Mountain Talk and the ways of the Southern Appalachian people
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- Опубликовано: 2 авг 2021
- A look at how the People of Southern Appalachia Talk, Lived and the sayings they used telling their stories of a time gone by in these mountains. 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 12 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS ! All Videos are Copyrighted and used by permission only.
Whoever tried to tell you that your voice was fake has never known anyone from Appalachia. You are the real deal. Thanks, Donnie! 😊
Some still comment that from time to time. Thanks for sharing my friend.
you sound like you are from smokies to me Donnie.
I love your stories. Keep ‘Em coming.
Your voice ain't fake. That's how my daddy and his daddy talked. I hear that quaint twang in my own voice when I get het up!
I can't believe someone would call your accent fake. My Dad grew up in the mountains of western NC. My family originates from Madison County NC and it was my great uncles that were killed in the Shelton Laurel Massacre during the Civil War. I grew up hearing stories like these and talk like that. Thanks so much Donnie
Who says you talk poorly ? I can understand every word you’re saying and find your accent warm and calming .
You can my friend because your from the country my friend. A lot people outside of these mountains comment I can't. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Yep..me too..lol
I was born in georgia and have spent half my life in east Tennessee . i use to call my grandma ( memaw ) when i was little . havnt heard someone say that word in a very long time . and im only 33 . i understood every word in this video including your friend from kentucky
Pawpaw always said it was hard to get an education looking up a mules ass ! I so miss him and hate my little ones couldn’t know him and her as I did ...
I was raised in Pennsylvania, in the city. I can understand him perfectly.
Grew up in Appalachia but have lived in Houston for the past 30 years. All my family have died or have left WV. I am sitting at my desk at work, listening to you talk, tears streaming down my face. If you aren’t from Appalachia, you just don’t get it. I sure miss those voices and dialects. Thank you for posting this.
Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.
I grew up in the holler of an old coal mining town in Virginia. My parents made sure I finished high school. After I graduated I joined the Navy and served 20 years. I’ve been all over the world, but the day I retired, I returned home to the holler of my childhood. There truly is no place like home. I built a small log cabin on my family’s property and take care of my parents as my cousin take care of their parents.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
I’m from Covington, Kentucky. I’m 66 years old and my teenage years were in the 70’s. I had friends that once lived in the mountains. They were good hearted people that accepted me as a family member. I learned a lot from them in my teenage years and had a great time tasting pop’s home brew. I will always remember when a friend of mine was working on this person’s car and I asked what he’s charging. He said she didn’t have much money so it’s benefits. Beer, cigarettes, and a meal that was down home tasting.
@@allennezi1674 I live in Big Stone Gap VA. My family has been in that area since the mid 1800’s. We look after one another. If a neighbor needs help, we help them. I remember when my Great Grandmother passed away in 1987 the whole town showed up for her funeral. My family members who have passed away take up half of the cemetery, because no matter where they lived in the USA, they all come home to be buried.
This makes me so homesick for days gone by. If I could go back I would sit at my Granny's feet and soak up her wisdon.
I wish I could to my friend. I miss them bad. Thanks for sharing.
@@donnielaws7020 I think we all do; I miss both of mine & wish I could spend my day-to-days with them. But bye and bye in Heaven I'll see them again.
@@peachmelba9333 Amen friend.
Yes, Lord what I wouldn't give to be able to do that again. I do miss my Nanny.
Mary Broyhill: Yes indeed ..
Thank you sir for sharing this. I am a Black man from Memphis, West Tennessee. I am 41 years old, much younger than you are and obviously I was not around during the time of your video. Yet, for some odd reason I feel nostalgic while watching it. Your video reminds me of my childhood. How I somehow caught a glimpse of the time period you actually lived, which was you catching a glimpse of the time before yours that your grand parents lived. I remember going to an old store to get bologna as a child with my father and feeling like I was going 'back in time' as we entered because it was old fashioned. Like the one in your video. Being in that store then I did not know that I was literally living in the last days of a reality that does not exist at all now. Like how your grand mother called shopping 'trading', because they used to literally trade goods is you catching a glimpse of a reality that she knew that was no more by the time you were a child. We are all connected in this fashion and I guess it is our duty to preserve this history so that we are not forgotten. I hope I was not too confusing. I explained it the best way that I knew how. Take care my friend.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I can remember the smell of Ole country stores. All that tempting penny candy aromas. Got big chunk in baloney/ sandwiches made rite there in the store/ plus a cold drink. Moon pie if we has a few more pennies. Loved the store people. News from around world was spoken in those Ole country store
@@bettywhite8407 Thanks for sharing my friend.
You explained that very well! Hugs friend💕✨
Exactly
I'm a 8th generation Tennessean. My mother side of the family is from Putnam county. My father's side is from Grundy county. I feel so connected to your stories. I remember my mother's mother telling stories. Unfortunately I lost both of them in 2021. And I miss the stories they would tell. And them as well.
So sorry for your loss my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.
Sir as being born and raised in Northeast Alabama listening to you share our history I have so much respect for you. You sound like someone I could sit on my porch and spend a evening with. You represent all us Appalachian mountain people in a bright light. So glad I found your channel
Awesome my friend. Thank you so much. Glad to have you. God bless you friend.
@@donnielaws7020, it's funny, you just said "awesome" in that last post. When you were a kid, people were not awesome. God was awesome.
He always is my friend. God bless you.
My dad passed recently. His kin was straight from the mountains. Thank you sir for this. From the bottom of my heart ❤ to ya'll. Just wanted to add that my PAW was Cherokee. He was a tall dark man and he had worked in the cotton industry. He had three fingers on his hand. He only wore his gray uniform. Even on his day off.
They lived on Penny Park ..in Gastonia North Carolina..
I loved my Papa..
I'm sixty two and I still remember.
Your welcome. Thank you for sharing your family my friend. He must have been good and loving man. Worked hard all his life. Thank you.
I’d be so proud to have an amazing heritage such as yours 🥰🥰
My great granparents were half Cherokee
I know Gastonia. I lived in Mount Holly for years. My daddy died recently too. His mother was from Del Rio, TN. I miss spending my summers up in those hills.
Cried reading your post. That was my Papap who raised us. He gave it all for his family from the time he was 13. The oldest of 7 children, he was orphaned soon after his family arrived here from Sweden. The old Swede, my Papap, the greatest Man I have found in my 64 years. Can't wait to see Him again.
If Only There Was More People Like You In This World, It'd Be A Lot Better Place🌻
Thanks for saying my friend.
Maybe not
We are still here in the mountains. Come join us.
@@nanab1579 I am to my friend.
@@nanab1579 we sure are!!!
Oh my goodness!!! I absolutely love this video. Raised in the Appalachian Mountains of Western NC, I was ashamed of my accent, now thanks to people like you, I'm proud of my accent and my people. Thank you.
