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I went to Clinch Valley. Had a lot of fun there, and found the experience to be very nice. However, to become a comic book artist and illustrator, I had to move to New Jersey to get a proper art education at the Joe Kubert School of Art. I did learn a lot at CVC (as we called it), and I'm very thankful for my experiences there. Its a lovely campus--even "Cardiac Hill" and those steps leading up said hill from the cafeteria! lol. I also love the town of Wise. Having been born in Clintwood, Wise is naturally very familiar to me. My old stompin' grounds, as they say. I'm glad to see you both doing videos again! They're a real treat for me, as I haven't been home in many years.
Always great videos and information
I haven’t seen a video for awhile.. last time no baby ! Whose baby is it?
Nice town
Why is it always so dark and gloomy, cloudy glum in West Virginia 😟
The connection between Dukes of Hazzard and Hazard Ky is the creator of the show was from Lennoxburg Ky. He grew up around moonshiner and wrote/directed the Movie Moonrunners. When asked to create a show based off Moonrunners he created Dukes of Hazzard. He got the fictional town name from a gym bag of someone who was from Hazard Ky. He added the second z and boom you got Hazzard County. The Dukes cast came to Hazard Ky in 1981 for the Black Gold festival. A est of 100,000 people showed up. They got the keys to Hazard and were made Ky Col. James Best ( Sheriff Rosco)met his brother he hadn't seen since he was adopted. Been to Hazard a few time. A truly lovely place with great people.
Y’all make my heart grow fonder for those old towns out yonder…. It’s been years-back then I was much blonder….
Come on back for a visit
Very much a hidden gem in my view. Thanks for sharing
Yes, a lot of people sleep on it but it’s a great spot
Thanks for the video!
Thank you!
Ive been gone! Did you have a boy or girl? Congratulations ❤❤❤
We had a little girl in December ❤️
Shane & Melody, enjoyed seeing Wise after all these years. Have y'all ever done a video in Iager, West Virginia (pronounced Yeager)?? Not sure if youre aware, but when O. Winston Link was photographing the last of Norfolk & Western Steam locomotives in the late 50's, one of his famous pictures was taken as the N&W steam loco was passing the old Drive-in Theater in Iager. The tracks (still in use) and the old theater (not in use) are still there. Its a small, but quaint area. Go, if youve never gone. I was last down there in the late 90's.
We did a video there a couple years ago but I didn’t get a chance to see the old theater. We were going to show that photo in the video but sadly couldn’t get copyright permission to use it. It is definitely an iconic photo.
@@realappalachia I'll look it up. Yes indeed, very iconic. Y'all need to go up to Cass Railroad in Pocahontas County someday soon, too!!
@@SMichaelDeHart oh yes, we’d love to make it to Cass
@@realappalachia when you go, take the trip all the way to Balb Knob...you won't regret it!!
@@SMichaelDeHart thanks for the heads up
There used to be a restaurant across 23 from Reno’s that had lots of Civil War artifacts on display and great food. I don’t recall the name. I don’t think it’s open anymore.
Yes, I’m pretty sure the name was Mosby’s and it had a great reputation. I never got to eat there but heard great things about it
@@realappalachia that’s it. Very good food. I got a “sampler “ platter there once that had trout, chicken and steak. It was like getting three meals and was really good. The place was like a Civil War museum too.
Hey guys, I’m a Yankee from rural northern Appalachia, and I absolutely love your channel! I grew up in both Pennsylvania and Vermont. You should consider checking out some of the northern states-you might be surprised. PA doesn’t have the bigger mountains like you’d find in VA or NC, but the culture is very much Appalachian and the state is filled with small mountain towns. Appalachia in New England has a different kind of Appalachian culture, but it’s gorgeous and they have some of the highest mountains outside the smokies and Shenandoah. I’d love to see you guys explore some of these areas. Cmon up in the winter and we’ll throw ya on a snowmobile!
We would absolutely love to travel more north in the future and hope it works out to do someday. I was in Pittsburgh and it really made me want to see more. Thank you so much for watching and the suggestions.
