Yes indeed! And in comparison - running water and flush toilets are luxuries.
@fortbumper6 жыл бұрын
roof over your head now ,does not mean the same thing its fancy expensive house the latest car and a big bank account
@manictiger6 жыл бұрын
I find it interesting that, in some ways, our building skill actually devolved. Before we even had farming, we had dugout shelters. It was a hole in the ground, lined with rocks or wood. It makes putting a roof on easy and it has extremely good insulation, since the 'walls' are surrounded by earth, instead of air. The hardest part is actually flood and rain control. A trench and mound going around the structure is pretty much mandatory.
@rich25836 жыл бұрын
Sadly, some people in America still think they are somehow "opressed" in 2018 with running CLEAN water and toilets that flush.
@zooflebean6 жыл бұрын
@@soysauce4767 yes they are. I moved to the countryside a couple years ago to live the primitive life. Living without running water and indoor plumbing had given me great appreciation for the generations before me
@chrisresnikoff17416 жыл бұрын
If you want to learn about rich people, study history. If you want to learn about poor people, study archaeology.
@artfact25 жыл бұрын
In either way you will probably practice poverty.;)
@PeteZa925 жыл бұрын
Oh, I like this comment
@zachmiller91755 жыл бұрын
@Modern Woodsman archaeology is a lot more than just graves... Many artefacts are just random things dropped or left behind by random people, and since the majority of the population through history would be poor or middling at best most artefacts would have belonged to poorer people
@zachmiller91755 жыл бұрын
@Modern Woodsman do your own research im just saying your premise is incorrect
@RickSanchez-jr1ef5 жыл бұрын
zach miller Ladies! Ladies calm down. We are all civilized women here.
@bitcoincryptofreedom36525 жыл бұрын
I love hearing stories of the past.
@infantryblack5 жыл бұрын
I just closed my eyes and relived those times with them as you read. A view of a life I never would have thought to seek out for my self. Thank you.
@jackiemack86533 жыл бұрын
Visit Williamsburg Va and Jamestown Va like living in those times!
@SteveGarwood-j6t8 ай бұрын
Lol. My Grandfather on my mom's side was born in 1872. Born in a tipi somewhere in the Dakota territory. He told, he remembered his older brothers and friends leaving camp to go fight the soldiers. The soldiers plan was to capture the women and children to hold hostage. In this way they force the Indian chiefs to lay down their arms and surrender. This was in 1876. He was almost 4. This battle with the soldiers became known as Custers last stand. My mother was born in 1935. She was the last child he had. He died a week after he learned his youngest son had been killed in an ambush during WW II. He had written about many different things he remembered while growing up. So I am very fortunate to know some of the history before the reservation were formed. I am Lakota of the Burnt Thigh nation. I was born in 1957. I never got to meet him.
@derekquintin9243 жыл бұрын
Your knowledge, cooking & information on our history is brilliant sir!
@deborahharris29622 жыл бұрын
Really good thank you. The first 'dole' a bread dole was in New York. I did some family tree for someone, and found an error about the bread dole at Trinity Church NY. They credit the wrong man with being the benefactor. They credit the benefactors lawyer with it. The mistake has been repeated in old newspapers, however there is one correct one and the benefactors will as references. Poverty was what I noticed in the 1700s the rise of institutions like orphanages, and places for the destitute. There was a lot of poverty. I love history I like how tell the story and try to live it.
@gracielaleon4543 Жыл бұрын
Illuminating excelent video.More grateful for everything I have.
@boixgenius5 жыл бұрын
thank you so much for this video! I've recently been really into reading journals from the 19th century specifically and have been looking into where to find more from either the same time period or before and then I saw this video! so perfect how that worked out.
@heyokaempath58023 жыл бұрын
John, you are so interesting!! You really bring our history alive!!
@angelaj89583 жыл бұрын
"bog-trotting Irishman" If you wanted to cross the peat bog, you had to keep moving, if you stood in one place more than a moment, you'd sink in!
