Meet Appalachian Artifact Collector and Craftsman Kenny Tompkins 

What an interesting, amiable guy, Kenny is. I’d spend all day with him, not a boring moment, guaranteed.

Love history preservation. Makes me very happy.

I've used a well to get drinking water from when i was a child. My friends family didnt have inside running water. She lived on a farm. Great memories growing up.

I really enjoyed seeing all of these old things.

Miss the simpler way of life. 🥲 enjoyed the video. 👍🇺🇸🙏

I still remember my neighbor using the well until the early 2000s... I liked playing in that well when I was little.

Thanks John and Kenny. Kenny has a great collection. I was born the same year as Kenny and i used alot of those old tools when i was young.

Thank you, Kenny!

Great museum! Thanks for sharing.

I enjoyed the artifact thank you for sharing.I hope y'all have a great week and God Bless you all.

From what I see , the Appalachian folks are working hard to open their beautiful area up to people interested in their history and the people today . Hard working , decent people . 👍🇬🇧

Kenny Great Collection!I enjoyed seeing it! .Thank you so much for Video ! Wonderful job. I enjoyed it!

Very interesting . Nice to see people that take time to collect and preserve our history.. Thanks John.

Wow kennys place is amazing so many treasure and memories just love it

I love to watch your videos and enjoy how you bring back the simple life. I'm from up north, Massachusetts, and I love when you people talk with the southern accent.

How interesting! I love the value of the history at Tompkins Farm

Great to see relatives who collect things, too ❤

Interesting man to talk to. Lots of fun educational history tales. Grandpa tell me bout good ol’days.

Another amazing video with so much history ❤ love it ❤

A wonderful and amazing collection of old items and equipment. I hope Kenny has a plan to preserve and conserve it all in future years. It's important that these historical treasures aren't lost. Great video, John. Richard in Tidewater, VA but from Southwest Virginia. Age 80.

I really enjoyed this thank you so much, great place

I've used a well bucket like that, the water is much better than city water.

Great job on the towns history Kenny.

I love the history and restoration‼️

What a nice man and so many great treasures! Blessings from Texas!

I love the sign " Good June For Sale"!!! God Bless!!!

I have watched my Great Grandparents use a well❤️

Have drawn water from a well many times. Kenny has lots of cool stuff

Yes I can remember doing it

I have drawn water with a well bucket like that one. We had a deep well like that. Best drinking water. Eventually there was a deep well pump put in it. There was a company here called London Bucket company. I love this channel.

Good ole days and old barn . Reminds me of grandpa barn . And my dad's barn I use too jump out of it . 😅

Love this stuff ❤

I love the old punched well especially the stove lid cover.

Used the same setup in rockcastle county ky. In 70's. Eventually got a pump and ran it to house

Enjoyed your collectiom of old items I have a few of the item you have

Great video

Awesome thanks

I have a 20 lb sledgehammer and its handy at times. Especially working on trucks, etc

Kenny has a nice property there.👍

At one time the smitty was one of the most important people in town. Without them there would be no steel tools to work with.

Yes I used a well just like that with a well bucket many many times

May papaw Edd Going had a well on his enclosed front porch with a well bucket just like that one I got cought playing with it a lot loved it.

That's the only water my grandma had until 1992. She drew water every morning. Kept water in the kitchen in a bucket with a metal dipper for drinking. Everyone used the same dipper. Any water left in the dipper was dumped into a large bowl that was dumped out every morning. Her well was off the back porch on a gang plank and all was covered with a sheet iron roof. Home was 1 of 2 homes built prior to the civil war. The homes were mirror images of one another. The home is empty now but still standing. Arkansas

interesting!

MY UNCLE CLAYTON MADDOX OF KENTUCKY HAD THE SAME WELL SET UP.

It's been while but as a child I got to draw water from a well to have a cold drink of water

Yes, I had Drew water like that the boar bigger bucket

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kenny the good guy

I HOPE THIS GUY RIGHTS A BOOK..HE HAS DATES AND SO MUCH INFO..THAT HE DOSNT REALIZE..HOW MUCH HE NEEDS TO DOCUMENT THIS!

Grew up drawing water from a well. well know what a well bucket is

It's called a Bailer, not a well bucket!

Goins not going 😂

Boy he talks fast. I bet he’s always on the run. I’m thinking I my of said something or was thinking about the same last time . He needs to slow down so us slow people get to see it all

I wonder how his pap died .