My great grandmother lived her whole life without a bathroom, just an outhouse. My granddaddy built most of the homes my mom was raised in, just old tarpaper shacks. I love to see the old homes being renovated. I just think of the stories they could tell...the pain, the laughter, and the tears they have witnessed. Thank you for this, Donnie. May God bless you.🙏❤️

Being from the uk I’ve never experienced anything like the scale of the areas you show or the vast range of animals caught on your trailcam, I really appreciate your videos and a look into how things once were. Thanks Donnie.❤️💚🇬🇧🇬🇧🙏🏻

Hey Donnie. My grandmother on my father's side never had her driver's license. She was born in 1913 the youngest of 13. Her and my grandfather were married almost 74 years when he passed away. He was born in 1910 and was mechanic in his early years and a woodsmith in his later years. I have several pieces of furniture that he built that I will never get rid of. Thank you so much for sharing these stories. It brings back memories of a simpler time and way of life. GOD bless you and your family.

When I see those old log houses, I think of the ordeal they had stacking those logs to make the walls. Those people had a life of work that we never had. Thank you Donnie for showing this and keeping history alive. Blessings to you

I'd take a Pioneer home over one of those mansions any day! Thank you Mr. Laws! Have a BEAUTIFUL day!

Such a shame the places of our heritage is slowly fading away. Thank you for capturing these pictures my awesome mountain brother. God bless you Donnie

Thank you, Donnie, for sharing pictures of old places. Some of them are gone but will live forever in our hearts and memories. I'm thankful that we have a treasure chest of cherished memories, and we can open the chest and think on them every now and then. Many thanks. God bless .

Hard times but good times, my grandpa was born in 1908 mountains of WNC, he worked as a carpenter and farmer his whole life. Him and my grandma never owned their own home till they was in their 50's, never took one penny of welfare and raised 2 kids, they never owned a car or had drivers license but the teaching he gave me made me who I am today. Thanks for sharing Donnie 👍

The old lost to time farm stead homes that couldn't hold on anymore bring tears to my eyes...God Bless you my brother Donnie! Thanks for the effort in producing these lovingly made historical documentaries!

I love just looking at these forgotten places and imagining the life that used to swarm around them! Thanks for sharing with us, Donnie!

Your channel is such a needed break from my doom scrolling. Thank you Mr. Laws. God bless

this is david and janette from tasmania it is great to see the old ones restored we have been doing family history for 27 years and we find head stones family homes and birth death marage certificates condos no good old country living thank you for taking the time to preserve old photos its good to see some one proud of there heritage hate to see places left to rot some times its nice to have a town get together and try to restor some have a big barby afterwoods some times little thourghts have big outcomes our house was built1929 we love it dont need mantion or fancy thing as long as you have each other god bless thank you

The stories these structures could tell. Saddens me to see these old structures fade away. Thank you for saving these images.

Beautiful old buildings. Kind of makes me sick how we've become such a disposable society. Every time I tried to comment, I started to sound bitter, then I remembered the verse: "Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also". So, with my priorities in PROPER order, thank you again for preserving and sharing our history, for the remembering and for the learning. God bless and looking forward to the next one.

Beautiful tribute Donnie, really enjoyed this one. Glad to see these places their memory still kept alive and some still lived in and kept up not forgotten. Thank you for sharing.

Memories n pictures fading away into the past, in a hundred years who will remember us ?

Thank you for keeping history alive young people need to know about these places so they can pass it on to the younger generations so they don’t get lost in time

Thank you for sharing Donnie. I love seeing these old structures and how they were built. I particularly like the double pin Reagan cabin with the cabin joined with the kitchen by a covered dog trot.

Back then, the folks believed in having a bunch a children, and they did hard work to live. Today the adults do not have time for the simple life they want complications, with less children or none at all. But when I watch what you bring on your station is memories that will not be forgotten. It is all about the simple and peaceful life which is history, and the young are missing out on a lot. So, stay safe, warm/cool, and blessings.

I hope and pray some of the young people of this generation will wake up and try to save as many as they can and rebuild places and preserve them. Respect and preserve nature and the animals.

