Appalachia Story of Going to school back in the day.
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- Going to school in the 30's, 40's, 50's and 60's was a lot different from today. A look of how it was going to School back in days of our parents. Thanks for watching. NOTE: Picture are just to tell the story and not actual pictures of the events. SUBSCRIBE:: LIKE AND SHARE:: HELP GROW YOUR CHANNEL THIS CHANNEL COVERS 9 DIFFERENT SUBJECTS !!! ( CHECK IT OUT) 1. Metal Detecting 2. Wildlife Videos 3. History & Mountain Culture 4.The Unexplained 5. Home projects 6. Hunting & Fishing 7. Nature Videos 8.Mining History 9. Video Shorts
My mother, God rest her soul, would always pack extra food in my lunch pail for me to share with the kids who didn't have lunch. We didn't have much either but she had a heart of gold. She only went to 5th grade but was the smartest woman I have ever met. She raised a garden every year. She would win the Ag office garden award every year. What a wonderful woman.
. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Your mother sounds like a wonderful lady! You were blessed for sure. God rest her soul ❤
@Mary Wagner she was. I'm 57, she passed away in 92. I miss her so much. She had the biggest heart but lord help if someone messed with her kids or her cats.
@@cjsrescues lol. That's a mamma bear for sure! I understand the missing..My dad passed in 92 & I still miss him horribly.
You're mom had a beautiful soul. Good woman. ❤
Does anyone else besides me hit the like button before the video starts? Lol I just know Donnies videos will not disappoint! And i absolutely love the music!! My dad built instruments & played them all but he was partial to the mandolin & fiddle. He love his bluegrass & ole time music! So this fiddle music hits me right in the heart!
WOW, Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love Donnies stories, it is my families traditions and lifestyle. But as far as liking channels on here I never hit the like button. It eats up your storage and fills up your memory and phone. Donnie knows old schoolers don't like phones, computers, or the evilnet. After I get moved back home my phone will be destroyed and never used by me again.
I already know I will love the story.
Yes ! I do!!!
Lol😂 Yes.. I do cause I know Donnies videos are really nice. I love em.
Kids growing up back then, didn`t think of how hard everyday life was, it was what it was. You have to have something better in order to compare with life back then, and call it hard. They didn`t, so to them, it was just everyday life. Today, yeah, they had it hard but, those same people were what has been called, " The Golden Generation ", who built America, fought back the Nazis, Japanese, and Italians to save Europe and Western Pacific countries, were God fearing, hard working, patriotic, and God knows how bad I miss them today.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Amen!
I know my mother told me stories as well.
My Mamaw had a mean teacher so they pushed the outhouse over a hill with him in it. I loved that story. Tiny strong beautiful woman born in 1895.
Wow, Thanks for sharing my friend.
@@donnielaws7020 I helped push a few over. No one in them. Late at night.
Good thing she was strong because it sounds like she could have gotten hurt.
Ok thats hilarious
Thank you for sharing .. sure made me laugh! I love old story's like that!
You mentioned something about the number of children that some families had back in the day. Some people don't believe me when I tell them this but it's the truth. My mama's sister, my aunt Emma had 21 children. Only one didn't make it to adulthood, he passed away right after he was born. She had 3 sets of twins and the rest were single births. Out of the 20 that made it to adulthood there are 14 still living.
Wow. That's amazing. Bless her heart. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My late husband's mom was one of 13, and as of a couple of years ago there was 6 still alive, they all were in their late 90s and the ones that have died were in their 90s
@@ginnyroy241 Sorry for your loss my friend. Thanks for sharing my friend.
There was 7 kids in my dads family and 17 in his dads family
I'm one of eleven. Two brothers have passed on, one at birth and the other in 2019 at 65.. Dad passed in 2009 at 77 and Momma passed in 2016 at 88.
Oh Donnie!! So glad to see this. I am 67 years old,went from first to fourth grades in a one room school house.
The absolute BEST education a kid could get.
