Just can not beat good old down home mtn. folks!

have visit smokey mts on numerous occasions and always love it, especially cades cove.

@josephdeffendoll3056

5 жыл бұрын

Cade's cove where my heart is.

I loved this.because it happen,it's where a lot of us came from

Lovely documentary on a wonderful time gone by. Reminds me of my grandparents in Nebraska. Such great standards to live by + pass on to future generations. Brilliant! Thank you so much.

This documentary made me so happy I almost started crying 😭💚💙💜

Great sharing of how our forefathers worked and lived. Many thanks.

I love hiking in the Smokies, but also appreciate the history that has been preserved here. Hiking along the trails it's hard to believe that there were once several settlements, farms and logging operations in what is now the park.

Wonderful historic video. My husband and I went to The Great Smoky Mountains last week and the history and nature were what interested us. I love this place and it is cool to hear from people who may have lived in the homes we visited. Thank you for posting.

The homeland of my ancestors. I recognize that Creation story.

Love the smokie mountains...the history of the people is so captivating.. Yet to say they led a simple life can't be true! From all I've read it was a very difficult life....it is our lives today that are over simplified... technology and endless paperwork needed for everything complicates our lives.This may sound contradictory... And in some ways it is. By oversimplifying so many aspects of our lives we have caused deep underlying problems that make our modern world complicated and chaotic!

@TheOutlaw256

7 жыл бұрын

when they say they had a simplelife they dont mean ,it wasnt hard .they meant that it was without all the goodies of the world.no store bought things, they made what the needed .it was a hard life..my grandparents lived it..i listened when they talked.

Great people from a historic area of our country

Boy the hard work of those Women and Men. Something that us people today know nothing about. I sit here and watch videos like this one and I see or say . . Man I Got It Awesome right now in my life. I hope that this video burns in my heart that I will do better as a parent and a neighbor to be more helpful and caring of others. God Bless Those That Built Our Country for Us To Only Let it Go to Hell like We Have. Shame on Us

@rossdithers4210

6 жыл бұрын

Dave Norris You know,, I've said this many times, the women of those days were tougher and more fit than the men of today! I remember the work that own mother did as we children were growing up . She did everything as far as what today is called " house work" plus when all of those things were done, she headed to the fields to help my dad tending crops and worked just as hard as he and after that, she built a fire in the.cookstove and put supper on the table. She never stopped nor slowed down until just last year she went home to rest forever!

10:50. Church, Family and hard work, these where the foundations for building a prosperous community. This concept is pretty much gone now.

@abacobeachbum

7 жыл бұрын

False narrative. There are more ways to build a foundation than one prejudiced view. Tell that church story to the supposed witches who were executed in Salem, or to the supposed heretics who were slaughtered during The Inquisition, or those who would dare question the church on science and astronomical issues. People in small towns censor in the same ways, just not as violently. They will blacklist you in a hot minute. These "church" people were responsible for the Natives being run out of their home territory, and subsequently marched to crappy Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. We wouldn't be as advanced as we are today if we'd left it up to the church.

@scottcaldwell7480

7 жыл бұрын

I guess what we dislike or disagree with is now called a false narrative.

@abacobeachbum

7 жыл бұрын

Your key words here are, "I guess." How bout a little more confidence and something more substantial to counter what I said? Or did you just typically gloss right over all it?

@stephaniesummers1570

5 жыл бұрын

Substitute church with community

@ladymaiden2308

5 жыл бұрын

Scott caldwell dude, you're just phoning it in. If you can't think for yourself, don't argue. The truth of the matter is, the word church is either a good or a bad thing depending on where you point it. For example, I bet you would wholeheartedly denounce whatever Church fuels the Isis movement. And Hitler thought the Jewish religion was Satan. And I'm sure you insist that your church is perfectly pure. Just like the rest of them. So subjectively, Church in and of itself... it is no basis for comparison. And more often than not, it is cause for Destruction since everybody is so sure that their church is the right one and they're willing to push everyone aside and murder or slaughter them in the name of their God. So do you think the Christian God really wanted the Cherokee pushed out? Because according to the holy writ of the time, that was the claim. In saying this, you're basically calling the Cherokee heathens. Bravo.

