96 Year Old Appalachian Woman Answers Your Questions
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- This video is part of a series of interviews I did with Rachel Virginia Gibby Hicks. She grew up in the Junaluska section of Cherokee County NC. She is like so many of the wonderful elders I grew up with here in the mountains of Appalachia-full of knowledge, compassion, and humor.
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Hello y'all! My very own mama Faye, is 94 today!
God Bless all of our elders! 🙏🏽
Love and hugs! Seattle kin ♥️
That is wonderful! Please tell her Happy Birthday for me 😀
Happy Birthday, Miss Faye!!! Hope it was a good one!!
Cherish it. Is she from the south also? So, so much to learn from that generation.
Back in the 1040's after the war, people would make a cough syrup from yellow onions and honey. They would chop up the onions, put them in a jar. Then pour honey over them until the honey came up to about 2/3 of the way up the onions. Cover and let sit for a couple of hours, mixing with a butter knife every so often. Then the syrup was given in 1/2 teaspoon doses to sooth a sore throat. Now they know both onions and honey have properties that help fight colds and infections. The old timers knew then.
Thank you for sharing 😀
My Mamaw was 89 when we lost her. She lived through the wars and the depression so she always thought it was a luxury to be able to bake for her family, and was always baking for us and making teas in the summer on ice. If we were sick she’d put honey and lemon and candied ginger over ice. That sure was comforting. I used to die laughing, our Mamaw would grease us up with Vicks if she had it or make a onion poultice with mustard. My granny on my Cherokee side would burn sage in the house if one of us was sick. If one of us had croup she would burn hemp to settle the cough. And hot sassafras tea. It worked. I sure miss them. 😢
Such good memories you have!!
@@CelebratingAppalachia I love your videos Tipper. Takes me down memory lane
Thank you Tipper, for interviewing this wonderful lady! Her wealth of knowledge is a gift to all of us. 😊🇨🇦
I was 6 in 1964 and one of the elders in our area lived to be 116 and at that time his wife was 98. Before his death, my brother and I would visit them often . I loved sitting on the edge of the porch in the sun and would listen intently as they told stories of their childhood. I would have loved being able to document the stories they told. These interviews are special and I enjoy them very much. Thank you all for sharing🥰
So wonderful that you got to visit with them 😀
There is something so special about such memories. I have a couple similar and man, how I wish I could visit with them right now (in my 50s). We are so much a product of the time we come up in, and those elders are precious, irreplaceable. Enjoyed and appreciated your comment, sbishop16.
What a precious woman,my grandmother was 105when she passed, and I have seen the rationing cards they had while my mother was growing up,she had eight children four boys and four girls,all four of my uncles fought in the war, I love these stories,and if you don't get them we will lose so much history,I was a curious child,and I did indeed ask all about stuff, I really miss my grandmother and my other grandparents. So much history,thank you for sharing this Tipper, I love the stories,they are gold💗
So glad you enjoyed this one 😀
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I love history too, there are so many things I would love to ask now, but
both of my parents died when I was 18.
They had a Auction Once a Year At The American Legion Post My Dad and, Family Belonged to, the Auction was to Raise Money For The Veterans Hospital and, The Soldiers and, Sailors home, well someone donated some Old Seed Rations One Year from what he had left from when, this guy was in the service! So, hrs later after the Auction was over the guy that brought them, opened them up and, we all ate them and, they actually were pretty darn tasty! Course we dipped them in some Ritz and, Club Crackers!
My mother in law will be 98 on the 12th. It is a blessing to listen to their stories of life. There's so much they can teach us if we would take time to sit and talk with them.
I love the old stories. Makes me wish I listened more back then.
So glad you enjoyed the video 😀
Thank you for letting us visit with Ms Hicks. Your patience and letting her articulate her thoughts is really great. Great example around minute 13:00, her memory is astounding for a person her age. Im 53 myself, Im trying to remember what I had for dinner last tuesday, lol.
😀 I feel the same way 😀 her memory is amazing. Glad you enjoyed this one!
We have lost a generation of technology in survival on the land. Granny Hicks is just as sharp as in the last interview. Much love and prayers for all
I'm ten years younger than Granny Hicks but we have similar memories. Rationing books were a fact of life. The children's books had stamps for alcohol and tobacco removed before being handed out. They minted pennies without copper. They were silver colored. We lived in the city and had central heat (coal/coke fired furnace) and a gas stove. I remember when they changed from manufactured gas to natural gas. They came around and changed out the burners on the stove. My grandmother cooked on a wood burning stove; she preferred it to gas or electric. I remember the coating of the chest with Vick's. Worked!