Just thinking about those simpler times makes me want to bring those places to life again

Id love to live in a house like one of those out in the Styx. Sittin on the porch in a rocking chair sippin on a glass of iced tea watching and listening to the bird's singing. How folks flock to the City is beyond me. I guess the government found that if people can live off the land, they can't be taxed and controlled. That's what a Free Country is. God bless you Donnie, I love your stories and look forward to the next one.

Donnie I tell you what makes us unique is we have an old soul I’m 52 but I love things like this makes me sad that all the good people are gone .god bless you friend

Our history...it's what made us what we are and I love it 😊

Great show keep up the amazing work be safe my friends God bless all

When I see these old, sad, falling down houses I think about what it must have been like once upon a time. I don't celebrate holidays but we did as kids and I can imagine the joy they felt even in some of the harder times. Families got together on the special days, the pies and other scrumptious deserts they probably made, and family was everything. The boys and men that went off to war walking away from these very homesteads. Specific memories that died along with each person. How terribly sad.

Jane Jacobs said, "New ideas must use old buildings." Thanks Donnie!

Privilaged to own lil house built in 1900. Lot of work. Folks Said I was crazy. First thing was new roof. Hand huen stone foundation. still worken on aesthetics outside. but, folks come in jaws drop. All furnishing's knick naks 1900's or made myself. You know doillies quilts afgans drapes, n such. Sleep in gma's bed. Made a grapevine head board for it. Lamps were made by grand father lampshades made by grandmother. Dug out the sprig full of beer cans garbage such. Not now Happy to boast ma and pa crawdad new babies this sprig. Brakes my heart see these fine old works of loving art left to rot. Well, you keep doing what your doing Mr. Laws. Love the stories. Without history we're lost. God bless you dear.

This was the best i have seen. Yes they are old and the times were rough, but this was the good life and safe life. Today's world and times can not compare to this. Thank ya so much for sharing this. 100 PERCENT AWESOME.

Donnie I’ve been watching you for a few years now. Love your shows and your Appalachian accent. Glad you’re feeling much better and can get around now. Sending prayers and much love your way dear friend. Keep us all informed on your little woodland friends. Loved seeing all the old homes. Wish they could all be restored. See you next time.

Good morning Donnie…Continued Prayers for you…Thank you for keeping the history of our ancestors alive…Love the photos of the houses our ancestors built and lived in….❤️God Bless You…Take care and Lord willing I will see you next time 🙏🏻🇮🇱❤️💯

Thank You Mr Donnie, I Thank God You Are Feeling Better, GOD BLESS

I visited there an know that I want to live there. So many poor forgotten people. Would like to do good for these people. Not forgotten 🙏

Morning Donnie, thanks for sharing this great story of the past.

I've always loved log houses, and hoped we could buy one and perhaps move it and refurbish it. That never happened, but I still like looking at any old historical structures. It's fun seeing what Appalachian Trail hikers come across on their journey. Thank you for talking about these, Mr Donnie.

Oh Donnie! Bless your heart for finding and filming these old places of the past! So sad to see these awesome structures going back to nature and nobody caring except those of us who remember. I agree with you, bless those who are renovating and preserving these buildings! Blessings always my dear friend! 🙏❤️😊

This channel is probably my favorite KZfaq channel. Donnie always brings good family entertainment that teaches you something. I for one appreciate that. My whole family enjoys Donnie's family programming. I do have one question, why don't anyone ever show old funeral homes from the past?

Thank you Donnie!! Appreciate getting to see all these precious old places!! Oh the memories they could share!! Please take care and stay safe! Love, appreciation,hello to your beautiful wife and thank her for loaning you to us all! Hope she is doing well Till the next adventure...❤🙏🇱🇷🌹👋

Hello Sir. Kenneth here. I Do So LOVE You and your Videos. Old Timers like you, are getting scarce, Like The Corn Fields n Cows In The Fields. GETTING SCARCE. I Live in OHIO, (NOW.) I Get out and Hit The Woods, Every Chance I Get. The Bk Woods Are, my Home away from humans - Home./ It's so Peaceful bk. in here today and Pretty, it's almost, unreal. The only Human Sound, is the occasional Airplane. Wild Flowers Galore, Mushrooms, May apples, Running creek water, insects, Etc.Etc.etc... I Hate Leaving, when I'm bk n The bk. woods. It's That Beautiful.... TODAY ain't No Different. Blue Sky's n peace n Quite. I been Walking the Deer Trails Today... Just Walking , Taking it ALL in. Ohio has some of the Thickest Woods, BUSHED IN WOODS, (very bushy to say the Least.) Plenty of Duck n Hide, places for All The creachers. Heck it's SO QUITE, one can find a Bee hive ( cone included) I just Found one today, / in a, Dead ole Tree, Still standing. I Bet The cone was 3-4 ft long) And, Was it Busy... N Loud.. Anyways.... I come bk n here, Sit down and watch ur videos. (best place to be.:-) Coyote Country, you know, Where They live, AWAY FROM HUMANS, BK IN THE BK. WOODS. Yep, Plenty of Coyotes in Ohio. TKS Donnie, For Sharing 👍 Props.

