Love it!! It's amazing how the Southern drawl soothes people! When I go up north or out west people will ask me to just "say something"! You do have a soothing quality and quiet kindness about you.
I was born, and currently live in Tahlequah Oklahoma, the setting of "Where the Red Fern Grows". There were two movies made here, the first in 1974 and again in 2003. I have some friends that were extras in the1974 movie. When I first read the story in the mid 60's I had a first hand knowledge of where the train Depot was where the boy picked up his dogs, and was familiar with the geography of the Illinois River, where he lived and hunted. The store scene in the movie was filmed at a old country store in the Qualls community, located about 15 miles south of Tahlequah. It is currently a restaurant called Jincy's Kitchen. The train Depot scene was actually filmed in Vian Oklahoma because by this time the Train Depot in Tahlequah was in such disrepair that it was unsuitable for filming. It is completely gone now, with only a slab of concrete left to mark it's location. We locals still call it "Depot hill" though.
I’m familiar with all this. My mother’s family is from Locust Grove and the boy character was in my brothers class in Locust Grove. I’m younger and we moved to Pryor, so that’s where grew up.
I love this idea of reading to us. It is so relaxing to sit still and just listen. I also had a 3rd grade teacher that would turn off the lights right after lunch time, and she would read to us while we put our heads on our desk. That was in 1971-72 I also want to mention that the boy character in the movie, Where the Red Fern Grows, was a classmate of my brothers in NE Oklahoma. Much of it was filmed around the Tulsa area I believe. Thanks Tipper! Great idea!!
I now can sleep better at night listing to your voice reading to me. This was a great idea I love it. Look forward to many more. Thank you and your family for all the videos that y'all do
I too really liked the image of eating that melon. I felt tugs at my heart for this young lady, setting off to a strange new place. Loved that Jess seems protective of her.
I like this. I also pictured my daddy with his pocket knife cutting up an apple. I remember his hands, so strong. He could do anything, but he didn’t have the opportunity to go to college. He was a strong reader, though, all his life. Thanks, Tipper.
I was raised in a small west Texas town. We had teachers that read to us also. It was the best time of the day. I still love being read to. My mother and grandparents were all storytellers. Thank you so much for this treat!
That part about the jack knife was so familiar. I have seen many eat from the knife blade. I now carry a small knife because I have seen them put to so many uses. Also the great wisdom some people from Appalachia have that is gained from life instead of from education. Wisdom is different! Loved the reading.
I love this! As a teacher, this is wonderful! My fifth and sixth grade students loved when I would read aloud from a chapter book. Where the Red Fern grows was a favorite. The tissues were being passed around the room. I am interested in how this teacher adapts to her new surroundings. Thank you for sharing. I will definitely be listening!
I loved the first chapter and can't wait to hear more! As a teacher myself, this made me think back to being a new teacher and going to teach at a school in an unfamiliar place. One of the funniest parts of the chapter to me was the pile of school supplies that she was given! When I think about all the supplies I feel I need each year, it's amazing that teachers long ago had such simple items like a bucket, broom, chalk and erasers. What about books? Perhaps the books were left at the school from the previous teacher. I'm looking forward to chapter 2!
I enjoyed that ,Tip, you were able to capture the heart of what you were reading. My family roots are here in Appalachia but I have not lived my whole life here. Some of my younger years I lived away because my father's work took us away. Appalachia is my home and my heart. I enjoyed the reading, it is so real and heartfelt.
Yes, please. Do continue reading us Mountain Path. I really enjoyed this bit, but honestly, I just love listening to someone read a story. Thank you, Tipper.
I’m loving this book. I can’t wait for the next chapter. I live in McKee, KY a small rural one stoplight town. We are in between Lexington and Somerset ❤️. Thank you Tipper.
My Momma read to my Brother & I every night 🥰 I also did my three 🥰 now they read to my six Grammy Awards. 🥰 so much more cozy loving than a tv. Books. Image Nation 🥰
@@CelebratingAppalachia Teacher? My 3 Cubs always chose a Bookstore over a Toy Store lol. Good cuz we were broke. 🙏🏻 They journal too. That’s how we keep the Good Ways Going. 🦋
Oh what memories you bring to mind! First, the memory of third grade when Miss Bertolami read Charlotte’s Web to all of us who eagerly waited for the next few pages. Then then eating of many things off of the knife that sliced the bite size piece off. So many people in my life, me included, have done this. Her descriptions are magical. I can see why you love her writings…and now I do too. Thank you for your beautiful reading. Looking forward to Chapter 2!
My father, now 88, grew up on a farm in Illinois but raised my brother and me in Phoenix. I fondly remember him going up his step-ladder in the evening after work and peeling oranges and grapefruit from his trees and feeding me slices off his pocket knife. I so enjoyed your reading. That's another thing I remember from my father--he'd read aloud to me, and to this day I love being read to. So please keep the chapters coming, and thanks.
My Momma ALWAYS read to me 💖.. And my son & I read ALL of the Harry Potter books out loud to each other , the best part of our evenings after dinner.. Miss those days ☹️💖
Thank you for the reading Tipper. It was wonderful. I love these stories of people in the past. I've got a few about settlers in different parts of the country. Strong people who helped settle this country.
Maybe this fits. There is an old saying: "Book smart but dumb to life." Never judge anyone. Books & covers. In a small town liars & cheaters can't get away with it, because they are known. So it is easier to trust. Just my opinion.
Loved this! You have a beautiful reading voice and I loved that chapter. I loved when we had a teacher that read to us in school. This story reminds me of an episode of the Waltons....one of my favorite shows. I have the entire seasons and have watched it at least 3 times! We use to watch it as a family when the kids were little. Anyway, there is an episode where Maryellen has to go up in the mountain to check on a family on a horse and she encounters a very poor family who is really "backwoods" in her book. She is a nurse and has different idea about things. In otherwords she hasn't come down to their level. How many times have I came across people of different nationality, education, or uneducated in my job. I was a nurse. Many experiences were humbling. One really extraordinary experience was when we had a very old gypsy woman! Her entire family surrounded her bed and didn't trust anyone! It was eye opening! I totally forgot about that experience until I listened to your reading! I am going to have to write this in my journal as I don't want to ever forget.