@karlt82335 жыл бұрын
My dad was born in 1933 and had childhood memories of living on a farm in the late 30's thru the mid 40's before they moved to town. My grandfather was born in 1901 rural Alabama and moved to rural Louisiana in a covered wagon as in 1902. I remember all his tales of rural life up till they moved to town. His father was born in 1881 and I got to hear his stories thru my grandfather. My grandfather's grandfather was born in 1848 rural Alabama so I also had those stories passed down thru my grandfather. I was born in 1965 and a kid of the 70's so we have it made compared to the rural farm life of my direct ancestors.
@heidimisfeldt56854 жыл бұрын
Do write a book for kids to read. The youth has no idea
@Pizzacat3452 жыл бұрын
Make a book!!!
@daftfreak132 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1776 and I remember life back before the internet
@OanhSchlesinger2 жыл бұрын
@@daftfreak13 a great year to be born!
@karenfitzpatrick6256 Жыл бұрын
I'm your generation and my mother's mother was born in 1899. She lived to 102, clear headed to the end. I wish I had asked her more about her early life. She was born in a tiny village in upstate NY in her grandfather's Amish/Mennonite home and wasn't raised to dwell much on the past. Mostly she taught us her values through her actions. Hard work. Large garden, putting food up for the winter. Homemade clothes. Never wasting a penny. Education was very important to her with her Master's in Education. First in her family to go beyond 8th grade With eight grandbabies of my own, I'm not seeing them connect with the land or God for their needs. So much of life today is on the Internet. (Ironically where we are now!) But this isn't "real" life to me. I'd be fine without it. But how would this upcoming generation do?
@sparky60863 жыл бұрын
These scenarios are familiar to me. I remember visiting my grandparents in central Alabama in the 1960's, before mobile homes became popular. Some of the children, whom I played with, lived in what might be called "dirt floor shacks", because they had no floor. Some had tar paper for walls. Others, you could see the light through the cracks in the rough hewn boards. It only stands out to me looking back, because the architecture of someone's house was of little concern to me as a 6 year old. As an adult, when I hear people complaining about mobile homes and calling their occupants "trailer trash", I comment to them; they wouldn't criticize or ridicule people for living in a trailer, if they saw what they used to live in.
@roberthempker3931 Жыл бұрын
There is a difference between being poor and being trash.
@Cd5ssmffan Жыл бұрын
@@roberthempker3931 There is no difference. All poor are trash and need to be depopulated for the sake of our environment
@ExpandDong420 Жыл бұрын
@Robert Hempker and many people don't seem to understand the difference despite it being pretty obvious
@erikhendrickson59 Жыл бұрын
I complain about the mobile home *_industry,_* not their occupants. It's a viciously predatory industry.
@sarahpride55565 жыл бұрын
My Granny told me how they lived. Cabins and wagons. Lye soap and iron wash tubs. Shake roofs and corn shuck beds. Handmade clothes and shoeless summers. She lived it and talked often about it to me. I appreciate our pioneer history.
@nowrec56924 жыл бұрын
Your grandmother lived 300 years ago?
@amk16894 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was born in 1897. Sad to say, she so rarely talked about the past. I have gleaned a few facts: when very young she lived in a dug-out, which was evidently a source of shame for her; Deadwood (SD) was too wild to go into; she explained the use of a washstand, pitcher, and bowl; she hated converting from a wood stove to an electric model. I wish she had been more talkative like yours was!
@trudymaenza96723 жыл бұрын
Yes my Grandma described how her n her family in a wagon going across the Mississippi on a ferry, early 1900's, and she had Scarlet fever at the time.
@bettymiller19293 жыл бұрын
Well even in the 50s in California my parents who had gone through the Great Depression didn’t buy us 6 kids shoes in the summer… we didn’t get a pair until school started … and if I wanted new clothes I had to make the myself… I’m actually glad I learned the sewing skill.