Thank you brother Donnie for sharing our past history of our ancestors and their way of life. I believe one day the young people will wake up and wonder where they came from and won’t have a clue. God bless you sir and your family ✝️

It's wonderful to hear that some of those old houses are being lived in and are being renovated. I wish they would do the same thing here in southeast Kentucky. Unfortunately people here tend to let those old houses sit until they rot and fall apart where they stand. They seem to be emotionally attached to them because they refused to sell them or rent them out yeah they're not attached to them enough to live in them themselves.

Well you did it again. I want to go home Eastern Kentucky that is; it will take me 3 days to get over the longing to go back to the hills. Donnie you are a great historian God bless you be safe stay well until the next time .

Always enjoy seeing the old places, like you I hate to seem so many of them disappear. When we see these old places it reminds us of the fact of how time moves on. These old places bring up so many memories.

When we would go to the mountains of western north carolina, there was an old country store outside of Asheville on a mountain road that my dad would always stop at and get cider. The old man that ran it was in his 80's back in the early 70's. It was a sad day when we went by there and it was closed. My dad would go by there when we were in the area but it was obvious that the old man had either died or retired. One of the stores you showed reminded me of that old store. All of those old stores that we would go to have closed or simply rotted down. Such precious memories of how things used to be before the world changed.

Very nice memories. You have a great collection of pictures of buildings from the past. Very nice to see these forgotten structures. thank you for sharing your friend, Louise

I call East Tennessee my home. I live next to the tobacco barn, my great grandfather built on the land that he farmed. Thank you for the grace and sensitivity with which you speak of my people.

Thank you so much for sharing this, cousin Donnie! I never pass an old deserted home without wondering how much laughter and how many tears these old places have witnessed. As a sharecropper's young'un, I lived in a number of old tenant houses that are long gone now. At one place we lived, the main house was a plantation home, built of yellow poplar, and I hate to even look that way today, at the newer home that took it's place. While we were there, we found the old slave cemetery when we were making tobacco plant beds, buried in the brush, nothing but fieldstones marking the graves. My daddy cleaned it up and kept it clean the whole time we were there, out of respect for the poor departed, but I doubt anyone even knows it's there, now. Sad! 😥I appreciate everything you share, dear cousin, and I'm so happy to see you healing and improving. I wish you and yours Shabbat Shalom, dear cousin, and may G-d richly bless you and yours! Please pray for the peace of Jerusalem. ❤

Wow you have done your Appalachian tribe proud yet again Mr Donnie! I am amazed at just how big some of these structures are and grateful you have shared them with us here. Thank you for all you do to preserve the history.

The old houses from days gone are beautiful its so sad they left, and no one repairing them. Hope your getting better with each day Donnie. Bless you.❤

🇺🇸Good Morning Donnie, Dirty Dan, Sidewinder & Crew! Thanks for the Video!❤

I absolutely love old buildings. It is so sad to me when they let them fall down. Thanks Mr Donnie for sharing this.

Amazing these old places some are still standing. Good quality work. ❤

Amazing, these old buildings. I wish I could have saved my grandpa's farm house. So many memories in that little clapboard house. Thanks Mr Donnie.

Simpler times but hard. It is sad that they are going away when they used to be so important to the people that lived there.

Here in western Washington state structures like what you've shown are nestled up against the foothills of the Cascade mountains. Some are old logging mills along our rivers with homes built nearby for the men who worked there and the families. Most forgotten. Some still stand. Some of the small farms have new houses, barns and farm equipment. Yet, they let the old homestead stand as a tribute. GOD bless them. As already said, these men and families 160 years ago worked and worked hard.

