Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.

I’m from Covington, Kentucky. I’m 66 years old and my teenage years were in the 70’s. I had friends that once lived in the mountains. They were good hearted people that accepted me as a family member. I learned a lot from them in my teenage years and had a great time tasting pop’s home brew. I will always remember when a friend of mine was working on this person’s car and I asked what he’s charging. He said she didn’t have much money so it’s benefits. Beer, cigarettes, and a meal that was down home tasting.

@@allennezi1674 I live in Big Stone Gap VA. My family has been in that area since the mid 1800’s. We look after one another. If a neighbor needs help, we help them. I remember when my Great Grandmother passed away in 1987 the whole town showed up for her funeral. My family members who have passed away take up half of the cemetery, because no matter where they lived in the USA, they all come home to be buried.

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So sorry for your loss my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this.

Awesome my friend. Thank you so much. Glad to have you. God bless you friend.

@@donnielaws7020, it's funny, you just said "awesome" in that last post. When you were a kid, people were not awesome. God was awesome.

He always is my friend. God bless you.

Some still comment that from time to time. Thanks for sharing my friend.

you sound like you are from smokies to me Donnie.

I love your stories. Keep ‘Em coming.

Your voice ain't fake. That's how my daddy and his daddy talked. I hear that quaint twang in my own voice when I get het up!

I can't believe someone would call your accent fake. My Dad grew up in the mountains of western NC. My family originates from Madison County NC and it was my great uncles that were killed in the Shelton Laurel Massacre during the Civil War. I grew up hearing stories like these and talk like that. Thanks so much Donnie

I wish I could to my friend. I miss them bad. Thanks for sharing.

@@donnielaws7020 I think we all do; I miss both of mine & wish I could spend my day-to-days with them. But bye and bye in Heaven I'll see them again.

@@peachmelba9333 Amen friend.

Yes, Lord what I wouldn't give to be able to do that again. I do miss my Nanny.

Mary Broyhill: Yes indeed ..

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.

Thanks so much my friend for sharing this. Thank you. Your very welcome. God bless you.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.

I can remember the smell of Ole country stores. All that tempting penny candy aromas. Got big chunk in baloney/ sandwiches made rite there in the store/ plus a cold drink. Moon pie if we has a few more pennies. Loved the store people. News from around world was spoken in those Ole country store

@@bettywhite8407 Thanks for sharing my friend.

You explained that very well! Hugs friend💕✨

Exactly

You can my friend because your from the country my friend. A lot people outside of these mountains comment I can't. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Yep..me too..lol

I was born in georgia and have spent half my life in east Tennessee . i use to call my grandma ( memaw ) when i was little . havnt heard someone say that word in a very long time . and im only 33 . i understood every word in this video including your friend from kentucky

Pawpaw always said it was hard to get an education looking up a mules ass ! I so miss him and hate my little ones couldn’t know him and her as I did ...

I was raised in Pennsylvania, in the city. I can understand him perfectly.

Awesome! Thanks for sharing that my friend.

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this. God bless you.

Hello Mr Laws wow 😊how interesting I just came across your channel and you have me spellbound about the history, life and superstitions of the mountain people and may I say your commenting voice is very soothing and informative so I just wanted to say Hi from the Pacific coast of Canada British Columbia just above the state of Washington God bless and cheers Canada 🇨🇦

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Your welcome. Thank you for sharing your family my friend. He must have been good and loving man. Worked hard all his life. Thank you.

I’d be so proud to have an amazing heritage such as yours 🥰🥰

My great granparents were half Cherokee

I know Gastonia. I lived in Mount Holly for years. My daddy died recently too. His mother was from Del Rio, TN. I miss spending my summers up in those hills.

Cried reading your post. That was my Papap who raised us. He gave it all for his family from the time he was 13. The oldest of 7 children, he was orphaned soon after his family arrived here from Sweden. The old Swede, my Papap, the greatest Man I have found in my 64 years. Can't wait to see Him again.

I'm trying my friend. They are leaving us fast. Thanks for sharing.

