My Appalachia - A Memoir | Angels Among Us, Seeing The First Train, & Scoundrels
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- Опубликовано: 10 ноя 2022
- In this video series we are reading a book Sidney Saylor Farr wrote about her life in in the Appalachian Mountains and talking about the things that prick our minds as a way to celebrate Appalachia. The book title: My Appalachia A Memoir by Sidney Saylor Farr.
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I am 62 years old and I am tremendously enjoying you reading me a bedtime story like my momma used to do when I was a child.
When my granny died , I’d been telling her pa was waiting for her that he was tending to his roses and waiting. She was suffering and I new she didn’t want to leave us. She passed a few minutes later and the room filled up with the smell of roses. Then the smell was gone quick as it came. Was a comfort to know he came and got her. Enjoyed this chapter!
❤such a sweet story
It is so good to know Paps saw those 2 Men they were ANGELS for him to lead the way HOME TO HEAVEN !!! See it has been a pleasure to have talked with people that I didn't know at all who saw the same things as PAPS saw !!! Have kept it to mine self for so long now !!! It is a BLESSING TO KNOW OTHERS who saw what others hath seen in this life !!! You don't go to SLEEP when dying you go with ANGELS of YOUR LIFE TO OUR FATHER IN HEAVEN !!!
I just love the old stories! That uncle guy was a scoundrel!! The family closeness and getting together is what I love. Hard to understand families that live all over the states and hardly ever see one another😥
My family had reunions in June which was my Great Grandma Jennie's birth month. There were so many people and so much food. She lived to be 92. I was probably about 8 when she died. This was in the 60s. She was bedridden for 20 years. My grandma (her only child) waited on her and managed to raise 7 children. My mom was next to oldest. Love listening to these stories!
Good story reminded me of my dad's stories about what lived back in the mountains
I like her saying the family room never replaced the kitchen for family gathering. Thank you Tipper.
Thank you Robin 😀
I work for hospice. It’s very common for dying folks to see and talk to already passed love ones. I always ask are they here w us , and the answer is usually yes. It’s just as much a privilege to be w someone in death , as it is birth. Great read Tipper❤
When I watched my mom pass, I described it as beautiful. How could it be beautiful, I thought?? She is gone.. But it was and you are right by what you said.
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I was with my dear Mother when she went Home...it left me so sad, but I knew, also, that she was joining the sweetest man ever to step through the Pearly Gates, my wonderful Daddy.
I’m a hospice nurse too and yes it’s very common for dying people to see loved ones that have passed. ❤
I really enjoyed this story time. Thanks so much for sharing.
It's 0256 in the morning. Bright moon. Clear skies. A multitude of stars and a few planets. Sitting in the hot tub, listening to your reading. Simply wonderful. Being from Ohio I grew up knowing many Appalachian folks who migrated north for factory work. I was attracted to those folks, much to my mother's dismay. She being a daughter of German Lutgeran immigrants called them "hillbillies". Nevertheless I still relish memories of those folks. I remember my paternal grandfather calling my grandmother's step mother's kids her"hillbilly relatives". Oh well, they were a point of joy and laughter in my life in the 1950s. Bless you Tipper.
My grandparents didn't share much about their lives. I believe because of the hard times they grew up in. Then the Depression being so long and hard to survive. Poppy worked for the local phone company as a lineman (after mining coal and I don't know what else). He was too young for WW1
and too old for WW2. So I really enjoy your stories and those you read as history lessons. I'm 76 and have quite a few stories of my own to pass on or not as I feel is appropriate. I'm the senior member of my small family. No reunions or gatherings as we live close but rarely see each other. Sad isn't it?.
Like others who leave notes. I really enjoy your family life. Cooking, gardening. the wedding, etc. Keep
us informed. Love your blog and videos. Thanks muchly.
Love hearing the stories.
I like hearing about simpler times. Lots of hard work but that much more enjoyment from it. There are too many options today. I'd love sitting on the porch gabbing with friends and family rather than communicating via technology.
Tipper I just love these tales of Appalachia. Even though I was born and raised in California, I’ve had a special place for the people of Appalachia. Think it got started about the 5th grade when I started reading books about a nurse who rode on horseback to get back into the hollers where people needed medical attention. Don’t even remember the name of the series. Of course I was horse crazy then too but thought that would be the perfect job. Now that I live in East Tennessee and can look out over the mountains I often wonder how different my life would have been had I followed my “dream”. So interesting to find out how real life was back then. Thanks for all you do! ❤️
Bonnie, was the book called “Mary on Horseback”? It tells the story of Mary Breckinridge, I can’t recall the author’s name, I believe her last name was Wells, maybe? I remember reading this book in grade school in the mid-late 70’s.
