Christmas in Appalachia
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- Christmas in Appalachia
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Grandparents are the glue. You all are so right about modern families not getting together like they used to.
I’m from West Virginia, our churches also hand out those brown paper bags. My husband’s family eat oysters on Christmas Eve, I had never heard of that tradition. My grandma always told us it was bad luck to take the tree down before New Year’s Day. Our elementary schools always have a music program and the churches always have plays for Christmas.❤Merry Christmas 🎄
My dad always walked us thru the neighborhood to see the lights and look for santa. By the time we got home...Santa visited...every single year, we missed him. Dang it! I did the same with my sons...
Merry Christmas
6:41 Merry Christmas Shane and Melody , I was born in WVA and moved away when I was very young, we were a family of fifteen and one of my fondest memories was the little brown bag with the Christmas goodies in it, thank you for bringing back the sweetest memories..I love the mountain people ♥️♥️
We had a big, beautiful holly tree where I grew up. It's still the biggest one I've ever seen. It was probably 40 feet tall and beautiful. I made the mistake of mentioning it in grade school one day and it swept through the teacher population like wildfire!lol My Dad ended up spending a lot of time on the ladder that Christmas season so I could supply most of the classrooms! He wasn't super happy but I was important and ecstatic! My mother in law, who's 82 told me yesterday that they would string the berries as well as popcorn for their Christmas tree when she was growing up, but never used the leaves, which I love. Thanks for reminding me of simpler, happier times. Congratulations on your 50,000 subscriber milestone. And I pray the New Year brings only good things and much continued success!
thank you so much, Brad, we really appreciate you
Thanks for doing this. It brought back fond memories of Christmas of my younger days. We grew up in a time when it was hard for families to buy new stuff but my mom & dad always got us something special for Christmas each year. One year when the younger ones of us (there were 6 of us kids) were little my mom would take us to the Federated Store in Pound, Va. & we had a little bit of money to spend to buy presents from the little like 5 & dime store downstairs. I remember buying little stuff like a handkerchief for my grandfather that was staying with us at the time, a little bottle of perfume for my mom, coloring books & crayons from our siblings & just little things. It made us so happy to do that even though it was very simple things. We always got a case of pop at Christmas that was distributed out during the holiday because we didn't get it much other times. A big peppermint stick would be broken into pieces & given to us at times. Just a few memories like that are so special to me. Everything has become too comercialized now & seems you can't buy a big enough gift to make someone happy.
Melody, you and Shane really don't know the magnitude of how special and beautiful you both are. I am confident that this video has touched so many people in so many ways, because it certainly has touched me. Family is the foundation of society, and it needs a revival in order for it to become renewed for its survival. An awareness of life is knowing your family, and you two ARE family to the 50k people who watch your wonderful videos. This video has definitely inspired reflection and a familial remembrance in all of us that is so greatly needed. Thank you so very much for doing that!
Merry CHRISTmas! HE is the reason for the season!
very nicely stated! Merry Christmas to you!
I stringed popcorn when I was as a kid up north. A course this was back in 50's when more people did this.
Merry Christmas!!! What a beautiful couple you are!
Couple.... Ns
Merry Christmas,stay warm n safe
Yep, you asked favorite and I was sitting here starting to sing (in my head) Oh Holy Night and Shane started it.
No doubt, that’s the best. Way back when (‘50’s-‘60’s) our Lutheran church choir had the Christmas Concert on Christmas Eve. SRO, 3 services, people from all over. Actually cut 2-3(?) albums over the years.
My Christmas present is Melody talking (the dude’s ok too)😊.
Every time I hear Holy Night I break down in tears. It took me a little while to figure out why until one night at Candle Light service (when our family use to go to them every year) it hit me sitting there in the balcony looking at the stained glass.. I could picture myself on my knees feeling so much love yet pain as I never felt like I was .. well.. good enough for God (?). Then I remembered when I was so little and my Grandmother would get up and sing in the Choir and her booming voice was so beautiful.. those memories that bury themselves so deep and we never really forget. So many memories as my parents and all my Grandparents are gone now.. I can feel them sometimes around Christmas time perhaps sort of looking in on me knowing how sad I am .. wow didn't mean to ramble here. I love the memories, however, they can be so difficult. I'm SO glad I have recordings of family members singing Christian songs and Christmas songs in general and other music and my parents use to play guitar and sing. On occasion, my sister and brothers sang and there's a recording of me as a baby I guess sorta drooling on the mic in a tiny baby voice I can be heard. That was my first Christmas.
