1970, THE MOUNTAIN PEOPLE, SOUTHERN APPALACHIA
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This film explores the true meaning of poverty in Southern Appalachia.
I doubt many people remember this because history is not really taught in schools much anymore but Fentriss county was once the home of a great American hero. It is also one of the locations this Film was shot. Does anybody remember Alvin Cullum York or maybe better known as simply Sergeant York? He was born December 13, 1887 and died September 2, 1964. For those folks out there that want to make fun of our southern brothers and sisters you might do well to read up on Sergeant York. I’ll even post a link here for you to save a little bit of time. Without these folks I doubt America would have existed at all. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_York
Appalachia has a long history of sending heroes to war and underground.
@@Libbydoh Appalachia has a long history of having the heroes to send. It seems a lot of good tough people come from that part of the world.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology With woke culture spreading like fire, and the offended now serve as rulers, it is sad to think that Appalachia will be all we have left to pull from.
Almost as good as Chestie….
Thank you...much obliged.
I grew up in Eastern Tennessee and I am still here. I am on a farm that is close to the Kentucky and Virginia line. Grew up poor but very loved. Lost my momma in 2018. I still have my 84 year old little daddy. Daddy is building me a new chicken coop. He still works like a young man and this is due to his working his whole life. We still garden, have livestock, and work hard 8 days a week! We might be hillbilly mountain people but I would not change it for anything. I have a college education but I prefer farming and living the mountain way of life. God Bless the simple man and woman and the USA.
My father is almost 84 now.
He still works hard almost everyday, what I believe keeps him young and going.
Best of everything to you and yours. God love you.
Claiborne County?
You are blessed.
@shannonandsheila1 Richlands, Virginia? My dad's side of the family is from there
God bless you and your daddy for keeping the old ways alive
I remember when I was a little girl, 1976 or so, I lived with my grandma. My grandpa had a job making bricks. He had saved up his brickyard money and bought grandma a toilet. She sat up all night flushing it and crying softly. I'll never forget my grandma's happiness over an indoor toilet.
These days few people can imagine such simple happiness over something we take for granted. Wonderful memories, thank you for sharing.
I remember when my great grandma got her 1st indoor toilet. She was SO Happy.. seemed like the whole family showed up to help. It was no small feat. We take so much for granted. Like Running water in the house. "The good ole days" 💗
about that time there was a family that had a galvanized 2-1/2 gallon pail as a communal toilet , they dumped the bucket upstream
@UCEal0pw9qFyyHDA6gEjrb_g An old style septic and leech bed. If I remember right, it was made out of metal drums. Everyone thought it was fancy because it wasn't just an old recycled cistern.
It was a very hard life back then but a free at heart time
The man playing the guitar is my grandpa Robert South, the Banjo player is bill looper, the fiddle player is Orbit Hill, the old skinny man is Dillard Neal. The woman in the back ground carrying the baby is my grandma Virgie South she's carrying my dad Tim, also shown in the video is my uncle Roger and aunt Linda they are the kids carrying the water buckets. I didn't know about this video till my cousin told us about it, so it sure was an emotional video to watch. Papa passed away when I was young but I always took to the guitar and wanted to hear him play again for a long time and boy he sure can play.
Thank you so much for sharing those names. Delmar and Gladys were my grandmother and grandfather. Those kids running around are my aunts and uncles and my mother. I'd love to know everyone in the film.
Do you know Laura Brannum Ryker? If so, how is she doing. I haven’t heard from her for a while.
@OfficeofImageArchaeology I did. She has passed. There's several in that video that have passed. Martha (toots), Darlene, David, Laura, Chris, and of course, my grandparents. The Brannums. I live just down the road from where this was shot in Pickett County. There's still two really old houses still standing. There's also two more children buried there that my grandmother didn't mention. There were 15 total.
@@franciscopeland4421 Francis would it be possible to get you to send me an email at officeofimagearchaeology@yahoo.com. I have many questions as I am attempting to produce an update to the original film. Thank you kindly.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology I've emailed you
So proud to have come from a time and place such as this. I was born in 58 to mountain people. I grew up running the woods, playing in gaint moss covered stumps and in the nearby creek. My daddy made moonshine till he got caught. When he came home from prison he became a logger. I dearly loved my childhood and wouldnt want it any other way. I love mountain people. These are my people.
100% My people are from the NC, GA, Tenn intersection. We were, we are, we remain hill people. Grateful my paw paw did not sell out and my cousins continue the old ways. Corporates have offered $$$ for the land but we continue to refuse. If the next 3 gen. grow up in the hills learning the life, then we have done our job.
You and me too. I was born in 58
Enjoyed learning about the history of other cultures. I am an African American male that grew up in the Mississippi Delta in the 1960s and 70s. Like these people we had it rough but we made it...
Thank you Gregory for watching, you should enjoy this channel of mine because it was created in an effort to preserve this worlds diversity and culture as best as possible through available 16mm film. Enjoy
You probably started working hard at an early age like most did and all that rough life probably made you appricate everything you have now
The 60s and 70s were rough times to be in the Delta for many, but most definitely it was infinitely harder for African Americans. I say this with the utmost respect. I lived in northwest Mississippi back then.
@@ronniemctaggart8722 yes. My family started carrying me to the cotton fields at age 4, more to watch me than anything else at that age. But yes, the older I grew, the more cotton I was expected to pick. I chopped cotton from about age 10 to when I left for the city after high school. The hard work didn't hurt me a bit.
I lived in Louisiana. In a town of population 850. We were dirt poor but didn't know it because everyone else was also.
I'm 70 years old and I've lived and worked all over the nation and I've been blessed with alot of friends along the way, but I never had better friends than those in the hills of East Tennessee - they were loyal down to the bone and they always had my back. I never had better friends. I miss them very much. I feel privileged to have known them.
Nicely said sir, good friends are more valuable than gold..
If you've nothing to eat, no way to wash, nowhere to lie down, it doesn't matter, if you have a friend. We watch out for each other. We know we're here on God's earth but for a moment. There's no second chance, no "do overs". We must do it right the first time.
What you say is so true. It is too bad more people do not get it.
@@jeffhale2278 well said
Well they say some of the poorest tend to be willing to offer whatever they can,offer what lil to others from there heart & the giving person probably would get a gift down the line. Some might take advantage,give a little bit probably knowing they'd take the scraps but friendships are priceless. I HOPE schools & learing have changed for the Better.
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As a West Virginian growing up I couldn’t wait to get out into the big world, drive a fancy car and mingle with cultured folks but when you leave the mountains it creates a void in your soul that the city can’t fill and after a while you begin to long for those mountains and the simple honesty of the people until you have to return to heal your soul by sitting on the front porch in the evening listening to the whippoorwills singing in the woods as lightning bugs rise out of the meadow field and the bullfrog bellows on the creek bank. God I Love my Mountain Home
Logan, W. Va❤😊
I came from Raven Virginia well Mill Creek holler to be exact. Nothing like the hills....I live in Alabama the end of the Appalachian mountains... it's still the hills to me.
Yup too bad your over grown eastern states is overwhelmed with citidiots. Look at google maps its mangled with construction and trail heads filled with prideful folks. Sad..
I spent two years out in that big world and came back up my holler , under my rock and ant leaving again , was great at first got to meet few rock stars went to some big parties but at the end of the day I was just miserable away from home.and these hills are home , oh and for the record , No P-Diddy parties ! lol but if had the chance probably would of cant lie.