Thank you for showing me the ways of my grandparents and great grandparents. I miss the old stories my papaw would tell me. Glad you are feeling better to show us more stories and your critters.

Thank you so much Mr Donnie. I am sad to see our history crumbling away.

I just love this kind of subject! A glimpse of the past of how people live,worked & prospered.

HI. Good morning everyone. Good morning Mr. Donnie. I hope you are doing well. I like the simple way better than now. Like you said, it is about the Land now.

The Hensley Settlement in Eastern Kentucky is where my great grandmother lived until she was 14. It was abandoned and then rediscovered and preserved. I had the honor and pleasure of seeing it with my father about 8 months before he died. He and another gentleman on the tour (incidentally the last baby born in the settlement! ) were able to tell the tour guide some history that she didn't know! Awesome place! Family cemetery is still there, too.

Thanks for sharing Donnie. It’s sad. Some of these old places are just falling down or completely gone. You take care God bless.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Excellent video as always! Thank you for your hard work and outstanding channel.

My cousin bought our grandparents house a few years ago and he was doing some work on it. Said grandpa had his respect because it was unreal the way he had put those boards together and the house was so well built it was amazing. Took a lot of work back then with not a lot of the tools we have now. We’re all elderly now and many of us have passed on but that old house is still there. Great video!

Thanks Mr. Donnie for the precious memories. Hope this finds you doing well and have a blessed day.

Thank you Donnie. Simpler times where a days work out and entertainment were life itself. A person knew where they stood at the end of each day without listening to news, or checking the stock market. The weather was a personal relationship too. Just being aware of ones surroundings, learning brought forward and sometimes improved upon to meet the days needs. Each in it's own season to get through a year. Cycling over and over with all the growing and learning it takes before we meet our maker. I thank the good Lord for your way of reminded us of the importance of life... relationship. With each other, with the land, and how we care for both. God bless you Donnie, you and yours.

I love the old days. Never get them back.

Good morning Donnie thank you for sharing the history of our old structures and buildings its always nice to see the way people lived back in the day and sad that they will soon be gone. I hope You have a Great weekend! God Bless and take care.😊❤🙏🏻

I miss the old Tobacco Barns. They were gigantic! They always amazed me as a kid.

Thanks Donnie!!. Absolutely beautiful!! It's such a a shame that they are all going away. Jim Winner

I appreciate the educational nature of your videos, Don. They represent a somber reality things change and don't stay the same. Work was physical compared to mentally draining. It makes sense as to why families don't hold to these properties. Keeping up a house costs way too much money, and trying to buy a home in this economy, forget about it.

Thank You Mr Laws for another awesome video God Bless my friend

These are some of my favorite videos to watch. I pass through these mountains many times a year and also live a foot hills of them. I find a deeper appreciation after watching these videos. I'm glad this video came up today as I travel them this weekend!

Donnie, my friend, we must be a like in many ways. I love driving around and looking for the old buildings i remember from my childhood. Not too many old homes are standing. People who move into the community are bulldozing them down. Old country stores are usually left standing as landmarks in the community. The old barns that's standing doesn't look like they will be standing much longer. Those old community stories i remember the inside from a child. The old barns, being i worked a lot with my dad. I was in many of those old barns. Dad was called to check the milk cows, a hog, and even a hurt or sickly dog. I remember the people and how concerned they were about their animals. Those animals were an important part of the family. Milk cows, new calfs, baby pigs, and the family pet for the children. But, a guardian and hunting dog for the family. It was a very important part and place for everything on those farms. Thank you, Donnie, for sharing. I am glad to see you are feeling better. Stay well, my friend, and please keep putting out your wonderful videos. Sending you blessings and prayers 🙏

What beautiful pictures. My heart has always been struck when I go by places like these. I imagine who may have lived there, how they lived, where are they now ...Thank you Donnie for sharing this valuable history!! ❤️👍🙏

Gold blessed to take out time to show these beautiful places and life and kindness of you people ❤

Ive lived in the hills of Tennessee all my life. I wouldn't wanna be anywhere else. I just seen an old log cabin torn down, it sit right beside an 1800's house. Im hoping they moved it to a museum place or something. Sad to see it go. I love seeing the old school's and churches and houses. Alot of life have been through these places. Thank you Mr. Laws for all you do. God bless you all.