We had an outhouse and a well with a hand pump out front. Our lunch was carried in brown paper bags,I was privileged because I had a little thermos that I brought milk in sometimes.
We heated with a pot bellied coal stove. The boys carried the coal in and the ashes out.
Grade 1 through 8 was taught there.
Yes,we said The Lords Prayer and Pledge of Allegiance to the flag.
The poor kids now do not learn nearly as much as we did.
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing this. God bless you.
I love how much alike all of us from Appalachia are. The stories that are told of life there regardless of the state it comes from are all the same . All of us that grew up here can relate. I'm from West Virginia and I expirenced all the exact things that are in your stories. We are all one big Appalachia family.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'm from West Virginia too. This is my story too. I miss those mountains and the holidays with my ma and granny and paw
Everyone always knew when you brought an egg salad sandwich, especially on a hot summer day... if you ever did you know what I mean. Everyone had their "recess buddy". Chocolate milk after recess what a treat. Sometimes I had an extra 2 cents for an extra milk. That was sure living big back in the day! Be blessed everyone.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
And real milk bottles...always tasted better in them.
Haha- yep!! We didn’t have money for snack milk- and I’m not too old!
You had egg salad? Oooo. We took fried egg sandwiches wrapped in waxed paper, and maybe a Jumbo pie.
This is precious and oh I wish for those days again ! I grew up on a 120 acre farm dandridge Tn when I was a young girl we raised produce and delivered a lot of it to Asheville NC to buyers there ! I never knew had good I had it was hard but simple ! God country and Gods people in the Appalachian mountains! Previous memories ❤️
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My Granny was born in 1907. She went to school in the early yrs. She only got as far as 6th grade. She told me she quit because she always had to help in the cotton fields. I still have a letter she wrote me from back in the 80's, and it amazes how good her handwriting was. My Granny left this old world in 1999, but I feel so fortunate to have sat with her and paid attention to what she had to say.
Thanks my friend for sharing.
I attend an old church with hand hewn beams on the foundation rocks, and there was a school constructed just like it across the street. County demolished the school 50 years ago but we have the church. It is a privilege to know the old folks and listen to their stories. 5:22 that looks like a 1958 Ford in front of John's Store. Pledge and Lord's Prayer - and we meant it. 8:30 looks like an American Chestnut on the left, but could be a peach. I enjoyed this video as much as any I have ever watched. Thank you for making it.
Your so welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
If you study on Cade's Cove a bit, it's interesting (or was to me) many of the wood used by initial settlers aren't found in the U.S. today, and this is like true for other areas as well I'd assume
My great grandpa in Wise County VA donated a acre of land for a school (Marshall School) and not to be out done, my grandma's dad did the same in Dickenson Co, Va. (Bise School). Love these memories. Thanks, Donnie.
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My dad lived in Pound Virginia in Wise county, I think it was called Gillam holler it was in the 30s and they made a little shine. I seen the little school he went to but not sure if it is still there. Hopefully you might see this
@@michaelwhiteoldtimer7648 Thanks for sharing my friend.
My husband was from Rhoda,Virginia in Wise County. Oh! The stories he would tell. He got his wings for glory last Spring. I miss him so
Another history lesson that we need to continue, went to a small school, 1st through 4th in one room 5th through 8th in another. Mrs. E.A. Cope was my first teacher, two teachers for all eight grades. Used to work in tobacco corn, and hay fields to help buy my school clothes; never will forget the smell of my lunch bag with a banana and peanut butter sandwich in it. No bathrooms only outhouses, one potbellied stove in the middle of the room, large coal pile outside. Yes times were hard, but people cared for one another then. Thanks for jogging the memories.
Awesome. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My mom started teaching in a 1 room school on Wolf Island that was in the Mississippi River. On the weekends she rode the ferry to the main land and would stay with local families. She later moved to Kingsport tn5 and retired from the city school system. Such a different world than what we're used to. I love your channel.