Tipper, you are really special 🤗 Love you reading the book…especially since you speak my language - beautiful mountainese!! The story remind me a bit of “Christy” by Catherine Marshall. I have read a lot of books to my students in the past and I think the atmosphere that creates is just amazing. The ability of the human brain to transport you into the pages of a book is one of the greatest gifts God gave us. I’m so glad I grew up in a day before video games and cell phones!
Oh this is lovely! I can hardly wait for the next chapter. I love stories set in the past, I always learn something. My parents read stories to me before I started school and I could hardly wait until I could read too.
There's nothing better than story time ! My whole life I'd stop if possible just to listen to someone read a story out loud ! I'm sixty two now & enjoy the heck out of it ! Thanks so much ! In my younger day's my wife back than used to read to me & our children Louis L' amour westerns ! she'd spread out a blanket for the youngens & as I worked painting around a customer's house she'd move & our Kid's .. I'd work & listen & the boy's loved it too ... what great memories ! I hope you continue doing this ! Thank you so much ! A sixty two year old kid @ heart !
I love this idea! My daughter (2 years old) fell asleep on my lap while I was listening. It was just calming and peaceful. I enjoy your usual videos, but I would look forward to more of these reading videos as well. I hope you have a blessed day!
I remember my second grade teacher reading "Little Black Sambo" and the "Brer Rabbit" stories. In 3rd grade it was the "Happy Hollisters" books. I became a teacher and loved reading to my students..."Charlotte's Web" and the "Hank the Cowdog" books as well as "Ramona Quimby."
What a marvelous idea! Thanks to today's episode, I've realized one true impact of our digital age, and yet how our history remains. The longest finger of my left hand has no callus at all and yet there remains a slight mound, almost like a memory. I write (when I DO, evidently) with my left hand.
@@CelebratingAppalachia I write with my pencil supported by my ring finger on my right hand. I only have had a callus like that on my right hand, too. It does not go away over the years.
@@CelebratingAppalachia same here; callus on my right hand, middle finger. Funny, I never thought of anyone else having one in the exact same spit...:). I'm glad to have comrades in arms!
I like to read out loud when I read. I seem to get more out of it even if I’m reading out loud by myself in my room. I’m reading no history of country music, the book based on the PBS series of the same. I love it when my fifth grade teacher read aloud to us back in the late 70s the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie books. Thank you for sharing this with us and thank you this book. I haven’t watched the whole video yet, because I have to go back to work I’m on my lunch break. I can’t wait to get home tonight and watch the rest of the video. Good nightTipper are you and your loved ones…
My mom read us Little House on The Prarie everyday after school while we sat in the truck waiting for our oldest brother to get out of school. It was in the mid 90s. I vividly remember the part where they made the pig bladder ball. Wow, isnt it amazing how two people from different places geographically and different times, different generations, different families can have similar memories with same book. I just love that. I was born in 87 and am now reading it to my daughter who was born in 2013. I love hearing stories from other people that intertwine with my own story and memory... 🥰
@@nomdeplume2213 Thank you for sharing this with me. It made me very happy. I need to get back to Little House on the Prairie books. It’s been such a long time since I read or heard one read…
Oh Tipper!!!! I absolutely love this!!! I have been enthralled by your reading and able to see the ‘scene’ as you read!!! How peaceful and I can hardly wait for the next time you read to us!!! Thank you so much!!! Love to all!! 💖💖
Oh please do read on. I love this book and hearing your voice read it. Being intelligent doesn’t mean you’re smart. I love your videos and it brings back such wonderful memories and things that I thought I had forgotten. Thank you again for keeping the ways of Appalachia alive and well so they’re not forgotten. I have lived all over the world and came back to the foothills of the Appalachian mountains to live again. What I miss most of all is a hot humid summer day and going to the old rock store at Hollis crossroads and getting a bottle of coke and taking a big swig out so the salty planters peanuts would fit in the bottle. We then bet to see who had the bottle from the farthest place. That was back when they’d have the place the coke bottle came from. The loser had to buy the next round. I can’t wait until the next chapter if you continue to read more of the book again. Be safe and well and continue to make more wonderful memories with those you love. 🌞💖🌈
Tipper, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this! It makes me think of the days before t.v. or radio when people would read aloud to entertain each other. Ms. Arnow is very good at painting pictures and characters with words, and there is something musical about a soft Appalachian accent. The part that resonated most for me is that there are many kinds of intelligence and that we can learn from everyone, even those without a formal education. I am looking forward to the next chapter! Thank you!
I thoroughly enjoyed this reading! I Besides the reading groups in the class of red birds, blue birds, and yellow birds where students learned to read and understand what they've read... There was story time. I remember the excitement in 1st and 2nd grade as my favorite teacher of all time, Mrs. Bollinger, instilled a love of reading into her students. She read with feeling, not just a monotone as some teachers after her.. She would turn the lights off and read to us as we put our heads on the desks to rest after lunch each day. She would ask questions after and make sure we understood the why, where, what, when, and how of reading. My relatives were for the most part under educated in those days. But they were very intelligent and knew so many things that the highly educated did not. Oh, those precious elders had such wonderful stories to tell! It's a shame they weren't written down because successive generations have no idea what they've lost after the elders has passed on. Thank you Tipper for these wonderful memories your story reading has set free in us!
I enjoyed this. My wife used to read a few pages out loud every night around bed time and it's relaxing. one of my favorite books that she read was "Panther in the sky".
Thank you. So enjoyable. My teachers thru elementary and middle school, read to our class. Stays with you. Can't wait for chapter two :)! Thank you, again, Tipper.