Thanks so much my friend for sharing this. Thank you. Your very welcome. God bless you.
Even as a city boy I always had so much respect for poor, hard working, salt-of-the-earth folks. A man with a PhD does not impress me near as much as a hard working man with a family does. Thank you so much for your documentaries.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Man you bringing tears to my eyes
with this one..
God knows you are a true American
Historian.
Thank you again.
Thanks for sharing my friend. Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
Hey
Hope you are well! Maybe you can visit my history channel! If you decide to visit my channel let me know you are coming over from Donnie Laws channel, I want to acknowledge him! Stay safe!
Amen to that!!!
@@donnielaws7020 Donnie you say that they mixed with the Indians. Which Indians? Were they mostly Cherokee or what? I know people from there say they are Irish/Cherokee. Were there any other Indian tribes?
@@saphireblue3563 I’m from this part and we are Creek Indians
Donnie, if there's anyway you could go out and interview some of these remaining old timers and record their stories, it would be absolutely wonderful!
I'm trying my friend. They are leaving us fast. Thanks for sharing.
Hi Donnie
I agree with Mr. Clark.
That would be wonderful. That would be worth it’s while.
Thank you so much for sharing this true
American history. They were and still are a very special breed of person.
And you were lucky enough to have been a part of it.
Thank you so much for sharing, looking forward to your future videos.
All the best,
Michele🇺🇸
Foxfire Books
That would be awesome! I’ve got a few old timer friends here in the smokies of NC that would be epic to interview! Great idea! 🙏
Agreed.
I’m proud of my Southern accent. And I love all the different dialects we have! ♥️👌🏾
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Thank you Donnie for being who you are!
I'm proud to be in the circle of hard working, honest, dependable people.
I'm proud of my heritage and thank God I'm an Appalachian ridgerunner, stump jumper, holler hound and hillbilly. Love Y'all Donnie Laws!!❤
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Hello Mr Laws wow 😊how interesting I just came across your channel and you have me spellbound about the history, life and superstitions of the mountain people and may I say your commenting voice is very soothing and informative so I just wanted to say Hi from the Pacific coast of Canada British Columbia just above the state of Washington God bless and cheers Canada 🇨🇦
my kinlll
Thank you for your stories. History is slowly being lost and you're keeping it alive.
Glad you enjoy it!
That’s so true
Not only is our history being lost, they are trying to erase it or change it, sadly. 🥺
@@dicktimpano8807 Sad!
72 now, came to central FL. in 57 from Arkansas, not mentioned in Appalachian trail map but remember trading the pop bottles for candy, RC or an occasional loaf of bread. And of course
I'm a proud hillbilly! Even though my family moved away from the Appalachian Mountains when I was still a child, I clung to the old ways and taught them to my children.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I loved this yeah .. we talk like that in our family.. we called it a toliet!!! Love these stories... Bless you ,!!!
You did a very good video. I do remember all your info. We all miss those folks and those good old days. Lot of fun then. I love your accent cause it real with that good spirit.
I have lived in the mountains of wv for 80 years and I know what it is like to be a hillbilly.
Same!
As a fluent speaker of "the old language", Scottish Gaelic, from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada, I want to most sincerely thank you for this video. You brought me back to my youth. We're not so much different, you and I. Different places, but in many ways, the same people. In saving this history and these stories, you are doing something invaluable. Keep it going!!! :)
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend
Absolutely.
Angus, our Appalachian Mountain range goes all the way into the maritime provinces of Canada. That makes you an Appalachian Highlander like us!
MacLeod, I sense a little plagiarism here. Can you honestly tell me that you're the author of your post?
@@dodgecrockett3474 'S urrainn dhomh sin a dhèanamh gun teagamh. An urrainn dhutsa?
As a trucker who drives all across this country I can truly say with no fiction that the mountains in these here United States are absolutely beautiful and breathtaking.
Being brought up in the city by a southern raised mother who polished her 3 boys on southern morals and ethics I can tell you that I’ve always yearned for a simpler way of life, which is why I’ve moved me and my family to North Carolinian back country and we love it here. My moral compass wasn’t appreciated nor welcomed up north in the big concrete jungles of urban sprawl plight and crime and selfishness.
Being in the mountains does something to me, it soothes my spirit and puts me a place of mental serenity and peace that only God could give. The people have always been welcoming and despite what the movies and Hollywood may try to portray, my dark skin and African American heritage made no nevermind on how invited and hospitable I was treated. That’s why every time I get a load that have me traveling through the mountain, I get a warm fuzzy smile on my face that gets bigger the closer I get to them. I love your stories and wish I could get a whole 2-4hr compilation of them as they make my driving day that much easier. I pray that God continues to bless you with good health and long life and much much blessings Mr.Laws.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you!
I'm British and feel nostalgic for these mountains. I'd live there if I could
Come on in my friend. Glad to have you. Thanks for sharing.
Probly those folks as much of us are from the UK.mine settled in the Good ole South of the USA.
I feel the same, and I'm fifth generation Australian. We've lost our way of talk - it's rare to hear anyone under 50 who sounds really Australian.
Mine were Welsh, English, and Irish.....landed at Baltimore in the late 1700s.
I was in Tottenham back a few years ago and there are ALOT of people there that look like my people.....
I grew up on a Mountain called Sand Mountain in extreme southern Appalachia...
I’m in those mountains!! ❤️❤️🤗🤗
I'm only 53 years old, but I'm told that I'm a old soul. Proud to have been raised by mountain folks in Kentucky.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Were those pics you as a young boy and your family?
@@fyt00000 Not in this video, Just pictures to tell the story with.
Robert Crewz,
You should be proud, sir. You were blessed. Wishing you the best.
@@nathanielovaughn2145 Thank you.
I've been made fun of all my life by some people because of my accent. But I am proud to be from East TN and proud of where I came from. There wasn't a week that went by growing up that we didn't have a pot of soup beans, cornbread, fried taters and whatever else momma threw together. It's a way of life that not many people have the privilege of knowing. Thank you for this video!
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless.
My nanny would make me fried chicken gravy and biscuit almost every morning I was there. I wish I could sit in that run down trailer in front of that old air conditioner one more time and talk to her again we didn't have much and was considered to be in poverty but to me it was home and I wish I could be there again just for a day.
Love this SO MUCH!!! I was born in 1965 to parents that were born and raised in (Jackson County) McKee, Kentucky. My daddy got a job in Lexington, Kentucky when I was born so, that’s where I grew up but, I always knew of my hillbilly heritage through my family. When I was younger, I got made fun of and called a hick by the city kids. At that age, I felt embarrassed because they made it sound like a bad thing. As I got older (and bolder 😉) I began to NOT care what others thought and I embraced my hillbilly heritage. I was gonna be me, take it or leave it 😃 I’m a country girl at heart and proud of it. That will NEVER change. ❤️
Awesome Thanks for sharing that my friend.