Wide neighborhoods is another title be Mary Breckinridge. It tells her true life story about riding horseback nursing in the hills of Appalachia. There are also ones about the library women doing the same thing. You would both probably love reading them. Book woman of troublesome creek is the title. Hope you get and enjoy.
I took care of my Gma (born in 1907) from age 99 til she passed one monrh shy of 103. She was the oldest of 8 children and your story of having to take care of siblings reminded me of Gma swearing that she believed the reason her hips were uneven was because her entire young life was spent carrying one sibling or the next on her hip. What you are doing with your channel is so ...I don't know if I have words for it but it's like...nope, there just aren't words. Special and full of love just doesn't cover it. It makes me think of Laura Ingalls Wilder just writing simple books about her life but then being remembered and loved for generations. That's what I feel when I think of you. You're creating what will become a treasured legacy for generations to come.
Enjoyed this chapter as well the stories are great thanks Tipper God bless
So much reminds me of my early life. I take great comfort in hearing it all.
Majestic Appalachia
I really love and look forward to Fridays because I know you'll be posting a new chapter of whatever book you're reading. I usually watch as soon as I get the notification. Sometimes I have to wait til later in the evening or that night but, if you ever decide to stop doing these for some reason, Fridays just won't be the same. Thanks.
Tipper, I just love hearing you read the Appalachian stories but just as much as that I enjoy your comments. You have such a rich and beautiful perspective that I love hearing you talk about it as much as the book you are reading. I think of my Grandmother as you read because that was her life. She milked the cows and slopped the hogs then fed the chickens every day then worked in the garden. Her name was Dolly Elizabeth, but everyone called her Grannie!
I am enjoying this book very much.
I'm so glad 😀
Thank you so much Dear. God Bless
Thank you for another reading from a wonderful book. It is such a blessing to hear good stories read or told from you. I appreciated your story of your grandpa’s passing.
I loved the Uncle Milt stories - he was a mess! Also, I grew up with the cow riddle as "Four stiff standers, four dilly-danders, two lookers..." 😆
Love your stories have a blessed and safe weekend 🥰
I like the part about the reunions and potluck dinners. I’ve never had a family reunion but we do have potluck dinners at church. I like that usually everyone brings what they cook best. My friend always brings a huge taco salad and I always bring chicken/noodles in a crockpot. ☺️
This was a book written about stories my sweet Grandmother loved to tell. She could keep her grandchildren sitting still and silent (some scared) with stories of “the time or setting” 🤣🥦
Even though I didn’t grow up in Appalachia some of the things you read about, it made me feel like you’re talking about my childhood, family reunion’s, gathering together in the kitchen, stuff like that.
You know Tipper I have seen White & Dark Angels !!! Even now I see them out of the corner of mine EYES !!! In the hospital while Working I saw White and Dark Angels while working it was first scary !!! But got used to it after a while !!! Then I would transport the people to the morgue for themselves to be comfortable in away !!! Hardest was the babies but would sing to them !!! Mary had a Little Lamb or Jack and Jill went up the Hill !!! Sat in the burn unit with others for comfort !!! ANY THING TO HELP THEM GO THROUGH the pain that they had when the skin was being taken on off of them !!! It was hard work but what if you had to go through it that is what I thought of !!!
Thank you Tipper, Thank you.🙏
My grandfather told us great stories. Some were scary and some had lessons in them. I tell my grandkids those stories today and it keeps my sweet granddaddy in my heart. Thank you Tipper. 🥰
Hey Tipper! I absolutely love to hear you read. You pick out such great books to read to us. Thank you so much.
Good chapters with some funny things, some riddles, & good foods. I like the old recipes that use "a pinch of this, a dab of that", & "sodee" 😃 Long live riddles! These riddles stumped me some. Thanks for another good reading.
Sidney was very smart to record the stories of her dad and grandpa. What a treasure these stories are for her family and for us to enjoy too. You always pick such great books, Tipper. Thank you!
Your story reading Really means alot. Thanks for sharing
Tk u for reading to us! Trust ur 'update' went smoothly. I've only lived in western NC for 3 years but I completely understand the relationship to the land & seasons. It's really an innate feeling that's hard to explain to someone that doesn't live here.