I’m 63 but when I was in 8th grade, my English teacher, Mrs Tedrow would read to us a fiction each day for a period and we were invited to put our heads on our desk and relax. It was the most favorite part of my day. Mrs Tedrow is long in Heaven now but she was one of my two favorite teachers. She knew we just needed that time to mentally “escape” and relax and listen to a fabulous story. She encouraged me to love, love a good book to this day. I’m in California btw.
I think this is a wonderful idea; can't wait for chapter 2. One of the greatest gifts I've ever been given was a mama who believed in reading to her children.
I wish my daughter had time to listen to this. She is a 4th grade teacher in a really rough school. She breaks up fights and confronts bad behavior all day every day. Even though she had taught preschool for several years until she finished her degree and started teaching grade school, she had preconceived notions. I can tell already that this is a story she would enjoy. Perhaps over Spring Break. ❤️
Thank you! Wonderful descriptive reading. I shared with my niece who is starting a new teaching job at an alternate school in the country. It reminded me of my grandmother, when she was in her first teaching job, back around 1916, in Harrison, Idaho. Her contract said she could not go into the drug store unless accompanied by a school board member. I think it also spoke to her skirt length. ☺️. Thanks for the delicious story. Looking forward to chapter 2. And Happy Birthday!
I’m 81 and born in Mazie Kentucky, but grew up in Columbus Ohio. The first teacher that I remember to read to us was our 7th grade home room teacher. Everyone listened and I thought that she only read just to keep us quiet, maybe not though. My fathers side parents built and lived there until in there later years when they moved in with their youngest daughter. They were dirt farmers and grew just about everything they ate. The log house still stands but the kitchen house has long disappeared. I had so many times in my life staying with them. Thank you so much for bringing so many dell wonderful memories back. Hager
I'm really anxious to hear the rest of it I love the way she expresses how the people look and the accents that's really great. Hopefully soon I'll get to visit the Appalachians that would be awesome
I've never heard of this story, or this author. Thank you for sharing this. I'd love to keep hearing you read it. The way you read it is wonderful. Hugs
I love this idea! (Jane)🙏🏻❤️ I had a teaching partner who taught in Kentucky before coming here. This book reminds me of her experiences. I am anxious to see what happens next in the story and how her relationships develop with folks in this new town. Thank you for continuing to develop your channel with new ideas like this.❤️
Oh yes, please read to us from time to time. I loved it and I love your channel. I'm a 71 year old granny and recently moved from the Appalachian foothills of West Virginia to the flatlands of Indiana and I miss so much my mountain family and hills. Many times watching your channel and your interactions with your husband and girls just makes my heart about burst. Thank you again and God bless.
Love this. Great idea to read to us. I enjoy so much hearing you talk and/or read. The author's words of this first chapter definitely paint a vivid picture. Looking forward to chapter 2. I hope you all have a great weekend.
My husband was a pocket knife carrier. He used for many things including pealing and cutting fruit to eat ..He lives with Jesus now and I sure do miss him. I love hearing you read to me. Thanks so much
Growing up in the mountains of Pennsylvania on a small farm ..my daddy was a farm manager for a very large cattle farmer and he would be gone most of the time working many hours... my mother would always take daddy's supper and wrap it in tin foil and we would clean up after supper and my uncle would visit and my mom and him would sit on the porch and tell stories and pick music..almost 50 years later they are long gone...and most people could never imagine the joy that came from that old porch..thank you Tipper for living and keeping and sharing the old ways..
I enjoyed the reading. I too had The Red Fern Grows read to me in school. One of my best memories of school, my imagination took to the Ozarks and I left behind Wayne County.
I remember listening to my teacher read to our 4th or 5th grade class in Detroit. I came from Appalachia (Barbourville KY.), as did a lot of others in my school, including some of our teachers. My school, Franklin Elementary, was a stones throw away from Tiger Stadium. At the time it was called Briggs Stadium. A lot of us had a deep Appalachian accent. Our teacher had a wonderful familiar sounding soothing southern Appalachian voice. Not all did. The others were native Northerners and would often have us repeat what we said until it was acceptable northern pronunciation. One word comes to mind, Punkin vs Pumpkin. I had a lot of trouble with that one. I never went back to Appalachia. I'm 72 now with not a hint of an accent. Thank you I love yours.
Neither my mother or father went past the 8th grade in school yet they had a great sense of living. Even so, I found myself with a vision of my ancestors being uneducated and dumb. Somewhere along the line I realized they amazingly knew well how to survive They knew what was important for day to day living. These are skills people must know. Education is simply the exposure to additional knowledge. It’s the skill of knowing how to find information that can add security and ease to an already sufficient way of life. I loved hearing your reading. As you said, there is more than one scale to measure brilliance.
Oh thank you. I loved this and what a great story so far. The authors detail is just wonderful. I found that livin in the deep south that the teachers and they people in the south are much more intelligent than those in other areas of the country. I hadnt gone to college but was able to go to a southern college and found it to be such a beautiful time in my life. I loved some of the short stories we had to read. Music was my major and English the submajor. I love my heritage and all that it brought into my life.
Harriet Simpson's MOUNTAIN PATH is off to a excellent start, beginning to acquaint the reader (listener) with who Miss Sheridan is while raising a lot of questions about her at the same time. And it is also piquing the reader's (listener's) interest by keeping the nature of her destination shrouded in mystery. I'm definitely hooked on the story and eager for more. It has been ages, Tipper, since anyone has read to me, and I've never been read to by anyone from Appalachia. Thank you for having this great idea. It's immensely enjoyable. Please continue to read the entire book to us.
Boy, I'll tell ya, in this world of negative news, you are a God send! I sure appreciate you reading to me. It's very calming and reassuring that there is good out there. God bless you Tipper from WV.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, Tipper. I love to be read to!!!! I can hardly wait for the next chapter!!! How in the world you stay still in that swing is beyond comprehension.