My family is from sand Gap Jackson County. There by the frostette.
@@ricktempleton3415, yep!!! I know exactly where that’s at. Nice to meet you!!! 👍
Love this. Instead of letting all these wonderful stories die away, you should write a book. You narrate very well and if you wrote a book, I would buy it. Even a compilation of short stories of all your many memories of the people you knew and their lives. Then they could live on forever. I am a Canadian, by the way, so it is very interesting to hear the life stories of others.
Wow, Thank you kindly friend.
PLEASE write a book! You could write volumes. Binge watching after stumbling across your channel, so happy I did, and subbed. Can't thank you enough. For a long time, I was almost ashamed of my heritage, but cherish it now more and more and am proud of it, thanks in part to the measures to which you go to preserve it.
I absolutely love this. I'm from NC about 45-60 minutes from the NC VA state line. I'm very familiar with the accent, outhouse, lol. I've been teased for the way I talk in a good way and in a hurtful way. You brought back so many wonderful memories. I relate to more than the accent and outhouse, though, believe me. Thank you so much
There’s actually a book called foxfire. Supposedly a good series and it was written by high schoolers back on the 60s i think
@⭐heather⭐ You should hear our accents and how they can vary from northern NJ to the southern part where I live. The northeast part of the state is like a New York accent and down south Jersey here is like a Philly accent. I have met people from a small part of Salem County here that talk like they have a heavy, southern accent and some are difficult to understand. This is strange in a northern state but if the Mason/Dixon line didn't go around NJ, it would bisect it, right through south Jersey
Donnie, my BF’s people are from Breathitt Co and I was so fortunate to get to meet his 90 yr old Grandma Nannie who grew up and lived her whole life in the mountains. I’m a city girl and would sit down with her and listen to her stories about her life, fascinated by the images I could see as she talked… she’d say things like “ oh honey I don’t know much, I’ve never been off this mountain”…!! Then proceed to tell me about hoeing corn after digging two holes in the mountain to stand in so as not to slid right off the mountain while working!! Or delivering one of her 13 kids in the morning and being right back out in the fields helping again after noon!!! Things this city girl couldn’t fathom!!! I always told her I wished I knew half of what she knew!!! Raising 13 kids in a 4 room house all her life… strongest women I’d ever met!! Still 💜 I wish I’d written down all our conversations.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Same thing with my grandmother there was nothing that woman couldn't do. When she died a lot of the old ways went with her.
@@vickierinehart4434 Amazing people. Whenever I’m feeling overworked and underpaid… I think of them and it kicks my rear RIGHT in gear!!!
Even do there’s an ocean apart…the stories from Appalachia resemble so much my people at the mountains..hard working people, seen a lot of hard time, knowing all about medicinal herbs, the way of cooking an how they appreciate what they have, God bless all of them…..
It's not too late ✌️
Please don't stop making these. I live in these mountains and I love learning about the culture!
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.
Thank you for sharing these stories. I was born in 62 in southern ohio and i lived like this until the early 70s. My grandkids today dont believe me. So many people take for granted how they live today. In my opinion it would do most people in this world alot of good to have to live like this.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
I agree the kids nowadays would never make it if they had to live like this but I think it would really good for them an eye opener.
I'll take the mountains anytime! Give me a cabin, land to grow a garden, chickens, hogs, rabbits, couple of dogs and I'd be happy!!! City life is to loud and fast! I loved staying with my grandparents in the summertime. They taught me everything I needed to know to make it off the land. I miss them so much! My granny grew up on Big Ridge and my papaw was half Cherokee! Such great times! 💖🤗☺️
Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful stories
Donnie, you were telling my life with this video. Until I was 18 years old I lived in 2 small communities at the foot of Big Bald Mountain which straddles the TN, NC line. It truly has changed in all the years since then and I find I can only go home in my memories. By the way, don't ever change the way you talk.
Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Amen
Fox fire
My momma was born in a tiny town called Englewood, TN. She told me a story of when she moved to Maryland in a "big city" for the first time. She was working at a grocery store and was checking out her first customer. After she rung him up and he paid, she asked him if he wanted a poke. She said he looked at her shocked and just walked off. She always thought that he thought she was offering something more than a bag lol
Thank you friend for sharing your memories with us. God bless you.
My dad preached at Englewood Church of Christ when I was a child!!
I was born in 1951 of parents from far southern Indiana. All my relatives on both sides were down there, and the times we had were just as you have described. My dad is still alive at age 96, and he pronounces words exactly as you do, Don. This was a sweet walk down memory lane! Thank you for sharing, and may God continue to bless you.
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.
Dear Mr. Laws, I am probably not your target audience. But I enjoy your videos and stories about people and the wonderful piece of America you show, full of love and respect! Thank you and best regards from the Netherlands... .
Wow, thank you my friend. Take care over thing.
I’m glad there’s folks like y’all that keep this stuff alive. It’s a history long forgotten in this day & age. Don’t stop, keep it alive.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I’m am from Southeast Virginia and I absolutely love to hear you talk. I have always loved hearing the old times stories!! Thank you ❤
Awesome my friend.
Thank you so much.
Your manner of speaking brings tears of joy to my heart. I, like many of my generation, moved away for work. One of my biggest regrets is losing my accent. I feel like I’ve lost part of my culture. Thank you for what you do with these videos. From the bottom of my heart god bless you. ❤️❤️
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My Appalachian grandmother cooked on a wood stove until she passed in 1985. She didn’t want a “new fangled lectric stove” lol. She was literally the best cook I’ve ever known! Food prepared on a wood cook stove by someone who knows what they are doing is the best you will ever eat! I so enjoy your narration and your content Donnie! Keep em coming! Blessings from western NC💖🙏🏻
Thank you for that story. Thanks friend for sharing that.
YES. Cooking on a wood stove is an art. But the flavors of everything are just the best. I learned humane way to butcher chickens, hogs and ducks. Animals are not pets, except for your actual pets. We rose worked, stopped and rested according to the sun loved it
That’s all true…my ancestors separate from Appalachia by an ocean….I still smell these red beans and pork, white rice, ham , all outside cooking.
My "Aint" Hilah (step-grandmother) could make that old woodburner sing...half a dozen different temperatures, from simmer to boil. Biscuits, eggs, bacon and beans all came out perfect. My grandfather could percolate coffee but the rest was women's work. And we had a coffee can for used skillet lard for tomorrow and a slop jar under the sink for tobacco juice and scrapings, best fertilizer ever. Didn't waste anything. Both RIP.