My great aunt and uncle raised 12 children in Mcminn county. Always food on the table, clothes were always clean and every Sunday morning before church there were 14 pair of freshly polished and shiney shoes lined up on the front porch. The greatest generation, yes sir. That same uncle fought in WW2 and came home. Poor doesnt mean lacking, love.
That sounds lovely
A lot of people with money are not happy at all.
You can be poor but still clean . And many have something more important than money - They stick together
9 of us we polish you own shoes and washed you own clothes and mamma helped for Sunday go to meeting. special shoes and dress. Had to where gloves to and hat to Sunday
Beverly, I grew up in a middle class home in New England with all of the comforts - *except* a mother’s love. I would gladly have grown up in poverty if I could have had a mother who was able to love, nurture and guide me.
That sweet, kind-hearted boy teaching his brothers the alphabet and to read...makes my heart burst with love.
I felt the same I wanted to hug them, they were all beautiful children brought up by honest respectable adults. That boy looking and listening to his dad was pure gold you could feel the love.
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Amen
That "boy" is in his 60s now-lol.
@@murderedbypoguesandparasit8988 amazing when you think of it. The people who we admire in this documentary are all either dead, or old. Time does fly, I turned 14 in December of '70, the year this was filmed. I myself am now 64. Wow, 64...
You know those kids may be poor but they sure are clean. Their mom was quite the woman for raising that many kids.
Thank you so much for those words of truth..our mom sure was quite the woman. I sure don't know how she did raise we 12 kids but she turned out some pretty good kids.
@@laurabrannum9215 that's because she loved you. Your family looked close knit. I would be very proud of your roots. You can definitely tell your mom cared deeply for her family.😊
Huh I WISH I KNEW THEM THAN🤗🤗
I grew up in East Tennessee, Anderson county area. Can I ask where this was filmed?
@Annamaria Alice Graham I beg your pardon maam, none of we 12 children are on "relief" . We've worked hard all our lives & the remaining kids still work hard. Our children are grown & we are all doing well for the way we were raised. Thank you very much & God Bless you.
My ancestors came here in the 1700s from Scotland and Ireland and Wales. They lived all over. Tennessee, N. Carolina, Virginia, S. Carolina and Georgia. Riches ain't always counted in dollars.
My grandfather's side in Crossville Tenn built the biggest Flea Market in the entire state with help and was once named Dixon's Flea Market until step grandmother and son along with son's wife stripped a great man named Cordell Hull Dixon nearing the end of his life ! I asked him long ago where ancestors originally came from and he told me Ireland although i know absolutely nothing else ! Cordell Dixon was a fine human being and proud to be his grandson and only living human bearing his last name!! RIP Cordell Dixon !!
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@@garyjdixon7282 God Bless you sir....I know this flea market well. Take a gander there often. My grandchildren absolutely love the place. We now live in Crossville. Thank you for watching the film & sharing your story as well. Stay safe.
I'm from Ireland and had the great pleasure of visiting the beautiful Great Smoky Mountain National Park and other places in Tennessee in 2019 and walking a small bit of the Appalachian Trail, I hope to go back and I plan to walk as much of it as I can, this part of America is breathtaking.
Thank you Sir for your visit here, from an American. We hope to see you back many times! I would also love to visit the UK, my ancestral home.
Love Ireland! I was out in Greene County, TN the other day and the GREEN landscape reminded me of my 1988 visit to the Emerald Isle. Man, I gotta get back to Cosmona. 🥰
There's something about them mountains man I swear. The Appalachians are one of the oldest ranges on the planet. Looking out over those hills and valleys as far as the eye can see gives me such a deep sense of longing, like I belong out there.
I am from Ohio and had the great pleasure of visiting beautiful Ireland in September 2011. The sites I saw are too many to mention. I hope to go back and see parts I did not see like the breathtaking SW coast Ring of Kerry. The Great Smoky Mountains are spectacular and need to be protected. No litter, no walking off trail. Leave only your footsteps. Take care of the land, the animals and the plants. Just like the Wicklow Mountains.
Welcome to Tennessee anytime, my family is of Scots Irish Cherokee heritage. I used to love to hear my great grandpa talk about home and the beauty of the isle. I hope to be able to see it some day before all is gone forever. If you ever want to see one of Tennessee's best parks just give me a yell, we'll give you the red carpet treatment. Part of that park land was taken from my family by eminent domain to form the park. But we still enjoy our land as much as possible. Just look it up Fall Creek falls state park. In Van Buren county Tennessee.
Delmar and gladys was my grandmother and grandfather. Those 12 kids are my aunts and uncles except phyllis. That's my mother.
Thank you Francis, it is nice to meet another member of this wonderful and extraordinary family.
You're so lucky to have been born into such a loving family
I was wondering how the family was doing 50 years later. Thanks for sharing.
Where was this filmed at? My family is from east TN, and some of the footage from the road looked mighty familiar.
God bless you and your family!
God, I'm glad someone finally interviewed a mountain woman.
Watch the Darlene Chronicles
I'm was born in 1968 in eastern KY...I had the best childhood you could ever imagine, I didn't realize how hard my mom struggled to raise me, she worked so hard and I remember, I stayed with my Granny a lot but always enjoyed it so. I miss those simpler times and think of them often. I still live in the same county I was born in and if you think times were tough then you should see it now. I wish more docs were out there focusing on this subject.
Denise, I agree with you completely!
I don't know if the times were simpler or not being I was born in 1980. But I think things were held to more of a social acceptability. Manners. Minding your own. No. Things weren't perfect. But most didn't think they were better then any other. Manners simple respect seem to have gone to the wayside.
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Is at the opioid epidemic
Why are they tougher now? Drugs?
Superbly filmed and edited. The kind of quiet, thoughtful filmmaking that has sadly been lost in the modern era of high gloss and short attention spans.
Very well said. Totally agree.
Now they hit the red record button on their phone, over dramatize everything that happens, upload it to youtube and call it a "film" as much as possible
My mother and father were part of the great migration north to work in the car plants. In the summer they would bring us kids back to Kentucky for the summer to stay with my grandmother . It was a beautiful simple time. We children would walk up and down the road barefoot collecting pop bottles so we could buy a treat from the local store. My Grandmother lived in a one bedroom home that she and my grandfather raised nine kids in. There was such a sense of community everyone looked out for each other. There was no sense of threat when you were out walking, until the drugs invaded that beautiful community along the creek banks . Church was amazing ,no one cared what you wore or if you were barefoot everyone just came to worship with all of their might and no one was in a hurry to leave. I love my heritage of faith and simplicity. Salt of the earth people who knew what being committed to family through the tough times was.
few of my great aunts went up North like that, on account of the car plants- got plenty of extended kin around Michigan that have roots down South
Amen! It was a much simpler time! I miss it and my wonderful family members that raised me well!
Same here. That was my summers as a kid going to the mountains.
Hookworms! Don't go barefoot when human and animal feces are present...
What you wrote really touched my heart. I also grew up in the hills of kentucky and remember very well those church meetings and collecting pop bottles to take to the country store. Love to you🥰
The Man and Woman is my uncle and aunt. Sure was good to hear their voices again. Sure do miss these days. Alot better back then than it is now!! The Brannum Family!!
