I'm an old farmer's son, when he laughed at your offer to open the gate, I can't lie, my eyes welled up because I know that laugh.... I miss it every day.... Spend every minute you can get with him..... it's so much lost when they aren't with us anymore..... God bless you and yours.....the old ways brought so much more integrity and honesty. Cherish your time and wonderful memories to you all!
So true it brings a tear to my eyes to thinking about my dad and my grandma and grandpa. The Thing I look forward to now is when we’re all together again
Seeing the old homesteads in Ireland where my Dad grew up was humbling...the dirt floors in Dad's 1925 birthplace where a family was still living in the same condition in 1973, the thought of Dad working in the morning, then getting up on his bike to ride 20 miles to play an Irish football match, then cycle home again in time for evening chores. Mom's family home/farm is over 300 years old, so the stories that land can tell. I wasn't able to capture all the stories and voices that I now so wish I had, so this was special seeing you with your father remembering "the old days."
The story about his dad in the horse, WOW. Such a heavy feeling when he and his mom were talking about him and the horse not coming back and him going to look, you can hear it in the way he speaks about it. Would be so hard walking out there into the snow at that age knowing the possibility that they weren’t ok.
What a great video. History comes alive when it is presented in the first person. Thank you to your father for sharing this. What an amazing gift to pass on. In my real life I was a hospice nurse and I met people that were amazing parts of history living all the history we were taught. That was a true honor and privilege to hear so many stories first hand unedited. I really appreciate this video so much. Thank you for what you do here it really does matter and makes a difference.
Love seeing people reminiscing! My dad was born in 1924 & Mom in 25, so remembered what it was like in the depression. They rode horses all the time too & farmed. Tough people back then!
Grew up on a farm in late 50's.Dad was depression kid. He go to town on Saturday and get flour ,coffee and sugar. Everything else came from the farm. He had 9 siblings. You always had something to eat. My favorite meal was corn bread and sawmill gravy with salt meat with garde salad pick fresh! We still have big gardens and feed lot of older people that aren't able to have a garden. Can hear my dad telling about his childhood from your dad! Keep the videos coming!! Keep looking for bees on your homestead. When I was a kid that was my bartering tool.
Dear Melissa please thank your father for me my dad was born in 32 and i lived in the old way some as a child and my father taught me many of the old ways and i am forever grateful for it as it is part of his legacy and now mine as well i have the utmost respect for men like your father i would sit for hours and talk about the old times with your dad and mine too if i could have my wish he seems to be a wonderful man just as my father was thank you and him for this video i hope you are both well and happy
Thank you for sharing very special....my husbands grandmother told me about how her family moved from Tennessee lower Appalachian to Michigan by wagon took them a month and how once there it was first time they had indoor plumbing and power hearing things from her point of view was eye opening same as a friend of mine from east Texas his great grandmother talked to me about how they settled in Jacksonville and had to fight for their lives against a native war party that had killed their neighboring native friends and how scared at 5 she was watching mom dad and 3 brothers fighting while they had her under the bed... makes me appreciate what little I have and thank God for it
He is awesome! I love his stories. Reminds me so much of my Grandpa. He passed away in 2000 at the young age of 58. I was 22. I didn’t get in to gardening until 5-10 years later and only got more interested in homesteading in recent years. Makes me think of my grandpa every day. I know how much he’d love my little urban “farm” I’ve created. My mom always tells me my grandpa would be right in the middle of it with me, if he was still here. ❤️ I love the aerial views of everything. What beautiful land!!
I want to hug your dad, times were so tough then, most of us wouldn't survive that time because everything is so much easier today as he said. He was very polite when he answered your question. Please tell him to make more videos with you, looks like I'm not the only one thrilled, I love videos like that. Made me tear up, he's very sweet. ❤️❤️❤️ Hugs from the uk xx
When you asked him what they used for toiletpaper, before he answered I said outloud "Sears catalog!" That was my grandpa's answer to that question, growing up on a farm in Mulhall, Oklahoma.
I love old airplanes and one morning going into the office, I looked across the airport runway and saw a B-17 and B-24. I went over at lunch time and even more interesting than seeing inside and out of the airplanes was talking with two former WWII pilots of those type of aircraft.
Oh bless 🙏 What a treat this was! Will you be asking him to do more videos? Oh I hope so! Maybe you could tell him about all the love in these comments and maybe he would agree to do some more videos. This was so wonderful ❤ Btw... I am in Appalachia in NC and we still string leather britches.
It is a rare joy to experience his life through his eyes, when we get that kind of a loving history it is something to cherish. Thank you for sharing this.
I lived with my grandmother growing up (she was born in 1899 and my grandfather was born in 1876 and died when I was a toodler). We had chickens, cows, horses, orchard, garden and 3 small rent houses. We used her "electric" washer that was electric because the wringer was electric:). We had a very small black and white TV with two very fuzzy channels. I was able to watch real TV when I went to college at 20 years old. I remember being very happy in general and have always known how to work hard. I have 7 children (all grown) and they are also very hard workers and successful. How boring life not to have anything to accomplish and be proud of.
Thank you for sharing your dad's story. I wish I could have heard my grandparents story. They lived a very active life but I will never know the details.
I'm Filipina and I use to have long conversation with my GrandPa (Fatherside) How they lived during WW2.He was 11 yrs old that time. During the Japanese invasion. My grandpa is a great story teller. Like your Father.
This old man lived like a king compared to my dads family 12 people in a 10x16 cabin his mother died when he was 2 . But he bacame a great provider and a proud man .