Even in the "cities" out west, many places didn't have indoor toilets. A friend of mine tells of the 'shed' out back where the toilet was located for years. After they got indoor plumbing, it became a sort-of mother-in-law apartment (not sure if it had a toilet though! I think it was closed up by then). An immigrant family (Italian-German) with 7 children, a cousin and an aunt, all sharing a very small house. Good times!!!!
I was born in the early 60s and got a glimpse of this life with my Great Grandparents. I truly feel like I don't belong in this "modern world." My parents and grandparents have been gone for many years, and I understand the concept of "gone forever." Thank you for making these wonderful videos! They are greatly appreciated!
Awesome. Your so very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
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I love them too,I love country living. I’m getting old at 64 and still love it. I was raised in Nashville and moved 45+ years ago to East Tennessee ,I dearly love it and wouldn’t live anywhere else. I’m alone now but can do a lot for my age. Just wish things had turned out a bit different,there is nothing like working side by side and gardening raising cows and cutting hay.
@@Justme-jy7vo I used to do all these things with my paternal Grandparents. It never seemed like work because it was such a pleasure to be with them in whatever they were doing. If I could go back a few years, I'd probably live in East Tennessee also, or maybe North Carolina. Some of my best memories were made there.
This does feel foreign and un-natural especially the past Few decades. I'm glad to have lived in era where these ways were a norm.
I am from Australia. Our family travelled through the Appalachian mountains in Virginia in 1997 . It was so beautiful . Thank you so much fir this documentary. I thoroughly enjoyed it and have saved it. God bless you and your family.
Awesome my friend. Thank you so much. God bless you.
These people are like pearls. The older these stories about them get the more valuable they become. They way they talk is fascinating to me. It amazes me how much of their language I can understand. They are really special. Thanks Donnie for sharing. Your friend, Louis
Thank you Donnie, that brought a tear of joy to my eye. We were raised up in north Mississippi, but our talk was the same. What with tars, and fars. However we collected coke bottles it didn't matter weather it was pepsi, nehi, or double cola they were coke bottles. Back then (1960's) people prayed a lot, and outloud. I can still hear my old grandpa saying that same old prayer at the dinner table 3 times a day every day. The only choice we had about going to church was sometimes who we rode with. Now they are gone the old devil has crept up and took the church and the people and now it looks like old Glory too.
Glad you enjoyed it. Yes our history in leaving us bit by bit. We shall never forget it. We must remember it for my children's future. Even though they won't seem to care. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I grew up in north Mississippi as well and still live here. My mama talked like this she would say, "Arsh tater, poke for grocery bag and ate biscuits with onion for dinner ( most call it lunch). Her parents were sharecroppers and soup beans and corn bread was always for supper.
We still call it coke, 😆.
Love that!! We still pray every meal, out loud if there is more than one person at the table. And in restaurants, we will hold hands and say grace before the meal. AMEN!!!
OMG! De Soto, Tate & Marshall Co. here! Still here! So many memories! My granny was up by 3 & banging around the kitchen LOUD! If she was up starting her day, everyone else needed to be up, too! My first sense of the morning was the aroma of bacon frying & coffee brewing! I slept on a twin bed in the living room right outside of the kitchen! I'd lay there & just watch for a minute & then jump up to help her & with the farm & gardens! Sweet memories!
My dad grew up in the Appalachian mountains in Kentucky, right on the boarder of Kentucky, Ohio and West Virginia. He was born in 1946, he moved back after he retired. My dad says the same thing about how much things have changed. Heck, I’ve been going there to visit family since I was born in 1974 and I see a big difference. My dad bought 15 acres in the mountains and had his house built up high off the road. It’s beautiful there, especially in the fall and winter.
Awesome. Thank for sharing my friend.
My dad was a miner in Powhatan Ohio. Born in hazard Kentucky. I’m the third of my name.
My Father same. I am older than you. But our dads might have been same age range. He shared some ways he grew up with in his youth and passed on bits of wisdom and info about that. I remember everything he shared well. The people are different both there and coming from there now days. Still, it's better in many many ways in these places. Pleases there are some who continue with traditions and a better way of life. Kindness and common sense- the details go far and are appreciated. I'm so happy Mr. Laws is making these videos.
@@donnielaws7020 you are a good man. I would like to travel around and meet people in the hills and find other folks to play my banjo with as we sit and talk about stories of the days gone bye..
I grew up in Eastern ky Appalachian area I used to hate it as a kid but love it so much now since I've traveled around
For some strange reason, I feel nostalgic for Virginia. It is our duty to preserve this history. Thank you for sharing this video.
Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome my friend.
So true the ORAL TRADITIONS of generations are just dying away from the contemporary historical narrative... I agree these poignant oral bits of experience need to be documented and recorded for our education and enjoyment and sense of place!! 🙋🌹GA USA 8-12-22 👍 thanks for the tour
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
This is SO true! I’m from the Appalachian mountains and it makes me sick and saddens me the way outsiders judge us! And YES! We are a hardworking and close knit group! I miss the days gone by, but more so I miss my grandparents
It is so true ant it. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My great grandparents on both sides of the family were from southern Appalachia. I remember my great grandma and grandma cooking on a wood stove. Best biscuits and fried chicken you ever ate. Now live in Texas but have been told many stories as well enjoyed
I'm not judging you. It's the way of life and the way of the culture of the Appalachian people.
Making my heart cry, been home sick for a long long time. I'm from Alabama and I was raised up like the story's you tell. Brings back wonderful memories of my youth.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Me too. I Google Earth my areas about once a week just to look and feel it closer.
@@barbaratatton3855 Ms. Barbara, you made my heart ache. I grew up a Yankee in WNY, in a built up city. I hated it. My Dad and my Wife are from the Adirondacks, and my Wife and I moved up here 8 years ago, and I will never live in a city again. My first "boyfriend" (older than my Dad by 3 years) was born and raised in Asheville to migrant workers on a "bokker" farm. Somehow, he ended up in NYS, and alcohol eventually destroyed him. I loved his Mama. She was literally the feminine version of him; a tall, strong, deep voiced woman with tired gentleness and every word and movement came with thought. Lil and I shared the same birth name, and the same nickname. I loved her with all my heart, and now that I am close to 50, I realize now her distress at my naivete and blind adoration for her son. She was so good and kind to both of us. Although I know now I never got the real truth about his life, his Mamas or why the left Ashville, (Lil ended up in Maryland) but I know the crux of it came from leaving the one place in his life where it was both heaven and hell for him, and for deciding to never go back. His broken heart spoke like his words. Like yours, Ms. Barbara: simple but absolutely powerful. I wish I had had family and community that I felt I belonged to. Although my family of choice is miniscule, my Wife (who showed me the house she lived in as a kid with a double seater attached to the back of the kitchen!!) The woods, the mountains, the stillness and the simplicity are the family that renew me each day like my Higher Power
I hope you have a chance to visit home again. I may be wrong, but when the mountains call to you, there is no other place our weary, wandering hearts find peace. Peace to you!