Thank you so very much for the information, did you know that this film existed? This is the only copy I have seen so far. Can you tell us what happened with the family? What was the outcome for your aunt and uncle and where are some of the children now? Are they aware of this film? Thank you for watching
@Josiah Walker Hello Josiah, I want to first say that I do appreciate your contacting me. This film is a treasure of American History, our history, one that belongs to all of us. I am a historian or more specifically a history preservationist. You can see more my work at officeofimagearchaeology.com/. Your family and mine have much in common I might add. Very poor roots in my family but only 5 kids. Would you mind giving me a call Josiah? I will leave this number here for 24 hours and then edit it out for obvious reasons.
@Josiah Walker you should take your number down before some idjit calls and bothers you just friendly advice. Anyone can see your number
@Josiah Walker are you using a phone or computer to post?
Were were your aunt and uncle from? David Davis was my dad
One night in west Virginia in a severe thunderstorm my fan belt broke I had sixty cows that had to be milked the next morning back before cellphones my family in the car two boys stopped and asked what was wrong long story made short they went and got a belt wouldn't let me get out fixed it in the rain and wouldn't take anything for it.God bless them.
Those were "Good Ole' Boys" and they are still around today.
That's the way we do things here in WV. We have our problems but there are still good folk here
I’ve given it thought and I believe a lot of that has to do with we were never raised to be suspicious of people. Here in WV, there’s no such thing as stranger danger. It’s a shame to see where drugs have put this place now,
There's a great country song in there somewhere
That's the most West Virginia story I've ever heard. They are the most hospitable, humble, hard working people that I've ever met.
I’m beyond proud to be born and raised in southern WV and raising our 2 children in these beautiful mountains. My family has been in the WV mountains longer than WV has been a state. I want to pass on as much of our culture and Appalachian traditions to them. I’d ten to one rather raise my kids in this holler than a city. A day doesn’t go by without them being in the woods. My 7 year old daughter can already identify and name dozens of edibles in the woods, process game and cook it as well as start a fire. I want to raise them to be kind hearted & decent but also to be survivors.
I envy people like you and your traditions God Bless you and your family 🙏
That's one dumb, dopey state you live in there, Josh, my condolences. You have to laugh at the hilarity of decades upon decades of miner's singing folk songs about how hard and dangerous it is to be miners and how horrible the bosses are and how their lives aren't valued.......only to reverse course and say "But don't take away our mines! Let me vote to keep the scum bosses in power over my life forever!" The whole country has to be held back because of YOU clods.
@@TTM9691 I want everyone to see what Tic Toc can do to a person like Melody.
@@jonnydanger7181 Yeah me too. (my name's not Melody, moron, lol. It's the name of an obscure record by an obscure musician from the 60s-70s, I used to post his work on You Tube). A swing and a miss, half-wit. Anything else, dopey? Hey congratulations "Johnny Danger" (ooooo! I'm scared!), congratulations on your shallow, one-dimensional region. You're an embarrassment to the country. Always remember, slug: You ain't America. You're only a part of it. AND YOU'RE NOT EVEN THE BEST PART. You're the cousins nobody wants at the wedding. Any questions, diaperboy?
@@jonnydanger7181 PS: That's one stupid looking face you get there, "Jonny Danger". You people don't even know how to dress or groom yourself, holy fuck are you embarrassing.....
This film is priceless. I'm from the Appalachian part of Alabama, and just about all my family traces back to sharecropping, before my grandparents or their parents went to live in town to work in steel mills and cotton mills. There's a lot of us in the South that is only a generation or two separated from these roots. This is our cultural heritage.
Thank you I am so glad that you’re enjoying it. Thank you so much for watching.
Rick, that would be Sand Mountain ...
@@user-wp4zh6po3k You got that right.
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Union army trekked through Stevenson, and Eastern Sand Mountain, Valley Head to cross Lookout Mountain, to go under Chickamauga and Ringold.
Lived there LOOONG ago ..EDIT ADD ... my aunts 'doffed' .... FEW people will know what that is lol
I was born by accident in Cheaha but my people are from the NC, Tenn, Ga intersection in the hills. So fortunate that my family chose to not sell out and insist the next 3 gen are raised in the old way. Hopefully, one day the younger ones will look back and also be grateful.
It’s so strange sitting here in the middle of an upper middle class suburban environment, and thinking back to visiting my grandparents home. They were sharecroppers living in a dirt floor shack, but there was no other place in the world I would rather be. The true love and simple honesty you felt in their home is something lacking in today’s world. Thank you for posting this, and thank you to the families that allowed the filmmakers to record their lives.
This comment touched my heart. Although I'm far from upper middle class, I too had grandparents from Rush Kentucky. They didn't have running water or electricity for the majority of their lives. Across from them was an older lady who raised her grandson "Greg" they had nothing. They never went hungry and neither did we. Greg and his friends grew up having g fun the old fashioned way. No video games or social media then. They didn't even own a television when I first met them. Folks from the church pitched in in the late 90s and purchased Greg and hid gma a double wide. One thing that stood out to me even as a youngster, is how much more genuine happiness these people displayed in comparisonto my friends back home. It was infectious and me nor my sisters ever wanted yo go back ho.e to Columbus. We didn't need or want for anything other than each other's love and company. Great comment Scott. Best wishes friend ♥
@@LJizy Thank you so much. It is nice to see there is still kindness in people out there. I hope you have a blessed day
It's probably true that you felt something unique and positive there with your grandparents, but don't think that there is not the same amount of love and honesty out there today. It just looks different is all
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@@sst6555 dang, props for going through it all and making it work. Makes me think that around the world we have more people than jobs...maybe people shouldn't have to work for their survival. Maybe food and shelter are a right to each person regardless of employment. Thanks again for sharing!
Some these mountain people most of whom probably had little education had some very wise words to say about their situation.
Generations of wisdom from generations of experience. And thank God common core did not exist in their lives.
Some of the most ingenuitive mechanical "patches" or even creations I've ever seen have been from mountain people.
Makes ya wanna give em a scholarship to MIT or something , and it's ok they probably wouldn't want it.
They didn't trust politicians -- and who could blame them? Especially when the situation is worse than ever. They'd've all voted for Trump 'cause they'd've pegged Biden for what he is: a lying, deceitful, spineless, "You ain't black" puppet-stooge whose spent almost 50 years lining his pocket with taxpayers' money.
Education only teaches you what to think, not how to think. Modern day educated folks are the absolute dumbest people I come across. They walk around with masks and scared of catching the flu.
Hardtimes create strong men, strong men create easy times, Easy times create weak men, weak men create hard times,
World history is marked with this pattern and it revolves about every 240 years.All of the great empires such as the Persians, the Greeks, the Egyptians and Trojans Are all examples of this. The Romans lasted a little bit longer than the rest but they too failed in the end. In later years you can add Britton to the list. Keep in mind that not one of these historically great empires were conquered by external forces but instead rotted from within. America is just now about to celebrate its 245th birthday and the country is rotten to the core. So sad. Thank you for watching.
Here it is 2023 and I can hear the very same conversations today. That’s crazy. And I love how Gladys had received a discount from her doc for delivering her own baby. That’s an awesome story! ❤
Grandma said, Your Riches are your Family and your Health. That’s all you need.
Amen
Grandma is Right
@Princess Buttercup you are mistaking city poverty with country poverty. In the country we could be poor but eat fairly well. We grew a large garden and my mother did a lot of canning. We had a mostly vegetarian diet but I am currently 69 years old and still working for a living so my health was not destroyed by poverty. Neither was my family. In fact I will be talking on the phone later this evening with my 71 year old brother. We talk every week or so.
Yeah, until you or a family member gets sick and can't afford proper treatment and then die. Poverty is associated with increased morbidity and tends to destroy both family and health. Poverty is not virtuous.