@virgilflowers9846 you kind of forgot the Mountain State of West Virginia...the only State that's completely in the Appalachian range.
Great video Shane and Melody love it Wise Virginia looks like a beautiful town y'all show us thanks for sharing
Thank you so much Chubs, we appreciate it!
I have lived in Pulaski va all my life 55 years
I have lived in Pulaski va all my life 55 years
I have lived in Pulaski va all my life 55 years
and Archie was a Navy Veteran
What caused be mine explosion ?
Vic co
That's where I was born and raised at.
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Thumbs down . Sick of the race baiting bs.
Mahala " Collins" Mullins was my Great, great, great, great Grandmother and she was a wonderful but vey wild women. So much history about her and our family history goes way back. Ishould come back there and live in her cabin, I would love to do that. ❤
If y’all find yourselves in the tri-state area again any time soon, check out the Pinnacle if it’s a clear day. About halfway up the mountain there’s a wayside with a Civil War cannon if that’s something you’d be interested in.
Oh yes, hoping to make it back this week if all goes well, thank you
Can we can we go down the river and the Walmart going to fall out the tree in the boat and we know the difference all night long and everybody go home Amen brother and if you don't need to know something besides just the computers and send them over their phones and they need to be out in the woods with a man let's go fishing
Is good in new song about the woods brother they don't clean the river out no more and then go down through the woods but we do know what a jackrabbit is and they never seen a jack rabbit they don't know what about this fox squirrels you don't know what hunting is
We all do that black but we all know how to survive in the woods and and go through it and we all know
Fingernail I mean Arkansas Alabama you can go to these places and you'll be surprised when you sleep in the bed with the white folks and then there's no hatred and then and then Christmas in their heart it's not like what these people that I'll try to make it to be it's not that way anymore besides the one
You can tell when you can turn around and they hug and love you guys you don't see no hate in them and they can sleep but maybe and break bread with them and eat with them at their table and and you feel good and comfortable and you feel like you belong
And white folks on KZread and I came up and eat collard green and black eyed peas and everything to him hugs and to and eat all that to Sean White boys got Christian college and they don't they know the
my hometown aint been back over 20 years
East Tennessee used to be a part of western north Carolina
Sure hope Raven is included in this video.
You really don’t sound like you live there. lol I’m from just 20 mins from there and I sound like cornbread. 😂
What a beautiful setting; I love the Appalachian Mountains. Man is hanging on strong from the looks of it.
What, no Walmart ?
Nyope
Thats MAGA country.
Trying to find your newest video like to invite you to the 4th of July celebration here in Hamlin West Virginia
Hey hello everyone much love from Lincoln county West Virginia
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Someone should document places in NYS . There are a lot of small towns just like in Appalachia. Pockets of poverty. There's also a long history of .mountain people in the Adirondacks. Not everyone there were wealthy as a lot of people believe.
as a european i love watching these videos to see parts of america we usually dont get to see in movies. so interesting and rich in culture and history. I would love to visit one day.
My father is from Keystone, born in 1925. Never met my paternal grandfather, he passed in a work-related railroad accident at a Santa Fe rail yard in NM in the '40's. I don't know at what point they moved away to Albuquerque.....as my father never spoke much about it, neither did my grandmother. I did find a picture in an old album of the town.....as a railroader myself I noticed there was electric catenary wire over the N&W main line (which is now the NS Pocahontas District) so it was taken before the new Elkhorn Tunnel was built in the '50's. One of these days I'll have to take a drive out there.
I agree. It’s Appa-latch-uh in eastern Kentucky, too. Named for the Appalachee tribe by the Spanish in the early days of settlement. The tribe, which no longer exists, was actually in the present day Florida/Georgia area but the Spanish used it to describe the big mountains to the north.
Cinder bottom was a rough place and has a long reputation but it was flooded and is gone now unless they rebuilt it lately
I was a patrolman at keystone and northfork , great people
I would have liked to see this video filmed through a clean windshield!
I heard space lazars are repelled by blue paint,Haint no harm trying it.
I know where the house is that he died in it’s still there you can contact the vest and son funeral home because that’s who buried him