@donaldcoday47653 жыл бұрын
I find that period of our history very enlightening thoughts of this period had to be so tranquill.
@AldousHuxley75 жыл бұрын
My great great grandpa in 1841 took a steam ship from New Orleans up to Cainsville Iowa now known as Council bluffs. From there he decided to travel with the mormons. He bought a wooden hand cart put all his belongings in it and dragged it over 1000 miles to Salt Lake City Utah. He thought mormons were crazy so 2 years later he walked back to Colorado and built a log cabin north of Denver that is now a museum.
@scottmantooth87855 жыл бұрын
respect
@casey71304 жыл бұрын
Kainesville I believe is the former name of CB
@no-kz8wk4 жыл бұрын
@Mario Salinas I did it in like 3 days 🙄
@StoicObserverS4 жыл бұрын
They are crazy and pedophilic, deceptive, perverse, greedy, villainous, and wicked.
@muhammedin6yasindakiesi5144 жыл бұрын
I dont even know who was my ancestors and look at you u knoe every single detail in his life i dont even know some of my family members i was tryin to flirt with my cousin that i didnt know it was my cousin 😂
@cameronkelly77256 жыл бұрын
I love how passionate he is about history. I would love going to class if he were my teacher lol. You just got a new subscriber!
@willbecker56324 жыл бұрын
Ikr i could see him running a mock town with only gear and structure types from the 1700s ... It would be an amazing way to learn the realities of life
@admiralsnackbar28113 жыл бұрын
History is fascinating. It's to bad most history classes are just a string of event's delivered as "who, what, where, why" memorize that, rinse and repeat.
@justinward32183 жыл бұрын
You ARE in class and he IS your teacher.
@walangchahangyelingden82523 жыл бұрын
@@justinward3218 Life is a learning experience.
@WhispersFromTheDark3 жыл бұрын
I wholeheartedly agree!
@blueridgebushcraft82946 жыл бұрын
My grandpa was out on his own when he was only nine years old after his mother died. Couldn’t read or write and was taken in by a family to work on the farm for room and board. A stall on the back porch with a pallet to sleep on and may some old wore out hand me down cloths. Even my dads family didn’t have running water much less electricity. Sometimes you don’t have to go back that far in time.
@TraceyAllen6 жыл бұрын
In high school I lived in a log cabin with an out house. This was in South Dakota in the 1990's.
@MrBrownnn6966 жыл бұрын
Right my mom told me when she was a kid they used candles for light in there house...
@mjona17546 жыл бұрын
Count yourself lucky my father's family got evicted from their home, (a hole in the middle of a road) and had to go and live in the middle of a lake. A porch? That would have been luxury.
@janonthemtn6 жыл бұрын
Prob a lot the same now, that's why they want to come here. Mexican gov't does not care about their citizens.
@gaarcemail6 жыл бұрын
@@janonthemtn As far as i am concerned, citizens are the only ones concerned with citizens. Governments are concerned with controlling citizens. Only if there is enough outcry from the public will you see government intervention.
@JoshTube4 жыл бұрын
Everyone experiences two deaths. The first is when your heart beats for the last time... The second is when your name is spoken for the very last time. I love how he keeps Sarah's memory alive by telling a piece of her story. I love this!
@pilotswife064 жыл бұрын
JoshTube thats a beautiful sentiment!
@marktroddyn33513 жыл бұрын
So true...I never met either grandfather and so when my parents go so do they.
@louc32683 жыл бұрын
@@stormy8092 Ruth, you are very sweet for this. 💕💕
@doctorgoodguy13 жыл бұрын
Thank you all for these beautiful thoughts!
@jebsmith323 Жыл бұрын
After my brother died, my father's name is never spoken unless my elderly mother dreams about him. My oldest child remembers him the best. My other sons and daughter have fainter memories. My grandchildren will never know him.