@@tylerchambers6246 neither wealth nor poverty are virtuous. Wealthy people die just the same as poor people. Being fat and not having to work can be just as detrimental to a person's health. As far as illness goes, apparently you are not aware of the "Patients Rights". Federal legislation states that ALL people must be given medical treatment regardless of their ability to pay for it. At one time when I had no medical insurance my son was seriously ill. We took him to the hospital and he was admitted for treatment. We were asked to make monthly payments of whatever amount we could afford. Hospitals and doctors are willing to work with the poor. Most States have free medical for the poor, maybe all of them. It's the middle income people that suffer the most from high medical expenses because they don't qualify for government assistance.
I grew up in middle Iowa, born in the 1950s and our acreage had running water in the kitchen sink but we had no indoors bathroom. An outhouse was down by the chicken coops. We had 2 bedrooms, 5 kids in one & momma, daddy and baby in the other. Mom raised chicken's for us to eat and she sold the eggs. Daddy was a trucker. Wringer washer out on the back porch, filled from a pump in the back yard. We didn't know we were poor & I look back at that time & smile!
I love your story, thank you. It sounds much like my own family and so many other Americans that made this country great. Thank you for watching
Thank you for painting that picture for me! It just made me smile from ear to ear 😊
I hope you enjoy a spectacular week!!
Iowa here too
Sounds like my grandma n papaw's when I was growing up. Great memories ❣️
If you were happy and loved you were rich.
Some people don't understand that you can be poor but you don't have to be dirty and immoral.
My Irish great grandmother, who raised 9 kids in the slums of Salford, Northern England, had a saying, "you can be poor, but you can be clean" (say that with an accent)...her husband and 6 sons were coalminers, so imagine the dirt the tracked in!
If the goverment gets out of the way
"Greeting" stranded strangers w a shotgun is pretty damn immoral.
@Barry Dillard Ever more so in these "modern" times!
Being "dirty" is not "immoral". Being lazy may be, but dirty doesn't always represent lazy either.
I am from Southeastern Tennessee. I am Irish, Scottish, Dutch, and Native American. I am so proud of my family. They fought awfully hard for me to be here today. I am the first generation, that I am immediately aware of, to graduate high school. I am pursuing a law degree with an english minor. I am determined to make my community a better one. I will never forget my roots.
becareful what you consider better
these are good honest people with a great deal of common sense. they will spot you coming a mile away.
@@chulafferty6695 these people have Tik tok and are on Facebook now
I’m told I’m Scots-Irish, German-Dutch. I reckon my family tree throws a shadow across Appalachia.
Hope you're not a liberal saying you're going to make change there. lol Good luck if you are.
@@chulafferty6695 Who is good an honest? Hillbillies? LMAO That's hilarious. That's nice of you to say about us but we have our issues.
I'm at the southern tip of the Appalachian....i live in Ellijay GA the trail starts 1/2 mile from my front porch....i love these mountains of North GA
i bet is is pretty up where your at david i wish i could get me some land up your way im in canton
And I'm at the northern tip in Nova Scotia.The mountains are beautiful.Soon the leafs will be in full color.
My mom came from North Georgia and all of my aunts, uncles and cousins were some of the best people in earth. I loved when we got to visit them. Most of them are gone now...RIP
Cleveland TN here bud
I hope to get some property up that way one day....I've lived my whole life here in Cherokee County (Hickory Flat) presently and it's just got way to over populated for me...I Love The Mountains and I wish I could spend the Rest Of My Life There
Never be ashamed! Be proud of your heritage, it made you what you are today. Real folks!
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I was raised in Roan Mountain TN and I am so very proud of my hard working, intelligent ancestors. I truly love my accent!
Its hard to believe that this is part of America the beautiful.
I'm from Swain Co. I was ten when this was filmed. All my folks lived like this .They were the salt of the earth. It was a special time to grow up there. Just thinking about it brings a tear to my eye.
I am from (Almost Heaven) West Virginia. I can remember my sweet precious Granny washing clothes on her Momma's old washboard in an old galvanized wash-tub, she worked her hands until they would dry out, crack open & bleed. Then years later I can remember she bought her very first ringer style washer. I remember how thankful & proud she was to have that washer. She always hung all their clothes & bed linens outside on the line. Nothing better than smelling that fresh mountain air on your laundry. Words can't express how much I Love & still miss my beloved Granny & Pawpaw. They were the sweetest people who ever lived. ❤️❤️
Words from 50 years ago that are especiallly relevant today in 2020.
Not that long ago fifty years !
In that same area?
This looks to me to have been made more like 60 years ago, in the 1960's. That car and the young guy's hair look straight out of the 60's at the latest. The price for that baby delivery sounds in line with that time frame too. But then, they talk about a 1970 new car, so 1969 is like the 60's yet when the 1970 cars came out.
Trust me it was 1970
In most places it’s 2020, here it’s 1990.
I'm watching this from AZ. I'm amazed to see how genuine these people are. They are so very rich in my eyes..
Very rich in Freedom
I agree with you. And I will tell you something else. Just the fact you said that shows you are special as well to see that. So many people who want the wrong things in life. Its y I don't have many friends.
As a Tennessean yes sir.. 7 generations from tn.
I never knew how poor we were until I started public school. I thought everyone lived like us..
Everyone puts their pants on one leg at a time.
I felt the same way.but it was ok
You may think your poor, but your only poor in having material thing's, but I believe you can be the richest people in the world, just on your belief's, Love, and value's! I admire these rich people! 👌🏻😊👍🏻
I grew up so poor I was jealous of people that lived in the trailer park. I'm 56 and never had any real friends because you know the saying "you can take the boy out of the country - but you can't take the country out of the boy".
I have some serious trust issues that come from those days when the only food we had was mustard and onion sandwiches. Today I live well but am not happy. Think I was happier back then somehow.
I hear that a lot, I think it has more to do with where you’re living rather than when you’re living for the most part but recently it seems that is changing to both where you’re living and when you’re living. Thank you for watching
This absolutely fascinates me. I grew up a "hillbilly," a bit further west than Appalachia. Few people are aware of this particular culture. I joined the military, and went a few places. It is amazing how few people are aware of the Appalachian Culture. The man on the porch whittling reminds me of a wise man I met in Greece. He too was just an easy going man from the country. His wisdom and kindness were refreshing.
The best, kind hearted folks you will ever meet.
My people!! I'm sure the Canucker did something to deserve it. I'm just sayin'.
Amen!
Shooting people isn't nice. Just sayın. Canadians are literally the nicest people in the world.
@@mitchellheidtofficialchann308 who did they shoot?
@@Johnny53kgb-nsa in the beginning of the video, he mentions that they don't like strangers and that a Canadian film maker had been shot a couple of years prior.
Oldest of 7, we wore hand me downs and used shoes. I walked to school sun rain or snow. 2 room school house I was the only one in the 5th grade. I poached a deer every month for mother. Everything was made from scratch, I'd go back tomorrow even in my old age.
Hard good clean life dirt poor....
Privileged adults and entitled children should watch this.
This family was very self sufficient in ways that many of us would think we wouldn’t survive.
God Bless them and people like them wherever they are now.
This family had so many smiles with practically nothing. ❤️
Well said Tracey
I'm originally from the mountains of western North Carolina the Appalachian mountains Boone NC
As a timber feller I still live it
@Liar Department your name is hilarious! :-)
In 2020, liberals call people like this “privileged,” because they’re white. And then wonder why they vote Republican.
its 2023 and somehow i wish i was back in time with yall because it is the end of the American life. America has been destroyed. R.I.P America
Absolutely agree, the lunatics are running the asylum.