@@7lilly5 💜. Thank you for sharing this sincere and beautifully written expression of your experience. Your message is clear and vivid imagery with words. Lovely. I understand 💞
I'm Alabamian too, nice to see someone else from around here
Donnie, I was born in South West Virginia, I'm 82 years old. I worked in a hospital and was told by a nurse from Mass. that I was faking my speech,you couldn't fake the accent. I always said we had our on language because of our slang. Most outsiders didn't understand,but you talk to anyone from Southern Appalachia they knew exactly what you were saying. I really enjoy hearing the stories many of which I had forgotten, my family moved away whe I was seventeen, finished my education in Maryland but never lost my love for the south. I married a wonderful husband and were married 61 years before he passed. We would come down south every year on our vacation.
The South is a wonderful lace to live. The only reason we left there was because they closed the mnes my Dad worked in and he brought ou family up here looking for work. My Dad passed as age 64 from Black lung. He worked 40+years in the mines .
Take care and keep the stories coming .I truly enjoy hearing them,they take me back to many good times
I’ll tell you what, the nostalgia that came rushing back in this video absolutely brought a tear to my eyes. I’m in my mid forties now, but understood the meaning and dialect of everyone of the old sayings. I’m so, so glad I grew up when I did, back when common sense was common. Thanks for bringing back those memories.
Awesome my friend. Thank you for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
@@donnielaws7020 thanks you Donnie, god bless you and yours as well my friend.
This channel and Celebrating Appalachia is my absolute favorite RUclips channels. I could listen to y'alls stories all day. I live in Alabama at the very tiptop but my daddy was born and raised in Kentucky. He had a very rough upbringing, he left home & his family when he went to war. Him and my mother settled down in AL. I lost him 2014. So watching these videos remind me of him, you sound so much like him! seeing how hard they had it makes my heart break. I would love to go an visit that part of my roots. I'll always remember his "booger" stories (that's what he called ghosts) and all the crazy sayings he had. Thank you for keeping this kind of life alive❤❤
WOW. Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm from eastern kentucky. I'm 32, lived there til I was 27. Been poor my whole life until now...
I didn't know I could do the same work and become somebody somewhere else.
I was born and raised in Kentucky born in 1946 went to one room school until 8th grade I still live here I tried different states but had to come back to hills of Ky wouldn’t live anywhere else i raise my garden can and dry my food still fish in the ky river just couldn’t live anywhere else
@@alicereece8772 Very, very few relatively unspoilt places like that left on this planet! Anywhere like that is worth far more than its weight in gold. I hope you can keep it and never have to sell up.
I’m a Southern Appalachian born and raised. I thank GOD Almighty every day for it!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Which God is that?
@@barneybiggles Our God and father of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ my friend.
@@donnielaws7020
What about the other 11,999 gods that have existed?
@@barneybiggles They are false gods. (And you have way underestimated their number 😆)
There IS only ONE true and living God 😁😁👍👍👍
I am blessed to have a picture of my great grandparents, who were farmers in the mountains of Kentucky, standing on the porch of their log cabin. Their name was Cockerham.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hey Donnie, I was born in the late fifties and raised in the upstate of South Carolina and recognize every single word you said and how you said them. This almost brings a tear to my eye. It’s a shame that these words are stories going by the wayside.
It is sad my friend. Thank you for sharing this my friend.
Hey ya'll. I'm a Cherokee County gal upstate SC. I miss my land and the feeling of being one with nature. I hate the city, just no jobs or non-cousins fir marriage in my home. I miss my MawMaw and PawPaw who are deceased. The population was about 1400 in the 80's, but has dwindled to about 809 these days. Thank you for the feeling of home and a familiar language. God Bless.
@@user-ok7vd7nl7b God bless you friend.
I was born in 1957 and moved to Montana when I was 7 but I can still find all these words in my childhood memories and one time I read a book about old words and sayings in Western Ireland that were being forgotten and people didn't remember what they meant anymore and I read them and understood about 85 percent of them from hearing them from my older mountain kin when I was younger
My grandfather and grandmother were Appalachian people they lived in the mountians of north Carolina. And I took much of my up bringing there
I still live in the Appalachian mountians in. North east Alabama, just below the Tennessee line, , part Cherokee mixed with scotts. And Irish and maybe some other too. Mountian people we are. Listening to you brings back memories of my granny and pawpaw. Long time back we called a coke,., a dope , can't say that no more people get the wrong idea, I still have my southern accent and proud of it too,, good old days gone by. Thanks.ps. I love to squrill hunt too when I was little boy,, we had rabbit dogs beagles and walkers too, back then. Hunting was just way of life with us in those days,, take care old friend,
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Hey Duane I know that area well. From Nickajack to Guntersville, the Walls of Jerico to Sand Mountian, RusselI Cave to buck's pocket, I love every inch.
@@bryanburnside9783 Yeup. I love. The mountians. Nature. Born and raised in the Appalachia. Part Cherokee. My grandfather. Didn't live far from the reservation or res as we call it. But now I live in the lower Appalachia. We just good old home folks. Hope your doing well. Friend. Take care now,,.ps I love the bucks pocket erea. Nice little park. There,,
@@duaneholcomb8408 things keep going like they are and we'll get our shot at living off the land, Jackson county is a good place to be
@@littlet-rex8839 I'm sure we Will friend. Take care,,
I'm so proud of my Appalachian heritage (East Tenn)! Thank you Donnie for the great videos!
Our pleasure! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Right there with ya from WNC
Ditto!…Smokies of NC here neighbor. Blessings💖🙏
I might not speak southern enough for some or all the time, but I teach my son southern sayin's and what they mean. This may be 2021, but I feel our children still need to know what some older people mean when they say certain things. I'm from WNC too. Very proud to be born and raised and God willing will die right here.
I'm a northeast Tenn. girl myself. Wouldn't want it any other way. Am proud to tell it.
I'm from the Appalachians of Pennsylvania. And I sure remember the talk :) I was raised around most of the talk you just mentioned. And I remember going squirrel hunting and my grandmother made squirrel pot pie by hand :) and Donnie I truly do cherry your videos thank you again. And God bless :)
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
My God Donnie , you bring back memories of when I was a little boy!! Now I grew up in the city of Chicago , but just like you and your little buddies me and mine would get our wagon and go hunting for pop bottles early in the morning. Wonderful memories that I haven't thought of in years. Thank you once again for reminding me of a simpler time when it didn't take much to make a child happy unlike today. God bless always
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.
I love hearing about the old way of talking. I remember that from when I was young. My grandma used to call cars “machines”. I miss the old days so much. Life was more simple and people were friendly and honest
Ye they where. Thanks for sharing my friend.
