Real Appalachia

Real Appalachia

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  • @lostonwallace1396
    @lostonwallace139654 минут бұрын

    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.

  • @Redstagwsmnp
    @RedstagwsmnpСағат бұрын

    Always great videos and information

  • @campingwithcruz5808
    @campingwithcruz58083 сағат бұрын

    I haven’t seen a video for awhile.. last time no baby ! Whose baby is it?

  • @user-ow1iu2wz1x
    @user-ow1iu2wz1x4 сағат бұрын

    Nice town

  • @franklix
    @franklix6 сағат бұрын

    Why is it always so dark and gloomy, cloudy glum in West Virginia 😟

  • @robyn1695
    @robyn16956 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @ZoomedOut2020
    @ZoomedOut20206 сағат бұрын

    Y’all make my heart grow fonder for those old towns out yonder…. It’s been years-back then I was much blonder….

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    Come on back for a visit

  • @ChubbaWubba169
    @ChubbaWubba1696 сағат бұрын

    Very much a hidden gem in my view. Thanks for sharing

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    Yes, a lot of people sleep on it but it’s a great spot

  • @MCTNPrep
    @MCTNPrep6 сағат бұрын

    Thanks for the video!

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @randomvintagefilm273
    @randomvintagefilm2736 сағат бұрын

    Ive been gone! Did you have a boy or girl? Congratulations ❤❤❤

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    We had a little girl in December ❤️

  • @SMichaelDeHart
    @SMichaelDeHart6 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @SMichaelDeHart
    @SMichaelDeHart6 сағат бұрын

    @@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!!

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    @@SMichaelDeHart oh yes, we’d love to make it to Cass

  • @SMichaelDeHart
    @SMichaelDeHart5 сағат бұрын

    @@realappalachia when you go, take the trip all the way to Balb Knob...you won't regret it!!

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia5 сағат бұрын

    @@SMichaelDeHart thanks for the heads up

  • @viking7560
    @viking75606 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    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

  • @viking7560
    @viking75606 сағат бұрын

    @@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.

  • @virgilflowers9846
    @virgilflowers98466 сағат бұрын

    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!

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    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.

  • @SMichaelDeHart
    @SMichaelDeHart6 сағат бұрын

    @virgilflowers9846 you kind of forgot the Mountain State of West Virginia...the only State that's completely in the Appalachian range.

  • @chubs1701
    @chubs17016 сағат бұрын

    Great video Shane and Melody love it Wise Virginia looks like a beautiful town y'all show us thanks for sharing

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 сағат бұрын

    Thank you so much Chubs, we appreciate it!

  • @GarrettHensley-j1s
    @GarrettHensley-j1s8 сағат бұрын

    I have lived in Pulaski va all my life 55 years

  • @GarrettHensley-j1s
    @GarrettHensley-j1s8 сағат бұрын

    I have lived in Pulaski va all my life 55 years

  • @GarrettHensley-j1s
    @GarrettHensley-j1s8 сағат бұрын

    I have lived in Pulaski va all my life 55 years

  • @igocleveland
    @igocleveland11 сағат бұрын

    and Archie was a Navy Veteran

  • @CaribouDataScience
    @CaribouDataScience14 сағат бұрын

    What caused be mine explosion ?

  • @pamrieckers1234
    @pamrieckers123415 сағат бұрын

    Vic co

  • @pamrieckers1234
    @pamrieckers123415 сағат бұрын

    That's where I was born and raised at.

  • @karlmcarthur8794
    @karlmcarthur879417 сағат бұрын

    🏍👍🏻

  • @justinpennington7682
    @justinpennington768218 сағат бұрын

    Thumbs down . Sick of the race baiting bs.

  • @donnadavis1538
    @donnadavis153823 сағат бұрын

    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. ❤

  • @cursivecurser4154
    @cursivecurser4154Күн бұрын

    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.

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachiaКүн бұрын

    Oh yes, hoping to make it back this week if all goes well, thank you

  • @DanielStallings-yk5px
    @DanielStallings-yk5pxКүн бұрын

    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

  • @DanielStallings-yk5px
    @DanielStallings-yk5pxКүн бұрын

    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

  • @DanielStallings-yk5px
    @DanielStallings-yk5pxКүн бұрын

    We all do that black but we all know how to survive in the woods and and go through it and we all know

  • @DanielStallings-yk5px
    @DanielStallings-yk5pxКүн бұрын

    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

  • @DanielStallings-yk5px
    @DanielStallings-yk5pxКүн бұрын

    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

  • @DanielStallings-yk5px
    @DanielStallings-yk5pxКүн бұрын

    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

  • @fredlewis9880
    @fredlewis9880Күн бұрын

    my hometown aint been back over 20 years

  • @user-tv6es5fp4e
    @user-tv6es5fp4eКүн бұрын

    East Tennessee used to be a part of western north Carolina

  • @clydeminton805
    @clydeminton805Күн бұрын

    Sure hope Raven is included in this video.

  • @amandaleah6093
    @amandaleah6093Күн бұрын

    You really don’t sound like you live there. lol I’m from just 20 mins from there and I sound like cornbread. 😂

  • @jackiefloyd8003
    @jackiefloyd8003Күн бұрын

    What a beautiful setting; I love the Appalachian Mountains. Man is hanging on strong from the looks of it.

  • @1946luke
    @1946lukeКүн бұрын

    What, no Walmart ?

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachiaКүн бұрын

    Nyope

  • @afriendtoo6971
    @afriendtoo6971Күн бұрын

    Thats MAGA country.

  • @jeffchilders236
    @jeffchilders236Күн бұрын

    Trying to find your newest video like to invite you to the 4th of July celebration here in Hamlin West Virginia

  • @jeffchilders236
    @jeffchilders236Күн бұрын

    Hey hello everyone much love from Lincoln county West Virginia

  • @karlmcarthur8794
    @karlmcarthur8794Күн бұрын

    🏍👍🏻

  • @eabird4358
    @eabird4358Күн бұрын

    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.

  • @nikkiehagedoorn
    @nikkiehagedoornКүн бұрын

    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.

  • @cobra30689
    @cobra306892 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @deronmays2102
    @deronmays21022 күн бұрын

    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.

  • @stephenaddair1337
    @stephenaddair13373 күн бұрын

    Cinder bottom was a rough place and has a long reputation but it was flooded and is gone now unless they rebuilt it lately

  • @stephenaddair1337
    @stephenaddair13373 күн бұрын

    I was a patrolman at keystone and northfork , great people

  • @tombevilockway8754
    @tombevilockway87543 күн бұрын

    I would have liked to see this video filmed through a clean windshield!

  • @portercoogan4862
    @portercoogan48623 күн бұрын

    I heard space lazars are repelled by blue paint,Haint no harm trying it.

  • @Mik854
    @Mik8543 күн бұрын

    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