Tales of the Cumberlands - Wooden Caves: A History of Hollow Tree Living

My presentation on the history of people living in hollow trees at the Tales of the Cumberlands conference. (Thank you to Lorraine Dechter for providing a live stream of my presentation!)

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

I have camped in a sycamore before in the Scott's run area of brooke county wv I could park a quad in it and walk around it easily but of course some ignorant people burnt it down there is one on my grandparent's property it has railroad spikes going up high into the tree and my grandfather said they were there as long as he could remember . when I was a kid 6 of us kids couldn't wrap around it and touch hands.

[@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967]

Woah, that's pretty cool.

[@aaronmcconnell7358]

@@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967 there was a sycamore tree on browns Island (a small island on the ohio river) that was was said to be so large that when George Washington was mapping the Ohio River valley that he ,several of his men and a few animal's used it a shelter during a storm .

[@whoeever]

Where can we find the rest of this video?

[@cedartheyeah.justyeah.3967]

Not sure about this one exactly, but there is a newer, half-hour-long video up about huge hollow trees and people who lived in them.