You don't talk bad Donnie, I could listen to your voice all day, and your mountain stories, I live in England, a city called Manchester, and we think we have a strong manchester accent, but I love yours, it's very soothing, thanks for telling us these stories, they are really interesting, love from England 🌞🌞👍
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I’m 80 yrs old and like you I grew up with my grandma and pawpaw in Kentucky near WV border in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Every day we had biscuits and gravy ( and eggs if the hens were laying) and bacon for breakfast and soup beans, fried taters and cornbread for supper. And did I say fried “ balony” sandwiches with mustard for lunch? We had a big aluminum tub outside set on rocks so “afar” could be built under it to heat water to worsh the whites on the worshboard. We had another big aluminum tub to take a bath in on Saturday night before time to listen to the Grand Ol Oort on the radio!
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
My people come from these mountains and I couldn’t be prouder of who I came from, how I grew up and how I was taught to survive. Best people in the world. God fearing hard working family loving folk. God bless the Appalachian ways🙏♥️
Amen my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.
Love all your stories Donnie. You growed up just like me. I’m familiar with every one of your sayings.
And yes, best people you will ever meet.
My grandma and grandpa didn’t get electricity or indoor plumbing until early 60s. Ate a lot of soup beans and fried taters and cornbread. Also squirrel hunted with my grandpa. I’m 67 years old now living a very comfortable life but, my memories are precious to me.
Awesome. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm 78 good old Pinto s. Corn bread and tatoes .eggs from the hen house. Good cured pork all winter. Hog killing in November. For the winter season. Mom.making go home made sausage. Still would like to revisit those days. You wanted a cake you baked it from scratch. Go days for sure.
I absolutely love this! I had an idea years ago, to give a simple notebook to everyone in my family 🎯 aunts, uncles and cousins, etc.... Ask them to simply write down stories of growing up, memories, whatever they wanted to write ☺ Then at the end of each year one person gathered them up and handed out new notebooks 🖤 Its a beautiful thing to have all these memories of your family.....
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 ☺ Awww, it's my pleasure! Thank you for keeping our Heritage alive!!
@@jamiejessee7196 Your welcome.
Donnie, I was born in Holden, WV in the 50s growing up in Southern West Virginia, Western Virginia and East Kentucky and your stories in this video are dead on accurate! Dad, Pepaw his dad and Poppy my mom's dad worked underground all their lives 30+ years so I'm like you, I grew up sneaking through tipples and playing on the coaltrains. This video really hit me hard, made me bleary-eyed while I was watching and made me think of how much I'd love to go back to those days. Hard! Yes, but a time like that never was and never will be again. Thanks!
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I never realized that my grandmother and her family (on my mom's side) was from the southern Appalachia area until just now. She was born & raised in Paint Rock, Alabama, which is in Northern Alabama. She talked the same way. I sure miss listening to her talk, and I sure wish I would have paid more attention to the stories she would tell about when she was growing up. She married my grandpa and they made a home and raised a family in the upper East Texas area, where I was born & raised. She passed away in the late 1990s, when I was about 30 years old. I think she was 96 when she passed of Alzheimer's. I love her very much and think of her often. I've never been to the area she was from, but I sure hope I can get over that way someday. Thank you for making these videos.
Awesome my friend. That's awesome. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. God bless you. Your very welcome.
My dad always said "warsh." His mother said it that way, too. My other grandmother used to say "poke" and "over yon," short for over yonder. Location: southern West Virginia.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Oddly enough, Tom Landry (from South Texas) would speak of playing the Warshington Redskins.
Their education came from hard work, grew up in this and still live here. Greatest lessons learned came from the old folks. Still learning from them.
Exactly my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Truly takes me back. Back to my nanny's
When I lived in Paradise.
Thank You
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Some of the best videos on RUclips! Thank you Donnie for keeping these memories alive. God blessings for you ✝️
Your very welcome my friend.
I grew my Son in Marietta Georgia and they made him into a man, husband and Son! He thanks me all the time for keeping him in the South! Thanks for saving the grand stories of our Elders. Much respect for your love of life!
That is awesome! Thanks my friend for sharing.
My mother worked for a man who had gone deep in to the mountains searching for stills and taking census back in the 30's.He went deeper into the mountains that he could not understand when the people talk.They had heavily accented Scots Irish brogues. They showed him old chests full of clothes in silks and velvets from ages ago brought over from their homelands and family bibles encrusted with jewels.He said many of them would be rich if they had removed the jewels from the bibles.He saw many ,m many people with birth defects because of inbreeding.He said they all had souls like the angels.
Whoever says you speak poorly is crazy! Mr. Donnie Sir, I could listen to you talk forever! I absolutely love the stories of the Appalachia people and I’m honestly shocked as some sayings, words, and things like the push mowers! 😁 such good, people to the core. Thank you for this! Bless you! From Lisa in Canada 🇨🇦♥️😀
WOW! Your are very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
SPOT ON LISA , EXCELLENT SPEAKER , THOSE WHO. EXPERIENCED A HARD LIFESTYLE , LIVING DAY TO DAY WITHOUT HAVING MUCH . THEY HELPED EACH OTHER , THEIR FAMILIES & OTHER INDIVIDUALS , BARTERING REPLACED MONEY , WORKING SUNRISE TO. SUNSET TO LIVE DAY TO DAY ALL PART OF OUR U.S.A. HISTORY , REGARDS TO ALL , PAST , PRESENT AND FUTURE , OUR COUNTRY MOUNTAIN PEOPLE .
At 78 .I know about push mowers I have pushed them. Very hard to do. And brier sling. More hard work. Oh and the push mower did not have a gas engine..
I am 59. I mowed our yard and my grandparents yard with a push mower. Cut the grass good with just you pushing it. No gas! Hard work. Would love to have that old push mower. Once in a while there will be one for sale. These get gone quick. Both sets of grandparents had huge gardens. Some rented part of their land to neighbors so they could grow a garden also. My grandparents in Tennessee didnt have a bathroom, just a two seater outhouse. Small one for the kids and the bigger one for the grown ups. Sears magazines always in there. Cows walked all around their property. Just dodge the cow patties. Night time you used the bed pan. The same grandparents had a spring that ran through their property from the mountain. Best fresh cleanest water I ever had. It was always cold. My PawPaw had a dipper to get fresh water from the spring. My MawMaw made homemade lye soap. Best soap. It smelt so good. They finally got a new home built with a bathroom and running water. I was about 10 years old then. I have great memories of my grandparents. Loved to go to the beautiful mountains in Boone, NC and Bristol (Shady Valley), Tennessee.💞 My favorite is the Blue Ridge Parkway. 🥰 Your voice is geniune. Thank you for your channel!