Awesome! Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
As an Aussie, I really loved hearing about your early schools. I went to school in the 50s in Queensland, Australia. In early days we had slates with slate pencils. We had small containers with a wet sponge inside the clean the slate when finished our work. The smell is something you always remember. Later I became a teacher, interrupted by service in Vietnam. Then I became a Principal and taught in one teacher schools and eventually retired from a larger city school. I sometimes regret leaving the smaller schools as the children and parents were so totally different to larger schools!
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Would love to go back. No electronics. A simple life. Enjoyed this and love to hear you talk💕
i would to and thank you my friend.
Donnie I went to a one room school house in Guntertown TN I just turned 70 this year and several of my Grandchildren have done school papers about my days there. I grew up in the mountain and I sure do miss Tennessee. Love the way you tell a story !
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grand parents grew up in kentucky and I loved hearing stories about them growing up. All are gone but 1 grandma and I sure do miss the stories . I tell my grandkids about them as I want them to know about the past , where their family came from and let the memories live on
That's great my friend. Thanks for sharing.
Oh I missed my mother and grandmother talk about these school days in KY and TN. Thank You for the video, just loved it so!
You are so welcome!
My Daddy had to go to worked after 8th grade, his Momma, my Memere, had 14 children but only 10 survived. I’m talking 1930’s New Brunswick Canada. It was a French speaking area. Your talking winter from November thru May! Feet and feet of snow! We were stuck in our chalet for 3 weeks when I was living there!!! It was great!
Wow, Thanks for sharing my friend.
I want to let you know. My family from Rocky Mount, North Carolina. I cannot stop watching the history you bring. I have a great respect now for my mother, grandma, and great grandma and PA. Thank you, Mr. Donnie.
Awesome! Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandmother was a teacher and she started her teaching career in a room above a store in the county next to mine. Man the stories she had. This brings me back to her memory. Thank you!
That is awesome! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Back when people were real compared to today. Knew what an honest days work was. Watching your vids makes me miss my Great Grandmother & Grandfather & visiting them on their farm. Thank you Sir.
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I remember playing marbles at recess, those were great days
Yes they was. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My dad loved marbles.
My mom went to a one room 🏫 school.. grade 1_3… Then they moved into city.
My uncle's & auntie's would tell us kids they had to walk miles to school daily rain shine hell or high water lol. listening to you reminds me of listening to my uncle Woodrow tell us stories Thanks Mr Donnie 👍😊
Your so welcome friend.
Enjoy your stories. Reminds me of stories my dad would tell me about his youth. He went to a one room school his grade school years. His mother washed laundry by hand outdoors. They had to bring water up to the house from a stream. But his fondest memories was of a steam engine train chugging up the side of Whiteside mountain just west of Chattanooga Tennessee. They got one pair of shoes a year and wore overalls.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
It's so cool to hear of someone around home. I'm from Sand Mtn. Down below Chattanooga right across the Alabama line. I know people from Whiteside.
@@childofgod94 Thanks for sharing friend.
My mom and dad both lived on Sand mtn. when they we’re going up
Lord's Prayer and the pledge being said, would change the hearts and minds of people in this country over night.
Amen friend.
Amen again an again 1:25
I enjoyed this one Donnie! I loved hearing Pap and Granny talk about their school days and even though my kids are grown I still feel a sort of excitment every year when school starts.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I started in a one room school in Dickinson county Virginia ( Tivis ridge) with one teacher taking care of seven grades. The older girls helped with the younger kids and even cooked the lunch. That was the last year Tivis was open. The next year I went to Bise school which was two rooms with five grades. I consider myself lucky to have been able to experience the old ways.
Thanks for sharing your story my friend.
Alot of fond memories of those school days for sure,and a good teacher made all the difference.
I never did like school that much, but I tried to make the best of it. Ended up working 25 years in the school maintenance as a plumber, them rascals kept me busy fixing stuff 🙂.Another Good Story Donnie, THANKS
Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
lol 😂 You’re so correct on both these comments! 😊🙏
Back in those days there wasn’t calculators computers it was paper pencil and the chalk board.👍👍👍
You learned it better. Thanks for sharing my friend.
