bit surprised. You’ll have a million subscribers soon enough; this channel is that good. Thank you for tonight’s chapter. I enjoyed the description of the show-and- tell items on the table at the back of the room and how the items were used as teaching aids. I wish we could go back to that type of teaching/learning.
Thank you Diane 🙂
I love the kinship between the teacher and her students. It's often difficult to know who is teaching whom. Smiles.
I know-I think Louisa is learning so much from them!
Oh Tipper. So far that is the funniest thing you have done. You have a much better constitution than me. I'm an old man. All they would have seen from me is my butt running up the hill. You just kept on reading as if nothing happened. You have nerves of steel...Ok, back to the book, although I am quite shaken.
🙂 If it had been a rat I would still be running 🙂
I sure am loving listening to this story! My husbands grandfather always kept a couple black snakes on the farm. One in the corn crib to keep the mice down and to eat any of the poisonous snakes. I told my youngest daughter they need to get them a black snake for their new place to keep them copperheads down. Tipper this chapter has me wondering if you have ever heard about the "blue" people from Kentucky. I think you would really love the book Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, it's about young girl that has the blue skin and lives in the mountains and delivers books by mule and written by Kim Michele Richardson.
Thank you! I've read that book and enjoyed it 😀
When you said there might not be much food... brought to mind my granny talking about the hills in Arkansas. She had told me that when the great depression came "they", all her kin and community, didn't know it. She said if she hadn't read it in the news paper, no one would have ever known. Granny related it to being so poor that it didn't affect them. Now looking back as an adult, I don't think that statement was quite right. I think it would be better understood that they were so independent in providing all their own needs that the depression didn't interfere with their lives. My family isn't gifted in music, but it never stopped us from singing hymns as we worked. My favorite was doing dishes with my mom and singing hymns. I cherish so many memories. God bless Tipper! Hope your week is fairin well!
Thank you Tina! I like your thought about them being self sufficient and independent, I think you're right 🙂
I love that you have a little discussion after the chapter. Each child brings something to the table with their uniqueness. BTW are black snakes harmless?
Thank you! Black snakes are not poisonous 😀
I also like the descriptions! Of Samantha t. Many descriptions in this book have been phenomenal. I do not like audio books but I have truly enjoyed you reading this I hope you consider doing more of it. I could listen every day of the week for a while oh my
That is so sweet-thank you Diana 🙂
Those kids are quite creative! My favorite part was you not screaming like most people I know who see a snake!! ☺️👍wish we could have seen it 🐍
I love the kids-wish I could see them for real 🙂
I like the part when the teacher saw a strange visitor as you saw a strange visitor too. The snake came out to see what the teacher (you) were teaching.
Thank you for your kindness of reading a good book. Your other video you and your family have made has blessed me more than I can ever say. God bless you and your family.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I enjoy this book. Some of the characters remind me of people I knew when I was a child in school. I could be one of the characters! Most of the sayings I have heard and used myself. Like the students, I have a lot of "treasures" that mean a lot to me. I can remember where and how I got all of them. When I look at them it brings me joy to remember when I first got them. To others I know it is just a bunch of junk. Dennis Morgan
I feel like that about my treasures too 🙂
I sure do love this book and your reading of it. and I deeply appreciate it. and I thank you for it.
So glad you're enjoying it Omega 🙂
💝💝 love this..thank you
So glad!
Thank you Tipper, you are such a Blessing in my life!! God Bless. Jean
That is so kind-thank you Jean 🙂
Enjoyed the reading thanks
Glad you enjoyed it 🙂
Love the story so much.
On your way to a million Tipper! Congratulations!
Thank you James 🙂
You read so well even the snakes are charmed and come to listen !
🙂 Or else it was taking off for some peace and quiet LOL! Thank you for watching!!
Totally inthralled by this novel, and yes, of course your reading. Appalachia reminds me of my own roots. Coal Country in north/east Pennsylvania. The people are much the same breed. Thinking of my grandfather working in the mines at age 10. Spine crushed at age 13. He had over one thousand chickens and supplied most of the hotels in Scranton with poultry and eggs as an adult. Thank you.
Why yes. Anglo-Saxon...
So glad you're enjoying the book!!
Lewis Grizzard, who wrote for The Atlanta Journal, wrote that he didn’t like snakes. He said “Everyone knows that a snake will follow you home and wait outside the door for you to come back out so it can eat you.” (Or something very close to that) 🤣🤣🤣
I’m thinking that Rye could rule the world if she took a notion. She was born an old soul.
No matter where you're from ( I'm from Montana) there are sayings and doings that seem alike in other areas. Probably the more rural areas than the cities. We grew up with outhouses no running water, woodburning stove. Home baked bread. Things have changed so much .so much technology, it's easy to forget the good things that were! If I had a front porch and a rocker I would gladly sit outside with a glass of sweet tea while you read. It is soothing. Your comintary is priceless! It opens us up to different insights. Thank you for spending time with us.
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Now this may be fiction, but it's literature and loved every minute of this reading. Thanks Tipper this is a wonderful story
Another great chapter…I don’t know how you stayed there & finished though after seeing that snake….yikes, I would have been flying in the house….lol..
Brenda
You were pretty calm for having a snake that close...I would have moved somewhere else entirely..ha ha.
Hi Tipper, your reaction to the black snake was priceless. Most people are very ignorant of snakes in America, but you know what a copperhead or timber rattler is. When I was a young boy my Grandma would have me catch (full growed) black snakes to keep around her dairy barns and animal houses. Black snakes kill rats, mice, and other dangerous snakes. I once watched a black snake kill a rattle snake in the woods when I was squirrel hunting, amazing to watch.
I do miss the old way of talking Appalachian. Except I do remember my grandmother would get to talking and it would become sing song talk with a cadence and a drawl here and there. Miss that!
I used to be that kid who would draw pictures on the white board and write quotes due to my nice penmanship. I loved that bit. The fact that they have curated this nature collection is beautiful. One of my favorite parts is when she was talking about the little girl reading her story, but acknowledging her mind was being taken up with sterner things than lessons. I used to know when my teachers had a lack of sympathy for students who were obviously going through a tough time. Being a little kid, I felt I couldn't say anything because I assumed adults know what they're doing. Later on in life, I had a teacher who gave me a little slack when I was going through some issues of my own, and I realized that if he had acted like those other unsympathetic teachers, I could have been given the boot! I'm so thankful for him to this day.
Enjoying the book. But got to say snake would be finishing it. Because I would of left it with him. Lol
I loved this chapter. I am amazed that you were not thrown into a tizzy by the snake. I would have jumped on top of the table. I live on the farm I grew up on in Desha Country in Southeast Arkansas and Choctaw Bayou yes through our farm and Cypress Bayou is on one corner and we have always had more than out share of snakes. Snakes scare me when I see one and I always make sure to let the King Snakes and the Striped Garter Snakes go where the please. We have many cotton mouths and other moccasins here. We have plenty Of alligators here. My sister spotted a five foot alligator in my front yard five years ago.
I’m 80 years old and just love being read to. The stories are so very interesting! You have made my life more interesting. 24:42
In alaska there are no snakes, when my family first moved here 20 years ago we would jump when we came upon a stick that looked like a snake being so used to having to watch for snakes, in Boone North Carolina where lots of big black snakes would go after the chickens eggs and I would catch them, its the black racers that are scary/those racers are vicious !
Tipper ,You are soooooo cool and calm & collective.. I would have took off and threw book at big black snake