Also I served n the air force for four years...I would get the local news paper sent to me. They kinda tease me but they enjoyed that newspaper. Loved sitting on a porch and killing flys and catching lightning bugs. Help with the garden. Plowing it with mules. Many other wonderful stuff. I am blessed to hv that heritage and still hv some of it. The excitement was watching a vehicle go by once n a while. We used a poltis for various injuries. Raised on blue grass and country. So many precious thanks. I thank God for my history. Bless u.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Thank You so much Donnie . I am proud of my Virginia, North Carolina, and Tennessee Family Heritage. I would love to go back and sit and talk to my Ancestors. What stories They could tell. Down to earth hard working Country Folks.
Me to! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
As a woman from the heart of the southern Coal Fields of WV, I can honestly say I grew up hearing everyone talk like that & I still do myself. I know "proper" english but that is not who I am. My mommy was from eastern KY. I came along late in my parents life & if my daddy were still alive he would be 103. People find that hard to believe but it's true. Thanks for the wonderful videos. We country folk have more common sense than most. I have a thick appalachian dialect.
Best people in American
@@Joned9954 🙏🏻 God Bless You!
@@Perfectly-Imperfect I love talking and being around that have lived this way. Good people. My parents lived during the depression. We didn't have a inside bathroom until the 60's.mama canned everything she could. They had a garden ever year.
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@@Joned9954 My parents were alive during the depression to & I remember they had a garden and canned until they just weren't able to anymore. I remember people having outhouses to lol I wish we could go back to those times. The world is crazy these days.
East Tennessee born & bred! I had a teacher that always corrected my Appalachian accent, but I have found the older I get I cherish it! Most people that hear it the first time love it! #foreverahillbilly
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thank you, Donnie, for recording these stories for our future generations.
I'm 66 and I was raised the same way. I helped my paw paw put a bathroom in our old family home. It was built on a 4x8 plyboard in the 2nd room. No closets at all in the house.
The last cedar post fell about 3 years ago on the outhouse. I'm seriously thinking on having it dug again and another built in the same spot where the one I grew up using was. I'm gonna borrow my brother's metal detector, ain't no telling whats liable to be there!
It was a school house built in 1851, then a second room was added and the dog trot. I was raised here and am grandmother now. I will live here till I pass. It's a wonderful way of life to be able to sit on the back porch drinking tea and target shooting and never get out of my chair.
I'm blessed. So many will never know the simple joys. I made sure my grandson knows and am teaching him about herbs and such too.
Blessings to you and your home.
Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. Thank you. Your very welcome.
LOVE THESE STORIES OF THE APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS I CAN LISTEN FOR HOURS, WRITE BOOKS ON THESE STORIES LOVE THEM! 💖
Thank you friend for sharing this. God bless you.
I grew up in the foothills of the Pennsylvania Appalachians, and have a deep respect and awe for the mettle and determined-minded simple lives our ancestors lived. I love learning about the people and their skills and traditions laid out so well in the Foxfire series of publications.... peace.
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Grandma was from E.TN
Beautiful place.
You are bringing back memories.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Glad you enjoyed our home land.
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Yes very much. I lived in E. TN as a teen. Miss my kinfolk.
It's sad that things never stay the same, those good old summer days I spent in North Carolina at grannie's house back in the 40's and 50's sure seem wonderful nowadays and your videos sure bring back the memories. I was a little city girl, parents had moved from the country to the big city in Washington, DC for work but I always spent the summers at grannie's. No indoor plumbing, outhouse, dirt road, little old store down the road (about a mile), church every Wednesday evening and Sunday, big dinners with the neighbors or preacher and his family after church with Grannie in the kitchen cooking all day Saturday preparing for Sunday get togethers, enough to feed an army, and boy did she make all us kids work from crack of dawn til the sun went down. Always so many chores around that little scratch of land, always work to be done. We kids fussed and carried on but always knew we were truly loved. I'm 83 years old now, time has flown so fast, all my family have gone on to meet their Father, and have seen a lot in this world and one thing I know is that change, more change, bigger change is not always for the best. Some of those old ways were sure hard but taught us how to cope and be strong in this ever changing world. I just found your videos and love them, you are like talking to one of my now gone relatives. God bless you.
Awesome and Welcome! Thank you. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Yes Donnie .I am 71 years old .I stayed with my Grandma a lot .She would say for set it was sot And also poak for sack .over there was over yonder .To get something was Fitch it. A pettler would come by she say a bill of grocery's .Also ghost was hants .Thank you for your vedios brought back so many memories of me and my Grand Ma .Enjoyed so much .Yes we need to tell all our kin the young folks about our history .
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.
I really enjoy the quality of your videos. It actually reminds me of some country places here in Australia..there is a big interest in the music of the Appalachians, we even have a banjo festival here of your music. Thankyou Sir.
Thank you friend. Thanks for sharing.
I’m from the Ozark mountains of Missouri and our old culture was very much the same way and I love Australia, I’ve been there several times
I grew up in NW MT & N ID and remember pop being called pop! Baloney Sandwich and chips was a treat to us too! I now live in E KY and absolutely LOVE IT! I would be so blessed to find me a granny that would be willing to teach me to sew and anything else she is willing! We live back in a holler and LOVE, LOVE IT!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I would love to find one to
Donnie, I love your presentations. I come from Appilachian stock. My ancestors moved to North Florida in 1835. My grand parents spoke like you, and I have tried to preserve their way of talking in my daily life. I really appreciate your videos. Thanks for what you do.
Wes Bassett.
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm 72, came to central FL.
Donnie, I was raised in Central west Georgia. We didn't have an indoor toilet until 1967. Before that, we had indoor cold running water to the kitchen only and a well. A big storm took out the shed over the well and blew away the bucket and the outhouse.
I know the feeling. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Ha ha!! that is very descriptive! I have a friend who had the same setup out here in the west - about the same time too! that's funny about the storm taking out the toilet (although it probably wasn't at the time!). thanks!
I was born and raised in western Pennsylvania and we always said pop instead of soda, git instead of get , worche instead wash and a few others. When I first moved to the Harrisburg area
I still used those words and some of the locals thought it was funny now 40 yrs later I speak differently but I'll still throw one out there occashionally. Until they passed I always called my father Daddy and my mother momma. I miss those days.
Never forget where you are from. Thanks friend for sharing.
This Buckeye gal talked the same way- reckon I always will- a lot of good folk in my heritage as I bet there are in yours. God Bless, you hear?
@@peachmelba9333 You to my friend;
I think I usually said 'pop' growing up in the west, although I probably say 'soda' more now (although I don't drink it, so I don't say it too often!) Git was also quite common and still is. however, wash has always been wash and never warsh. My friend from NY said a lot of 'strange' pronunciations! Like 'dowel' for 'doll'. 😉
Western PA here too. We still say pop lol. I do remember warsh from when I was little. Wow haven’t thought of warsh in a looking time.. Oh we mostly call them cricks too
My Daddy was from Blue ridge Mts of North GA. He never lost his mountain ways nor speech. He would say stuff like: PO-lice, Ku-cumber, Hep it ( help it)
Chim-bly (chimney).