Oh yes, wonderful!! Thank ya kindly for this!!~* Most definately want to he ya read more please!!~* It is especially wonderful that she realized that he is intelligent and explained things better than the more educated might. Education is a blessin, but there is more than one way to get an education about most things in life. It seems when people speak a certain way they are looked down on. My 5th grad teacher read to us after lunch recess just to settle us kids down. Up till then I could not really read, that teacher sparked my love of where words on pages could take us. I love that you appreciate formal education but promote seeing the knowledge of those that didn't or don't always have a college experience💕 This is a beautiful story in many ways & I'm lookin forward to hearin your beautiful accent bring more of it to life!!~*
I loved one of the later Chapters and enjoyed it so much I came to watch from the beginning, thank you. An education is what you learn, it does not have to be learned in a school building, especially in today’s system.
Thank you, for your stories, both told and yet unfolding..........indeed, I do love your warm, sweet accent. I can hear my own relatives, from NC and GA....... My own Mom used to read to me, and greatly influenced my own work, from a volume of children's poetry, so long ago. I've been writing my own lyrics and poems for over 40 years, but this takes me back home. Thank you, for simply giving.
I love this more than anything. Please do continue to read this story to us. I feel like I'm back in school listening to the teacher read to us after lunch. Thank you so much !!
I am a retired teacher, and read aloud to my 5th grade students every day ~ it was a wonderful experience. I recently had one of them, now in his late 40s, tell me he became a voracious reader because of the stories we shared. One of my favorites was WHERE THE LILIES BLOOM ~ set in the Great Smoky Mountains ~ I think you would really enjoy it🤓
Now my wife Dede is a K4 teacher and an excellent reader but she's a yankee like I said before.She carries on like something stupid when she reads and I don't care for it.Let me say this Tipper,I could close my eyes and listen to you read all day.You have a very soothing,relaxing,loving voice. Ole Matt is a lucky man.Thank you so much for making my night once again.
I really enjoyed your reading Tipper. The Author captured me right away and held my attention as she presented each character to the reader or in my case listener in a graphic, yet hard way illustrating intriguing descriptions with few words capturing each as they went about their work in a time lost to most. I particularly liked the way she describes inside the court house hallway as the new teacher follows. Thank you Tipper! And good job!
Your voice is so articulate and easy to understand in your soft accent. I have an allergy attack and enjoy listening to you reading. I would love for you to keep doing it, if you please! Thank you, Tipper!
I been loving the story you been reading of Dorie. So happy I found this. I love being read to. I remember being read to from my teachers when I was young
First I have to say growing up in the Smoky mountains my teachers read to us, some of my favorite stories even till this day and the book I own that is treasured in my heart is one I got from my sweet Aunt Gertie when she passed on , it was a signed copy of Where the Red Fern Grows. Aunt Gertie was elevated to hero status in heaven over that. Secondly yes read the entire Book and more what a wonderful Idea!! So inspired, nostalgia gets us everytime, and thirdly the way she describes the man that took her to the station its as if in describing the way he had about him , nostalgia and a deep remembrance of the best people I ever knew , she paints pictures with her words and sets the scene in reality! What a gift!! So yes read on sister Read on!!! 💯💥💥👍👍❤️
This is a great idea, books read by a soft spoken lady from Appalachia. I throughly enjoyed your reading.
Thank you for the encouraging words 🙂
I’m saving this to listen to as I fall asleep like a bedtime story. I listen to audiobooks all the time.👍🇨🇦
Wonderful-I hope you like it 🙂
You are a gem!! Thank you so much for sharing your love of Appalachia!!! Love hearing you read!!🥰💖💖💖😘😘
Glad you enjoyed it Joy 🙂
Oh Tipper, I was elated when you said you would read a book. I loved this first chapter and am looking forward to all the rest. This is wonderful!
Thank you Robin-that makes me happy!
This is terrific! I like to sew in the evening and now I have something to listen to.
Love it!! It's amazing how the Southern drawl soothes people! When I go up north or out west people will ask me to just "say something"! You do have a soothing quality and quiet kindness about you.
That is sweet-thank you Linda 🙂
I was born, and currently live in Tahlequah Oklahoma, the setting of "Where the Red Fern Grows". There were two movies made here, the first in 1974 and again in 2003. I have some friends that were extras in the1974 movie. When I first read the story in the mid 60's I had a first hand knowledge of where the train Depot was where the boy picked up his dogs, and was familiar with the geography of the Illinois River, where he lived and hunted. The store scene in the movie was filmed at a old country store in the Qualls community, located about 15 miles south of Tahlequah. It is currently a restaurant called Jincy's Kitchen. The train Depot scene was actually filmed in Vian Oklahoma because by this time the Train Depot in Tahlequah was in such disrepair that it was unsuitable for filming. It is completely gone now, with only a slab of concrete left to mark it's location. We locals still call it "Depot hill" though.
I’m familiar with all this. My mother’s family is from Locust Grove and the boy character was in my brothers class in Locust Grove. I’m younger and we moved to Pryor, so that’s where grew up.
Thank you for sharing that! So neat 🙂
I love this idea of reading to us. It is so relaxing to sit still and just listen. I also had a 3rd grade teacher that would turn off the lights right after lunch time, and she would read to us while we put our heads on our desk. That was in 1971-72 I also want to mention that the boy character in the movie, Where the Red Fern Grows, was a classmate of my brothers in NE Oklahoma. Much of it was filmed around the Tulsa area I believe. Thanks Tipper! Great idea!!
Glad you think so Rhonda!! I'll keep reading 🙂 Neat that your brother new the boy who was in Red Fern Grows 🙂
I now can sleep better at night listing to your voice reading to me. This was a great idea I love it. Look forward to many more. Thank you and your family for all the videos that y'all do
David-that is so kind-thank you!!
Great idea....Great bedtime story!
I too really liked the image of eating that melon. I felt tugs at my heart for this young lady, setting off to a strange new place. Loved that Jess seems protective of her.
