Real Appalachia

Real Appalachia

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  • @TanBanScanLol
    @TanBanScanLolСағат бұрын

    just realized i hiked in the appalachian moutains… great 😅 edit: i thought they were in alaska tbh

  • @randal_blevins
    @randal_blevinsСағат бұрын

    Chief Benge raided settlements very close to my hometown in Chilhowie, Virginia...within roughly 20 to 60 miles of it!

  • @bulgingbattery2050
    @bulgingbattery20502 сағат бұрын

    People still live and work in Welch?

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia2 сағат бұрын

    Yes

  • @SNIPES4LIFE78
    @SNIPES4LIFE7820 сағат бұрын

    It’s funny watching people who ain’t from here riding on these roads

  • @Shelly-in-Tampa
    @Shelly-in-Tampa23 сағат бұрын

    I am the class of 89 and dad was the guidance counselor Smith

  • @albertmiller3082
    @albertmiller30822 күн бұрын

    The Roman Catholic Church also sold “Indulgences” - pay money to the church and you buy your way into heaven by eliminating your own sin. So the idea of Sin as a tangible debt was already spread by the major Christian Church of the Middle Ages. The Church profited by the collection of Indulgences. The Reformation, led by Martin Luther in Germany, questioned this tradition as well as dozens of other Roman Catholic Church traditions and views. So the Welsh and Irish warmed to the idea of transferring karmic debt away from a dead friend or family member- but avoided forking over scarce cash to any cleric. This tradition of Sin Eating is a paganized approach to helping certain folks transition from this life to what waits for us all.

  • @michaeldaltonsr8954
    @michaeldaltonsr89542 күн бұрын

    Yeah! Fond memories of Keystone in late 60's!! Hauled a lotta "shiny" refreshments over there!!😅😅😅😅! Wild times!!

  • @TXRBL
    @TXRBL2 күн бұрын

    Born and raised there. The big fish in our small pond destroyed the town.

  • @andykerncomedian
    @andykerncomedian3 күн бұрын

    A holler is a place where people have a lot of trouble reading.

  • @LynetteStinson-tc2iy
    @LynetteStinson-tc2iy3 күн бұрын

    I have been there 🙂

  • @MultiMoose007
    @MultiMoose0073 күн бұрын

    Used to be A good guy in star wars, now he is a fn loser. Good luck, catching up to Harrison Ford. You fn loser Democrat

  • @MultiMoose007
    @MultiMoose0073 күн бұрын

    Thanks loser!!!!

  • @joanmerriken9216
    @joanmerriken92163 күн бұрын

    Had no idea. Thanks for Sharinf.

  • @MoivinSulunker
    @MoivinSulunker3 күн бұрын

    In the Biblically-endorsed apocrypha, Sodom and Gomorrah were condemned because of the way, whereiin they treated travellers. Read about it.

  • @MoivinSulunker
    @MoivinSulunker3 күн бұрын

    "Majority population black" -- reincarnated wrongdoers goin back to the familiarity of their past lifetimes. Nefarious deeds cause a person to be reincarnated black. Consequences.

  • @MoivinSulunker
    @MoivinSulunker3 күн бұрын

    I would have liked to have heard more details. "Nefarious activities", "houses of ill repute" -- these are generalities. Specific incidents, names, specific houses or whereabouts. I liked it that the link between the flood and the wrongdoin was made. That kind of linkin should be done every time -- always tell the consequences, not only the incidents.

  • @MoivinSulunker
    @MoivinSulunker3 күн бұрын

    "All kinds of saloons". How many kinds? I need a number. Thank you.

  • @MoivinSulunker
    @MoivinSulunker3 күн бұрын

    Have you heard Cathy O'Brien's revelations about Senator Byrd? Also, Rockefeller family privately, secretly bought all of the Japanese companies at the end of the war. Thus SONY is "Standard Oil of New York" seceretly. Jay Rockefeller was always either in Japan or else hostin Japanese visitors. I was at Snowshoe in off season when Japanese folks toured the resort, which later they bought. How about Don Blankenship? Deaths from mining-polluted town water?

  • @johnlane5053
    @johnlane50533 күн бұрын

    would like to see you do a story about widen wv in clay co

  • @terryvlunsford1610
    @terryvlunsford16103 күн бұрын

    Never heard of this town before.