I'm so happy to have had the love I did from my parents and it will never leave me. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
@@crazyaces4042 yeah, I always teary up too (even now). Our choir director taught music at a nearby college, had degrees in music a mile long. I remember in the mid-sixties the church spent near $100k (near 900k today) on a pipe organ, state of the art and gorgeous. Wayne was not that big a guy and it marveled us how he could reach everything. That organ, that choir just blew it up.
I’d volunteer to usher at all 3 services just to hear O Holy Night. They eventually went to 6 by doing 3 on Christmas Eve Eve, but I was in the Corps by then.
Merry Christmas, Shane and Melody. That's a beautiful tree in the background. 🎄⛄️
Merry Christmas to two wonderful people who bring much joy to many of us all year!
Great show you two. Brings back so many memories. Christmas time for me back in the late fifties, and sixties was so different. I remember my mother making party mix, cookies, fig snakes, and so much else. Being one of six children where my father was a mailman, and mom was at home, we didn't get many gifts during the year. But on Christmas they went all out. We would all come down the stairs together and go into the living room and you could barley see the tree because of all the presents. It was a truly special time for all of us. You both always have a way to shake my emotions. And you did it again here. Love you both and have a blessed holiday.
We didn’t get many fresh fruits and nuts during the year other than apples. But at Christmas time my mom would go to the Farmers’ Feed Store and cardboard boxes of oranges, tangerines, grapes, bananas, apples, walnuts, pecans, Brazil nuts and peanuts. She put the nuts in a bowl carved out of a cross section of tree trunk with the bar still on it that had a pedestal in the center that held the nut cracker and picks. It was the only time of year this set was used. When she passed I ended up with the pieces that were left and one of my sisters found some replacements that matched pretty well.
Merry Christmas Shane and Melody and everyone one else who follows this channel, have a wonderful time, take care and God bless.
Merry Christmas 🎄 I sure do enjoy your channel!
Enjoyed the Christmas stories. My mom grew up on a farm in Michigan in the 1920’s. They always had popcorn on their tree so when I was growing up my mom continued the tradition of decorating our Christmas tree with the popcorn she made and strung.
Great memories
Every year, we'd look through the Wish Book day after day dreaming of all the toys and clothes we would get (knowing full well it couldn't happen) All of my aunts, uncles, and cousins on Dad's side came to our house on Tunnel Hill for Christmas Dinner with Grandma Eaton. Mom cooked for everyone (working at the Honaker Hotel in the early 50s came in handy -- she was amazing) Then we'd go to Garden Creek to Pa and Ma Street's house and play with our cousins on Mom's side of the family. We'd look at the decorations on all the houses and usually I'd get car-sick riding across Drill Mtn. I was so excited to show Ma Street what Santa brought. Pa Street was always singing "Christmas time's a coming" and letting us play on the old pump organ. I miss them all so much. Thanks for all the videos. Y'all are great. Merry Christmas 🎄 ❤️
Same here as far as family gatherings. I miss the family getting together for Christmas. We always had big family then. Ate a huge homemade meal. I try to make it happy for my grandchildren. I'm cooking a ham. Gif bless you all an Merry Christmas!
God bless you both this Christmas. And, thank you for sharing the Appalachian ways.
🐱 Cats generally wreck the 🎄 Christmas tree. LOL! 😆 Now it's Melody! 😆 My wife's Aunt is definitely the glue for her dad's family. We had a large gathering of Miller's at the Church fellowship hall last Saturday. Thanks for sharing your memories. Merry Christmas! Here's to good things to come in 2023! Congratulations😃
Enjoyed this! Brings back memories of Christmas past. I agree with everything y'all said. Families use to get together, was a big crowd and grandparents, everyone brought food and it was a great joyous occasion. Now it's just the immediate family, kids etc. I remember going to Christmas eve service at church and getting the brown paper bags of fruit , nuts ,candy. I love "oh holy night" , it does bring on the chills when a choir sings " fall on your knees" . I consider you 2 and the cats part of my Appalachian family ! Appreciate y'all always...Merry Christmas..may God bless y'all always...🙏❤
We love you Shane and Melody; appreciate you!