Love this old history

@josephdeffendoll3056

5 жыл бұрын

😘

One hundred fifty years ago the people of the Great Smoky Mountains were even more divided in their Confederate/Union allegiances than people elsewhere in our sharply divided nation. Although both Smoky Mountain states, North Carolina and Tennessee, formally seceded from the Union in May of 1861, the hardscrabble mountain farmers of extreme east Tennessee and far western North Carolina saw things differently than most others in their respective states. In 1860, as the threat of war mushroomed, voting records indicate that fewer than 20% of residents of the three Smoky Mountain counties in Tennessee (Blount, Cocke, and Sevier) supported secession. In the North Carolina Smokies-Cherokee, Haywood, Jackson, and Macon counties-about 46% of the population favored secession. The reasons for these intra-state divides are complex and may never be completely understood. Certainly fewer mountain residents owned slaves compared to families in more prosperous areas of the rural South. Mountain folks' long-held loyalties to the United States and a distrust of powerful and wealthy pro-secession groups may have also been a consideration. Some saw the impending conflict as a "rich man's war but a poor man's fight," and many ruggedly independent mountain families just wanted to be left alone.

@minnowpd

9 жыл бұрын

Michael Terry Aye, The southern Appalachians were ruined by the civil war. it went on for years as feuds rolled on and old scores were settled. Even today when they speak of "the war", its the enduring legacy of the civil war.

@lonnieclemens8028

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Terry Good insight Michael. I was glad to read your post.

@e.macdonaldoutdoors7825

8 жыл бұрын

+Michael Terry Firstly, I am from just southeast of the Cataloochee "holler". I'm not sure where all of this Civil War comment came from, but I would sharply question the voting records as accurately reflecting Civil War loyalties in North Carolina and specifically the mountains of Appalachia. As in any civil war, loyalties are divided within geographic areas and even within communities. However, despite the very strongly independent and self-sustaining lifestyle my mountain people, there was very-little-to-none Union sympathy. My Great Grandfather (yes!) fought in the Civil War! What is more important for this documentary is the glossing-over of the disruption and dislocation of entire communities upon the creation of the Great Smoky Mtn. National Park. Any reflection on mountain life is wonderful, though.

@TheOutlaw256

7 жыл бұрын

i dont know where you got all your info but thats not the way it was. people from the hollers and hills in all the southern regions went to fight and leaned toward the southern cause. it wasnt slavery they fought for, it was as they thought northern aggression and keeping their land .they believed that yankees were coming and were going to take their land away and their way if life..they were either all for the sourth or they didnt want any war at all. the leanings for the north were more from west tn n. kentucky. my info info is from some of the ones whos parents fought in the civil war and some of my family that also had people in the war.

@minnowpd

7 жыл бұрын

We we were, and still are "Yankees". The vile secessionist scoundrels who tried to rob our glorious banner of half its stars were "Rebels".

Great stories!! Thank you for posting.

My Family is the Hannah's and the Messers traced back to the 1700s its a rich history full of stories

@TheOutlaw256

7 жыл бұрын

my family also can be traced back atleast to the late 1600s my family fought in the revolutionary war.enjoy all the rich history of my family .from ireland and scotland , cheerokee and another tribe i cant even pronounce let alone spell..ain the stories great !

@suenetteedwards5965

7 жыл бұрын

TheOutlaw256 I have read that a lot of the Scottish and Irish early immigrants settled in the mountains from above WVA on down the Appalachian states. They were drawn there as they were a hearty, hard working and independent people. I come from the foothills of the Appalachian so. Both my family's go way back in that area.

@rossdithers4210

6 жыл бұрын

renee harbottle Yeah, I know what you mean! My folks were from there and most of us still live close yet! These were good honest hard working and tough people! There were no slakers among them and everyone of them had something to do with helping out.

@rossdithers4210

6 жыл бұрын

renee harbottle Then if your folks are Hannah's , then I would suppose it's a good and likely chance you are related to Mark Hannah. Good man!

I'm from the area and have camped and rode my horse over these mountains. enjoy the village and seeing the elk

Brings back memories of Mississippi we had a dog trot with no heat so you got hot in the living room and ran like the devil and crawl under the covers. Some times we heated bricks and put them in the bed. Wouldn't trade that time for anything.

@rossdithers4210

6 жыл бұрын

rebelrandle HEY, I hear what you're saying!!

Great narrative and documentary. Thanks for posting it.

The settlement of Oklahoma didn't start until around fifty years later, but conditions were about the same for several years. Oklahoma being flat helped pull it out a little faster since the land was easier to clear, farm, and travel. That and the Cherokee strip connecting Texas to the railroads in Kansas.

Absolutely fantastic.

Thank God ima country boy. Kentucky proud.

They lived a simpler and better life back then.

@ladymaiden2308

5 жыл бұрын

Topdog you say that. You say it was simpler. Have you ever lived without electricity or water? The definition of simple is walking into your house that you simply open with a key, flipping on some lights and running the hot water with a flick of the wrist. Have your water piped in. Buy your groceries at the grocery store. That is simpler my friend. Finding the proper place to dig a well? Building a Spring House? Felling trees by hand? Every time you're cold do you have to start a fire by hand. There are many more steps involved in each process, then in the modern version most of us are used to. And I haven't even gotten into pulling up sod and plowing without electricity or modern machinery. How about plowing up extra land to plant extra plants so you have seed for next year? As well as for the deer and other rodents that are inevitably going to eat your stuff up. I have done all of these things. I'm just saying, Simpler my ass.