These are my people. Stories my great grandparents and grandparents were these people. I'm proud to have these roots!
Same here 😊
Me too. My family heritage goes back in the hills of West Virginia before it was ever called West Virginia. The sad part is that my ancestors back then were illiterate and were simple farm hands before some of them began working for the B&O Railroad, so it's very difficult to find more information about them other than census records. I'm still not sure if I'm English or Irish because I've found records for both and there's no telling which ones are the right ones.
You should be. ❤️. I’m from Eastern Ky. I’ve lived here all my life. I do believe we were targeted by makers of the various opioids over the years. Mountain people respect doctors and do not question them. Many became addicted upon receiving strong pain meds unnecessarily. Xanax and drugs in the benzo class were popular prescriptions too. Feel anxious, take a pill. They even push antidepressants for hot flashes now. I had a surgeon try to push gabapentin on me unnecessarily. I refused. She swore it wasn’t addictive.
I remember my great grandfather ( who lived in the north GA mountains) telling me that when the stock market fell in '29 they were so poor they didn't know the difference. He wasn't bitter about it and was content with what they did have. When I get discouraged with what I don't have I think about him. Really puts things in perspective.
My grandfather was also from rural north GA (Pickens Co) in the 30s/40s. He was the oldest son of 9 siblings & his father left. His mother's home never had running water in her lifetime. They didn't get running water to all the houses til 1988. That side of the family still lives on the "mountain" but its grown up quite a bit. Metro Atlanta sprawl.
My dad said the same thing. He said they didn't know they were poor, everyone around them was the same!
So true. You can't miss something you never had.Just make do.
My uncle was just talking the other day who is Mother Said we have potatoes now go get a groundhog and we'll have groundhog in Groundhog gravy and potatoes it's just such memories to think about and things that we have to be thankful for now
@@emeraldblue5291 My father had a West Virginia home he inherited. He was one of 11 siblings and they were poor. When I went up to visit in the 80s there was still an outhouse, we got our first bathroom but I still remember pumping water. Thank you for sharing.
The big brother helping his little brother learn to read? I'm crying. Beautiful soul 💟
Damn. And dad or grandad teaching how to tie a shoelace 😭👍💗
I've spent nearly my entire life in the mountains of eastern Kentucky. Born in 1995, I was lucky enough to get just a small glimpse of the truly remote mountain life, before internet, when there were fewer roads and not everyone had a telephone or a TV. Before the mountains had been logged or strip mined. I remember vast swathes of pristine, remote mountains. I can't express how beautiful these imagines of old Appalachia are to me, before all the development and civilization. It's unfathomably beautiful. There's just so little... few roads, few houses, few cars, few stores, not much except wonderful seclusion.
This is what poverty looked like before prescription drugs.
Moon shine...first
Ha,I'm 49 and live in England our first house had an outside toilet. Kids nowadays genuinely do not know how easy their lives are.
Ualreadykno
@Holdma' Beer I would drink you under the table.
gibshredcamel no. before welfare, free medical, the internet and loss of job opportunity !
Thats the way I grew up. You took care of your family and neighbors.
KIDS TODAY NEED TO LEARN THAT!! THEY ONLY THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES!! WE AS A NATION NEED TO COME TOGETHER AND HELP EACH OTHER!! GOD BLESS YOU!!
LADY CHEYNE, I DIDNT SAY TAKE CARE OF THEM BUT IF EVERYBODY "HELPS" EVERYBODY YOU BUILD A BETTER COMMUNITY, YOU MAKE A FRIEND AND BUILD A BETTER NATION OF UNITED PEOPLE!! 💜
That man telling the boy how to tie his shoe reminds me so much of my papa.
Same here. I miss him so much. 😔
Same. It reminded me so much of my grandfather!
I come from folks like this. I smiled and cried as I watched this little film. Some of the wisest people on Earth come from the Appalachian Mountains and surrounding areas. Thanks.
And here in 2021 we're watching all of this unfold before our very eyes.
🗣For a group of uneducated people they sure are intelligent💯
Stupid folks don't last long in those hills.
Totally agree!
I am from Somalia, Africa , this is amazing, thank you for sharing, good people,
great Documentary.
I love Appalachia and everything about it. The people, the country, the music , the food. I live in Augusta Ky and have been blessed in my life .....I try to give back through several charities I volunteer with. Christian Appalachian Project is one. And as poor as they are folks take care of each other . Tomorrow Im gonna split a cord of wood for my 82 y/o neighbor ......he's done so much for me..
You have it so right. Poor people help each other, as is shown by charitable giving state by states. The poorest people give the greatest amount of their income to help their neighbors.
Hi Jay. I'm a black woman, 63. I've always wanted the opportunity to visit this area and just soak in the culture, history, etc., and have the opportunity to talk with and spend time with residents. Do you think such a visit can be arranged through the Christian Appalachian Project you speak of? I'm sincere and just know if possible, this would be the most spiritual experience of my life! Thank you!
God bless you and your family!
@@rg33jones90 you can rent a cabin or something and visit Hocking hills and Vinton Jackson County Ohio, Amish store off 93 towards Jackson and so much to see.
Thank you very much!
Thanks for putting this up! My Scotch/Irish family settled in KY/WV/Appalachia in the mid 1700’s. Bootleggers, coal miners, etc. It was wonderful to see such a documentary.
Your welcome, there are about 1600 films on this channel. It is my hope that there is something for everyone. Thank you for watching.
IMO what always seems to be neglected is how our families settled in these areas so long ago. My family from the NC, GA, Tenn area at the mouth of the trail sailed over in the late 1600's landing in New Amsterdam (NYC). Quickly they began migrating down to the NC hills. Our old ways seem hard and often backward to the rest of society. I often laugh when comments say "if they would travel they would ..." not realizing we in full knowledge of modern society. Most of my gen are like me and have multiple Uni degrees but we always return home to continue the old ways. Let people laugh. let them believe the stereo types. We will continue to teach the young our music, our ways of survival and we will never sell land to outsiders.
Great documentary on those times and how things were. I am Honduran and never knew how it was like from a grandmother like some of the viewers have said and get a glimpse until now. We were poor and had a similar childhood but its important to know history from every part of the world... Specially where you call home. Thank you for this upload!!
People like you are what motivates me to keep doing this. I love hearing stories like this. Thank you so much for watching
I think that people all over the world who have lived like this understand a lot more of what goes on in life no matter what it may be , also there is a connection no matter how far apart they all maybe . God bless ✌️
Hello how are you doing today I love your comment it's my pleasure meeting you here I'll be happy if I can get a reply from you🙏
"and I said how much are you offering to pay these people?" still holds true in 2021.
Right? There seem to be a lot of comments here from people saying they would take the Appalachian lifestyle over their own. Having grown up a poor hillbilly, and now a "city slicker," I will take my current life over my country upbringing. Both have been hard, but rural poverty is not the peaceful bliss many seem to think it is.
@@jonsnow1123 I like how you make it sound as though all of Appalachia lives in abject poverty while claiming to have a familiarity with the area. You come across as a snob at best. Please stay in your city.
@@juliebraden6911 First of all, I will stay in my city. Second of all MOST of America lives in abject poverty, it's just worse where you live. Sorry. Truth hurts.