Hi Donnie I agree with Mr. Clark. That would be wonderful. That would be worth it’s while. Thank you so much for sharing this true American history. They were and still are a very special breed of person. And you were lucky enough to have been a part of it. Thank you so much for sharing, looking forward to your future videos. All the best, Michele🇺🇸

Foxfire Books

That would be awesome! I’ve got a few old timer friends here in the smokies of NC that would be epic to interview! Great idea! 🙏

Agreed.

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless you!

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend

Absolutely.

Angus, our Appalachian Mountain range goes all the way into the maritime provinces of Canada. That makes you an Appalachian Highlander like us!

MacLeod, I sense a little plagiarism here. Can you honestly tell me that you're the author of your post?

@@dodgecrockett3474 'S urrainn dhomh sin a dhèanamh gun teagamh. An urrainn dhutsa?

Thanks for saying my friend.

Maybe not

We are still here in the mountains. Come join us.

@@nanab1579 I am to my friend.

@@nanab1579 we sure are!!!

Thanks for sharing my friend. Glad you enjoyed it my friend.

Hey Hope you are well! Maybe you can visit my history channel! If you decide to visit my channel let me know you are coming over from Donnie Laws channel, I want to acknowledge him! Stay safe!

Amen to that!!!

@@donnielaws7020 Donnie you say that they mixed with the Indians. Which Indians? Were they mostly Cherokee or what? I know people from there say they are Irish/Cherokee. Were there any other Indian tribes?

@@saphireblue3563 I’m from this part and we are Creek Indians

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend. God bless.

My nanny would make me fried chicken gravy and biscuit almost every morning I was there. I wish I could sit in that run down trailer in front of that old air conditioner one more time and talk to her again we didn't have much and was considered to be in poverty but to me it was home and I wish I could be there again just for a day.

Thank you friend for sharing your memories with us. God bless you.

My dad preached at Englewood Church of Christ when I was a child!!

Thanks for sharing my friend.

I loved this yeah .. we talk like that in our family.. we called it a toliet!!! Love these stories... Bless you ,!!!

You did a very good video. I do remember all your info. We all miss those folks and those good old days. Lot of fun then. I love your accent cause it real with that good spirit.

I have lived in the mountains of wv for 80 years and I know what it is like to be a hillbilly.

Same!

Thank you so much. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Amen

Fox fire

Awesome Thanks for sharing that my friend.

My family is from sand Gap Jackson County. There by the frostette.

@@ricktempleton3415, yep!!! I know exactly where that’s at. Nice to meet you!!! 👍

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.

I agree the kids nowadays would never make it if they had to live like this but I think it would really good for them an eye opener.

Thanks for sharing my friend.

@@donnielaws7020 Were those pics you as a young boy and your family?

@@fyt00000 Not in this video, Just pictures to tell the story with.

Robert Crewz, You should be proud, sir. You were blessed. Wishing you the best.

@@nathanielovaughn2145 Thank you.

Thanks for sharing.

Beautiful stories

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing. God bless you.

Come on in my friend. Glad to have you. Thanks for sharing.

Probly those folks as much of us are from the UK.mine settled in the Good ole South of the USA.

I feel the same, and I'm fifth generation Australian. We've lost our way of talk - it's rare to hear anyone under 50 who sounds really Australian.

Mine were Welsh, English, and Irish.....landed at Baltimore in the late 1700s. I was in Tottenham back a few years ago and there are ALOT of people there that look like my people..... I grew up on a Mountain called Sand Mountain in extreme southern Appalachia...

I’m in those mountains!! ❤️❤️🤗🤗

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Same thing with my grandmother there was nothing that woman couldn't do. When she died a lot of the old ways went with her.

@@vickierinehart4434 Amazing people. Whenever I’m feeling overworked and underpaid… I think of them and it kicks my rear RIGHT in gear!!!

Even do there’s an ocean apart…the stories from Appalachia resemble so much my people at the mountains..hard working people, seen a lot of hard time, knowing all about medicinal herbs, the way of cooking an how they appreciate what they have, God bless all of them…..

It's not too late ✌️

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing this.

Awesome my friend. Thank you so much. God bless you.

Glad you enjoy it!

That’s so true

Not only is our history being lost, they are trying to erase it or change it, sadly. 🥺

@@dicktimpano8807 Sad!