Just saw this video and it brought tears to my eyes remembering my grandpa he lived a very similar life. Difference was he lived in Puerto Rico. But times were also hard.
You will cherish this video with your dad. So lovely. What great memories. I'm sure he enjoyed visiting there. Such a good daughter you are. Nancy from nebraska
Thanks Melissa, for your fortitude and prompting to record your father's and family's heritage... Viewing this , strikes the same cord, my father grew up in the 1930s also my mother, albeit slightly younger. I have felt and thought, for years, these precious and priceless lessons cannot,and should not, be lost with time. My father made cassette tapes of my Grandfather Louis, talking and telling stories of the 1890s through the early 1900s... You cannot help, but feel wonderment while listening to these times gone by. Thanks again, I wish you and yours well.
Omg what a touching video, and it's so cool I know where you are. I love Rockport and Marblemount. Your dad is so precious, I love listening to stories from the depression era.
THANK YOU for doing this video, and please thank your dad, too. I really enjoyed seeing the land, cabin, creek, everything, and hearing your dad talk about ye olden days, and his life, was wonderful. I love this sort of thing. Now I want to watch more of these sorts of stories. I hope that people do videotape and/or take notes on older people's stories.....
Thank You for sharing these precious moments of yours and your fathers time together with us. You ARE SO right those old traits and tricks of preserving etc are getting lost. I remember having an old Spring house and the outhouse too.
Thanks so much to you Dad and you for sharing this. Such memories deserve to be preserved and shared. He seems like a lovely man. My gran was born in 39, she's still living on the farm she grew up in (we're in the UK) and where I hope to take on one day. I get lots of stories from her about her life and her parents, usually over a glass or few of wine, but I really need to make an effort to record it for the next generation so they'll get to know her better when they're grown and she's gone.
That was wonderful! Thank you for sharing this video with us. My Mom passed away almost 3 years ago and my Dad 12 years ago. There are so many things that I wish that I wish that I would have asked them when they were alive. I do know some things, but I would have liked to have leaned more.
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What a wonderful memory you are preserving! I don’t know if you are into genealogy but may I suggest that you have your father and any other older relatives tested. Your grandchildren may thank you someday. I wish I had done it when my parents were alive, so many unanswered questions. Thank you for sharing your time with your father with us.
Melissa~ I just stumbled across this sweet video of you interviewing your dad ❤ I grew up in Washington, Tacoma area and now live Missouri. It was wonderful to see the cabin your dad grew up in and to listen to his stories. It was such a pleasant surprise to find your video today- thank you, it made my afternoon! 😍
My mom is 96. She's would tell me about using Sears and Wards catelog in Wisconsin. 😁 And peach or pear packing paper once in a while 👍 Special thanks to your Pop! 🐄 🐷
What a beautiful gift you just gave yourself. Copy this video and keep it somewhere safe and treasure it. Having this walk through memory lane is such a wonderful thing to have on film. I had some great talks with my Dad and I wish now that I had them on video so that I could see and listen to him again. It was lovely listening to him tell about the old days. Thanks for sharing.
I did a couple road trips with my father-in-law and his uncle like this video. It was mostly audio (like yours) but one of the most rewarding trips. Loved this video.
Thank you both for sharing. My kids interviewed my Grandparents on video and it was the most amazing thing. Somehow, the video is gone, but the memories and stories are in my heart.
Melissa - I have a daughter who's middle name is Melissa but that is not why I am here (lol). I just want to say a few things including THANK YOU for your videos. When it comes to this one I have insisted on playing it for some of my grandchildren as well as my son & daughter-in-law. BTW - I LOVE your New Place as would I love to rent it some day for a Special Event that I sense y'all would NOT be into as I am a Small-Medium level Event (Concert) Producer. Nevertheless, I'll say it again, your videos are not just educational, they are inspirational. Not just this one but showing how y'all lived in a trailer while working two jobs "in-town" as you built everything up. Now you have that 40-acre farm!!!!! Meanwhile, this tour is also GREAT!!!!! Respectfully & Sincerely James II (of Marblemount - Small World)
Thank you for the memories of my dad and grandparents. I remember asking my grandmother before she passed away in the 80's if she missed the good old days. Her response I will never forget, " I do not, there was not much good about them. A lot of hard work from sun up to sun down. These days are much better" I could see her response in your dad.
In the old days many people didn’t use refrigeration to preserve, they just used a culture/fermentation instead, even for milk and butter. My best guess is that we might be healthier if much of what we ate contained that probiotic.
I love this video ❤ it's so wonderful that you still have your family homestead to visit! You have inspired me to do the same with my dad, my grandparents also were very much self reliant and had the horses to get around. They never owned a car. I think they worked hard but lived peaceful lives with lots of family and love!
Wow, thank you, Melissa, and especially to your Dad, for getting on the camera and giving us a tour of the area and the old family cabin! I wanted to hear so much more detail....(listen to the podcast, right?!). I have never heard of, nor had, the Green Bean Britches...I'm gonna have to try that technique! Crossing that creek looked a little daunting, but so glad it went well! (PS. The 'Little Tree' air freshener was a little distracting, as it bobbed and danced back and forth on the country roads).
Shit dude and I hate to say that word but I’m so serious I wish we could all take that ride back with her grandfathers and hear them tell that story about you know their life that means so much to me you wouldn’t even believe. I should’ve waited to comment to the end of the video and that was just beautiful and tell your Dad thanks for sharing that, and then you and him go down the history books
Such an awesome piece of history! This is a video to treasure. We can all learn something from the ways they made it through such tough times. The older generations were survivors!! Thanks to your dad for sharing his story❤️