Look at the beautiful wild flowers!!!!! Beautiful buildings and lawns!!😮😮❤

Hello from KY love you and your channel ❤️.Donnie it is remarkable how much knowledge and interest in the history of Appalachia you possess.I really hope you will think about your elementary schools in your area.What a treat it would be to show the youngsters your Rock Motel and the inhabitants thereof.❤

Good morning 😊 Your videos are a bright spot in my day while the world is in chaos you remind US of the old ways history animals and history that you've dug up. All the beauty that Gods provided us. Thank you for all your work 😊

Praise the Lord you're doing better, Sir! Thank you for all you do with your channel, bringing history to life for us, and keeping it fresh!

This is a wonderful video. I love seeing these old structures but hate seeing what’s happening to them. I I’ve in Georgia and you are right, there aren’t many left. Thank you so very much for sharing. God bless and stay safe. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I love the beautiful landscape of the Appalachian mountains and you are Great at capturing it and telling the stories about it ! Thank you Donnie and God bless you !

Thanks for your videos my wife and I watch your videos non stop of a morning on KZfaq on our tv we really enjoy the history of your part of our country and you have brought to light lots of old memories that we have lived through just like you and I don’t think most younger generations could make it through some of the times we went through but then again it’s like you mentioned we didn’t know any different so it was ok once again thank you for sharing and you take care.

God bless Brother Donnie thanks for a peaceful trip through God's country. Reminds me of when we lived in North Troy Vermont one of the best time of our family's life.

My Father went to one of those small one-room country schools. Was always telling us how he had to walk several miles to school everyday while his father worked the farm in South Bend IN. My grandfather made it to 90 years old and hard work was probably responsible for his longevity. What a life he must of had!!

Thanks again Donnie. I always feel sad when I see old buildings or homes that could be preserved but people just let them decay till they are no more.

I really enjoyed the old buildings ! Great video. You and your wife have a wonderfully beautiful blessed weekend! Happy Mother’s Day to the mothers and grandmothers in your family!! ❤

Mr Donnie this is a beautiful video that brings back a lot of memories. I grew up in an old house. We had a barn too. You have beautiful mountains. Beautiful pictures to look at. Good to have you back Mr Donnie. Thank you for all your hard work. And God bless you always

I enjoyed this peek into the past. There is a softness and love coming from some of those old homes.💕

Enjoyed again, Donnie, Thanks for sharing the past,Bless weekend, Tell your WIFE HAPPY MOTHER'S Day❤

Thanx Mr Donnie for a beautiful start to my day . there are still some around here where I'm at. What memories they bring. I love the old barns so much. I played in in pappaws. and the stories I could make up. Life was so hard but they never complained. I miss my mammaw so so much. God bless for doing this video.❤😊❤😊

Wonderful video! I love seeing those old homes, churches and barns. The huge trees that they had to cut to build them. I would imagine the area we saw 50 years ago was so much different when those places were built. Thanks and have a Blessed day!

I love exploring out county roads. But it breaks my heart seeing these precious places going to wasre.😢

Thank you for sharing Mr. Donnie. Love the old homes and buildings. They truly were built to last.

Thank you Donnie! I love seeing these old buildings and listening to their histories. You help keep the past alive and remembered and for that I say good on you sir! 👏🏻❤️

Thanks Donnie. It’s a bittersweet journey, isn’t it? Thanks for sharing it. God bless you .

I love these old places... but you really need to go inside to really experience them... and you really haven't lived until you've had to use the outhouse! Thanks Donnie... have a wonderful weekend! 🙂👍

Love your videos Donnie brings a lot of childhood memories back I'm 52 years old I'm from Grundy Virginia it was just like that keep up the good work bubby get the videos out there so other people can see how it was when we grew up

Hi Mr. Donnie thank you for sharing the old history of these places. I enjoy it very much and it's so interesting but also so sad to see some of these places going away. Thank you again for sharing this video hope you have a wonderful and blessed day ❤️

Howdy Donnie- those old mansions are beautiful but my heart is for the old farm houses and log cabins. If they could talk they could tell some really interesting stories. It saddens me to see them go by the wayside. Having done some restoration work on some of them l know it costs lots of money to put them back like they was. Not many people can afford to spend the money it takes to restore them back to their former glory. Thank you so much for sharing these pictures . God bless