72 now, came to central FL. in 57 from Arkansas, not mentioned in Appalachian trail map but remember trading the pop bottles for candy, RC or an occasional loaf of bread. And of course

Wow, Thank you kindly friend.

PLEASE write a book! You could write volumes. Binge watching after stumbling across your channel, so happy I did, and subbed. Can't thank you enough. For a long time, I was almost ashamed of my heritage, but cherish it now more and more and am proud of it, thanks in part to the measures to which you go to preserve it.

I absolutely love this. I'm from NC about 45-60 minutes from the NC VA state line. I'm very familiar with the accent, outhouse, lol. I've been teased for the way I talk in a good way and in a hurtful way. You brought back so many wonderful memories. I relate to more than the accent and outhouse, though, believe me. Thank you so much

There’s actually a book called foxfire. Supposedly a good series and it was written by high schoolers back on the 60s i think

@⭐heather⭐ You should hear our accents and how they can vary from northern NJ to the southern part where I live. The northeast part of the state is like a New York accent and down south Jersey here is like a Philly accent. I have met people from a small part of Salem County here that talk like they have a heavy, southern accent and some are difficult to understand. This is strange in a northern state but if the Mason/Dixon line didn't go around NJ, it would bisect it, right through south Jersey

Awesome my friend. Thank you so much.

Wow, thank you my friend. Take care over thing.

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome my friend.

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.

Thank you for that story. Thanks friend for sharing that.

YES. Cooking on a wood stove is an art. But the flavors of everything are just the best. I learned humane way to butcher chickens, hogs and ducks. Animals are not pets, except for your actual pets. We rose worked, stopped and rested according to the sun loved it

That’s all true…my ancestors separate from Appalachia by an ocean….I still smell these red beans and pork, white rice, ham , all outside cooking.

My "Aint" Hilah (step-grandmother) could make that old woodburner sing...half a dozen different temperatures, from simmer to boil. Biscuits, eggs, bacon and beans all came out perfect. My grandfather could percolate coffee but the rest was women's work. And we had a coffee can for used skillet lard for tomorrow and a slop jar under the sink for tobacco juice and scrapings, best fertilizer ever. Didn't waste anything. Both RIP.

Even in the "cities" out west, many places didn't have indoor toilets. A friend of mine tells of the 'shed' out back where the toilet was located for years. After they got indoor plumbing, it became a sort-of mother-in-law apartment (not sure if it had a toilet though! I think it was closed up by then). An immigrant family (Italian-German) with 7 children, a cousin and an aunt, all sharing a very small house. Good times!!!!

Ye they where. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Awesome my friend. Thank you for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

@@donnielaws7020 thanks you Donnie, god bless you and yours as well my friend.

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Awesome. Thank for sharing my friend.

My dad was a miner in Powhatan Ohio. Born in hazard Kentucky. I’m the third of my name.

My Father same. I am older than you. But our dads might have been same age range. He shared some ways he grew up with in his youth and passed on bits of wisdom and info about that. I remember everything he shared well. The people are different both there and coming from there now days. Still, it's better in many many ways in these places. Pleases there are some who continue with traditions and a better way of life. Kindness and common sense- the details go far and are appreciated. I'm so happy Mr. Laws is making these videos.

@@donnielaws7020 you are a good man. I would like to travel around and meet people in the hills and find other folks to play my banjo with as we sit and talk about stories of the days gone bye..

I grew up in Eastern ky Appalachian area I used to hate it as a kid but love it so much now since I've traveled around

WOW. Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

I'm from eastern kentucky. I'm 32, lived there til I was 27. Been poor my whole life until now... I didn't know I could do the same work and become somebody somewhere else.

I was born and raised in Kentucky born in 1946 went to one room school until 8th grade I still live here I tried different states but had to come back to hills of Ky wouldn’t live anywhere else i raise my garden can and dry my food still fish in the ky river just couldn’t live anywhere else

@@alicereece8772 Very, very few relatively unspoilt places like that left on this planet! Anywhere like that is worth far more than its weight in gold. I hope you can keep it and never have to sell up.

Awesome my friend. Your very welcome. God bless you.

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend. God bless.

It is so true ant it. Thanks for sharing my friend.