And "THE PADDLE"
@@robertgarland805 True!
That’s the way it should be
And you can bet they were better educated.
More logical thinking and common sense!
My maternal grandmother went to what used to be called "normal school". It was high school actually. I have her picture from there, and I look like her. It makes me proud knowing where I came from.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
A wonderful memory today of going to Middlesboro to the John's Store. I can smell the store still today. All of those stiff jeans and overalls smelled of new. Great memories thinking of the JC Penny downtown. The old elevator in there.
I couldn't have picked a better place to be raised. PET Dairy brought my father there when I was 4 around 1970. It was a perfect childhood.
I enjoy these videos so much!
Thank you!😊
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Andrea Wilson, I remember those stores very well from when I was growing up. My mom got all of mine and my sisters school clothes at JcPenny's. Those where the good old days🥰🥰🥰
@@robinjeffrey4182 Thanks for sharing my friend.
I'd forgotten PET dairy, we had a small one. Thanks for the reminder.
I just found your channel and i love it. Im 57 years old and the daughter of a Coal Miner from Southwest Virginia. My Mom and Dad are gone now as are my Grandparents. Your videos bring back so many memories and tales of what i was told. I know about Raw Head and Bloody Bones lol...thank you...
Welcome aboard my friend. Please do enjoy the channel. Your welcome.
As a kid, I remember the country church where we would sometimes attend, had an outhouse and the drinking water was in a galvanized tub and everyone used the same dipper to drink from.
That was the way it was. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I love the mountains I miss them
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I remember you wearing Yellow Jacket Gold Converse. You got us all hooked on them. I remember going to Premier Shoe store to buy my first pair. Oh the memories! 😍
So cool! Thanks for sharing my friend.
We had Keds in Virginia, loved them.
@@haroldwilkes6608 Great shoes.
What a wonderful story, Donnie! Although I was a town girl, I remember well those first days of school. And a good teacher really did make all the difference!💖
Thank you. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Well, that's maybe the one thing that hasn't changed between the times in Mr. Donnie Laws' video and now. Schools getting worse every year in many areas, unfortunately. So sad these kids will never have experiences such as these, it really gives you foundation for life & solid role models also self assurance or confidence you can navigate hard times if you're called to do so in your life.
I remember the book mobile. Sweet memories.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
I used to travel in the 90's selling parts to farm Equipment dealers. I covered KY, TN, NC, SC. I would see many of the small community school houses. Keep on painting those memories.
Thank you. Will do. Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandmother and many members of our family attended the Bird schoolhouse. I believe I have a class portrait as I have filled several albums of letters, pictures and family history in Tennessee. I wish they had raised my brothers and I down there. Now the history has stopped for most of us. Very sad to feel so disconnected to our own people and our roots. When I visit, I’m called a Yankee. It makes me realize that I’m not their people even tho I will always call them mine.
It's always your home my friend. Thanks for sharing.
I've watched several of your videos and enjoyed them. This one touched me, even though I didn't experience most of these things; however, my family did and that humbles me to see the pictures of times that are no more. Thank you for the great work you did on this video especially.
Wow, thank you my friend.
I'm a NC native, but in 1970-71 I attended 10th grade at Tennessee High School in Bristol, complete with the medieval castle football stadium. Mr Borlesky was my neighbor and the school principal. Mr Cannon (Spanish) was my favorite teacher
I love the old CCC project school buildings and I love the mountains.
Thanks so much for sharing my friend.
Went by there yesterday.
Been a long day....nice to have your stories at bedtime 🌙
Hope you enjoyed it!
Thank you for these history stories Donnie, and very much appreciated. I have heard similar stories up here in our neck of the woods and sat full attention on the teller hanging on every word. I am pleased about how much fineness there are in people in the telling of these histories.
Donnie
Your very welcome my friend.
I never knew about the libraries in cars that drove around. That was an awesome thing for the kids. Thank you for sharing Donnie
You are so welcome.
We were a lot happier with a lot less back in those days! Life is too complicated these days.