Thank you for sharing!!
What a lovely lady . My mother married my father in 1944 while he was on leave for a few days in NYC . All their friends gave them some gas ration cards so that they could drive to Niagara Falls and back .she has nothing but fun memories.
My parents were part of the generation as Ms Hicks. Listening to Ms Hicks speak about ration books reminded me of the stories my mom told me about WWII. My dad served but never talked about that time. Please tell Ms Hicks, tk u for sharing her life experiences w/ us.
We should respect (& listen) always to our seniors! Their stories are invaluable.
So true!
Please pass on our thanks to Granny for her time and wonderful memories she has shared with us, and accept our thanks for your time too.
I just love hearing the stories of long ago. My grandma (maternal) was born in 1906. She & I would sit for hours & talk. I wish I would have recorded our talks so I could still hear her voice. Thank you & Granny Hicks for sharing your life with us
So much wisdom that truly needs to be taught and not forgotten. She is a sweet lady.
So true 😀 Thank you for watching!
Love this video. My great great grandmother lived to be 108 years old. I was pretty young when she passed away. Sure wished I’d known better and I would’ve just sat and listened to her tell stories like this.
My mind is like a steel trap, too. Rusty, crusty and missing it's spring!
😀 Well mine is like that too Papaw 😀
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My Mother was born at the end of 1925 .!!!
She is with God now she had an excellent memory also ! And a very Special Human being! 🙏
Tell her she reminds me of her !
Blessings 🤗🙏
Much Love 💕😘
Tell Mucho Love and big hug from the other side of Planet in the South (Chile)
Such a precious person- My dad has told me about the ration books- He served in WWII- My mother and Dad both have passed away- I truly enjoyed listening to your dear sweet friend- God bless you and your sweet family and friend- So good to hear about the years gone by.
While so many are searching to rediscover self reliance, we have a wealth of knowledge on the subject in Miss Hicks. She lived it, please let her know how very much we appreciate her🥰 thank you too Tipper💛
How nice, to just talk story with an elder like her. She has a good memory too.
Watched this video from Canada, God bless her, loved her stories and respect and admire all she has seen and been through❤️🥰🇨🇦🇺🇸❤️🙏🙏
So glad you enjoyed the video 😀
I'm amazed at how sharp her mind and memory are! I have more trouble remembering things in my sixties than she does in her nineties!
I learned so much from my older loved ones.
My Grandparents were born in 1899, 1905, 1916 and 1917. I cherish the lessons they taught me and have past it on to my own children. One day I will pass it in to my Grandchildren.
I really enjoyed this video.
What a special lady. Thank you for sharing this with us. ❤
You are so welcome!
This here is an important historic video/audio record, interview, with Ms. Rachel Virginia Gibby Hicks, Granny Hicks, Ma'am! Thank You!
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Listening to y'all talk is like listening to my kin talk. We kept our potatoes and turnips the same way. I remember mama greasing us up with Vick's Vapo Rub, she'd even put some in our nose, gosh I hated that stuff! I was sickly growing up so I got all kinds of home remedies, lol When daddy went hunting sometimes he'd bring home some Sassafras roots. He'd wash them good and mom would make tea. We loved it. Daddy would get Horhound drops, we'd suck on those, " to keep from getting sick". Reminds me of a line from a song by Dolly Parton- " In the good ol days when times were hard". Sure looking forward to more visits with this precious grandmother ❤️ Stay safe and GOD bless
Thank you for sharing Granny Hicks with us! May God bless her and keep her. Listening to her gentle voice and hearing the stories has brought tears to my eyes. Hugs to you all!
Love listening to the stories especially from the greatest generation ages… they are amazing what they’ve endured and came through.
What a sweet woman I loved listening to her stories I hope to live as long as her and still have a sharp mind God Bless you all ♥️
I love listening to our elders tell their stories. Great wisdom and understanding they have. If only we would listen and learn from them. 💚🌻💚🙏🙏🙏
Love ❤️ these chats. Thanks tipper.
Glad you like them!