My great grandparents on both sides of the family were from southern Appalachia. I remember my great grandma and grandma cooking on a wood stove. Best biscuits and fried chicken you ever ate. Now live in Texas but have been told many stories as well enjoyed

I'm not judging you. It's the way of life and the way of the culture of the Appalachian people.

Exactly my friend. Thanks for sharing.

Me to! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.

It is sad my friend. Thank you for sharing this my friend.

Hey ya'll. I'm a Cherokee County gal upstate SC. I miss my land and the feeling of being one with nature. I hate the city, just no jobs or non-cousins fir marriage in my home. I miss my MawMaw and PawPaw who are deceased. The population was about 1400 in the 80's, but has dwindled to about 809 these days. Thank you for the feeling of home and a familiar language. God Bless.

@@user-ok7vd7nl7b God bless you friend.

I was born in 1957 and moved to Montana when I was 7 but I can still find all these words in my childhood memories and one time I read a book about old words and sayings in Western Ireland that were being forgotten and people didn't remember what they meant anymore and I read them and understood about 85 percent of them from hearing them from my older mountain kin when I was younger

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Awesome. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

I'm 78 good old Pinto s. Corn bread and tatoes .eggs from the hen house. Good cured pork all winter. Hog killing in November. For the winter season. Mom.making go home made sausage. Still would like to revisit those days. You wanted a cake you baked it from scratch. Go days for sure.

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Glad you enjoyed it. Yes our history in leaving us bit by bit. We shall never forget it. We must remember it for my children's future. Even though they won't seem to care. Thanks for sharing my friend.

I grew up in north Mississippi as well and still live here. My mama talked like this she would say, "Arsh tater, poke for grocery bag and ate biscuits with onion for dinner ( most call it lunch). Her parents were sharecroppers and soup beans and corn bread was always for supper.

We still call it coke, 😆.

Love that!! We still pray every meal, out loud if there is more than one person at the table. And in restaurants, we will hold hands and say grace before the meal. AMEN!!!

OMG! De Soto, Tate & Marshall Co. here! Still here! So many memories! My granny was up by 3 & banging around the kitchen LOUD! If she was up starting her day, everyone else needed to be up, too! My first sense of the morning was the aroma of bacon frying & coffee brewing! I slept on a twin bed in the living room right outside of the kitchen! I'd lay there & just watch for a minute & then jump up to help her & with the farm & gardens! Sweet memories!

Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Your very welcome my friend.

Thank you friend for sharing this. God bless you.

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Me too. I Google Earth my areas about once a week just to look and feel it closer.

@@barbaratatton3855 Ms. Barbara, you made my heart ache. I grew up a Yankee in WNY, in a built up city. I hated it. My Dad and my Wife are from the Adirondacks, and my Wife and I moved up here 8 years ago, and I will never live in a city again. My first "boyfriend" (older than my Dad by 3 years) was born and raised in Asheville to migrant workers on a "bokker" farm. Somehow, he ended up in NYS, and alcohol eventually destroyed him. I loved his Mama. She was literally the feminine version of him; a tall, strong, deep voiced woman with tired gentleness and every word and movement came with thought. Lil and I shared the same birth name, and the same nickname. I loved her with all my heart, and now that I am close to 50, I realize now her distress at my naivete and blind adoration for her son. She was so good and kind to both of us. Although I know now I never got the real truth about his life, his Mamas or why the left Ashville, (Lil ended up in Maryland) but I know the crux of it came from leaving the one place in his life where it was both heaven and hell for him, and for deciding to never go back. His broken heart spoke like his words. Like yours, Ms. Barbara: simple but absolutely powerful. I wish I had had family and community that I felt I belonged to. Although my family of choice is miniscule, my Wife (who showed me the house she lived in as a kid with a double seater attached to the back of the kitchen!!) The woods, the mountains, the stillness and the simplicity are the family that renew me each day like my Higher Power I hope you have a chance to visit home again. I may be wrong, but when the mountains call to you, there is no other place our weary, wandering hearts find peace. Peace to you!

@@7lilly5 💜. Thank you for sharing this sincere and beautifully written expression of your experience. Your message is clear and vivid imagery with words. Lovely. I understand 💞

I'm Alabamian too, nice to see someone else from around here

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Which God is that?

@@barneybiggles Our God and father of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ my friend.