Amen, Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks for another great video Donnie. Brought back some memories I had forgotten.
I had forgotten about those cheap blue jeans we would have at the start of the school year. I would go play, running around sweating and your legs would turn blue!
Your so welcome.
It wasn’t so quaint. My dad said the one room school in WV was cold with only a pot-bellied stove. They would have had a cold biscuit or boiled egg for lunch. His father was a logger. There wasn’t much money for warm clothes. His sister, the oldest child, didn’t have clothes for the cold & long walk in the snow. She had to quit school & leave home to go to work. My father had to quit school at 15 to go to work, too. He was the middle child. There were 5 of them plus one that died at 2 weeks of age.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandma was born in 1901, and we have a picture of her and the whole school lined up. Some kids had shoes, some not, we were poor but an education was what mattered. We went alone the train tracks to pickup coal, allot did to stay warm. I pray that they bring back the Pledge of Allegiance we are one country and that teaches us allot. Be safe thanks!
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Your videos are so soothing and relaxing. I sit here at my desk at work and watch them. The videos bring me peace when I'm having a long day..
Thanks for sharing my friend.
How I love the old days and old times the old school buildings or school houses the boys in their overalls and the girls in their dresses back when times were good I prefer the old school houses over the new fancy modern school buildings I think it's awesome how they would say the Lord's prayer or something biblical in school and God back then nowadays their trying to take god out of everything and even in school now this reminds me of little house on the prairie the kids in the old school houses and buildings up in the Appalachian mountains I love the old out houses I want to go back in time back to the old days love these stories kids would walk to school watt their lunches in the classrooms have recess then walk back home after school you could just walk back home without anybody kidnapping or snatching those school houses were neat old timey it's not like this anymore times have changed love the old clips from these kids studying reading out of their books having class this takes me back in time good old days thanks Donnie
Awesome story. Your very welcome. Thanks for sharing that my friend.
Thanks appreciate it love sharing with you Donnie my pleasure
Thank you sir. The memories you brought back... all the chores, the running in the fields... sigh...
You're very welcome.
Thank you for helping us to remember the good Ole days
Your welcome.
Another story that makes me want to go back in time to my childhood. Thank you, Donnie.
God 🙏 bless.
I lived in a one room school house in 1990's, it was called the Washington School 1876-1958 Foxes Ridge Rd . Acton, Me., before we moved to South Carolina. I invited one of the teachers to the school for lunch , she seemed happy to be there and I sure was happy to have her. Thank you for this great story as always.
Your welcome. Thanks you for sharing my friend.
I need to find out where both sets of grandparents attended school, I want to see if their old schoolhouses are still standing 🤔 though it's doubtful ☺️. Thank you for another wonderful story Donnie 🤗
Your welcome.
I'm loving these old stories keep them coming sir, 👍
Glad you like them!
I attended an old country schoolhouse. It had 2 rooms, but they only used one room because there was about 20 kids who were going there. There was no indoor plumbing. We used an outhouse. When weather got colder, we we would burn coal in a potbelly stove. We would every morning get water from the well. Grades 1-8 were taught in there. Some of the classes had only 1 student. There was more hands on teaching at that time. We would bring our own lunches and eat outside. We got one, 10 minute break in the morning and 30 minutes for lunch. We would play on these breaks. We lived about a mile from the school. Our Dad would drive us down to school in the morning and we would walk home every afternoon. I think the learning we got from this environment helped us to learn better. I attended the school for 7 years. When they closed it, We were bussed to a larger school. I usually made better grades than most of the other kids. That’s one of the reasons that I think kids need a good basic education to learn to master any subject.
Thank you for the good story. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks. I grew up in Eastern Kentucky. I can see major changes in my life since I wa a kid growing up at that school. The road in that holler when I was a kid, was 2 , muddy ruts that was made by my Dads log truck. When I got up to being a teenager, it was graveled up good and we had to catch the bus halfway up the holler. Later it was finished and we caught the bus just below the house. When I was in my thirty’s, it was black topped. Not long afterwards, city water was run up in there. That was close to 20 years ago.