Nor did he ever lose his respectful manners towards God & all people.
He loved stories, parables, filled with what he would call kitchen table wisdom.
He always had a garden, & would make all 5 of us kids come pull weeds. Or pick vegetables, especially green beens.
I hated it when I was young but they are still some of my most cherished memories now.
Thank you kindly for sharing. Peace and blessings. ~CJ
Thanks for sharing this my friend. Your very welcome.
Thanks, Donnie, love your stories. I was also born in 1957 so Things sure have changed since then. Who would have thought about computers and cellphones back in the day? I loved my Grandmother right up until she passed and I was 17 she told the lady who was sharing the room in the hospital before she died. She told that lady that I was her favorite. Well, I guess it wouldn't take much to know that she told me stories and jokes she never even told her own family. Yes sir those were the good old days. My dad's mom lived in Woodstock New Brunswick around Bloomfield. She talked just like you all the time. We called it the southern drawl. She was taken at age 53 but still, I remember her like it was yesterday. You have never lived until you sit at the feet of your grandparents for the things they could tell you would make you laugh and sometimes frighten you. Thought I would share a little with you. Have a good one.
So true my friend. Thank you for sharing this story. Your very welcome.
I really appreciate and understand why you do what you do. I get an ache in my chest listening to you. I just turned 65 in July. My parents escaped from Hungary during the 1956 revolution in oct/ nov. I was 3 months old. They settled in Poughkeepsie Ny. My Dad worked for IBM as a chemist due to his 6yr in medical school. Prior to meeting my mom, he spent 6yr in the coal mine as punishment for not having proper paper work on his person when he was trying to cross the boarder to Austria. Things are changing fast and not for the better. I live in South Fl but I feel suffocated here. I yearn for peace and quiet. I dislike being around people anymore. I don't want to go back to NY...the town of Lagrange where I grew up. It's not the same. I got married when I was 15 to my 17y old husband...yes we're still married. Wish he'd retire so we can get out of here! I keep looking at land in sw NC. I don't care for a big fancy house. I want land to grow a garden and have chickens..and my dogs. Oh, I grew up sayin crick...think the Dutch started that. Lived next to a farmer who had dairy cows and that's how he said creek. He was Dutch. Keep doing this! You have a story and you tell it well.
Thank you so much for them kind words my friend. Thanks for sharing your story my friend. Please take care.
We are from the Newburgh, NY area before we retired to Lee County, VA.
@@raymondvarinakowalik5438 I know Newburg well...husband worked at Electra Supply for awhile then Dept of transportation in the drafting dept. Use to go to Minawaska, Mohonk to rock scramble. Beautiful area!
@@andreaszule1558 We used to hike the Hudson Highlands just to the south of Newburgh and across the river in Beacon (Mt. Beacon). And now we live in the Cumberland Mountains. Love it here ... so peaceful and serene.
@@raymondvarinakowalik5438 my husbands family came from Beacon, Cold
My grandfather was the last of six generations to live in and work in coal country, West Virginia. He headed to Washington DC, looking for work during the depression. That's where he met my grandmother, and the rest, as they say, is history.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Was there a few years ago on Thanksgiving loved every inch of that ground.Many of the grave yards had so many markers for the children that died from diseases that we are inocculated for now and we for the most part take it for granted.Those residents were a tough people and overcame many adversities.....
So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this.
I'm a 16 year old kid from Memphis but these mountain videos are INTERESTING! cool too💥
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Grew up exactly as you except for the city part, in a coal camp 4 miles from a town called Appalachia VA. still there. I loved the slow pace of life. Can still remember the sounds and smells of the old days. Really the only thing besides all the ken folk that I miss is that cook stove in the summer time. Brothers from another mother. Keep the history alive Mr. Laws.
Thank you so much my friend for that comment.
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I have some very dear friends that live in Big Stone Gap. It is beautiful up there.
Where at? Andover………Inman……..? Inman had bad sulphur water when I was a kid.
“It’s changed so much in the last 50 years “, you said the god’s honest truth in that one.
Thank you friend.
I too, love the simple life in the country. I grew up in the suburbs and moved to the country when I got married. When traveling home from visiting my family, that still lives there, I will often catch myself breathing a sudden breath of relief when entering on the road what I consider 'country'. I have to say I love both you and your friends voices, special accents and dialects. Please keep your stories coming, truly enjoy them.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
It sure us nice to hear you talk reminds of my Dad and I used to stay with my Granny during the summer and even though she passed when I was ten her stories and just who she was has guided me through my life . I love the fact that you are keeping our people history alive
Thank you so much my friend.
My dad's mother's family were all of Appalachian stock. Dad to this day says "Warsh" for "Wash" and "Crick" for "Creek" although he spent years trying to lose the eastern Ohio/West Virginia accent while living in California (where I was born and raised). The older I get, the more I want to retire to the Appalachian region and immerse myself in the culture I missed out on. Thank you, Donnie, for this video.
Your welcome and Thanks for sharing my friend.
I've only ever noticed an accent in (south) eastern Ohio. Part of me would love to go back to West Virginia where I spent summers with my Grandma, but WV taxes you to death, and drugs have become a real problem in many small towns. I think this is happening by design, but that's a different subject for another day.
I was born in NE TN and I still pronounce those same words the same way and still have people correcting me...
@@ccrum1127 My father was from WV, but he seem to has shed most of his accent...except once in awhile when he would say "bush". It sounded like "boosh".
You could do a lot worse I guarantee you! I been all over while serving in the marine corps and by far the kindest most compassionate helpful and loving people you’ll find right here ! Couldn’t wait to leave and then broke my neck getting back HOME ! God bless
Oh, man. You really brought back some fond memories of "soup beans and taters". We always had a big pot of soup beans on the wood stove at hunting camp. It was very warming after being out hunting on a cold November day. We always added onions to our bowls 🥣 of beans. 😋 Thanks, Donnie for the memories! You're great!
Thank you friend for watching and sharing your story.
Soupbeans fried taters sauerkraut and weiners onions for supper lastnight in the hills of Kentucky lastnight. No better meal.
Oohhh! Hants!!! My Granny took care of the country cemetery. The stories I could tell of Hants I learned to be humble and give before you receive!!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 Thank you for sharing!❤️🙏🏻⚓️
This is how my granny talked and how I grew up and I’m from Spur Texas !! This brought back memories of my granny and I cried watching this we even called the windows a winder light I learned to can when I was 9 years old
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
Dear Mr. Donnie Laws, your words go in my head but then they wake up my feelings, i get goosebumps and tears from your words. Thank you so very much for your time. Stay safe, Lucien from Quebec, Canada...
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.