Thank you Tipper! I enjoy these audiobooks, so much!😊🇨🇦
I just love all your story reading. It makes me proud to be from Western NC mountains. I heard many older people tell all these kind of stories.
Thank you and your family Tipper for letting us in your lives.
You are so welcome 😀 Thank you for watching!
I especially loved listening to you reading this chapter, Tipper! Your reading it was wonderful due to the amazing expression you put into the story characters talking! I certainly enjoy all your videos!
Awesome!
I love these books! A lot of these stories remind me of stories I have heard from my parents and grandparents, and some of the things I have experienced myself , living in the mountains of western north Carolina. Thanks tipper, appreciate you always...God bless..🙏❤
Tipper, what you said about being a part of Appalachia was so poetic. God has definitely gifted you with the art of storytelling. Glad to see you using it wisely. I enjoy your channel very much. God bless and Merry Christmas.
I remember the "and drew his cane" riddle from an Arrow Book I had as a kid. I wondered back then (it was the 1960's) how many people my age would understand that use of the verb, even though I figured out the general meaning from the context.
Your reflections are such a pleasure 😊
I just loved this. One of the things that jumped out at me was talking about how the honeysuckel hung thick in the air. Nothing better than the scent of honeysuckel. Really though, the whole memoir was just terrific. Thankyou,
My mother's Daddy, Papaw Sykes, used to catch trains!
I loved this!
👏👏👏Tipper thank you for presenting stories featuring personalities living a grateful attitude through thick and thin times.💛
Thank you Tipper, I’m enjoying this book! Your wonderful accent adds so much to the reading. May God bless you and keep you in His loving care 🙏🏼❤️🙏🏼
Tipper thank you for this chapter. Know the yearning of home how it pull you back to the mountains. I have been away far too long. All just memories that I have times past.
Glad you enjoyed it Charles 😀
I believe sometimes people that are dying actually see those who have died before them. It is a common occurrence that I believe is natural and is comforting to them. If you are ever in the situation where someone that is dying sees someone while you are there, you should remain quiet and not interfere.
Just got my copy of the book in the mail. We keep this up, gonna have an impressive collection.
Enjoying this Book Ms. Tipper! ThankYou for Sharing this Book! Very Interesting! Have A Blessed Day! Have A Blessed Day !
So glad you like it Debbie 😀
I love the stories! That one guy was horrible! He was a true thief if I ever heard of one! I love the riddles as well. I couldn't think of the answers. Maybe if I had time, I could maybe figure them out! I remember when we would go to see my Grandparents in North Carolina! My Granddaddy was a mechanic. He had his own shop. Well the bootleggers would pay my Granddaddy good money to make their cars go fast to outrun the sheriff! So the Sheriff would go see my Granddaddy at his shop! The Sheriff would tell my Granddaddy, Jumper I know you made their cars go fast. So my Granddaddy would have to fix the police car to go fast to catch the bootleggers 🤣🤣! Thanks for sharing your history with us! I loved hearing the stories! Too many people don't remember or even know where they come from! It's sad! Be Blessed!
Haints! It's a new word for me, means Spooks!! That bridge was hainted!!!
The man stealing all the stuff wow we had a friend like that but he never admit to it but we all knew he had done it and to everybody because every time something was missing he was around. 😊
Oh goodness 😀 Thank you for watching!
Enjoyed it, thank you!
I loved this! Really enjoyed learning what “the druthers” meant! The acorn metaphor was so thought-provoking as well. I can’t wait to hear more.
Wonderful story...reminded me of our big family reunions in Southeast Kentucky, usually at a state park... great memories!
Thanks Tipper 🤗❤️
Love all the menus for different events.
Great read Tipper. Sure appreciate you doing this on a regular basis!
Another Great Read… thanks Tipper
(Well, I bumped my elbow on a pillow, hit some wrong keys and that will be funny! (Previous video.)
I was attempting to mention my sweet Grandma telling her grandchildren stories...some of the young ones were scared at times, but always wanted more! She was born in 1889 and told of “run-away-trains and knocking spirits” to mention a couple, and she rambled on with limericks for a long time...they were favorites of many of us. We loved being with our Grandma!
She sounds wonderful 😀
I just, tonight, found your channel. I am jumping around from one video to another, all are great. Thank you for these and the way you share your family.