@@donnielaws7020 What about the other 11,999 gods that have existed?

@@barneybiggles They are false gods. (And you have way underestimated their number 😆) There IS only ONE true and living God 😁😁👍👍👍

So true my friend. Thank you for sharing this story. Your very welcome.

Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

@@donnielaws7020 ☺ Awww, it's my pleasure! Thank you for keeping our Heritage alive!!

@@jamiejessee7196 Your welcome.

Awesome. Your so very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

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I love them too,I love country living. I’m getting old at 64 and still love it. I was raised in Nashville and moved 45+ years ago to East Tennessee ,I dearly love it and wouldn’t live anywhere else. I’m alone now but can do a lot for my age. Just wish things had turned out a bit different,there is nothing like working side by side and gardening raising cows and cutting hay.

@@Justme-jy7vo I used to do all these things with my paternal Grandparents. It never seemed like work because it was such a pleasure to be with them in whatever they were doing. If I could go back a few years, I'd probably live in East Tennessee also, or maybe North Carolina. Some of my best memories were made there.

This does feel foreign and un-natural especially the past Few decades. I'm glad to have lived in era where these ways were a norm.

Awesome and Welcome! Thank you. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Hey Duane I know that area well. From Nickajack to Guntersville, the Walls of Jerico to Sand Mountian, RusselI Cave to buck's pocket, I love every inch.

@@bryanburnside9783 Yeup. I love. The mountians. Nature. Born and raised in the Appalachia. Part Cherokee. My grandfather. Didn't live far from the reservation or res as we call it. But now I live in the lower Appalachia. We just good old home folks. Hope your doing well. Friend. Take care now,,.ps I love the bucks pocket erea. Nice little park. There,,

@@duaneholcomb8408 things keep going like they are and we'll get our shot at living off the land, Jackson county is a good place to be

@@littlet-rex8839 I'm sure we Will friend. Take care,,

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Oddly enough, Tom Landry (from South Texas) would speak of playing the Warshington Redskins.

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

I'm 72, came to central FL.

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.

Our pleasure! Thanks for sharing my friend.

Right there with ya from WNC

Ditto!…Smokies of NC here neighbor. Blessings💖🙏

I might not speak southern enough for some or all the time, but I teach my son southern sayin's and what they mean. This may be 2021, but I feel our children still need to know what some older people mean when they say certain things. I'm from WNC too. Very proud to be born and raised and God willing will die right here.

I'm a northeast Tenn. girl myself. Wouldn't want it any other way. Am proud to tell it.

That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.

So true my friend. Thanks for sharing this.

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.

That is awesome! Thanks my friend for sharing.

My mother worked for a man who had gone deep in to the mountains searching for stills and taking census back in the 30's.He went deeper into the mountains that he could not understand when the people talk.They had heavily accented Scots Irish brogues. They showed him old chests full of clothes in silks and velvets from ages ago brought over from their homelands and family bibles encrusted with jewels.He said many of them would be rich if they had removed the jewels from the bibles.He saw many ,m many people with birth defects because of inbreeding.He said they all had souls like the angels.

Never forget where you are from. Thanks friend for sharing.

This Buckeye gal talked the same way- reckon I always will- a lot of good folk in my heritage as I bet there are in yours. God Bless, you hear?

@@peachmelba9333 You to my friend;

I think I usually said 'pop' growing up in the west, although I probably say 'soda' more now (although I don't drink it, so I don't say it too often!) Git was also quite common and still is. however, wash has always been wash and never warsh. My friend from NY said a lot of 'strange' pronunciations! Like 'dowel' for 'doll'. 😉

Western PA here too. We still say pop lol. I do remember warsh from when I was little. Wow haven’t thought of warsh in a looking time.. Oh we mostly call them cricks too

Thank you so much my friend.

Awesome my friend. God bless you. Thanks for sharing this. Your very welcome.

I know the feeling. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Ha ha!! that is very descriptive! I have a friend who had the same setup out here in the west - about the same time too! that's funny about the storm taking out the toilet (although it probably wasn't at the time!). thanks!

