Posted on 05/28/2012 6:17:39 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232
On the History Channel now.
There is nothing inane about my post. It seems every time on this forum when somebody posts a thread about a movie or TV show, the "I haven't seen a movie or TV show since 1973" crowd wants to bombard the thread telling us all how they don't watch TV or movies.
I remember when FR was an excellent forum; when people had something relatively intelligent to say, and it was spelled correctly.
I remember when people didn't copy and paste Bible scripture to Business/Economy threads.
I remember a time at FR when a person that posted a ridiculous Vanity post, for example, asking how to find size 14 shoes, then the post was probably pulled.
But like I said, weirder and weirder every year.
Ditto
I remember when people didn't copy and paste Bible scripture to Business/Economy threads.
I remember a time at FR when a person that posted a ridiculous Vanity post, for example, asking how to find size 14 shoes, then the post was probably pulled.
Shoot, I don't remember none of that. I'm perty new 'round here and even if I wasn't, my memory is kinda cloudin' up.
Had a hard time keeping up with who was in which family, but it appears the Hatfields had more smarts than the McCoys. Maybe the McCoys had more intermarriages?
It is interesting for the history.
Don’t have cable— but I wonder if they interviewed a Preacher
I know named Hatfeild— who has lived with this history even before he answered the call to preach. —I doubt it—such
human interest stories seem less inviting if one chooses a
way of peace rather than the Hollywood way of violence and sex.
My poor braindead disconnect the name is of course Hatfield.
Not the transposed i/e of my original reply.
In 2000 Mr. Mercat and I went to Jessamine County KY to find an old graveyard where my ancestors are buried. Jessamine is one, maybe two counties west of where the Hatfield/McCoy feud happened. We drove for hours on tiny little golf cart roads in our rented motor home. We ended up in front of a one room store, no proprietor but unlocked, with two old boys out front on the loafers bench. They not only knew where the graveyard was but one of them had helped dig the most recent grave which was, I think, in the early 50s. He said it was in July and hot and dry and they dug all day and when they had about gotten deep enough they came upon someone else who got there first so they had to fill it up and start over. So we took their directions and drove on and found the place where the two old folks who were working on it stood, staring at us like we were from Mars. The woman showed us not only the graveyard but where the log cabin had been, apologizing for the fact that her cattle had pushed it over. I have a worked stone rock from the chimney sitting on my shelf. Years later, we were named as respondents in a quiet title because the people who had been working that piece of _______ forsaken land for generations had never had title to it. In fact, no one had. My sixth great grandfather had homesteaded but no one every troubled to deed it.
Your reply was very interesting. My gradmother’s family was from Harlan, KY and it was told to me we still had family in the mountains, but to visit you’d have to call so and so who in turn would get with someone else who would make a point to go and visit with the kin in order to make sure you wouldn’t get shot paying a visit. Tough is right and maybe a still or two involved. :)
Costner was wonderful in Open Range. He was good in The Postman It was a movie that I did not think I would enjoy, but I did.
I missed this last night but History channel is starting it at 6 pm with pt 1 and then part 2 right after ... right now.
;o)
That was very interesting, Mercat. Looking up old family lines is a lot of fun sometimes. I am hoping to go to S.C. this summer to find the graves of my early American ancestors. We have traced our line all the way back to William the Conqueror. (yeah, I know, everybody is related to some famous person, but we are Stewarts so we are entitled, literally).
LOL. Tough yeah, but they don’t run stills any more. They grow pot.
Thanks for the heads up. We are recording the whole thing. I’m sure it will be available on DVD at a later date.
“New Gauley River Bridge”
Looks familiar. Is that another name for the New River Gorge Bridge?
You are right.
Its the New River Gorge Bridge.
Ok, thanks for letting me know.
That pic makes the New River Gorge Bridge seem much smaller than I remembered, so I thought maybe they had built a smaller version over the Gauley River that I didn’t know of.
Ive never been to either.
I always go to the Youghiogheny river.
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