Welcome and thank you 😀
Oh wow Ive missed the readings, I will visit the play list, thanks
When I was little, my older brother used to ask me the riddle about, "If you're paddling in a canoe and a wheel falls off, how many pancakes does it take to shingle a dog house?" It drove me insane! LOL
My Dad's Mother was a big jokester and she always had funny little sayings that she used. When I'd go to see her she might say, "How are ye, Sassafras?" or "I look like the warpin' ends of windy weather." She told us about Raw Head and Bloody Bones and lots of other tales. She made them seem real. She liked to laugh. Her family was of Scots-Irish and Cherokee descent. I always thought the Scots-Irish influenced our story-telling and sense of humor.
Mom's Dad had a good sense of humor. He worked in the coal mines and once there was a big fuss with people trying to organize the Union at the mines. One morning before their shift started his co-workers said to him, "Denver, tell us a good tale before we start." He said, "Boys, some of the big wigs were here yesterday and they sent a man home (fired him) for loafing....we'd better just get to work." At the end of the shift the men asked him who'd gotten fired...they'd asked around and nobody knew anything about it. He said, "Well boys, you said to tell you a big tale...." (he'd made it up) LOL
He also poked fun at my Grandma. Once she'd gotten hold of some free paint. She went on a painting spree. He said to visiting company, "Yes, Carrie's painted everything but the cat's a$$." LOL He was something else.
I love a good sense of humor.
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great memories
Oh ma gosh!! I was cracking up with the stories!!
Tipper that was a great reading and the haunt strays were awesome I think my favorite part is the reunion that Is how it is so so true and all the food everyone would bring ..and all the family all together in one place how I miss the reunions in our family thank you Tipper and God bless yall
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
That Uncle Milt Simpson was a scoundrel for sure.If he was in the area,I'd say make sure everything is tied down tight.Thanks Tipper have a Good Weekend 🙂.
I agree Donald 😀 Enjoy your weekend!
Your reading is so excellent that I felt like I was actually there, with the patrons in the stories. An A plus for you. It is said the "destroyer" rides on "the waters." The stories seem to verify it. Mules are known to be afaird of crossing streams, branches and creeks, and these stories seem to bear it out. :.
Thank you so much!
I gotta check out your blog BLIND PIG AND AN ACORN 😚
Another good couple of chapters. Thank you Tipper.
Our pleasure! 😀
Pa was cut-up. One day he told Granny he was going to show her a magic trick. He filled a glass with water, put it up to the ceiling with a broom handle under it. "Now come over here & hold this" he told her. She grabbed hold of the broom handle & he stepped back. "See, I caged you without a fence." She was so sore, she baked him a cherry pie & didn't pit the cherries.
Hahahahhaa!
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Hilarious! My dear Grandmother would have loved “this one”!
My granddaddy was born in 1901 and he was old enough, I'm not sure how old, but he left home and jumped on a train with some friends and went to Texas! I remember hearing those tails! He was born and raised in West Ga. A 1 red light town called Buchanan, Ga! That's where I was born also! Love listening to your stories! And I just saw where you won an award when you to Kentucky in 2022?!?! I cried! 😂🎉❤
Thank you Sandra 😀
Love when you read to us very soothing~ love the picture of the train 🚂
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Sounds like somebody was telling some spooky stories to keep them away from their whiskey stills
I took care of a lady who swore her husband and son were in the room waiting on her.
Thank you for reading g to us I loved all the stories, its hard to pick the best one . Keep warm and God Bless all of you. Hugs Patsy
You are so welcome 😀
Thanks for reading. It seems like every chapter is better than the last, but really I've loved all of them.
Glad you like them! 😀
Really enjoyed your reading! I like to hear the way things used to be.
Tipper, the two Men were sent from heaven or from God to help familiarize him to them so when his time came they'd escort him to the other side. I posted a video that I talked about 'the angel of death ' and my experiences with working with hospice patients. This is a common thing that occurs, they'll see someone a few days before it's their time to go. And some also see and even talk to their loved ones that have passed before so when they do go, they're excited to see them and be with them again, and it eases their transition. I spoke with my Daddy about that before he died and we both thought that it was kinda wonderful that God did that for us at the end of our lives. My Dad told me once that after his heart and lung surgery (at age 79) he thought he was going to die and hurt so bad he was ready to, and he walked dragging his rolling IV stand, down a long hallway with lots of doors and when he got to the end he said he was tuckered out. He said that a guy was standing at the end of the hallway and he told my Dad to turn around and go back, that it wasn't time yet... And the reason my Dad was in so much pain, is that they had just transferred him to his rehab center and hadn't given him his meds yet because they were waiting on them to arrive....so what he saw and experienced was not a drug induced hallucination as some would blame it on. Things like this do happen, and we can't always explain it off with our mortal brains because these things occur on a Spiritual level. For example, your Grandfather said they talked but didn't move their mouths...that was their spirit communicating with his spirit letting him know that they'd be back and escort him over. I think it's a beautiful thing... Rest in peace, Tippers Grandpa, you are not forgotten.
