My great Aunt and Uncle lived in Harlan on Rose Street. Otis and Ellen King. He owned a little grocery store next to their house. my folks would take me down to visit them back in the 1970’s when i was a kid. My aunt worked at the bank near downtown for many years. Loved coming down here to get away from the suburbs of detroit. completely different lifestyle than i knew until i saw it. My daddy was born in Three point, Ky in 1940 where my great grandmother ran a boarding house. Love my Appalachian roots and this beautiful town

I spent 6 months on the USS Harlan County LST 1196 while deployed with the 6th Marines. Great memories.

Thank you so much for this. I have lived in soce of the biggest cities in the world - NYC, London, Warsaw, Seoul, LA - but I was born in Harlan and want so badly to visit.

My great-granddad worked in the Creech Coal mines so I really appreciate seeing the pictures and getting stronger sense of what his and his family's life was like. Thanks for making this.

thank you for sharing this my hometown Cumberland love the history not many coal mines running any more the coal mine build them all god bless the people of these places

My mama and dad growed up in Harlan. Had two grandpas worked in the coal mines. One my dads father got killed while inside of the mines (caved in on him) got killed when my dad was seven years old so I never got to meet my grandpa. My mother's dad retired working in the mines but died shortly after with black lung he died when I was seven. Thank you for showing the video🙂

@michaelbracken5049

4 жыл бұрын

Granny #1 growed? You should have kept your ass in school

@mirandamoore461

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Bracken where are you from? This is typical Appalachian dialect. It doesn’t dismiss someone’s intelligence, it’s just a way of speaking that suits the way of life.

@stevegiu4232

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your families contribution to our country

@theespjames4114

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing , I was born in Harlan county. A place called Black Mountain.

@kenstand

2 жыл бұрын

@@michaelbracken5049 You seem to mis-interpret a grammatical difference of dialect for lack of intelligence. Then you leave a comment leaving no question about your own.

God bless Harlan my people the Clint McDowell family left town about 100 years ago also Smith's Carter's Jones Cawoods are related to us hope to go there one fay

Wow this is so amazing my grandfather was born in Harlan I have never been here Thank you

My dad's mother and her family are all from Wallans Creek. She was Fannie Calloway.

I am originally from the Bristol (VA/TN) area and live in Myrtle Beach now, but I was raised in southwest Virginia and traveled to and through eastern Kentucky many times. I enjoyed this video a lot - it was nice to see all the green scenery and rolling hills that are definitely absent at the beach. :)

@randallwilliams7338

3 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Adams, the mountain people are some good people.

Does anyone have pictures of the log cabin that was located in " machine shop hollow " between Benham and Lynch? Please contact me if you have one or need one......it became a place where miners would take breaks and eat, or so I have been told.....that was my family's homestead. My grandfather was born in that log cabin circa 1897. Thank you.....

My mom was from there .

The picture of Wallins that said 1818 should have been 1918.

Wohoo lets go cumberland!

@boeldridge2915

3 жыл бұрын

Cumberland sucks I mean I live there but it sucks

Patty Loveless version of Youll never leave Harlan alive would be the perfect soundtrack to this.

I would love to visit your state, maybe someday when you get rid of moscow mitch mcconnell you will have more tourism.....

I like weenies

I’m trying to find a picture of the fake car crash I use to see has we came off a bridge. I think it was a Memorial Day think.

Where is Colonel Harlan Sanders?

@tackyman2011

3 жыл бұрын

He done got deep fried and et.

WHAT "TRUMPY" wanted you to repeat! _How many want to relive THAT?????

@boeldridge2915

3 жыл бұрын

What

@joeyank2451

3 жыл бұрын

True America

@joeyank2451

3 жыл бұрын

Love these people

@boeldridge2915

3 жыл бұрын

What

What a cesspool

@pointyblackhat9045

3 жыл бұрын

What you call a cesspool was home to many wonderful families and friends, including mine. It wasn’t the most perfect place, for sure, but everybody I’ve ever known from there, and that’s a whole bunch, have always had fond memories of growing up there and raising their children there. My 10 siblings, my Mama and her 15 siblings, her parents, my Daddy, his parents...all from Evarts in Harlan Co. They’d never say anything like that.

@KM-pp4je

3 жыл бұрын

You are an idiot. The inner cities are all dumps run into the ground by democrats. I guess you'd call that heaven.