Merry Christmas.. living up on Brushy Ridge Mt as a child lots of hard candy. Nuts and apples. Fried apple pies on Christmas morning. Also the Santa Train is 86 years old this year
First record history of using popcorn to decorate a Christmas tree dates back to the 1800s in Williamsburg Virginia.
God bless and Happy Holidays!!
Love this! O Holy Night is my favorite too! Merry Christmas!
You all come down to Christmas Town USA on the west side of Charlotte, NC. It's the town of McAdenville. It's wonderful. You can walk through or drive through
My grandma grew up in Tennessee mountains. She used to tell me the story of the year that her father had to leave to go to the capital to fill out the census for his family. And they didn’t have a horse or any way for him to get there so he had to walk. According to my grandmother, he was gone for almost a year. But while he was gone my great grandmother was left to raise 13 kids by herself. They had absolutely no money. And whooping cough was going around and one of her siblings had it. So she and one of her older brothers decided that they were going to earn money for the family and they went and cut down trees, rolled them down to the river. Then according to her, they road each of the trees down the river to the mill. And this whole thing took weeks to accomplish. But she told me about how much fun it was for her to ride the trees down the river and they got money for the trees and in the end they did enough trees to earn $20! Which was a lot of money. And she and her brother each kept .50 cents to buy a pair of shoes for so they could go to school. She talked about how it was the first time she had ever had a brand new pair of shoes! She was seven or eight years old at the time and her older brother was 10. Anyways, the $20, minus the dollar that the two kept for the work was enough to keep the family afloat for the whole year that her father was gone. And they were able to get some medicine for her sibling with whooping cough. Although, her sibling died. And in total three of her siblings died from whooping cough that year. She was the first one of the kids to get it and survive it. But one of her older sisters had it- the older sisters that she shared a bed with- and she died from it. My grandma told me that when she woke up next to her dead sister and she had felt so sick herself- she thought for sure she was going to die. She said that she had felt bad for wanting to keep those new shoes when she died so she could be buried in them… but she said she knew that they would take them off and give them to another one of her siblings because you can’t just let a new pair of shoes go to waste. That was a hard story for me to hear. I knew when I heard that one, that I was a cream puff and probably spoiled. Although looking back now I realize I wasn’t as bad as I thought I was-especially when I look at others in my generation.
Anyways, another part for our family when we all got together on the holidays was singing. Everyone had something to contribute. My dad played the banjo and guitar and my uncle played guitar. My aunt had the voice of an angel and I played the violin and piano. My little brother was good at just picking up an instrument and learning it quick. Some of my cousins sang. Grandpa played the harmonica and some of my aunts and cousins did too. And we would always get together in the weeks leading up to Christmas and song Christmas carols. We would all sing and practice the children would play as well. But we would make a big family dinner we all contributed to the meal in some ways. Grandma would make the main dish and my dad would make the homemade bread and enough for all of the aunts and uncle to take a loaf home for their families to eat for the week. And we would eat and sing and practice and perform. And then in the month of December, every Saturday night we would all get together, have a big family meal and go Christmas caroling. I played the violin so I didn’t get to sing much ( which was probably for good reason as i am terrible at singing.) But we would get all done and we would be freezing and walk home and my mom would make all of the children hot coco. Which we all liked. And when we did it on Christmas night, we would get marshmallows in the coco. Those were good times. And seemed to happen every week at least. My aunts and uncles are much closer to me then my children are with my siblings. Or even my parents. I couldn’t imagine going a week without seeing my grandparents… my kids go months without seeing my mom. My dad they tend to see once a week at least. But definitely different times.
thanks for sharing your experiences, I really enjoyed reading your comments
Have a very Merry Christmas. Your tree is lovely. I agree about O Holy Night and also O come, O Come Emanuel is wonderful to hear this time of year. For Christmas jiggles I have to say Santa Baby. I hope Santa brings you our hearts desire.