WOW! Your are very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

SPOT ON LISA , EXCELLENT SPEAKER , THOSE WHO. EXPERIENCED A HARD LIFESTYLE , LIVING DAY TO DAY WITHOUT HAVING MUCH . THEY HELPED EACH OTHER , THEIR FAMILIES & OTHER INDIVIDUALS , BARTERING REPLACED MONEY , WORKING SUNRISE TO. SUNSET TO LIVE DAY TO DAY ALL PART OF OUR U.S.A. HISTORY , REGARDS TO ALL , PAST , PRESENT AND FUTURE , OUR COUNTRY MOUNTAIN PEOPLE .

At 78 .I know about push mowers I have pushed them. Very hard to do. And brier sling. More hard work. Oh and the push mower did not have a gas engine..

I am 59. I mowed our yard and my grandparents yard with a push mower. Cut the grass good with just you pushing it. No gas! Hard work. Would love to have that old push mower. Once in a while there will be one for sale. These get gone quick. Both sets of grandparents had huge gardens. Some rented part of their land to neighbors so they could grow a garden also. My grandparents in Tennessee didnt have a bathroom, just a two seater outhouse. Small one for the kids and the bigger one for the grown ups. Sears magazines always in there. Cows walked all around their property. Just dodge the cow patties. Night time you used the bed pan. The same grandparents had a spring that ran through their property from the mountain. Best fresh cleanest water I ever had. It was always cold. My PawPaw had a dipper to get fresh water from the spring. My MawMaw made homemade lye soap. Best soap. It smelt so good. They finally got a new home built with a bathroom and running water. I was about 10 years old then. I have great memories of my grandparents. Loved to go to the beautiful mountains in Boone, NC and Bristol (Shady Valley), Tennessee.💞 My favorite is the Blue Ridge Parkway. 🥰 Your voice is geniune. Thank you for your channel!

WOW! Thank you. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Thank you friend. Thanks for sharing this.

Thanks for sharing my friend.

I would love to find one to

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Glad you enjoyed our home land.

@@delorestaylor8114 Yes very much. I lived in E. TN as a teen. Miss my kinfolk.

Awesome my friend. Thanks so much for sharing your memories. Thank you. Your very welcome.

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Best people in American

@@Joned9954 🙏🏻 God Bless You!

@@Perfectly-Imperfect I love talking and being around that have lived this way. Good people. My parents lived during the depression. We didn't have a inside bathroom until the 60's.mama canned everything she could. They had a garden ever year.

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@@Joned9954 My parents were alive during the depression to & I remember they had a garden and canned until they just weren't able to anymore. I remember people having outhouses to lol I wish we could go back to those times. The world is crazy these days.

Thanks for sharing my friend.

Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

Thank you friend. Thanks for sharing.

I’m from the Ozark mountains of Missouri and our old culture was very much the same way and I love Australia, I’ve been there several times

Thank you so much for them kind words my friend. Thanks for sharing your story my friend. Please take care.

We are from the Newburgh, NY area before we retired to Lee County, VA.

@@raymondvarinakowalik5438 I know Newburg well...husband worked at Electra Supply for awhile then Dept of transportation in the drafting dept. Use to go to Minawaska, Mohonk to rock scramble. Beautiful area!

@@andreaszule1558 We used to hike the Hudson Highlands just to the south of Newburgh and across the river in Beacon (Mt. Beacon). And now we live in the Cumberland Mountains. Love it here ... so peaceful and serene.

@@raymondvarinakowalik5438 my husbands family came from Beacon, Cold

Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you my friend.

Thank you friend for saying. Thanks for sharing that.

Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.

Thank you friend.

Thank you so much for sharing this my friend.

Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.

Your welcome and Thanks for sharing my friend.

I've only ever noticed an accent in (south) eastern Ohio. Part of me would love to go back to West Virginia where I spent summers with my Grandma, but WV taxes you to death, and drugs have become a real problem in many small towns. I think this is happening by design, but that's a different subject for another day.

I was born in NE TN and I still pronounce those same words the same way and still have people correcting me...

@@ccrum1127 My father was from WV, but he seem to has shed most of his accent...except once in awhile when he would say "bush". It sounded like "boosh".

You could do a lot worse I guarantee you! I been all over while serving in the marine corps and by far the kindest most compassionate helpful and loving people you’ll find right here ! Couldn’t wait to leave and then broke my neck getting back HOME ! God bless