Thank you so much for sharing!! Really enjoyed your comment. I was in my early 20s when Papaw died. I remember asking my daddy, Pap, if he thought they were sent for the reason you described he said he thought they were. Then I started thinking about how other people are dying as Papaw is dying and how there is a whole world going on that we can't see right under our noses 😀
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I love steam engines, that picture you posted is beautiful.🚂😁
P.S. That pig story was funny 🤣
Thank you 😀
First off , great reading . I rang across ur channel doing the normal you tube scrolling not more then a month or two at most. Word Appalachia JUMPED out to me as the southern part of my State is Appalachia. So I say's to myself let's check It out .I am trying to condense this to a few words, but seem I can't haha , Ur ways so remind me of my neighbor, who along with his mom was from ,West Virginia. As a city person I could listen to their stories in total awe , I live as far north in my state , that I could oh I have taking a ship of sorts to that country called Canada. FYI, my state's official fruit is the Paw Paw , Thanks again for u just bring simple joy .and Let's not start on them riddles . However, Why was the baby Strawberry so distraught?
Thank you! I'm so glad you've been enjoying our videos! Please share the answer to the riddle-that is a good one 😀
@@CelebratingAppalachia Because it saw Mom and Dad in a Jam! Hope u didn't google the answer 😆
@@dennykfun2411 Love it! I will share that one with the girls 😀
🤣said "No its Dark and the Weather is heavy 🤣🤣
I looked at the Blind Pig. It's looking good!!
Thank you Papaw! I think we're done-at least I hope so 😀 Just one or two tweaks is left 😀
I liked all the riddles.
They were great 😀
Hi Tipper enjoyed the video thanks love from TEXAS
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
I had to laugh when hearing all the story telling (aka lies) The uncle got away with everything! lol
Listening to all the delicious foods and wonderful desserts made me hungry.
All the churches around here they still have Homecomings. Always will be a big turn-out.
Riddles are always comical. Sometimes most people doesn’t get what they mean. lol 😊
Tipper, this is another great chapter. I look forward to hearing next week’s chapter.
Glad you enjoyed this one 😀
Mommy told about when cholera was going around and Charlie DeHart convinced my Grampaw Breedlove that giving his hogs a dose of strychnine would keep them from getting it. He was right! Dead hogs can't get cholera. It killed every one of them. She told me Grampaw and Charlie didn't get along too well after that.
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Oh my goodness Papaw! I can see why they didn't 😀
Sounds like Nichole has made it to your house too!
😀 Thankfully only rain for us Papaw! Did you get the wind?
@@CelebratingAppalachia No, not much wind or real heavy rain right here. But Dusty and Missy both got heavy rain. It's still raining here but it's supposed to move out soon. We still have flash flood warnings for the creeks and mountainsides and flood warnings for the rivers. It's about over I think!
@@papaw5405 Glad you didn't get any wind either!
I was waiting for you to read again...thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
I do...I can listen while painting 🙂
At the time of death many see there family, my grand mother seen Jesus at the foot of here bed.
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Thank you for watching 😀
I have been around a lot of death throughout my life. Nearly every person on their death bed tell me of a shadow man in a black hat coming to them just before they pass away.
They eat better, because there was no poison’s in the food.
Love your videos so much! I live on the east coast of NC but travel to the western part of the state a few times each year with my family. We spend every Thanksgiving in the NC mountains and has showed us how easy it is to fall in love with Appalachia. Sending much love from the beach to the mountains! ❤
So glad you enjoy them 😀
You certainly have a handle on Mountain People
Just saying not judging just saying
I'd say seeing a train would have been a sight to behold.nice chapter.🚂🚞🚃
I have been around a lot of death throughout my life. Nearly every person on their death bed tell me of a shadow man in a black hat coming to them just before they pass away.