@pamelabaker2097

5 жыл бұрын

@@ladymaiden2308 Don't know how old you are. I'm old enough to know better. Your wrong and I'm tired of explaining things to know it all's. As I sit here in the dark and it's been awhile since power went off. You do know because of no power=no heat. Just a little reminder.

@ladymaiden2308

5 жыл бұрын

@@pamelabaker2097 well you don't have to be very old to be as foolish as you sound. I'm 40 years old. So I'm still rather young yet. But I have lived without electricity, I have lived without water. I have worked my way through poverty, rape, and many other ordeals that you sound too shallow to understand. I was the one who hospice my father in his dying days. I have been extremely poor, and I've never had a shity attitude about it. Not sure what your excuses. I'm sorry for whatever brought you to such a Bitter End. But I'm not going to sit here and be preached at by you. Especially since you sit here and say that you're tired of explaining things to people, yet here you are butting in on other people's conversations online, trying to take like you're taking the high road. Get over yourself. If you don't want to bother with this shit, why are you putting your oar in. And if you're so fucking mature, why are you so bitching and whining about it? I think you're just a narcissist to run out of people to bitch to. I have an idea for you. Perhaps you should fuck off or find a hobby. Rather than spend your time whining about how you don't want to have to talk to people about things that you insist on talking to them about? Don't waste my time. And do whatever you want with your time so long as you stay out of my way. I've seen enough of your kind. You're not hard to pick out of a crowd. See your way into another conversation.

@ladymaiden2308

5 жыл бұрын

@@pamelabaker2097 one last thing. If you have a problem with your power going off, it sounds like you had electricity available to you and you didn't pay the bill. People who don't have electricity don't talk about power going off. Perhaps they talked about solar panels not picking up enough light. But never talk about their power going off LOL. So maybe don't be so cringy about the fact that you're incapable of paying your bills. I'm just saying. It doesn't matter how old you are. I've met fools in all ages. And they sound about like you do. Power going off, my ass.

@ladymaiden2308

5 жыл бұрын

@@pamelabaker2097 one second to last thing. How you charging your phone or tablet or laptop to whine at people if you don't have electricity? Is your sad-ass actually at the library to troll people? Oh God honey don't tell me. Cuz that's even worse.

Thank you, I enjoyed this.

Very interesting and I enjoyed it thank You 😊

Lovely documentary! Well done!

That was pleasant. Thank you.

Some of my ancestors were Cherokee the Eastern Band. They lived in Georgia, then moved to ( Montague Co Texas; ) -- Their last name was Bowles, I don't know how he was related to my family, but the leader was Chief John Bowles

great yarns. thank yew.

Excellent video 🎈

The gentleman standing at 12:05 looks like my great uncle, Milas Messer!

Well now.....My twin bother, Donald Ray McCoy and myself, Nola Kathleen McCoy, were born in Glendale West Virginia 1944. . Our Mother, Flora Olive Forester/McCoy, and our dad, Willard Hazel McCoy ! Now had 6 children. Our Mother passed away when we were 3 days old.

@texasgina

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, thanks for sharing I'm so sorry you never got to know your mom. How sad for your father

@chado3000

6 жыл бұрын

KayDunning Dunning Discuss happen to know any Hatfields?

@pamelabaker2097

5 жыл бұрын

@@chado3000 That's no way to talk to or respect your elders

This is very interesting.

nice job!

this was a surprisingly beautiful documentary!

Good show

The one picture of the older ladies, the one with the black and white polka dot dress is my great grandmother, my 4xs great grandmother is buried in the Palmer cemetery

NICE STORY

I've been there its a park and you can camp out its a lot of fun

@rossdithers4210

6 жыл бұрын

SkullFrog2 WAAAAAY back in the olden days when Mark Hannah was the game warden and overseer of the place , we would go over there and camp and fish for weeks at a time! There was this one man who would take an army Ness tent and frame and floor it and would set up just like a tent home and he and his family would stay for three months and he would drive back and forth working at Champion paper company! All of us down homers loved it!

I would have been proud to have been part of it.

My grandfather and his lineage began here at mt.sterling. him and his siblings would have went to that little school. When they asked my great grandmother if she would be thrilled to leave her homestead for the parks museums She had her home and every outbuildings burned to the ground then they left the mountain.