@@jonsnow1123 truth doesn't hurt but you're still coming across as an ass. Your choice though and we don't miss you.
@@juliebraden6911 I hope you escape your abyss.
A time when people knew the human hand could do more then hold on to a smart phone .
Country going down in flames. (Tech killing country with its own consent.)
Absolutely, we live in a country of sheep.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology millions of sheep with no fleece and no good for eating... not worth the oxygen they’re using up. And they call it progress..
@@aminoto-3 Yup sounds just like now!
The left wants to make us all pore sheep!
Yes
Times have changed
I lived on a farm with my grandmother when I was very young. We had an outhouse, a wash tub and a water pump. I didn’t know we were poor 😊
Now, I’m college educated, I raised a family and they are all college educated too. I live an upper middle class life but I have happy memories of grandma’s farm ❤
My Aunt's church still has an outhouse. Most of my cousins have no internet and cells are spotty. We work to continue the old ways. You are so very lucky to have experienced that life.
You could literally pull quotes from this and insert them into today and they still fit.
I know.
It really freaked me out.
I was about 5 when this was made.
I cannot get enough of Appalachian Documentaries.
When I close my eyes, I picture the people and land.
People I would want for neighbors.
What a wonderful look at that time and place.
I love learning g about this too. I’m fascinated. It’s one piece of the puzzle. Not who owns the majority of the land.
You wouldn't want them all for neighbors. You've never grew up there in the hollers have you? LOL Growing up in a holler is like growing up in prison. You better mind your business when you're there or shit will get real quick.
@@ebogar42 I would fit right in.
I mind my business and expect others to mind theirs.
The solitude is like heaven to me.
I have dealt with crazy neighbors.
Several.
By the time I get finished, I end up being the crazy neighbor.
I prefer to not be enemies with my neighbors.
Life is hard enough as it is.
But, if it's trouble the neighbors are looking for, trouble is what they will get.
@@freedomspromise8519 Yeah, I've had a few. Our neighbor beside us growing up was the most paranoid man I ever knew. He would board up his trailer where you couldn't break the front door down. Pulled a gun on me once for going up the road too fast then said he was sorry after but he thought I was going for my gun after I didn't stop when I saw his crazy ass in the road screaming at me. Him and my uncle got into a fist fight once. They still don't talk. I don't talk to my uncle now either. He talked shit when me and his son was having an issue and we used to be close. Over the road a woman pulled a gun on me and my cousin for killing a snapping turtle and then gave me a job mowing grass. I have tons of crazy stories that happen in hollers. I don't usually have a problem with neighbors because I keep to myself for the most part and don't worry about whats going on next door. I don't remember anyone calling the police either growing up. Everything was usually solved in an argument and rarely a fight but it does happen. Especially while drinking. I don't have an issue with any of them now really but my uncle. I think it's because we were real close and the shit he said was fucked up. I wasn't too close to the other ones so it was more understandable I guess.
@@ebogar42 sound like you grew up in the same part of s.e. ky that I did.
Very stong, wise, tough as nails, tenacious and proud people, I love my roots
They’ll fight with everything they have, because they have nothing to lose.
I was only 7 when this came out but I 1 thing I do remember growing up in the 70S people were much more loving and helpful I really miss the GOOD Ol ' days GOD BLESS everyone
Money can't make a wealthy soul. God bless.
Maybe not but money sure makes misery alot easier. A rich dude I worked for, years ago, told me that that saying about money can't buy happiness is what rich folks tell poor people to make them feel better, but it's not true. Having a house, a car, being able to go on vacation and go out to eat without worrying about what you're spending goes a long way to making a person happy. Being poor sucks, don't let rich people tell u any different.
@Alan Brown he was the richest one I'll agree! I would feel rich with an armful of puppies lol! That was cute.
@Alan Brown the govt, local and state, allowed coal, timber, and the railroads to use these folks to make HUGE profits...my granddad was a coal miner, he told us stories. Sad.
@Alan Brown it is. It's terrible and even worse, the local, state, and federal govts are in on it. They care more about being reelection than they do their constituents lives.
@@melindakelley3190Money may not buy happiness but it surely can buy comfort.
Northeast TN here! I love my mountains, and my neighbors. There is a lot of love and kindness here.
I grew up in SW Virginia and another Son of the Scotch-Irish. Tough, resolute people in the mountains. There's meanness if you deserve it and on the other hand, there's kindness up most every holler. If you have mountain folk as friends you should consider yourself blessed. Ain't no better people anywheres. "Hillbillys" are tough and can make it through hard times.
I live in southern Va. near the Tennessee and North Carolina borders.
Gen X I grew up in sw va, what I learned there has served me well!
@@theagamble30 Yep! Still planting garden to harvest and can this early fall.......Looks like hard times ahead?!!!
@@beth3531 Same, Rich Valley near Saltville and Marion VA.
@@MultiPurplegurple Chilhowie, Va. My great grandparents are from North Carolina. Scots/Irish Cherokee, grandmother was a Thompson. Call is not my name, so it confuse's people...
This documentary proves something I’ve been saying all my life…. Class, self-respect, and respect for others doesn’t cost a dime, and has absolutely NOTHING to do with money/possessions (nor your level of education for that matter). My parents were both raised like this. They didn’t agree on anything for 55yrs, except for one thing… They were both on the same page about making sure I wasn’t a burden on society. Very loyal, considering, respectful, PROUD, hard-ass working people, that didn’t go looking for a fight form anyone, yet didn’t take an ounce of sh*t off of NO ONE. And, last but not least, they loved their country with the same level of passion that they hated their government with.
I agree, your comment about class, self-respect and respect for others, is very true.
Resourceful people, also.
Amen!!
Thank you, Phil LaMoore, so well said.
@Opal Allen My mother’s side of the family (Moore) are all from Virginia…they were up to their necks in this life.
The mountains are so delicious...I grew up in the mountains of Puerto Rico...same theme, poverty and lack of awareness of our Humanity...but I still remember the unity, self preservation with out help...and love.
Mountain people are the most caring of family and neighbor the love of God and family and country.
Reminded me of the stories our Mother use to tell us of growing up on Hurricane in Elliott County Kentucky. She never complained about being poor and pretty much spent every dime she earned making sure us kids had everything. She was the best, one of 14 children, we lost her two years ago, not a day goes by we don’t think about her. We are making apple butter this weekend in her honor. Loved this video. Peace be upon you. 👍✌️😎
The work that went into those quilts !
Good people. These people are the backbone of this country.
This film just popped up in my home feed on RUclips. “When a number of people stick together, you can’t do nothing with them”. Great quote. Seems to be a forgotten people to this day. I love how they work together to hold each other up. The brother teaching his siblings letters almost brought tears to my eyes. And loved his comparison of poor whites to poor blacks and how you have to fight for your freedom. True dat.
I’m a black American. Born and raised almost just like these people. This film is a great production and the contents are true.
Honestly Sylvia I don’t think it matters what color you are, what country your from or what language you speak. In my opinion this film speaks for all of us. God bless
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology Did my comment offend you? If so I apologize for that was truly not my intent. I’m just appreciative of this film. For the way that I was raised as a poor black American I can relate. Thank you, and God bless you.
@@sylviaruth5008 no ma’am your comment did not offend me whatsoever. The reason I responded the way I did was to explain, and I did a poor job here I suppose, but there are people from all over the world that identify with what is found in this film. And I really do mean all over the world. When you have time take a look at the comments it’s incredible. God bless and have a great day.