Merry Christmas you guys, love your videos, God bless you 🙏
Thanks for this! I really enjoyed your reminiscences. Christmas traditions are important to me, well, any tradition is important to me. I have wonderful memories of childhood and early married life. But, things have changed, my parents and husband are gone and the family does their own thing. But there are a couple of traditions I chrerish; one is burning a bayberry candle beginning before midnight Christmas Eve and letting it burn all Christmas Day. Another was singing the Christmas Eve service. My favorite carol is called Coventry Carol, very haunting tune-but it’s neat to sing. I’d love to hear everyone else’s favorite carol is! Merry Christmas everyone! May the Light of our Lord, Jesus Christ, bless you and yours as we celebrate His birth! 🎄🎅🏻🧑🏻🎄⛄️🙏🏻
Shane, I just watched the Christmas in Appalachia (1964) video and wanted to say that I really appreciate you as a person! It really bothers me that Appalachian people are used as circus freaks. If you don't believe me, watch "Soft White Underbelly". I grew up just a few years after that 1964 taping in a holler in Rockport, West Virginia. We were dirt poor and my father was a alcoholic. I left there in 1989 and have been a magazine editor and a fellow you tuber. Maybe we could do a livesteam together some time. Jonathan W
Hey yeah we’ve always done a lot of these. Not the popcorn though. Guess it’s not too surprising since we live close. PS there’s a light trail you can walk I found out about this year in Roanoke, it’s a blast!
You two are so awesome and fun to watch. This is going to be long: Okay, I have plenty of Christmas memories. but we didn't have any traditions that had to do with the area where we live. So every December Mom would give us the Sears Christmas Wish Book and tell us to pick out what we wanted out of it. My grandmom on my Dad's side always gave my mom money to buy Christmas gifts for everyone. Grandmom was one of the most generous people on the planet. We would buy a recently-cut Christmas tree, and set it up in our enclosed front porch. That porch has separate heat from the rest of the house, so my dad would turn that on. We would set out our Christmas stockings on Christmas Eve. Every year we would each get a huge navel orange, which was always down in the bottom of the stocking. There would also be a Lifesavers Sweet Storybook, a little mesh bag of chocolate coins, and then any gifts that were small enough to fit in the stocking. When we kids were little, for several years we each got special Christmas ornaments. I think that lasted for at least 3 or 4 years, and I still have all of them. So that's what we did for gifts. Our church, which was a Baptist church, had the Christmas Even Candlelight Service on Christmas Eve, no matter what day of the week it was. Also on the Sunday before Christmas they would have the Sunday School Christmas Program. We had the larger size Christmas lights that my dad would string up just under the roof line of the front of the house. We also strung up lights on a spruce tree in the front yard, to the right of the driveway. Those were the smaller size Christmas lights.
Now, as an adult, I love driving around and checking out people's Christmas decorations in their front yards. My favorite Christmas CD to listen to is based on two different records from the famous organist, E. Power Biggs. It's called "A Christmas Festival". My Favorite DVD is called "Downe in Yon Forrest: Christmas from the Middle Ages", by Kemper Crabb. It's a DVD recording of a performance that was originally a PBS special, which I liked so much that I bought the DVD. When we were kids my dad had a record he played every year. It was called "Silent Night: Christmas Carols on the famous John Wanamaker Organ, the World's Largest Concert Organ". (which is in the John Wanamaker department store in Philadelphia). Some years my parents would take us to the famous Christmas light and organ show in that department store, which was a treat. Oh, and one other thing, there's a small town near here called Egg Harbor City. They have a Christmas parade every year. They just did it this past Saturday. So there ya go- a window into what our family did and does for Christmas. One other thing. I grew up in a small family. I have one brother and one sister. I also have just one aunt and uncle and set of cousins. None of our family ever lived near us. But in the early to mid 2000s my little brother and family would come over and do Christmas with us. They live only 6-8 miles away, though 2 out of 3 of their kids have gotten married and moved away.
I love the way you both ask such interesting questions! Like what has made Christmas so different in 2022 than in the celebrations of our youth? All sorts of things come to mind.
- Families can be so scattered all over the country now due to work opportunities, and traveling these days can be a harrowing experience, to say the least! So getting together is hard.
- Even two or three decades ago there were fewer women in the work force, so there were mothers and grandmothers who had time to bake cookies, decorate Christmas trees, wrap gifts, clean houses before serving big buffet meals for all the relatives, etc., etc..