  • @eileencalder2804
    @eileencalder28044 күн бұрын

    That old man’s accent and song sounds just like you might hear in Belfast on a Saturday night (and I mean the real Belfast, not some place named after us in America) I think we know where your heritage and culture came from….😊

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia4 күн бұрын

    That’s funny because there’s a fake Belfast just down the road from us lol

  • @lungotevere
    @lungotevere4 күн бұрын

    It's very interesting, but it would be nice if Itmann were better preserved and restored.

  • @bufordisaacs
    @bufordisaacs4 күн бұрын

    Daniel Boone cabin/moved from Duffield, Virginia.

  • @pblacklock
    @pblacklock4 күн бұрын

    8:05. Yea, his name is Bubbles!

  • @timothyhall861
    @timothyhall8614 күн бұрын

    I'm sitting here in Mud Fork about one mile from the city of Logan. Reading all the nice comments and watching the Video of places I know like the back of my hand... I've been a Mud Forker by marriage for over 42 years now, I spent almost 40 years in and around Logan repairing Electrical Equiptment for the Coal Mines... My Daddy and my Grandpaws were all underground Coal minners (other than WW1 & 2) and they died rather young because of it. I'm 67 now and spent my entire life in this County...I grew up on the opposite side of the County in a place called Buffalo Creek, famous for a Terrible Disaster in 1972 where a Giant Dam created by the coal mines broke and killed over 200 people and left over 4000 homeless. My entire community was destroyed (a little Coal Minning village called Lundale) and many of my friends, neighbors and relitives drown as we stood on the side of the mountain listening to the crunching of lumber and screams as houses went by in rows in the roaring, Coal black water like giant trains....but that was a long time ago and I'm happy here, Saddly were kinda famous for bad things like the Hatfield & McCoy Fued & The Battle of Blair Mountain (see the movie Matwaan) and of course The Buffalo Creek Disaster. But normally it's very peaceful here. Everyones Friendly. I've worked in several Churches and Volunteered on three Volunteer Fire Dept's, Aside from that there is not a lot of things to do here except maybe go down to the local Creek or River and watch the Annual Flood or riding 4 wheelers in the mountains and hunting and fishing.. You know, I've never even seen the Ocean but that's ok, may as well finish up my life here I reckon.

  • @5-minute-witness356
    @5-minute-witness3564 күн бұрын

    I am accomplishing my dream of a home in a West Virginia holler. I was overjoyed when you mentioned that you were looking for the dog in the road and the chickens! My holler has dogs in the road and chickens. It is unbelievably beautiful and I love my drive in, it lifts my heart. When you said "Someone's always watching" I didn't realize that. I always wave and love how people wave back! Also I LOVE seeing the men on their riding mowers in the afternoon sun. Something about it is just so simple and satisfying.

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia4 күн бұрын

    What an awesome story, congratulations

  • @5-minute-witness356
    @5-minute-witness3564 күн бұрын

    @@realappalachia just subscribed - what a great channel!!!

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia4 күн бұрын

    @@5-minute-witness356 thank you so much, welcome to the family

  • @TheLeebo1962
    @TheLeebo19625 күн бұрын

    Might wanna listen to the last line of the song. If they don't know you, don't go looking for moonshiners. You may not like what you find.

  • @dlmullins9054
    @dlmullins90545 күн бұрын

    Well that was great story! Thanks guys.

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia4 күн бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @dlmullins9054
    @dlmullins90545 күн бұрын

    Great fun! Thanks

  • @conniehughes2532
    @conniehughes25325 күн бұрын

    My dad was a section Foreman on the NW at Caribou in my dad was a section Foreman on the NW at Carbow when he passed away with a heart attack

  • @christhomas7500
    @christhomas75006 күн бұрын

    I have been in there many times!

  • @1209carolyn
    @1209carolyn6 күн бұрын

    I would love to see the building restored,d but I doubt it ever happens. I was in it a few times as a child and was amazed at how big it was and how pretty. It is a shame that the company didn't sell it or donate it as a point of interest in Wyoming County.

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia6 күн бұрын

    So true

  • @josephparr6816
    @josephparr68167 күн бұрын

    Looks like 3 rd world town

  • @henryboyter3670
    @henryboyter36707 күн бұрын

    A trip down the old road would be scenic.

  • @100videos4you
    @100videos4you7 күн бұрын

    I live in the Anthracite coal region of PA, and this part of WV reminds me of my area. While the coal mining around me has pretty much stopped, but the towns aren’t as dead as WV looks.