Her stories remind me a lot of my Pop Pop. Guess folks had a lot in common back then. Thank you Tipper.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
I love listening to her stories. We can learn so much about history from the people like her that are still living. Thank you for sharing another visit with her. She seems to really enjoy you coming to visit with her. She’ such a sweet woman and sharp as a tack for her age, bless her heart. Hugs from the southeast coast of Florida 😎🦩🌞🦩😎
I recognize so much of what she and her dsughter said. Life was so similar in all of Appalachia back in the day. She spoke of peppermint and poltices; my grandmother was the medicine woman in her area. When someone was sick they sent for her. Many poltices and home remedies. I remember her telling me to get whorehound drops (hard candy) to soothe my sore throat. I could speak on so msny things Rachel says. I am thankful my family shared so much of their stories. I have always felt I lived it. Enjoyed!!
Thank you Teddie! I enjoy listening to her stories. My father in law James Tilley from Concord NC was a prisoner of war in WWW2. For one day, he ran like a country boy to escape the Germans. I still have my grandmother food rationing stamp book. I grew up listening to what it was like during the Great Depression. ❤️🇺🇸Alicia Jean’nette from Arkansas
Thank you Alicia 😀
I love her voice, the gentle way it often trails off into a sweet "unh-huh". Love this lady and these interviews. 💓
My Mama's 95. My Daddy passed away at age 89. (Aug 28, 2013) He was in WW2 too.♥I enjoy your vids so much. :)
So glad you enjoy them! I'm so glad you still have your mother 😀
Her and my Mama could talk all day. That would be so much fun listening to them both. They had a lot in common back in the day.
I always enjoy these interviews. I loved that too when she said "they learned to take care of each other".
I love your interviews with this fine lady. The thing that stood out to me was when she remarked on how people today don't know how to preserve foods, etc. unless they have a freezer and such. I'm so grateful for people like her, books, YT channels, etc. who share the knowledge of the 'old paths' so the handful of us who are interested in knowing those old skills can learn them. I can't wait for the next part of the interview! God bless.
It will be a shame when these old folks and the knowledge they have are gone , so interesting listening to her, and hearing how folks had to live, I had never heard about burying the potatoes and cabbage to keep from freezing
You know why we love these Tipper? Because for so many of us it’s like listening to our Granny again. And we wish we could again.
Such a blessing to listen to Granny this morning! What a treasure she is!
What a beautiful still picture of you in your green (black?) sweater and Granny Hicks. What a lovely lady. Aren't we grateful she has such a good memory!
🌼💐Love these precious conversations! She is a treasure! Thank you for sharing these!🌼💐
Glad you like them!
You are special Tipper.
You are so kind-thank you 😀
What a blessing she is. Thank you Tipper for sharing her story.
Thank you so much! Actually today February 9 is the day both my mother and paternal grandmother were born, they both passed many years ago but I still miss them ❤️, Love y'all
Thank you Julia. Glad you shared that it was their birthday today 😀 I know you miss them terribly.
LOVED how this senior women called Tipper "honey" lol
My mom saved all the sugar she got with the ration books for making jams/jelly,canned berries,peaches and apples,i remember a big dresser drawer full of 5 lb. bags of sugar she was saving!!
I love her! She is such a precious lady! I'd love to know her, sit down talk to her forever! She is just so Precious!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will save this video. Listen when I miss my grandmama. I enjoy this so much. Thank you!
I'm so glad you enjoyed it!!
Hearing the clock in the background took me back to my childhood. Great video👍👍👍
Glad you enjoyed 😀
The siding on your house is absolutely beautiful.
Thank you 😀
Loved the visit, looking forward to next visit, I remember my mother cooking on a wood stove, great memories.
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
I just loved listening to her talk about her life so interesting😊
I'm glad you enjoyed it Krissy 😀
Granny Hicks is just the best. Thank you Tipper.
What a family treasure! How I wish I had recorded all the stories of my grandpa back when! He told me many, but I'm left to my own memory to recall most of the stories. Funny thing however, I just received all my heirloom seeds from our local seed bank where I live, called Seed Savers. I grow only heirloom varieties of fruits and vegetables and I absolutely enjoyed her 'holing up method' for preservation! I just may incorporate that into my garden this year!!! Thank you again for sharing Grandma Hicks with us, Tipper! On a side note, here in NE Iowa, it's suppose to be SUNNY and 40s all this next week! That's going to melt some snow and put a li'l charge in me to get a jumpstart on my Spring garden preps! Even strongly considering chickens from our local hatchery this time!