-Our culture has become more materialistic in general. Quite a few -- not all -- but quite a few kids get new toys, shoes and clothes all throughout the year, so getting more of the same on Christmas doesn't carry the quality of anticipation and excitement that it once did.
-Not to sound like an old school New England Puritan, but we seem to have lost our ability to hold at least -*-some-*- things sacred. Songs like "All I Want For Christmas Is You" don't quite compare with "Silent Night" or "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem." (Think of that one line in O Little Town..." -- "The hopes and fears of all the years are met in thee tonight." That can give you chills! ) So many of us used to have a pretty little nativity scene with figures of Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus, the shepherds and the wise men. This year at Big Lots one big seller (I'm told) is a mechanical action decorative set with lots of lights and sound effects -- showing Santa opening the door to an outhouse strung with multi-colored lights and shouting ho-ho-ho as he passes a lot of really loud gas. My jaw dropped when I saw that. I understand that it was supposed to be funny. Maybe my sense of humor has left me... However! Call me an old crank, but I just don't see how that has anything to do with the birth of our Savior.
Anyway... I also believe that there are still enough of the traditional values out there and there are still a lot of really good people in this world (like y'all) that we can be confident that even now when we refer to Christmas as "Oh Holy Night," we're speaking *truth.* So --- Merry Christmas, Everyone!! 2023 will definitely bring at least 100K subscribers!
Oops... so sorry for the accidental strikethrough there! And worse yet, I forgot how to undo a strikethrough! Could I be getting older?
You two are so cute. 🥰 Merry Christmas to you both!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Years!! Hope the New Year brings more of your awesome videos!!
you two are adorable! Have a wonderful Merry Christmas!
Wishing you both the best Christmas ever and the Happiest of New Years! Also the best of holidays to all the beautiful people who watch and enjoy your wonderful videos!!! 🌲⛄🌹🕊️❤️
So we would go to midnight mass on Christmas eve to celebrate the nazeriens birth in our Christmas stockings we would get fresh fruit and candies LOVE THE CAT AND HISSING MERRY CHRISTMAS YOUS 2
My grandma had her kids save the foil around the gum to use to decorate the tree
Merry Christmas to yo both!!
Merry Christmas y'all. Stay safe, warm, and healthy. Looking forward to spending time with y'all in 2023.
Haven't been feeling good. Seems like the whole house has been 😷. HAPPY Holidays!
Love to hear about Christmas Poke treat bags! Great stuff!
Hope you both have a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!
Merry Christmas and have a great New year
Thank you for this very special video !!!
Merry Christmas from Alabama!
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
God-bless.
We do strang popcorn in the flatwoods of Tennessee
You are a very special couple.
God Bless you and your family! if traveling, be safe on the road. I am looking forward to your adventures in 2023.
God bless you too, Judy!
Merry Christmas to you both! ;)
50,000 subs! Awesome! Congratulations!
Merry Christmas!! U guys r a hoot! Congrats on 50k+ subs! I've never heard of the bags of goodies @ a church service! When I was a child, I would help my mom bake cookies and deliver them to our friends & neighbors. My favorite Christian song is Silent Night. I like the cover The Impressions did back in the mid 70's. I always start my Christmas season (the day after Thanksgiving) by playing 2 songs....'Merry Christmas from the family' Robert Earl Keen and 'Police stop my car' Bob Rivers. They're not for everybody, but I can relate! 😎
Real Appalachia? How is it you have never strung popcorn? I've done it many times. It's a Mountain Tradition that I learned from my Mother!
Merry Christmas!! I love your channel. I have been wondering, exactly what constitutes the Appalachia region and what folks are considered Appalachians? If I look it up in the textbooks, the Appalachia region extends up to NY and Appalachians are folks that were born in those areas. This would mean that folks like my grandparents and other ancestors on my mother's side of the family would technically be considered Appalachians because they were born and raised in Schuylkill County PA(Part of PA's coal country). Yet all the documentaries confine themselves to areas in VA, WVA and points lower.
They do include NY & PA because the trail runs right thru them. But I think when people think Appalachia they think further south.