  • @user-ow1iu2wz1x
    @user-ow1iu2wz1x7 күн бұрын

    Nice cabin. I didn’t know it was even there. Next time I head that way I’m gonna check it out. I remember the song also, still sing it sometimes even now. ❤

  • @29parallelnorth
    @29parallelnorth7 күн бұрын

    Note to self: avoid Keystone, WV as it is compared to Sodom and Gomorrah where the men wanted to “know” the angels disguised as humans staying at Lot’s even when Lot was so generous to sacrifice his daughters the mob of men wanted men cheeks not women’s. Note to self: stop reading that demonic book about the evil one. God is only in it in the beginning and peppered here and there. It’s main character is, LORD god of the Earth, the material god separate subject noun from the God of the Heaven and 7 day creation then copycat, Lord god attempts to take the Almighty’s spot and fool the sheep on Earth. Well, goal accomplished and now look at the state of the World…..

  • @timothyhall861
    @timothyhall8617 күн бұрын

    I would like to add that here in Logan County (right above McDowell County) that there is a Drug problem here but unlike most other places We hillbillies are All, armed to the teeth and we won't hesitate to shoot if someone threatens us or breaks in on us, Therefore if you are not stupid enough to get involved in the Drug Culture NO-ONE will dare bother you!. Probably 99% of all Shootings or crime here is between people involved in the Drug Culture so if you stay away from it you have nothing to fear... People are VERY friendly and will almost always help you out if you need a small favor (even most of the druggies are friendly to strangers)....Yes we are friendly and helpful and go to Church but we don't take no guff off no one!

  • @SimpleSxber
    @SimpleSxber7 күн бұрын

    I live here and just found this video, love it

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia7 күн бұрын

    Thank you

  • @janjrgensen6134
    @janjrgensen61347 күн бұрын

    Just after 8 minutes you passes a small yellow house.

  • @user-ow1iu2wz1x
    @user-ow1iu2wz1x7 күн бұрын

    Like the tunnel. We always blow our horn going back and forth. Had a car breakdown last summer just before we got to the guard shack and the guards immediately came to our rescue. Got us back on the road quickly. Very nice guys and professional as well. I’m sure they can’t have cars on the shoulder of the road causing a hazard. It’s a very nice area. So much to see and do on that trip also. ❤

  • @michaelbragg6903
    @michaelbragg69037 күн бұрын

    Gary was where the author Homer Hickam’s parents were from. They graduated from Gary High School.

  • @pastorg.3721
    @pastorg.37217 күн бұрын

    Did you go up to see the war memorial over near the cemetery in Neon ? My dads name is on there George Williams

  • @realappalachia
    @realappalachia5 күн бұрын

    No I wish we’d have had the opportunity to see it

  • @LoJo62
    @LoJo628 күн бұрын

    I haven’t been through that tunnel, we used to go to WV, and TN quite often from NC …

  • @user-ow1iu2wz1x
    @user-ow1iu2wz1x8 күн бұрын

    It looks like a nice sleepy town. I’d like to live there. The homes are nice. I miss the fried pies too, not as available as before. Nice drive. ❤

  • @user-wb8oy9kr2r
    @user-wb8oy9kr2r8 күн бұрын

    How awfully sad for the children, and their parents.

  • @francoisewhite2541
    @francoisewhite25418 күн бұрын

    Gorgeous area. I am sad for the folks there

  • @debbiephilbrick2628
    @debbiephilbrick26288 күн бұрын

    Anyone live here now that went to Job Corps in the 70s??????

  • @debbiephilbrick2628
    @debbiephilbrick26288 күн бұрын

    Used to live here,loved it!!!!

  • @robodd4694
    @robodd46948 күн бұрын

    Corporations went in and sucked everything dry leaving in its wake suffering and despair. The store owner said it, Automation. And some think AI is a great thing and won't effect workers. Bye bye jobs and income but all that matters is that corporations profit in obscene levels. About this video though. Some propaganda. You don't need tech and toys and whatever to be happy and have a great Christmas (Food yes of course). I remember, being dirt poor when I was a child, my happiest Christmases was just waking up with a stocking with some candy and things my mom made. and then family dinner...mostly the smells. I had maybe 3 toys and all simple toys and I spent my days very happy. My greatest Christmas was when I had my own tiny (charlie brown) tree w/tiny lights, by my bed. I spent all night looking at it. I NEVER felt "poor" as I was rich in so many other more important ways.