@@OfficeofImageArchaeology Thank you so kindly. I do agree with you. There are people all over the world with this similar lifestyle. Be blessed.
Rural people look poor to City people, most country people eat well and have families close,,, most have good lives now and back then. They keep their Elderly and sick at home with them, they do not put them away or tell them to go get your own place to live to the parents that raised them.
True that
I would rather call people like this my friends than some of the fake bastards I know in my life.
God bless all of them.
I remember going thru the mountains of VA in 1974 as an 18 year old with my guitar. Met many fine people and played some wonderful music with those lovely folks. Without a doubt some of the fondest memories of my life to date.
When I was in the U.S. Navy bootcamp Great Lakes in January, 1982, there were two genuine mountain men from the "hollers" in my company.
Larry Bolton was from Morning Star Kentucky so he told me. Crawford from hills of North Carolina. They were the oldest in company 006.
Larry Bolton was about 5'6" tall, blond hair blue eyes and missing a few teeth. He was one of the friendliest, nicest man I met. I would give him my cake from the chow hall. He had a unique squeaky twang when he spoke.
After completing the swim test Larry Bolton came up to me in a low voice, so as not to attract attention, and said, "You know, I shouldn't even be in the military, I have a partially collapsed lung. I had a hard time in the water". But he made it through no problem.
He was an Army vet who had come back to the service because the construction industry at the time was down.
Upon graduation, he was able to transfer his rank from the Army and boy was I impressed by the ribbons when I saw him in the Dress Blue Cracker Jack uniform (class A in Army). I think he was E7 or E8.
I met other people from Appalachia in my career and I found them to be down to earth and good hearted humble folks.
Im from ireland and travelled all over the states a couple of years ago. Honestly the most nice,honest and hospitable people i came across were in the applachia region. Would love to go back. A stunning part of america too.
It would be a privilege to have you visit again. I have 1st cousins in Galway in my bio family. However, i was raised at the entrance to the App. Trail. We are raising the next gen.s in the old ways. They hate the church's outhouse but they seem to love the rest of the old ways. They have the net now on their phones when reception is good. They can move away or go to Uni if they like. Thankfully, only a very few have left the mntns. The rest are perpetuating the old ways.
Thank you for this video. This brought back alot of good memories for me. I was born in 1959 in Eastern Ky, right across the river from West Virginia. Dad had been in the Airforce before my brother and I came along. He was a local barber because of his GI bill benefits. We raised tobacco and farmed to make ends meet. We slept good at nite, because we were tired at the end of the day. What a simple life back then.
I love watching the man whittling. I can remember my daddy whittling when I was a kid. He could whittle anything I wanted him to when I was a lil girl. I had forgotten him sitting on the front porch whittling all kinds of stuff till I seen this video. Thank you for the video.
Thank you for your memories and thank you for watching.
Love coming across great documentaries like this that show the true grit, soul, and beauty of the 'mountain people.' Both my maternal grandparents grew up in or near Appalachia, so I'm a proud descendent of some of these hardy folk. My 99-year-old Scotch-Irish grandmother, who is currently my sole surviving grandparent, still loves to tell me stories of her hard, but good life, growing up on a tobacco farm in SW Virginia. She, and her kinfolk, are a treasure, and I hope their legacy, and contributions to our country, are never forgotten.
I love this film. I’m from Western Kentucky and I can attest that the anti-politician sentiment and defense of occasional violent solutions was still very much present in my youth.
Hi. The 'Western Kentucky', caught my attention as I was scrolling through the comments.😁 I grew up in Paducah...
@@djuanawhite7826 Hoptown
@@djuanawhite7826 My father was raised in the town of Paradise , Ky. The coal company forced everyone out in 1968 and town was stripped. The only thing left of it is a small cemetery.I visited there in the 60’s because my grandmother still lived there.
This is my home they knew how to survive
@@moonlightfishin4113 i hope you are familiar with the song about your town written by John Prine it a great tribute
I think that's so sweet that their big brother is trying to teach them how to read trying to teach them their alphabet they may not have a lot of money but they're so rich in other ways
Heart and Soul.
The way they pronounce the letter R is beautiful
@@ripme6616 I noticed that also, nice sound
Yeah, he took my heart . Probably gets in a fight four days a week, but when it comes to the little ones, he was all heart and soul wasn't he?
I know all about planting tobacco, I have raised it for years, I love the mountains of NC, The Great Smokie Mountains!!
@@PeachiePeoney well there is some good land up for sale here in NC were I live. But I hope you find what you are looking for!!!
Listen to old crow medicine shows song "we dont grow tobacco round here no more". That song has a lot of truth in it
The slaves taught your ancestors how to grow it so you should know how to grow it
@@PeachiePeoney the original people of this country doesn’t have any chance of 1 acre
3/18/2022
52 years have past since this "film" was made, it is surprising how little has really changed in our society.
Some time in the mid 1970's I came across the "FOX FIRE" books. These books clearly showed how much wisdom, knowledge, and "self reliance" the mountain people really had, way back then. If you have never read these books, read the first two, at least, it can be "eye opening".
Strangely, today there is this huge movement to re-awaken those skills and knowledge, which was deemed as backward, lazy, and stupid, by our society for so long. I guess things have come full circle, so to speak. This is something everyone should see. ;-)
About the only thing that has changed is the introduction of meth.
@@pedalingthru2719 yeah that whole area is meth central now smh
Came here to make this observation. There was a brief period when this area was on an uptick before things like Right to Work legislation passed in the Reagan/Bush Sr Years that put the region back on a road to extreme poverty. And then opiates and meth showed up....
So true. The film is 2 yrs older than me and my family are further south, at the mouth of the trail. We have met modern society but we persist in our old ways, we rage on.
What an absolute treasure this video is!! I grew up in the Blue Ridge mountains of NC & I know what a hard life my grandparents had, much like yours. We grew up on hard work & bluegrass music. What I would give to have my grandparents on video like this. Thank you for sharing these wonderful memories with all of us.
Your precious memories are food for the heart. Thank you
Scots-Irish family from the Bryson City area, but I was born in Asheville. Still have my great-grandfathers sword he used in the "war of northern aggression", and it had a bunch of nicks on it- asked a historian about it (maybe used in battle), but he said probably not, as those things were used as mulit-tools back then.
Those were good folks back then - whose minds had not been destroyed by society and who were sharp as tacks even though they didn’t have much money.
Don't need money to be rich !
Ahhh still are !
These people are the "heart & soul" of the United States. Bless them all.
Amen
How are they the “heart and soul” of this country?
@@jeffvanderwerf3561 coal miners, music, culture, comes from the appalachian people. Did the fancy city people fight the Civil war? No, us mountaineers won the war for the union, not the uptight snobby yuppies.
@@jackrapier6748 Excuse me?
@@jeffvanderwerf3561 How are they not???
I bet rolling around in that Volvo Amazon talking to all those people was a blast... Just because some people don't have money doesn't mean they are not interesting to visit with... The people shown here are the salt of the earth! Thank you for posting!
God bless these people they're an important part of America and our history
This is where I was born and raised. I'm sixth generation probably longer than that from here. I love it here. I have traveled some but I'm always ready to come back home.
Reminds me of how my 98 y/o Granny grew up here in the central Appalachian coalfields. They didn’t realize they were poor, she said. Their faith was so strong and they trusted God to provide and He did. I didn’t hear anyone in the video talk about faith. I’m certain it was part of their life too. Ty for sharing this video.