@Moriartart6 жыл бұрын
I admire the fact that you don’t just do videos on the middle/upper classes from the 18th century as I see many channels doing. You give a more human aspect to the past that most people think is cold and without character.
@Charlie-5026 жыл бұрын
Alexia you are beautiful
@Moriartart6 жыл бұрын
Charles Hardison haha thank you ❤️
@Moriartart6 жыл бұрын
Brooks Smith thanks 😀
@jamesrobiscoe11746 жыл бұрын
If they think about it at all
@rfoehn52155 жыл бұрын
...AND it gives a grown man an excuse to play "dress-up". LOL
@LisaCupcake6 жыл бұрын
The preface of Sarah Kemble Knight's book says it was published in 1825. Kind of funny to think that they were probably reading her journal as a book of "the old days", too.
@ghettomama42995 жыл бұрын
I 🖤 how rich travelers needed help from those in poverty. Just goes to show that every body has something to offer😉
@321scully3 жыл бұрын
At that time in history almost everybody needed help from somebody. Maybe that's why folk seemed friendlier than they do now.
@stikupartist36983 жыл бұрын
That's why slavery was in style!
@officetechtyping3 жыл бұрын
@@stikupartist3698 b i n g o.
@starsiegeRoks2 жыл бұрын
@@321scully plus there was no extensive law enforcement system back then. If you were a rude and combative person, you may just end up dead in a river and no-one would even bat an eye. Often times manners and decorum protected you more than guns did.
@wntu46 жыл бұрын
Nails were not a commodity you go to Home Depot for. They had to be hand made by a smith and were not cheap.
@peglegnoid61396 жыл бұрын
If a house would burn down they would pick the nails out of the ashes.
@homertalk5 жыл бұрын
I thought they had the Ye Old Homestead Depot
@MrJinxyBuster5 жыл бұрын
@@peglegnoid6139 They would sometimes burn a structure simply to recover the nails.
5 жыл бұрын
How stupid they are, if they couldn't find a Home Depot closeby back then, they could have ordered on Amazon ! That's so simple, these elders don't know a thing smh !
@YAUUN5 жыл бұрын
Well you could order from Amazon the only problem is it was incredibly expensive, the range was terrible if you wanted anything other than coffee, it took a minimum 4 months to arrive and often wouldn't arrive due to hurricanes & piracy. In all seriousness though, while they didn't have mail order as we know it until Montgomery Ward in the 1840's, your nearest grocery store (which could be several days away) would have a catalogue from which they could order stuff for you. If you were rich enough and needed it enough.
@GetMeThere16 жыл бұрын
I can tell you from personal experience (living on the ground in the high desert in winter for two months) that the experience of NEVER getting completely warm from an external source of heat is one that you just can't appreciate until you've had it. It's a TREMENDOUS hardship. Thinking of that, the well known practice of families before the 1800s sleeping all together in one bed is easy to understand -- life would have been almost unbearably cruel without that opportunity to snuggle and be warm without having to produce all the heat oneself.
@71kaye6 жыл бұрын
potable water on tap for cheap or free too. we are fortunate
@tanukiZoot5 жыл бұрын
Dude same. It's so easy to stay warm that I'm inside but being outside and never being able to warm up, you get chilled to the bone...
@dbmail5455 жыл бұрын
Easy to forget how good we have it. The stories my mother's parents told about the Great Depression sound like fiction today but conditions could revert back to worse.
@gordanazakula49275 жыл бұрын
GetMeThere; Thank you for sharing your experiences! However, how can it get COLD in a DESERT? I have always seen deserts as hot places. Please reply to me.
