My biological family is from Spruce Pine. l find this video fascinating. It’s funny they know nothing about me , but l know lots about them except what town our ancestors came from and my bio family still live at. Now l am getting my first view of what might have been , l grew up in the NYC area and my life couldn’t be more different than this . Not better or worse , but different. Thanks for posting .

Thanks Tony Glenn. I enjoyed that! This will definitely go in my bookmark favorites.

I stayed at the Richmond in for a couple of nightsvsone years ago. Sunday night I walked to town. The streets were absolutely empty. The only place I met someone was at El Ranchero where I had dinner.

I love these videos always. It is great to see other parts of the US I wouldn't normally get to see. I hope you got to see your Mom after this trip.

Man brother, as many of these videos as you make walking or driving through the Carolina hills I'll watch. I spent a few years in Western NC and have always had a really special connection with it. Hope to call it home again someday.

Looking forward to part 2! Prayers for you and your Mom. Okay, now I am hoping you will share some of your paintings. Now back to the tour of the small town. Loved hearing about the various buildings and your memories of your time there. So many interesting bits of information. Thanks for sharing.

Oh no I hope your mom is okay. Thank you for showing us around town, I love small towns so does my family and I guess that’s why we left Maryland and moved to Pennsylvania. The problem is that most small towns are becoming big and a lot of farms are growing houses 😢. Thank you for the beautiful views and I truly hope your mom is okay. 🙏

Thanks Tony … really enjoyed the tour. Very beautiful in your neck of the woods. Will watch part 2. Love all the guitar stuff as well !

You’ve reminded me, I too bought a guitar there - black with one knob is all I know, and an Orange Squeezer!

Wish. I could take a cruise

I bought my first electric guitar at Sulivans Music on lower St. It was a little 1 pickup white Cort.

I never dreamed we'd be on the map LOL

I don't think I've ever seen a medical complex with so many empty parking spaces. Out this way you are lucky to find parking at any facility.

Slow it down

I didn't know that about how the streets were named, or the man in the rock wall. The town has changed a bit since I came here in the mid '80's

That’s where I’m from I live in Bakersville we got snow here this morning we’re getting a big lots where food line used to be they’re finally doing something with that old building oh we have a Walmart not just ingles lol

did you ever get a haircut from Sam?

the rivers from my lay perspective: S. Toe meets N. Toe and soon pick up the Cane, where it becomes Nolichucky, then meets and becomes French Broad, meets Holston = the Tennessee, meets Emory and Clinch, meets and becomes the Ohio, then into the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois > south to Gulf of Mexico.⛴️