I've known him for a long time and done audio taped interviews but great to finally be able to spend a day filming on his farm with him sharing his life story.
Frank, great to hear from you. Tim continues to introduce me to people and stories he has known for years. It is a privilege . I spent so much time with Analo during the editing that I feel like I have known him a long time. I love his dog as well!
Great story brother not many people left with these great stories anymore. It’s sad to see this time period slowly fading away it really is. GOD BLESS y’all and keep y’all Amen 🙏
My grandmother was a Phillips from Madison county but lived in Flag Pond most of her life ….. love the stories and the song .We have Decoration at Higgins Creek the second Sunday in June ,I know it’s been that date for more than 75 years ,I have been to the Shelton cemetery but that was more years than I can remember it was some relative but no clue who it was. Very interesting. THANK YOU 🌹
Thanks for sharing your story. I love the Flag Pond area and have a nice photo of an old store there in the snow. It's great to hear that some traditions like the decoration are still in place here and there!
My wife’s grandmother was Jenny Phillips Harris. She was married to Clay Harris. Both are buyer Upper Higgins Creek. We have a room with her bed and sewing machine, and a photo of her.
What a beautiful song about his Daddy's grave...never heard it before...brought tears to my eyes since my Dad at 44 ...i was 16...still miss him to this day!
Stephanie, so glad to hear that the song connected with you so personally. Sorry you lost your dad so young. It never seems like with have enough years with our parents no matter how long they live.
We are so fortunate to have people like you stopping by and spending time with us. Thank you! Analo is amazing. These songs touch something deep down in my DNA. Great to see and hear.
So good to hear from you. Thanks for stopping by to spending time with us. Perhaps we could meet your grandmother sometime. We love to hear the ballads for sure.
New subscriber here from Tennessee. Enjoy watching your videos. I was born in North Carolina….both set of grandparents lived and died in N.C. I am distant kin to the Phillips family ❤
Hello Lynn. I love your neck of the woods🙂. I'm glad to hear the videos are something you can identify with. It is a joy to edit these stories and get to know these amazing folk.
They probably hunted with my grandparents, Lattie and Vivian Gillis,and Ratha Thomas. Also Ratha’s brother Theron. I have a photo of a map drawn on a paper bag of where they camped and hunted in Flag Pond, TN and Madison Co. NC by Winfred Fender about 1935. All the hunters’ names are listed.
10/15/2023: “Mike Snider: A Boy and His Foxhorn” is the name of my article in Bluegrass Unlimited. It appeared in the magazine around the year that Mike won the top banjo prize at Winfield, KS. He recalled that when he called his church back home in tiny Gleason, TN, to tell them he won, the members just nearly “tore the roof off the church” with their shouting and excitement!
10/6/2023: More about the foxhorn! I interviewed the banjo-playing funny man from Gleason, TN, Mike Snider, for an article in Bluegrass Unlimited. Mike said his interest in music began when he was roaming the fields around the family homeplace, and he came up on a foxhorn, picked it up, blew on it, and the rest as they say, is history. Mike’s fans are surely glad he ran up on that foxhorn all those years ago. Pick away!
Yes, I've heard of it but not sure I've been through there although I've traveled that area a lot. I am always amazed at the names of coves, mountains and roads in the mountains and how there are similarities in communities that probably had little contact originally.
What a great job and story. My mom was a McHone, and my family tree is full of Sheltons and Notons. But I'm pretty sure Delane D McHone was not Native American.
I think there are a lot of folks that think they have Cherokee ancestors as there was intermarrying but certainly not to the extent that every family here has that in their background. I know in my own family I was always told there was Cherokee blood but DNA test never bore that out. I guess lots of folks like to think they have those connections to history and a wonderful culture.
Every fox hunter blew his horn in his own distinct way that his hounds were trained to. That allowed for his dogs to know that it was him calling them in. My grandpa was a fox hunter in Kentucky back in the 1920's and 1930's. Funny that they called it "hunting" ... They never did catch the fox, just listened to the dogs run them.
Hold onto that for sure. Analo also had six old large hammers of various sizes that his grandfather used to build roads. It's neat when we know the history of an object. It makes it so much more meaningful.
@@loveshisharley, my nickname name,” Gilis” was given to me many years ago, cause I chewed tobacco at a pretty early age, folks round home in eastern NC , called tobacco (baccer) “gillis”,.. our farm was part of the “Goose Pond “