@d.a.stratton30265 жыл бұрын
@@gordanazakula4927 I grew up in desert lands. All desert means is dry. Some deserts are hot, some are temperate, some are cold. But even a desert that is hot in the day can get dang cold at night, even in the summer. There is nothing to hold the heat to the ground and it radiates into the sky. Cold air sinks to the ground. People die of exposure if they are not prepared. And winter in the desert is something else. Same kind of thing, only more so. The winds are severe because nothing to break them, so you lose heat fast. That is why desert people seek shelter in sheltered rock formations and caves. Sod huts sometimes, because they hold heat. Hope this helps you understand about deserts. They are beautiful, but they can be deadly.
@jackkennedy_19633 жыл бұрын
Why would even one person give this video a "thumbs down," never mind 564? I just do not understand how anyone could be critical of this free gift of historical insight by Mr. Townsend.
@themightyparthos3 жыл бұрын
Be glad that you are not one of the aforementioned number as it shows you are not bitter and have a thirst for knowledge. I used to be an angry person.. I used to be young and dumb, but I am not young anymore.
@sharonallen69213 жыл бұрын
It isn't about Mr. Townsend or his wonderful videos. Most likely those folks got a recommendation for this video because at some point in their youtube history they clicked on some kind of history video. They vote it down so that history videos won't show up again. Most likely they were looking for car videos or video games or something else that interests them. 564 down votes with almost 1 million views represent a drop in the bucket.
@jackkennedy_19633 жыл бұрын
@@sharonallen6921 Partial plausible explanation. And the down votes are, as you say, "a drop in the bucket." But we also must acknowledge that there are some simply nasty people out there who nitpick and trash anything they feel moved to -- simply because they're jerks.
@asmith78763 жыл бұрын
@@jackkennedy_1963 Well said. I watch some bushcraft/outdoor/camping channels and there's this guy who trolls them all and leaves nasty comments. What a bizarre and pathetic hobby.
@jackkennedy_19633 жыл бұрын
@@asmith7876 Thanks for your comments. I watch lots of those kinds of videos (Nessmuk) but I've not noticed that particular character. Sounds like a really unhappy soul. Yet many people are unhappy and never resort to nastiness, so bad on him. I agree. Bizarre AND pathetic. Tramp on, friend!
@ericp94796 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting! This kind of content is exactly why I love your channel, sir! Thank you.
@pulseweld6 жыл бұрын
its amazing that just a story or shared history can get so many good views. Its KZbin working properly.
@hoppas776 жыл бұрын
Yes, I agree and would love to see more on the ordinary people during this time.
@LostLakeLass6 жыл бұрын
Sad
@markmadrid50986 жыл бұрын
moo
@QueenBee-gx4rp6 жыл бұрын
This was fascinating. I live in the country in the northwestern corner of Connecticut and wonder if she could have traveled through here. There are still dirt roads around, often following a brook, that were Indian trails and still look as they could have back then. I love to think who went before me along these beautiful old roads.
@charliesmith61376 жыл бұрын
For anyone interested, John Woolman wrote extensively about poor and oppressed people in colonial America. He died in 1772. His writing was at least a century ahead of his time.
@juliar84623 жыл бұрын
Is it in his diary or something else?
@oldben57723 жыл бұрын
@@juliar8462 He left a journal of his travels and some essays about slavery and about how Christians should live. Look for the Phillips Moulton edition. Many people have found his works deeply moving, so don't miss it!
@Ephesians5-143 жыл бұрын
Oooo thanks 💗
@Ephesians5-143 жыл бұрын
@@oldben5772 nice!
@kristopherbeer54223 жыл бұрын
I wrote that information down thank you!
@stefanpigford68915 жыл бұрын
My father was born in 1912. His father my grandfather died in a truck accident. Dad was 7. He had to work just like a man doin hard farm work to support grandma & brothers & sisters. My dad came thru the great depression. He made $00.50 cents a day.
@6stringgunner5115 жыл бұрын
My father told me a story of how his mother reacted to having electric for the first time. She went around the house, screwing corn Cobs into all the light bulb sockets. She was afraid that the electric would run out.