I loved those aspects too 🙂
I like this. I also pictured my daddy with his pocket knife cutting up an apple. I remember his hands, so strong. He could do anything, but he didn’t have the opportunity to go to college. He was a strong reader, though, all his life. Thanks, Tipper.
I was raised in a small west Texas town. We had teachers that read to us also. It was the best time of the day. I still love being read to. My mother and grandparents were all storytellers. Thank you so much for this treat!
Im saving this for when I go to bed tonight Tipper. Ill do it after I pray😔😔Im excited!
I hope you enjoy it!
Awesome idea! I’ll choose a quiet time, shut my eyes and listen😌!
Your voice is the true voice to read this❣️Thanks Tipper❗️
Aww-that's so nice-thank you!
That part about the jack knife was so familiar. I have seen many eat from the knife blade. I now carry a small knife because I have seen them put to so many uses. Also the great wisdom some people from Appalachia have that is gained from life instead of from education. Wisdom is different! Loved the reading.
I love this!!! One of my favorite teachers is one who read to us. Sharing a story together creates a bond. Thank you ♥️
My husband and I have been listening to your reading together and thoroughly love it. Keep reading please.
Tipper, this was a great idea, I hope you will continue to read on, thank you.
So glad to see you again. You sent a nice reply to my comment about lack of rain. You are such a good person dear.
I knew an Eliason family a few years ago.
I really enjoyed listening to you read. My teacher's in grade school also read to us each day and we all loved it.
I love this! As a teacher, this is wonderful! My fifth and sixth grade students loved when I would read aloud from a chapter book. Where the Red Fern grows was a favorite. The tissues were being passed around the room. I am interested in how this teacher adapts to her new surroundings. Thank you for sharing. I will definitely be listening!
I loved the first chapter and can't wait to hear more! As a teacher myself, this made me think back to being a new teacher and going to teach at a school in an unfamiliar place. One of the funniest parts of the chapter to me was the pile of school supplies that she was given! When I think about all the supplies I feel I need each year, it's amazing that teachers long ago had such simple items like a bucket, broom, chalk and erasers. What about books? Perhaps the books were left at the school from the previous teacher. I'm looking forward to chapter 2!
I enjoyed that ,Tip, you were able to capture the heart of what you were reading. My family roots are here in Appalachia but I have not lived my whole life here. Some of my younger years I lived away because my father's work took us away. Appalachia is my home and my heart. I enjoyed the reading, it is so real and heartfelt.
Yes, please. Do continue reading us Mountain Path. I really enjoyed this bit, but honestly, I just love listening to someone read a story. Thank you, Tipper.
I’m loving this book. I can’t wait for the next chapter. I live in McKee, KY a small rural one stoplight town. We are in between Lexington and Somerset ❤️. Thank you Tipper.
My Momma read to my Brother & I every night 🥰 I also did my three 🥰 now they read to my six Grammy Awards. 🥰 so much more cozy loving than a tv. Books. Image Nation 🥰
I've always been a reader too 🙂 Pap and Granny were both readers I guess that's where I got it from. Wonderful that your family reads too 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia Teacher? My 3 Cubs always chose a Bookstore over a Toy Store lol. Good cuz we were broke. 🙏🏻 They journal too.
That’s how we keep the Good Ways Going. 🦋
Oh what memories you bring to mind! First, the memory of third grade when Miss Bertolami read Charlotte’s Web to all of us who eagerly waited for the next few pages. Then then eating of many things off of the knife that sliced the bite size piece off. So many people in my life, me included, have done this. Her descriptions are magical. I can see why you love her writings…and now I do too. Thank you for your beautiful reading. Looking forward to Chapter 2!
Yes, please continue reading this wonderful book! I also loved "Miss Willie" by Janice Holt Giles and "Christy" by Catherine Marshall.
My father, now 88, grew up on a farm in Illinois but raised my brother and me in Phoenix. I fondly remember him going up his step-ladder in the evening after work and peeling oranges and grapefruit from his trees and feeding me slices off his pocket knife. I so enjoyed your reading. That's another thing I remember from my father--he'd read aloud to me, and to this day I love being read to. So please keep the chapters coming, and thanks.
What wonderful memories you have Pat! Glad you enjoyed the reading 🙂
My Momma ALWAYS read to me 💖.. And my son & I read ALL of the Harry Potter books out loud to each other , the best part of our evenings after dinner.. Miss those days ☹️💖
That is so wonderful Tanya 🙂
Great idea! I enjoyed it and can't wait for part 2...
Yay-thank you!
Thank you for the reading Tipper. It was wonderful. I love these stories of people in the past. I've got a few about settlers in different parts of the country. Strong people who helped settle this country.
Maybe this fits. There is an old saying: "Book smart but dumb to life." Never judge anyone. Books & covers. In a small town liars & cheaters can't get away with it, because they are known. So it is easier to trust. Just my opinion.
Loved this! You have a beautiful reading voice and I loved that chapter. I loved when we had a teacher that read to us in school. This story reminds me of an episode of the Waltons....one of my favorite shows. I have the entire seasons and have watched it at least 3 times! We use to watch it as a family when the kids were little. Anyway, there is an episode where Maryellen has to go up in the mountain to check on a family on a horse and she encounters a very poor family who is really "backwoods" in her book. She is a nurse and has different idea about things. In otherwords she hasn't come down to their level. How many times have I came across people of different nationality, education, or uneducated in my job. I was a nurse. Many experiences were humbling. One really extraordinary experience was when we had a very old gypsy woman! Her entire family surrounded her bed and didn't trust anyone! It was eye opening! I totally forgot about that experience until I listened to your reading! I am going to have to write this in my journal as I don't want to ever forget.
Thank you for sharing that story! I love the Waltons too 🙂
The writers descriptions are so colorful and detailed. She draws you in and gives a sense of being right there and feeling what she is feeling.