I'd rather be around these people than what we have roam in the streets today. These are pure good-hearted people
Very true..
Yes it would be nice if people had the integrity that they had then and don't forget their work ethics and their god-fearing ways . Three main factors missing in America from the government on down.
Race isn't a social construct
Society is a racial construct
I'm only a few minutes in, but its remarkable to me how genuine the smiles on the children's faces are! Nowadays with all the toys and electronics and busy things life offers kids, its rare to see a smile frim kids like the children on this video display. It makes my heart so very happy seeing, and being reminded, that even with so little parents raised truly happy, well-rounded kids. It gives mw hope as a fairly new mama that my son will appreciate the simple, honest ways of life that these kids grew up knowing. A true inspiration.
I love your perception of this film, thank you for watching.
yr not wrong....i am a grandma of two boys age 8 and 11.....they call me a bitch and tell me to fuc off when i ask them to stop using their phone/electronics....i live near the beach and they refuse to go and have fun...it is a very sad state of affairs, their parents divorced...they are lost
@@loubou4043 Oh Miss Lou, that makes my heart hurt :( I feel like your grandkids are pretty typical for this day and age and I'll pray for their perception of both life and manners increase with age 🙏 I cannot believe we live in a time where kids think it's acceptable to sass, much less curse, their parents and grandparents. Can you even fathom speaking that way to your grandma? My guess is you wince at the thought of the butt whooping you would have got...same as I would have. I think all we can do in some cases is encourage the simple things; if nothing else, when we're gone and they're grown they may recall our suggestions and requests and pleas to get outside and wish they'd taken our wishes to heart or even humored us ;) Many blessings and prayers for you and your grandkids 🙏
@@loubou4043 WHAT? Turn off their service until they learn.
It's mind blowing when you realize that Appalachian mountains run clear into Vermont and Massachusetts. The Adirondack and Berkshire mountains are minor ranges in the Appalachian range. So proud to be an Appalachian American.
They also run into Canada.
www.britannica.com/place/Appalachian-Mountains
Yeah well...there's several sub ranges of the Rockies too. ..but, that don't make it all the same. The folks in these here hills and mountains from Kentucky on down thru Tennessee and Virginia and north carolina and Georgia...as said in the local vernacular...theys differnt. They don't dress the same, they sure don't talk alike. Most of these folks is scotch irish. Precious few Germans and polocks and Slovaks amongst them...like up north in Pennsylvania and up in them mountains. Nope...they ain't the same.
There's a little more disposable income running around the Berkshires but it would be kind of interesting if someone did an in-depth documentary on poverty in the Northern most part of Appalachians as a contrast.
@@mark-wn5ek You got that right! If y'all ain't got sweet tea and a lot of bbq, your definitely not southern Appalachian. Big howdy from the Johnson City, Elizabethton Tennessee area.
I grew up in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. I get it. People would come in from NYC or Albany and think that they were so much better than us.
Well, I am eternally grateful for the values that I learned in that mountain village I grew up in (Wilmington). They have kept me grounded my whole life.
These people are heart and soul of America I don’t care about who said built the great country
@Ghost Lopez how so ?
@Ghost Lopez dickhead
@Ghost Lopez wow! you're somebody on here talking shit got anything else to do with your life? I have that name to trigger liberal assholes like you
@Ghost Lopez haha you're so funny you got an IQ of a turnip Bean
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Actually the Appalachian people are one of the big reasons why we won the revolutionary war Believe it or not
I can remember growing up like this in Kentucky. I wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world. You learn to truly appreciate things. My wife grew up not wanting for things in life and she doesn’t appreciate the things we have now. Luckily I’m pretty well off now to keep up with her ways. My son has no idea of how lucky he is and I’m afraid he’ll never know. 🇺🇸
My relatives are from the Bristol, Abington, Johnson City area. All the young cousins went to my Grandparents farm outside Abington during the summer - great times. I have a soft spot for the people of this area. Hard life but these people are tough and resilient. Beautiful mountains beautiful people.
Thank you for sharing this film with the world...it made me realize how much I miss home! It didn't matter how cold it was or if there was even enough food for everyone we had each other and I wouldn't have changed any of it for all the money in the world. Think its about time this mountain girl goes home!
Was great watching that ...im in the UK where its always been a different way of life but was great to watch all those wonderful decent people with all those happy children...that simple way of life in the country sure is better then any big city with its degradation and violence...watching that makes me wish i had that way simple way of life my self and makes me smile :)
TY. Wish I had space to explain the full truth. My family's from the mouth of the Appalachian Trail. Society to us is tighter than a girdle of a Baptist minister's wife after a country breakfast of biscuit & gravy. We send the young out of the hills to earn Uni degrees but they always return home. Well, 2 of the 42 first cousins I have did not. It's true, we grow and put up (can) our own food, we build our own homes & barns. The women hunt for food, the men preach and work. That is where we are misjudged. My family has country dr's, a lawyer, a judge and many teachers. We are fully aware that our language seems ignorant to outsiders (I am not using our language here), what the outsiders do not know is that we have post-grad degrees we do not flaunt. Come on over I will take you to an all day singing and dinner on the ground, (warning, our church has an outhouse), my cousins and I will play and sing our music for you. Don't bring anyone who works for the federal gov.... just don't. We don't take kindly to feds.
Thanks for preserving this old film. It’s good to hear from those salt of the earth people. They were poor but proud. They weren’t asking for anything but the freedom to be left alone to live their lives the way they wished. In most ways they were better off than most people today even though they lacked our technology and material possessions. People should listen and learn from them. There’s a big difference between education and wisdom.🧨
The proper name for those educated folks that lack in wisdom is, “educated idiots”. That was what my father used to call them, I think he was right.
Sweetie, we are still here. My family at the mouth of the trail persist. My gen have all gone away to earn multiple Uni degrees but we all returned home to a life we knew would be hard, often bitter, isolated and sweeter than honeysuckle. We still have all day singing and dinner on the ground, our church still has an outhouse. Every single 1 of our 125 cousins have learned the songs; the women all hunt for food and the men all preach and work. We never ever talk to the Feds and we still settle our own problems. My warning to visitors in not about aggression but stereotypes. Visitors r speaking with hill folk who have post-grad degrees from many good Uni's. We are mntn drs, farmers/our own vets. If a cousin gets in trouble my family has its own lawyer and a local judge. We know our language sounds ignorant to outsiders but what outsiders do not know is that we are just like them.
Most people think we are a stupid people! If they only knew how smart we are!!! 🙌🏼❤️🇺🇸🙏🏼
Hi Mildred you are lucky to have the life style you have!
They survived because they were clever and resourceful
@@classicrocklover5615 you got that right!!! ❤️
@@terrycampbell4489 I call it blessed! ❤️🙌🏼
I have more faith in these people and I would trust these people more than some slickster from the cities.
In the 1960's & early 70's when I was a kid, my family visited my grandma in a very rural part of Morgan county, KY known as Jones Creek every summer.
For my brother and me, raised in the suburbs, this was always a great adventure.
Dirt roads, an outhouse and a hand pump in the kitchen for water was the height of the infrastructure in the early years of our visits.
And I recall just the little bits a child can pick up of the controversy when they started taking the coal out.
So many of the images and faces in this video feel so familiar from those long ago days wandering the Kentucky hills and roads.
Thank you to all involved in making this tribute to a little known slice of American life and history.
I commented earlier the same as you growing up in West Virginia an early 70s and 80s yet we used an outhouse got our first bathroom and I remember pumping water