@ghosttgirlghosttspook54786 жыл бұрын
when I was a kid we didn't have a toilet or hot water, we finely moved in a nice big house in 1966, we then had a bathroom and hot running water, it was so nice to have my own room, it was greatly appreciated,
@ValeriePallaoro5 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking you mean inside toilet. Hot water, yes, totally understood; if you can't pay for heating - gas, electric, oil, firewood; you would only have cold water. Just keen to know where this was and how your family managed.
@AG-ev3hj5 жыл бұрын
@@ValeriePallaoro... this is how Allot of people in Arkansas and Oklahoma lived in the 50s and 60s My dad was born in 1954 in Oklahoma He first had electricity and indoor plumbing when he was 12 after his family temporarily moved to Oregon
@danielasefa18845 жыл бұрын
Dang, you must be very old
@anthonykiser79625 жыл бұрын
Come on people. Do you really believe some who refers to themself as ghostt girl ghostt spook ever grew up that long ago or that poor. Im not buying it. Sounds like bs to me.
@AG-ev3hj5 жыл бұрын
@@anthonykiser7962 allot of people in the baby boomer generation were poor when they where kids Our economy really took of in the 50s, 60s and 70s where people who used to be poor were now middle class Honestly you sound really young and naive
@cheaplaughkennedy23185 жыл бұрын
Antibiotics would have saved countless lives , we’ve never had it so good . Really good segment, thank you 🙏
@mook_butt80375 жыл бұрын
Absolutely, I’m incredibly grateful for modern medicine.
@lillyrose35455 жыл бұрын
Except now the over prescribing of antibiotics is creating resistance and superbugs.
@cheaplaughkennedy23185 жыл бұрын
Stephanie Lynn very true , it’s a race to discover new ones .
@Praxus425 жыл бұрын
life is a never ending arms race.
@kittybitts5674 жыл бұрын
clean running water. I learned in nursing school that access to clean water and proper sewerage disposal have extended people's lives more than any other innovation.
@simonmaguire52506 жыл бұрын
People with out always seem to give the most.
@AsocalRedneck6 жыл бұрын
D B who are YOU to judge?
@Smackosynthesis6 жыл бұрын
@D B but if they've always been wealthy and never had to want, it stands to reason that, though they may be able to empathize and speculate what it's like, they don't *really* know what it's like, no? That doesn't mean they take what they have for granted, that they're bad people or they don't want to help.
@scarletletter49006 жыл бұрын
D B True, but personal experience has shown me that this does weighing of which bill to pay actually happen. I've been without water of power at times so as to have a roof over my head.
@merlemorrison4826 жыл бұрын
DB - not really, but you seem out of touch.....
@merlemorrison4826 жыл бұрын
seems to me you have never been poor and had to choose which bill to pay - while being laughed at by the well to do....
@JackHaveman526 жыл бұрын
I live at what the government says is below the poverty line, retired and living on a fixed income. Strangely though, I probably have a more comfortable life than that rich woman who wrote that travel journal in the early 18th century. Couldn't even imagine what it would have been like for the poor people of her time. She travelled, on horseback, which must have been tough on the back, battling the weather and bugs. A rich woman. Here I am, a poor retired guy, and last year I flew to the Caribbean and then a couple of months later, to Europe. I complained about having to wait around the airport and how slow the lines were moving. 21st century complaints. Going to Cancun in January. I'm a poor guy, worked in construction, factories and tended bar all my life. I'm sitting here comfortably, just finishing a grilled cheese sandwich and watching the end of Monday Night Football on my 42 inch, flat screen TV. I'm one lucky guy when you compare me to those that were living 200 years ago.
@tanukiZoot5 жыл бұрын
Jah caveman speaks the truth
@cindycraig31645 жыл бұрын
Amazing, isn't it? I'm 65 and remember no indoor plumbing and beds moved downstairs next to the coal stove once the chamber pots started freezing at night. I'm very comfortable with my 3 bathroom house, regular showers, and a pillow top mattress, thanks - the "good old days" aren't what they are cracked up to be.