Tipper, you are really special 🤗 Love you reading the book…especially since you speak my language - beautiful mountainese!! The story remind me a bit of “Christy” by Catherine Marshall. I have read a lot of books to my students in the past and I think the atmosphere that creates is just amazing. The ability of the human brain to transport you into the pages of a book is one of the greatest gifts God gave us. I’m so glad I grew up in a day before video games and cell phones!
Thank you! 😃
recently someone asked what my favorite book was that my teacher read to us in elementary school and, hands down, it is "where the red fern grows."
It's also my favorite book and still is at 70yrs old
It is such a good book!
Oh this is lovely! I can hardly wait for the next chapter. I love stories set in the past, I always learn something. My parents read stories to me before I started school and I could hardly wait until I could read too.
I think it's a spectacular idea, and is greatly appreciated!
There's nothing better than story time ! My whole life I'd stop if possible just to listen to someone read a story out loud ! I'm sixty two now & enjoy the heck out of it ! Thanks so much ! In my younger day's my wife back than used to read to me & our children Louis L' amour westerns ! she'd spread out a blanket for the youngens & as I worked painting around a customer's house she'd move & our Kid's .. I'd work & listen & the boy's loved it too ... what great memories ! I hope you continue doing this ! Thank you so much ! A sixty two year old kid @ heart !
Glad you enjoyed it Lee! I love those old Louise L'amour stories 🙂
I love this idea! My daughter (2 years old) fell asleep on my lap while I was listening. It was just calming and peaceful. I enjoy your usual videos, but I would look forward to more of these reading videos as well. I hope you have a blessed day!
I remember my second grade teacher reading "Little Black Sambo" and the "Brer Rabbit" stories. In 3rd grade it was the "Happy Hollisters" books. I became a teacher and loved reading to my students..."Charlotte's Web" and the "Hank the Cowdog" books as well as "Ramona Quimby."
Ramona Quimby is still a favorite of mine and I am 58. Also a teacher. Love all Beverly Cleary's books.
What a marvelous idea!
Thanks to today's episode, I've realized one true impact of our digital age, and yet how our history remains. The longest finger of my left hand has no callus at all and yet there remains a slight mound, almost like a memory. I write (when I DO, evidently) with my left hand.
So glad you enjoyed it!! I too have that slight mound 🙂 although on my right hand.
@@CelebratingAppalachia I write with my pencil supported by my ring finger on my right hand. I only have had a callus like that on my right hand, too. It does not go away over the years.
@@CelebratingAppalachia same here; callus on my right hand, middle finger. Funny, I never thought of anyone else having one in the exact same spit...:). I'm glad to have comrades in arms!
@@kathya739 🙂
Yes I too have that bump on my right hand because I worked before computers everything was wrote out.
I like to read out loud when I read. I seem to get more out of it even if I’m reading out loud by myself in my room. I’m reading no history of country music, the book based on the PBS series of the same. I love it when my fifth grade teacher read aloud to us back in the late 70s the Laura Ingalls Wilder Little House on the Prairie books. Thank you for sharing this with us and thank you this book. I haven’t watched the whole video yet, because I have to go back to work I’m on my lunch break. I can’t wait to get home tonight and watch the rest of the video. Good nightTipper are you and your loved ones…
My mom read us Little House on The Prarie everyday after school while we sat in the truck waiting for our oldest brother to get out of school. It was in the mid 90s. I vividly remember the part where they made the pig bladder ball. Wow, isnt it amazing how two people from different places geographically and different times, different generations, different families can have similar memories with same book. I just love that. I was born in 87 and am now reading it to my daughter who was born in 2013. I love hearing stories from other people that intertwine with my own story and memory... 🥰
@@nomdeplume2213 Thank you for sharing this with me. It made me very happy. I need to get back to Little House on the Prairie books. It’s been such a long time since I read or heard one read…
I’m so glad you chose to read aloud to us. My teachers that read to us as children stirred a love of reading in my heart. ♥️
Love her book! The Dollmaker. I read it several times
I so, enjoyed your reading. It was very nice to hear someone who has a soothing voice. Thank You!!❤
Oh Tipper!!!! I absolutely love this!!! I have been enthralled by your reading and able to see the ‘scene’ as you read!!! How peaceful and I can hardly wait for the next time you read to us!!! Thank you so much!!! Love to all!! 💖💖
love to hear you read about appalachia Thanks
Oh please do read on. I love this book and hearing your voice read it. Being intelligent doesn’t mean you’re smart. I love your videos and it brings back such wonderful memories and things that I thought I had forgotten. Thank you again for keeping the ways of Appalachia alive and well so they’re not forgotten. I have lived all over the world and came back to the foothills of the Appalachian mountains to live again. What I miss most of all is a hot humid summer day and going to the old rock store at Hollis crossroads and getting a bottle of coke and taking a big swig out so the salty planters peanuts would fit in the bottle. We then bet to see who had the bottle from the farthest place. That was back when they’d have the place the coke bottle came from. The loser had to buy the next round. I can’t wait until the next chapter if you continue to read more of the book again. Be safe and well and continue to make more wonderful memories with those you love. 🌞💖🌈
Tipper, I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this! It makes me think of the days before t.v. or radio when people would read aloud to entertain each other. Ms. Arnow is very good at painting pictures and characters with words, and there is something musical about a soft Appalachian accent. The part that resonated most for me is that there are many kinds of intelligence and that we can learn from everyone, even those without a formal education. I am looking forward to the next chapter! Thank you!
I thoroughly enjoyed this reading! I
Besides the reading groups in the class of red birds, blue birds, and yellow birds where students learned to read and understand what they've read... There was story time. I remember the excitement in 1st and 2nd grade as my favorite teacher of all time, Mrs. Bollinger, instilled a love of reading into her students. She read with feeling, not just a monotone as some teachers after her.. She would turn the lights off and read to us as we put our heads on the desks to rest after lunch each day. She would ask questions after and make sure we understood the why, where, what, when, and how of reading.