Merry Christmas guys!!! And ofcoarse you are like family. I was just thinking we used to decorate our tree old fashioned every year with popcorn and cranberries. My wife would pop the pop corn while my little boys n I scavaged for pine cones in the woods. We've gotten away from that as life gets busy and the boys are getting older and less enthusiastic...but it would b super cool to do that again and you guys join us
Merry Christmas from the UK
Merry Christmas to you both, I love watching you and you bought back a lot of good memories.Melody you can have my share of the walnuts. I'm allergic to all nuts. Happy New Year to you both as well.
Merry 🎄 Christmas 🎅🏻!!!
I wanted so bad to comment on your post about the topic of inbreeding in W,Va & you guys are so right, on how some think inbreeding is just a common thing, Well it"s no common in Appalachia than anywhere else in the world in any majoy city or some rular backwoods country, & you are right it"s those video"s, movies & books, spread that rumors, i Know here in NL Canada it was the same, when small fishing outports that dotted the coastal shoreline, some that only had 8 or families living there, & some places never had no roads leading to them, & only way out during the summer months was by boat, & winter it was dog team or grab your snowshoes & walk & in some cases it took 3 or 4 hours to get to the nearest outport, So it was common to marry someone in your little outport & a very good chance you were related, & it was up in the 70s before roads were connect to most outports, & some never did get roads or even electric lights, so the Government came up with the resittlement progrom, it was cheaper to pay the residents to leave their homes & move to some major town than to put the road or electric lights to it,, So alot of people married 2nd 3rd & some cares 1st cousin,, i know my sister married her 2nd cousin, so i guess that is inbreeding also, & then they were married for over 50 yrs, 1 daughter, & are still going strong, more than i can say for alot of married people not related by any means, then there are cases of nephews marrying their aunts by marriage, cases where the nephews married their blood uncle"s wife after he had passed can be looked at has inbreeding , all this went on a long way from Appalchian hills in W Va or KY in the US, But it seems that most of the world think it was only those beautiful down to earth folk that are given the name Hillbilly were the only ones, Sorry i had to post this on your Christmas video, but it makes me mad to see how the Appalchian people are looked at by some, Merry Christmas, Loved that Elvis pic also
Merry Christmas to you both 🎄
Merry Christmas y'all!
Merry Christmas guys! May God Bless you in the new year!
Merry Christmas 🎄
Well hello from Owsley county Kentucky
Merry Christmas y'all!! Stay warm and safe!! ❤️
They sell a lot to .
Merry Christmas
merry christmas real appalachia
thank you! Hope you had a Merry Christmas too, John
Greetings!
Thanks for sharing, man I can remember going to play our annual family football game on Christmas before our huge family dinner. Cousins, brothers and dads&uncles and man, if I had a dollar for every bloody nose someone had, I would have a huge amount saved. LOL We would beat the crap out of each other and the battles are still discussed. Somehow when it was over and time to eat we all somehow usually with the Dads and Uncles help came away smiling and still loving each other. Good times!
Great xmas vid.
We get that at our church
My grandfather would gift his children and grandchildren stockings with assorted nuts and oranges. Walnuts were always given at Christmas.
oh yes, walnuts are great
Love your earrings 👧 😁
Just passing through your channel and saw your video about in breeding
I have to commend yall for not denying that it happens
Your video tastefully presented a touchy subject
Id like to suggest that if yall (yall damnt my hillbilly is acting up) revisit this topic
That yall mention that we human beings are hardwired
To want to procreate with the opposite sex and that sexual needs are gonna be fufilled regardless of bloodline when there isnt a non blood relative available
It also should be noted that animals whether wild or domestic will inbreed if not seperated when need be
We humans are no different othdr than the fact that were intellectually superior to every other living animal on the planet and have attached a stigma to inbreeding
Also according to google the most inbred state is actually alaska and it seems that top ten inbred states are all states where there arent a lot of people or have really vast areas that arent populated or have very very small populations spread really far apart
Lastly the part of stigma of inbreeding that just makes my blood boil is the part about cousins cousins cannot be inbred as cousins will have a family tree that differs from the other cousin the other thing about inbreeding that just boils my blood is the fact that people start the inbreeding talk when two people with the same last name marrie or have a child people seem to forget that last names dont always mean anything
Research last names to understand that more
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I feel bad I didn't get you anything!
Scot-Irish....ancestors since 1740s Campton Kentuck....
I just found your channel. Are you together? Married?
Must be his wife .they make good videos.
I guess they just make videos