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My momma is from BigStone

Did she say 'brain fa^t in a church building? Shame if you did.

I live close to Cburg and i heard stories about it

Thanks you so much we have a culture when your from here!! I’m a hillybilly love ya NC

Where my mom’s side of the family is from. Thanks for the video. My childhood memories of summer visits! I see My mother and father’s high school. My mom was a cheerleader! My mom’s family was the Collier’s. My dad’s was The Bruner’s. So you’d continue on up to my grandparents house where you turned around at the railroad tracks.

My great great grandfather

The church has a power meter attached and light bulb on the porch. What is the building/house next door to the church. it would have been interesting to see in the windows of the church.

So weird seeing my grandmas house on CZcams lol, the area looks a little rough but I love visiting. watched some July 4th fireworks by that church just a couple days ago

Grew up around the area love it up there. To bad alot of drug addicts have ruined alot of places on the trails

Democratic stronghold killed it .

Great video. I too am a Christian. I was a missionary. I knew what it was like to find a woman sobbing at a garbage dumpster hoping for food because she didn’t have anything to feed her children. I brought her to my home, gave her food and gave instructions that if she came to my home looking for food give her some. There was a time when I gave a little girl a wrapped up doll for her birthday. She was four. She very carefully opened the gift and then then rewrapped it. There was another time when I was cooking dinner. The Bible institute was in our basement. I guy came who was one of the students. He had a box. He was so excited! The box contained shoes. I found out that someone had told him that if he would do a certain job for several weeks he would be given money for shoes. I will never forget the look on his face as he put on his first pair of shoes at the age of 18. There was another gal that was a Bolivian gal. She had absolutely nothing but was such a joy to be around. We had stopped at her house for something. It was such a special event but they eating pork chops. She wanted me to have some of her. It absolutely broke my heart to take it but she would have been heartbroken if I hadn’t. She was such a joy even though she had had 11 children and 6 had died of various things. I went to the mission field to teach. I was always the one receiving a vast education

When working hard and studying well actually took one somewhere in life. Now, it's all about the hustle and/or the clicks.

Great videos i love em seriously. Not my business but why or how are you guys able to do this? This is what I'd be doing if my financials was right. Do yal get paid to travel, or just an occasional hobby when you can? Again not my business but so curious as I'd love to do this also.

Fun!🇺🇸

We took a road trip to Burke’s Garden 7-5-24. My mother graduated from high school at Burke’s Garden in the 1930’s. She lived in Saltville Va at the time so she lived with a family while she attended school. This is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been to. Thank you for sharing this video. BTW when my mother was still with us she and my dad and I attended a class reunion there at the Methodist Church back in the 1970s.

This William Russell was a cousin to Capt. John R Russell of Pennington Gap. William Russell also had a house that Henry Ford restored in Williamsburg, Va. He also had a brother Henry that was killed by indians when he was with Israel Boone son of Daniel Boone.

My husband works at the Itmann #5 mine

Turning my ugly negative reaction to Melody's herculean effort to sound like a Southern Bell, into something completely acceptable. She is not hurting anyone with her herculean effort to sound and be A Southern Bell! I accept it now, is cute! Oh My God! That twang oh hers! Such a Southern Bell Diva!

That gas station just before Hardee's has some killer fried chicken. My mom was born their. Passed thru there about 7 years ago.

Ok video I guess . I worked in Keystone . Only thing about your video is Mr. McConnel did not have a mansion anywhere close to Keystone . He live below Bluefield Regional Hospital in a small brick home . One thing you need to make a video about is why all these companies now that have mines open , have the majority of worker from out of the county and even out of the state . They use the people on drugs excuse all the time but there are a lot of people here who need these jobs and are not on drugs but can’t get a job because of the companies hiring through contractors . People come here to work from Kentucky , Viginia , Ohio , and as far north as from Morgantown WV . If they come here to work and drive hours , they must be making good money . The people here should have first chance at these jobs or the people coming here should move here . If it is to bad for them to move here , don’t come here to make your money . Make it where they live since it is so great where ever they live . Again not everyone around here is on drugs or anything like that but need these jobs . Just drive around from mines to mines and look at the tags on the vehicles . You will start to understand what I am saying .

That’s cool 😎 Thanks for helping preserve history 🇺🇸

Sulfur water and plenty of snakes

This is where my father was born & his dad worked in the mines, my family’s been in Indianapolis since he was school aged.

Nothing makes me sadder than an abandoned slice of American history left to rot.

I went to school there from K-8th grade. The “No Credit” garage, that’s my dad’s!

This is my hometown. That school closed in the spring of 1991 if I remember correctly. My family are some of the descendents of John McGraw. We did repurpose the school for many years. I'm not sure that building could be saved at this point.

Oh my goodness...the deception of Pentecostalism. This is complete madness. People, please don't be deceived by these false miracle workers. This form of "Worship" is not of God nor is it taught in the New Testament.

Me

My family's hometown ❤ love Welch!

You are going by the places too fast, can't really see these places. Also it is very foggy and hard to see out of your car windows. You're talking fast . You need to get out of your car and walk around these landmarks and really show what you are talking about. You sound a bit nervous..?

I got married there in 1967

It would be nice if you'd go in after the lady is done with her tour and do close up photos. Its hard to see things with people standing in front of them.

When you were in Webb's why didn't you comment on the photos and etc? Did you do a video of the Coal Mining museum - it was closed when you did this.

I used to live right up the road in Newtown in the 80s in the 80s I moved there in 86 we used to get our mail at the red red jacket post office

I’d live to live to a place like this when I retire. But then I’d be just another New Yorker messing up the character and culture of another small town in America. So I’ll stay in my rat infested city of migrants where a bottle of water costs $7.00 and enjoy WV from my tiny closet of an apartment that costs $3500 a month while I watch CZcams.

Tip-Off is my MO

Love that small town and going to see family by Tazewell high

I went to Matoaka about 8 months ago and it is even sadder now.my grandparents settled in Matoaka when they came from Italy. Of course, grandpa and his friends all worked in the coal mines. My grandpa eventually ran the grocery store on Barger. If anyone has any info about the grocery store, I would love to hear about it.

My dad and my step-mom use to have U-Save Auto Repair. He and I were talking about October Sky. He told me when they filmed it there it was a sight to behold. He was very proud of it.

hollow (geography) A small valley between mountains. | It's called a hollow because of the mountain-sides that create the hollow shape-but imagine what you would call the same collection of houses if the land was flat? In England, the word that we use to cover all geographies is hamlet. When the hamlet becomes sizable, we call it a village.

does anyone have any information about frank collins and his family? what happened to them?

Stop making videos where you pee your pants and stop half way.

You didn't even go to the end... how disappointing.

Next time you’re in Wise or Scott County you should visit High Knob. It’s beautiful. Go visit the woodbooger at Flag Rock and see the City of Norton and Wise County from a different perspective.

why not stop and say hello to somebody? do an anonymous interview and find what's really happening... maybe get the scoop on the no justice Governor Justice 🤔

Hey Shane how is Bill?

Had to get those Tigers in there

But we had Prussians ;-)

5:30 that’s clearly a Native American but ask anyone in his community they’ll tell you it’s a white man

It would be treacherous trying to drive in with snow on the ground