I love to hear Mrs.Hicks talk. She is still very sharp
She is! Thank you Linda 😀
She is so sweet, what a memory💕
What a neat lady. God Bless her.💕🙏
She is wonderful 😀
How lovely to see Granny Hicks again. My Mum was born 1916 and married just before WW2. Of course we had rationing which didn't end until 1953, the year before I was born. The government had to do something about it as it was the Coronation of our late Queen. My late brother and sister remembered sweet rationing. It made me laugh about the nappy pins (diaper pins). They came with a blue/pink or white end. They were very useful for a lot of things like holding stitches when knitting. The disposable nappy was only just being trialled when I had my daughter but I had terry nappies and used them when my son came along 7 years later. I remember that we didn't have a television until I was 10! We had a radiogram which was a radio and record player in one long cabinet. We didn't have a fridge until then either. Fortunately we had two cold cellars (which were used during air raids) which mum put everything perishable in. Mum told me that one night the siren went so the procession started down to the cellar but Mums mum (my gran) still wasn't down. Mum shouted to her to hurry which brought a reply from Gran which went "I don't care what that Hitler does but I am not going to be dug out without my corsets!" Gran was a firm believer in boned corsets!
😀 Thank you for sharing those memories!!
Love your interviews with Rachel Virginia can't wait to watch now after work this evening. Thanks so much.
Yay, thank you!
God bless our grandmas, great stories, wasn’t easy she’s a tough little lady, thank you for this history!
Such a blessing!
Thank you 😀
I grew up & still live in Chicago but my Dad's side of the family was all in KY. & TN. We vacation there every yr growing up. My Grandma was the last 1 down there that I know, they've all passed, my dad 2. My Grandma passed last yr & watching u makes me think of her & all her great cookin! I miss em all so much! I want to move down south so bad but my husband & kids don't want to. I tell ya what tho u make it look so good & remind me of my family, their traditions & how much I love it down there I might just have to go on down without em! 😉😉JK! Thank you tho for sharing your family with us & reminding me of mine all the time! God bless y'all!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
😀 I'm sorry your lost your grandma!!
When my aunt passed my sister, and I each got a jewelry box. My sister got our aunt's and I got our grandmother's. Inside my grandmother's jewelry box were many things, from a Den Mother lapel pin (from the Cub Scouts) to a ration book from the WWII era. They are such great mementos from a time gone by. History that is able to be held today. My grandmother and grandfather were in the Salvation Army, Grandma a Captain and Grandpa was a Lieutenant. We had many family members in the Salvation Army starting with my Great Grandparents who came from Norway in the early 1900's. Grandma and her twin were born in 1913. Hearing stories of things in the past are such great things to listen to. Thank you for sharing more stories from history.
We had a spring house in one branch of the creek and it was kept slick and span. Milk, butter, eggs, left overs etc were kept in the spring house. I use peppermint candy for coughs. Got one in my mouth right now to keep my mouth moist. Yes boiled onions wrapped in cloth would break up the mucus. As a child the gov., built canneries out in the country near school’s for people to bring all their stuff to can in tins cans. Great help for families. Thank you Rachel for the memory journey we went on today.❤
My maternal grandfather was a Hicks. They originally came from South Carolina to Arkansas and then to Oklahoma.
What a sweet lady, my husband's grandfather was in Itlay during the war and I have him on video talking about it. What great memories to have.
My mumma from Junlaska , Cherokee and the Waynesville area. She told me all growin up 1940. We have family still there.
Love that 😀
Thanks for sharing such a lovely lady with us. See you next time.
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Such a nice lady (both of you) Thank you both!
Thank you Buz 😀
Thank you Tipper for sharing Ms. Hicks with us. She is a wonderful lady.
I grew up with sassafras tea and Vicks vapor rub for a cold.
Dear love her, she's very bright in mind and spirit. I remember speaking to my dad's aunt, his father's sister, in 1984,when I was researching the Gibson side of the family, I thought she might've gone back to maybe a couple of generations, but she was fit to write down names and locations for the family right back to the late 1700's, because she'd asked similar questions, like me, to her elders just before the first world war and they were fit to take it right back, the names of relatives who'd emigrated to Ohio in the early 1800's, even producing a receipt for our old grandfather clock from 1797, our elders are a complete mine of information.
Precious moments... thanks 🤗❤️
Thank you Tipper and Granny Hicks!