@@eddiemoore8468 Thanks for sharing my friend.
I Love your Videos. Even I had a lot of this Growing UP ❤ God bless My Sweet Daddy & Mama❤ She was so much STRONGER when He was alive. Gene Gentry❤2002
Sir ya brought back some fond memories thank you.....ATB
Glad you enjoyed it my friend.
I could listen to you all day. Thank you 🙏
You are so welcome.
I remember the bookmobile that came from the town library every month or so.
@@edwardmiller9611 so do I. Go get books from the bookmobile!
my daddy lived in middlesboro up on a mountain in a cabin and said he walked thru a cemetery coming home late from school some days.and he said he was running wide open thru there too.he would love hearing these stories as I do.always enjoy your channel.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Lovely video. My mother went to a rural school in Maine, much like the one pictured at he end. We went to see it a few years ago, and it as still there but much broken down. Actually had a National Historic Register placard on the front, but there's no money to fix it. In my area many of the old one-room schoolhouses have been turned into homes. You can tell by the row of windows that they existed before electricity.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
When my mother was a student they had what she called "potato vacation ". When harvest time came every one had to help with the harvest so school was closed.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
A great story to set this day off!
Thank you.
Sometimes those fond memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my face ♥️
Thanks for sharing my friend.
My grandkids first day back today, my God its still summer we never went back until 1st week september, thats a whole month of summer memories we cant make 😢, especially for those of us who have long winters. Love your stories Don, Im going to make my grandkids 11 and 9 watch this, Im 63, had modern everything, but I dont think they even teach kids today about this kind of history, I know mine are spoiled Im guilty lol. Loved this Don. I will tell you what Don, im not super religious but when they stopped saying the pledge of allegience and prayer before classes and in other agencies even congress things started getting bad in the world, I think God got a little upset and sad.
Thanks for sharing this my friend. God bless you.
Thanks for the great memories. I always wanted one of those yellow raincoats you seen kids wear but we never could afford it.
You and me both! Thanks for sharing my friend.
Love your narration of times past. That's Boyd's Creek Tn or Seymour in the first picture. Some good memories in those hollaers. Keep it up Donnie cause there be skunks tryin to rewrite the past.
They already are my friend.
I really enjoy listening and watching these videos brangs back great memories for me thank you for sharing GOD BLESS
Glad you enjoyed it. Your very welcome.
Childhood, Motherland, family, these things are forever connected in the memory of a person. This is part of his happiness.
WOW Thanks for sharing this my friend.
Yes, this video brought back some memories. Although some of my Ancestors came out of Harlan, Ky, my country school days were from Warsaw, Mo. I think we had 8 kids, multiple grades in the one room. I remember listening to the kid's lessons in the advanced grades and waiting for school to end and get back to the woods; after chores of course. Thanks for the video.
Your welcome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I really like your videos! My mother walked several miles to school, and I went to a two-room school for my first three grades. The good ole' days!
Yes it was. Thank you for sharing my friend.
I'm from eastern North Carolina and have lived in Europe a good part of my life, military and mostly civilian. I never knew the western part of our state. Better late than never. I appreciate where I come from and thank you for teaching me about the western part of my state.
This video came up in my feed today. I enjoyed this so much. My Mama told me many stories from her childhood in school. All grades together. Wood stove. Walked to school. You asked to "be excused" to use the outhouse. Thank you. It's Mother's Day '23. Missing Mama. God bless you.
Awesome my friend. Your very welcome.
I remember the Bookmobile! It came by my house every other week in the summer. I read all the books I could carry up the hill to my house.
I still wear converse tennis shoes! I have one pair of high tops (in blue) and one regular pair (in black) at the moment.🤗❤️🐝
Awesome. Thanks for sharing my friend.