My relatives were for the most part under educated in those days. But they were very intelligent and knew so many things that the highly educated did not. Oh, those precious elders had such wonderful stories to tell! It's a shame they weren't written down because successive generations have no idea what they've lost after the elders has passed on. Thank you Tipper for these wonderful memories your story reading has set free in us!
Thank you Shirley 🙂
Fabulous idea, Tipper!! YES - - please continue the reading format - LOVE LOVE LOVE it!!
Yay, thank you!
I enjoyed this. My wife used to read a few pages out loud every night around bed time and it's relaxing. one of my favorite books that she read was "Panther in the sky".
I'll have to check that one out 🙂
Thank you. So enjoyable. My teachers thru elementary and middle school, read to our class. Stays with you. Can't wait for chapter two :)! Thank you, again, Tipper.
I love being read to. I read to my students daily. When I am sick I especially loved being read to.
I’m 63 but when I was in 8th grade, my English teacher, Mrs Tedrow would read to us a fiction each day for a period and we were invited to put our heads on our desk and relax. It was the most favorite part of my day. Mrs Tedrow is long in Heaven now but she was one of my two favorite teachers. She knew we just needed that time to mentally “escape” and relax and listen to a fabulous story. She encouraged me to love, love a good book to this day. I’m in California btw.
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I think this is a wonderful idea; can't wait for chapter 2.
One of the greatest gifts I've ever been given was a mama who believed in reading to her children.
I wish my daughter had time to listen to this. She is a 4th grade teacher in a really rough school. She breaks up fights and confronts bad behavior all day every day. Even though she had taught preschool for several years until she finished her degree and started teaching grade school, she had preconceived notions. I can tell already that this is a story she would enjoy. Perhaps over Spring Break. ❤️
This is so lovely, wonderful story and you’re a pleasure to listen to.
One of my favorite books my mama read to me as a child here in Bloody Harlan, KY was Uncle Remus Stories, Brer Bear, Brer Fox, and da Tar Baby.
I remember Granny reading to me too 🙂
Thank you! Wonderful descriptive reading. I shared with my niece who is starting a new teaching job at an alternate school in the country. It reminded me of my grandmother, when she was in her first teaching job, back around 1916, in Harrison, Idaho. Her contract said she could not go into the drug store unless accompanied by a school board member. I think it also spoke to her skirt length. ☺️. Thanks for the delicious story. Looking forward to chapter 2. And Happy Birthday!
Thank you 🙂
I’m 81 and born in Mazie Kentucky, but grew up in Columbus Ohio. The first teacher that I remember to read to us was our 7th grade home room teacher. Everyone listened and I thought that she only read just to keep us quiet, maybe not though.
My fathers side parents built and lived there until in there later years when they moved in with their youngest daughter. They were dirt farmers and grew just about everything they ate. The log house still stands but the kitchen house has long disappeared. I had so many times in my life staying with them.
Thank you so much for bringing so many dell wonderful memories back.
Hager
So glad you're enjoying the book 🙂
I'm really anxious to hear the rest of it I love the way she expresses how the people look and the accents that's really great. Hopefully soon I'll get to visit the Appalachians that would be awesome
I've never heard of this story, or this author. Thank you for sharing this. I'd love to keep hearing you read it. The way you read it is wonderful. Hugs
I love this idea! (Jane)🙏🏻❤️ I had a teaching partner who taught in Kentucky before coming here. This book reminds me of her experiences. I am anxious to see what happens next in the story and how her relationships develop with folks in this new town. Thank you for continuing to develop your channel with new ideas like this.❤️
Oh yes, please read to us from time to time. I loved it and I love your channel. I'm a 71 year old granny and recently moved from the Appalachian foothills of West Virginia to the flatlands of Indiana and I miss so much my mountain family and hills. Many times watching your channel and your interactions with your husband and girls just makes my heart about burst. Thank you again and God bless.
Dorothy-so glad you enjoy our videos!!
Please continue to read to us, Tipper, I love to hear you read! I can't wait to hear more of this book!
Love hearing you read this story! Excited for more!
Love this. Great idea to read to us. I enjoy so much hearing you talk and/or read. The author's words of this first chapter definitely paint a vivid picture. Looking forward to chapter 2. I hope you all have a great weekend.
I’m so excited to hear your new journey and more excited to listen and be part of. This is wonderful. Much appreciated. TY
My husband was a pocket knife carrier. He used for many things including pealing and cutting fruit to eat ..He lives with Jesus now and I sure do miss him. I love hearing you read to me. Thanks so much
Please continue reading for us.Found these readings by accident but have enjoyed them all!
Growing up in the mountains of Pennsylvania on a small farm ..my daddy was a farm manager for a very large cattle farmer and he would be gone most of the time working many hours... my mother would always take daddy's supper and wrap it in tin foil and we would clean up after supper and my uncle would visit and my mom and him would sit on the porch and tell stories and pick music..almost 50 years later they are long gone...and most people could never imagine the joy that came from that old porch..thank you Tipper for living and keeping and sharing the old ways..
What wonderful memories Matt. Isn't it funny how as we get older those small little things mean the most 🙂
I enjoyed the reading. I too had The Red Fern Grows read to me in school. One of my best memories of school, my imagination took to the Ozarks and I left behind Wayne County.
You’re voice is very soothing. I can hear the passion emanating from you! Great job!😊
Yes I loved being read to at school too.Love hearing you and Matt talk too.
I remember listening to my teacher read to our 4th or 5th grade class in Detroit. I came from Appalachia (Barbourville KY.), as did a lot of others in my school,
including some of our teachers. My school, Franklin Elementary, was a stones throw away from Tiger Stadium. At the time it was called Briggs Stadium. A lot of us had a deep Appalachian accent. Our teacher had a wonderful familiar sounding soothing southern Appalachian voice. Not all did.
The others were native Northerners and would often have us repeat what we said until it was acceptable northern pronunciation. One word comes to mind, Punkin vs Pumpkin. I had a lot of trouble with that one. I never went back to Appalachia. I'm 72 now with not a hint of an accent. Thank you I love yours.