How sad that progress did not include Godly wisdom. We needed to learn their values. love of land, freedom, work epic. If this had come oh how different this world would be. Common sense was there along with independance and God.

@dowdawg

7 жыл бұрын

Yep and now they're all about big government and welcome the same type of empire they fought so hard to rid themselves of??

@chado3000

6 жыл бұрын

Simone Labelle Worth ethic didn't start going downhill until the sixties and seventies. When people started abusing drugs and welfare.

wow

Very interesting but sad too, because of what it did to the Indians that lived there. A lot of misery, destruction and neglect and of course, death. Death to their way of life, their culture and their people. No respect given to these magnificent tribes. How great and idealistically, I guess, it would have been if we could have co-existed. Prayers of blessings and healing to all.

@ohmeowzer1

7 жыл бұрын

Suzanne Revero I agree thank you

@GreencampRhodie

7 жыл бұрын

Suzanne Revero AGREED. The whites have a lot to answer for. Yes they created a lot - but they forever destroyed more. .not quite the heroes they are portrayed to be. Real heroes nurture indigenous people & cultures.

@slappy8941

6 жыл бұрын

RhodieFreedomCamp Oh shut the fuck up you fucking piece of shit apologist. People do what they have to in order to survive.

@slappy8941

6 жыл бұрын

Suzanne Revero the Indians were busy slaughtering one another when we showed up, so fuck off with your bullshit.

@jeffsandes5265

5 жыл бұрын

@@GreencampRhodie Dumb as fuck.

my family is from there "Sutton's

@kimbiederman4129

3 жыл бұрын

Mine too. Sutton and McMahan.

Was a righteous America them days!

Way down yonder in the Cataloochee. I don't remember the rest of the song my parents used to sing it.

Music- How the west was lost

who did col. robert love purchase the land from?

Does anyone out there know who the gentleman is at 1203? He looks very familiar and might be close kin!

Rip to uncle popcorn

Where did they all go when they left? Did they just leave so that they could preserve the past?

The genesis story is very similar of the Venezuelan native americans'

A rarely mentioned job of the wife-it was her job to empty and clean "the pots".

Why is the corn so tall at 6:39? It's twice as tall as the man, at least 11 feet. The heirloom corn I've seen is usually shorter...

@lindashura8914

6 жыл бұрын

Verge Infinite Field corn grows much taller than sweet corn.

@jennair94young30

6 жыл бұрын

Verge Infinite Now of course we have hybrid corn and geo-modified versions! Yikes, looks like we are whittling away at own survival!

They didn't just leave they were forced of!!

Wait... what was the name of that mountain that divided the Big and Little Cataloochee valleys? Ha!

why is not all the info here , actually truth is not only did Levi Caldwell come on the land first but was accompied by my g.g.g. granddad Young Bennett who was an herb doctor he also had a cabin there, he and his wife Allie Mease they are buried at Palmer cemetery , I just do not understand why he is not mentioned here. thanks.

Y

thrown off from the get go with "the animals looked down at the flat Earth". shit ain't flat man.

Not far removed from the dispossession of these lands from their original owners, the Cherokee.

@suenetteedwards5965

7 жыл бұрын

nsecchi1 True that. However, it was not the settlers who forced them off their land. The settlers were more than happy to live in peace side by side. It was the government at the time which sent them on the Trail of Tears, generously giving them blankets that were infected with small pox for the trip, ensuring as few as possible made it. Why anyone today would trust the parasites that have made themselves exempt from laws you and I must obey, at the same time coming out of office when we can get them out, as millionaires. Off the backs of the people of this nation.

@rossdithers4210

6 жыл бұрын

nsecchi1 Yeah man! We went over there and while the Indians were snug in bed we burned their houses down around them and took everything they owned and run them out in the middle of the night ! We didn't even let them take their cloths! They'd smoke houses full of meats of all kinds and we took that too! They went to the chief to complain but he was afraid to say anything because he lived pretty close, over in Haywood county about Junaluska or what is called Dellwood! So, anyway they went on to settle in Cherokee and never came back except they would sneak in at night and try to steal something and we'd put the dogs on them and run them out!

Everyone wants it the easy way

Catalootsee belonges to the Original Old One's not the make believe one's. I found this history painfull

@rossdithers4210

6 жыл бұрын

amaru Zu BOO HOO!

I will always lament the loss of the land and way of life that the first nations people had to endure when the white man laid their hands on the this beautiful piece of the Earth.

@philliplong7873

5 жыл бұрын

You can live in a lodge pole home, with no furnace or air conditioning, wear buckskins and moccasins, refuse to ride in an automobile, and eat only game meat and home grown vegetables. Do it. Reject the white man's way.

Why do you talk like that???