I wore "Buddies"....Buddies they make your feet feel fine--Buddies they're a dollar forty nine
@@robertgarland805 lol! You still remember the jingle🤗❤️🐝
@@donnielaws7020 You’re welcome🤗❤️🐝
@@deborahdanhauer8525 if you had "Buddies" you were really something. Thanks and blessings. Be strong in the Lord and THE POWER OF HIS MIGHT.
Donnie,
Definitely enjoyed it, still reminisce those days when my father used to tell me when he used to go to school, and now I tell my kids.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Great story Donnie, when my little mama went to school way, way back in the day. She was born in 1937. She was suppose to be left handed. The old mean teacher would hit her on the back of her tiny hand with a ruler every time she saw her writing with her left hand. So of course she had to learn to use her right hand from then on out. She held her pencil between her pointin' finger and her middle finger and she had the most beautiful hand writing i ever saw. They say i write just like her. But i dont think i do. She would take bisquits with hog lard spread on them for her lunch. She was real, real poor, but she had a happy childhood. God rest her soul. She passed in 2018 at 80 years old.❤
Donnie thanks so very much for sharing this beautiful history. U have a great voice to narrate theses stories. God bless take care.
You are very welcome my friend. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing your stories. I just love to hear of days past and the people in them. I subbed.
Be well.
Welcome aboard my friend. Enjoy the channel.
Great video as always Donnie! Wish I'd have paid more attention in school for sure, I took it for granted, while many others would have given anything to have my place there.
Me to my friend. Thanks for sharing.
I was not born in Appalachia but have grown to love it thru these videos !
Awesome my friend.
Ahhh the little old one room schoolhouse! Mr Laws, you did an excellent job with describing how it was when we went to school! Many memories are still in my mind. Blessings always! ❤️✝️
Thank you very much for sharing this my friend.
TY for sharing.
We need to get back to the old way of teaching. Not this new curriculum stuff.
Yes we do.
Great story! Yes it was a lot different for our parents and us!
Yes it was! Thanks for sharing my friend.
I watched this again, and realized i did come away with some good memories at times. It did bring back memories of old friends I haven't seen in years. thanks again for sharing, your friend, Louise
Awesome my friend. Thanks for sharing. Your very welcome.
Thanks again, Donnie for sharing memories
I would bet one thing you never worried about back then was a school shooting. Those schools might have been small and had outdoor plumbing, but you were among neighbors and you were safe.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Thanks Donnie. Love this. Dolly's book program for the children is a continuation of those old mobile libraries.❤🇮🇪🍀
Wonderful program. Thanks for sharing my friend.
Darrell raley good one good way to start my day you bring joy to my life with the great stories.
Glad you enjoy it!
Thank you so much for sharing your stories i enjoy them so much, God bless.
You so welcome my friend. God bless you .
I remember when i first started school we used to say the Pledge of Allegiance to the United State in the morning
Me to my friend.
Surely the dislike on this video is a mistake. Your videos are great!
Thank you friend. I get a lot of dislikes for some reason on all videos. I don't think they like the southern ways.
My Maw Maw was a Share Cropers daughter she was born in 1916 in Tuscaloosa, Al. ...she made it to 3rd grade... according to her she picked Cotton along side her Daddy beginning at the age of 3...She was a good woman and tough as pig iron! I sure do miss her and her stories
I know how you feel my friend.
Them bluejean britches would rub together when we walked down the hall they could hear me coming. Always got a couple sizes too big so they would last a couple years. Thank you Mr. Donnie again for great memories. You are the best! God bless you Sir.
Your very welcome my friend.
An eighth grade education back then was better than 12 years now. A student learned the 3 Rs. The state curriculum now is full of fluff and the computer ed is not as important as it's said to be.
Thanks for sharing my friend.
Back then everyone had guns for hunting, but not one school shooting.
Figure that out my friend.
I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS SIR ! THEY BRING BACK SO MANY MEMORIES!!
Thank you friend.
Thank you so much for the memories...excellent story telling...so homesick for the members of family no longer with us...and all the old folks that took care of us as children...grandma and mom and the aunts...so many gone...
Your very welcome my friend. Thanks for sharing.