Neither my mother or father went past the 8th grade in school yet they had a great sense of living. Even so, I found myself with a vision of my ancestors being uneducated and dumb. Somewhere along the line I realized they amazingly knew well how to survive They knew what was important for day to day living. These are skills people must know. Education is simply the exposure to additional knowledge. It’s the skill of knowing how to find information that can add security and ease to an already sufficient way of life. I loved hearing your reading. As you said, there is more than one scale to measure brilliance.
Oh thank you. I loved this and what a great story so far. The authors detail is just wonderful. I found that livin in the deep south that the teachers and they people in the south are much more intelligent than those in other areas of the country. I hadnt gone to college but was able to go to a southern college and found it to be such a beautiful time in my life. I loved some of the short stories we had to read. Music was my major and English the submajor. I love my heritage and all that it brought into my life.
You have a Absolutely wonderful way of delivering to folks that don't know about our heritage.thank you SO much.😍
Harriet Simpson's MOUNTAIN PATH is off to a excellent start, beginning to acquaint the reader (listener) with who Miss Sheridan is while raising a lot of questions about her at the same time. And it is also piquing the reader's (listener's) interest by keeping the nature of her destination shrouded in mystery. I'm definitely hooked on the story and eager for more. It has been ages, Tipper, since anyone has read to me, and I've never been read to by anyone from Appalachia. Thank you for having this great idea. It's immensely enjoyable. Please continue to read the entire book to us.
Thank you so much for the encouragement Noah 🙂
This is delightful. Please continue reading this book!!
A wonderful introduction. You are a treasure Miss Tipper. Looking forward to Chapter 2.
Boy, I'll tell ya, in this world of negative news, you are a God send! I sure appreciate you reading to me. It's very calming and reassuring that there is good out there. God bless you Tipper from WV.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, Tipper. I love to be read to!!!! I can hardly wait for the next chapter!!!
How in the world you stay still in that swing is beyond comprehension.
I so enjoy listening to you and yours..I love listening to the bluegrass music that your family plays..you are a blessing to all you touch🙏
Oh yes, wonderful!! Thank ya kindly for this!!~* Most definately want to he ya read more please!!~* It is especially wonderful that she realized that he is intelligent and explained things better than the more educated might. Education is a blessin, but there is more than one way to get an education about most things in life. It seems when people speak a certain way they are looked down on.
My 5th grad teacher read to us after lunch recess just to settle us kids down. Up till then I could not really read, that teacher sparked my love of where words on pages could take us.
I love that you appreciate formal education but promote seeing the knowledge of those that didn't or don't always have a college experience💕
This is a beautiful story in many ways & I'm lookin forward to hearin your beautiful accent bring more of it to life!!~*
Thank you Cindy-I'm glad you enjoyed it and I will keep reading 🙂
I really enjoyed listening to you reading this book. I’m looking to the next chapter!!
I love this! Brings me to a quiet, peaceful place in these tumultuous times!
I loved one of the later Chapters and enjoyed it so much I came to watch from the beginning, thank you.
An education is what you learn, it does not have to be learned in a school building, especially in today’s system.
Thank you, for your stories, both told and yet unfolding..........indeed, I do love your warm, sweet accent. I can hear my own relatives, from NC and GA.......
My own Mom used to read to me, and greatly influenced my own work, from a volume of children's poetry, so long ago. I've been writing my own lyrics and poems for over 40 years, but this takes me back home.
Thank you, for simply giving.
Thank you for your kind encouraging words!!
I love this more than anything. Please do continue to read this story to us. I feel like I'm back in school listening to the teacher read to us after lunch. Thank you so much !!
I am a retired teacher, and read aloud to my 5th grade students every day ~ it was a wonderful experience. I recently had one of them, now in his late 40s, tell me he became a voracious reader because of the stories we shared. One of my favorites was WHERE THE LILIES BLOOM ~ set in the Great Smoky Mountains ~ I think you would really enjoy it🤓
Now my wife Dede is a K4 teacher and an excellent reader but she's a yankee like I said before.She carries on like something stupid when she reads and I don't care for it.Let me say this Tipper,I could close my eyes and listen to you read all day.You have a very soothing,relaxing,loving voice. Ole Matt is a lucky man.Thank you so much for making my night once again.
How sweet! 🤗 Thank you for this wonderful idea of reading stories aloud for us 🥰
I really enjoyed your reading Tipper. The Author captured me right away and held my attention as she presented each character to the reader or in my case listener in a graphic, yet hard way illustrating intriguing descriptions with few words capturing each as they went about their work in a time lost to most. I particularly liked the way she describes inside the court house hallway as the new teacher follows.
Thank you Tipper! And good job!
Your voice is so articulate and easy to understand in your soft accent. I have an allergy attack and enjoy listening to you reading. I would love for you to keep doing it, if you please! Thank you, Tipper!
You all have been so encouraging-I will continue to read 🙂
I been loving the story you been reading of Dorie. So happy I found this. I love being read to. I remember being read to from my teachers when I was young
Please keep reading! It's a great story, and you are a wonderful reader.
Thank you so much!
First I have to say growing up in the Smoky mountains my teachers read to us, some of my favorite stories even till this day and the book I own that is treasured in my heart is one I got from my sweet Aunt Gertie when she passed on , it was a signed copy of Where the Red Fern Grows. Aunt Gertie was elevated to hero status in heaven over that. Secondly yes read the entire Book and more what a wonderful Idea!! So inspired, nostalgia gets us everytime, and thirdly the way she describes the man that took her to the station its as if in describing the way he had about him , nostalgia and a deep remembrance of the best people I ever knew , she paints pictures with her words and sets the scene in reality! What a gift!! So yes read on sister Read on!!! 💯💥💥👍👍❤️
Thank you for the encouragement Naomi! I will keep reading 🙂
@@CelebratingAppalachia it is actually brilliant! 💯❤️