I have been thinking about Miss Hicks for a few weeks. I was wondering how she is feeling and if she would be up to another visit. I’m so happy she is well and willing to share her experiences with you and us. Thank you, Tipper.
Thank you for sharing such wonderful information about the past. ❤🙏
Glad you enjoyed it! 😀
Enjoyed hearing her speak she reminds me so much of listening to My great aunt ( my grand mothers sister she’s turned 93 this January) .. family truly matters still
Really enjoyed this. I can remember grandpa talking about like tires for his truck said when he had the stamps he didn't have the money. Lol when he had the money he didn't have the stamps. Love listening it brings back memories thank you for sharing ❤
That sounds about like us LOL 😀 Glad you enjoyed the video!
Wow, love listening to Granny Hicks. It brought back memories of my parents telling me when I was little how they'd lived during the depression and had ration books. They were fortunate to have friends who lived on a farm and so didn't have to use their ration books for certain things like butter as their friends made it. Also, when I was a young mother I used cloth diapers and diaper pins. Hung the diapers out to dry. So many memories to count............
What lovely stories from Mrs. Hicks. I remember we all had Cloth white, white diapers. Neighbours would ask how my mother and Grandmother would keep these diapers so white. All the clothes hung on the close line as there were no electric dryers in homes when I was 6 - 9 years of age. But my Grandmother and Mother both would hang clothes out on the line that were very bright in colours and looked like new with each washing. I found it interesting to hear How Mrs. Hicks kept the potatoes and cabbages during the winter months. I think that is what I heard. Any way another nice video Tipper. I hope that Katie and Korie and your entire family are all in good health. God Bless one and all. Thanks to Mrs. Hicks for her stories.
Bleach and sunshine are the best whiteners.
We pulled our cabbage and buried them in the row upside down. We never wrapped them in anything. The outside leaves would be mushy when we dug them up but the inside would be white and crispy.
So amazing that they will last like that Papaw 😀 I'd love to try it maybe if my cabbage makes this year I can try a few 😀
How far down did you bury them singly or together?
@@ARolls-dd2zd We just pulled them up and dug out a hole right where the root came out deep enough to cover the head. We turned them upside down, put the head in the hole and pulled dirt up around the stem and the root. The outer leaves would be kinda gross when we dug them but when you cleaned all that away you had good fresh cabbage. We only did that with late cabbage.
We "holed up" taters like everybody else, in a bed of straw, but cabbage was done individually.
Thank you for another Granny Hicks video! What a precious lady, I could listen to her stories for hours. 🙂
So very interesting at the end when she was talking about the dried Apple she called it dried fruit and I remember you said your mother always just called apples fruit
My mama had a relative she would call Sis. She (mama) would also put Vick's Vapo-Rub on my chest when I would get sick. She'd slather it on me then cover my chest with one of daddy's handkerchiefs under my pajama top. She'd make me hot lemonade for a sore throat, as well as making me gargle with vinegar and hot salt water. Folks down to Harkers Island, NC would make a cough remedy consisting of a spoonful of sugar with a drop or two of kerosene; can you imagine having to take that? 🤢😳🥴🤯
Granny Hicks is a treasure. Tipper, you are doing a great thing by getting her to share her stories with you and your viewers while she's still here on Earth. May she live a long time yet to come. God Bless.
20 years and my west coast wife still won’t open a pressure canner .. but she loves water bath caning …
I just love this channel. Ty for your content
You are so kind-thank you 😀
We enjoyed this last night Thanks
Glad you enjoyed it 😀
Thank you Tipper for sharing your interview with MRs Hicks what a nice lady
Love your interviews with this lady ❤ 😍 💕
So glad you enjoyed it 😀
Such a wonderful little woman.Reminds me of my great grandma.love hearing her talk.zzThanks so much takes me back when I was growing up.
I love listening to Granny Hicks Thank you
I really enjoyed this talk with Granny Hicks. When she mentioned making biscuits with lard, I remembered reading about her in Gratitude for Shoes when they talk about how good Sis biscuits were. She is so precious.
As a teen, I loved cooking on my grandma's wood stove, food just tasted better. They were great for breads and cakes, I miss those days. Thank you for sharing granny Hicks with us, love the stories of the past.
My grandma was from the NC hills. She's long passed. I loved sitting listening to the stories! This was heart warming, just like times with grandma. So peaceful. Great memory. Thank you😇
Lovely interview. I had forgotten about cabbage preservation. I can remember my granny burying butternut squash so they'd keep through the winter.