@01010188885 жыл бұрын
I wish I was poor like you.
@kimberly25christinesmith725 жыл бұрын
This post inspired me to make a grilled cheese
@miaomiaou_5 жыл бұрын
jdl 96 I was going to say the same thing. Recently I went part-time at work and so technically I am also below poverty line (in NYC). However that does NOT negate all the things I own or the conveniences I already have. I may not be making much money right now but I’d be kidding myself if I said I live in poverty.
@zappawench60485 жыл бұрын
This is why I like Thomas Hardy's novels - he wrote about the working folk, farm workers and dairy maids in particular.
@kristinradams71095 жыл бұрын
I love Thomas Hardy's novels, too! I find the lives of the ordinary folks, with ordinary lives far more fascinating than the rich and famous. Cheers :)
@carylhalfwassen85554 жыл бұрын
Thanks for reminding me of him. I read him in high school lit class, The Mayor of Castorbridge.
@lindainglis85063 жыл бұрын
I also love Thomas Hardy. But Mr. Dickens, before him, is the absolute greatest novelist.
@dylanmcdermott1110 Жыл бұрын
Before him, there's George Eliot.
@viviennedunbar3374 Жыл бұрын
The world that Thomas Hardy described had already disappeared in England, I love his books very much but as a Brit we were told how he was romanticizing a world in the late 19th century that had already disappeared. After the Industrial Revolution and the emptying of the countryside there was a lot of longing and nostalgia for a romantic agrarian world that had dramatically changed. A lot of the customs and traditions he described where already dead by that time.
@briarrose52085 жыл бұрын
My ancestors cleaned out a chicken coop to live in when they came to this country in the late 1600's. They handed down their resourcefulness and creativity, so centuries later I know how to make something out of nothing. I'm so grateful and proud of my heritage.
@Yodumeee2 жыл бұрын
That's amazing. There were less than 100,000 people in the US at that time. Astonishing the account of where they lived was documented and passed along for 350 years.
@Joemondaking2 жыл бұрын
I’m sure they did
@Truth_Be_Bold Жыл бұрын
Appreciate your being so very humble even to acknowledge that today 👍
@lizlanman47 Жыл бұрын
It's a good story, but I think it's just family legend. Peace!
@TheBatugan77 Жыл бұрын
That's still going on. My next door neighbor in Missouri rented out his converted chicken coop to poor folks, for a very low rent.
@1973Washu6 жыл бұрын
Primary sources from poor people are somewhat rare since they only get written by people who managed to extricate themselves from poverty and have the spare time and resources to write a memoir.
@patrickmccurry15636 жыл бұрын
And many were likely ashamed, so either avoided mentioning it or remembered things somewhat differently than how they actually happened.
@edmundooliver75846 жыл бұрын
i was very poor with seven siblings but that was the best time of are live
@hanniballecter42836 жыл бұрын
In the age of the internet and with widespread literacy, their voices will surely not be as silent.
@thekingshussar18083 жыл бұрын
@@patrickmccurry1563 Paper and ink were expensive.
@scottharkness60763 жыл бұрын
Plus most poor people then couldn't read no less write.
@dumbcat5 жыл бұрын
"crossing the proverb" means that the wife was an exception to the proverb. even though she had no house to clean, she kept her family clean. she was not dizzy with idleness
@serenepeacefulrelaxingmusi38745 ай бұрын
A Proverbs 31 woman.
@moosemaimer6 жыл бұрын
In New England nowadays you can wander miles out into what is essentially uninhabited wilderness and find the remains of foundations and stone walls. It makes me think about who piled those rocks up hundreds of years ago and what it would have been like when they were trying to scrape together a living from the hard ground.
@davem53086 жыл бұрын
Moosemaimer - As a New Englander Mass. NH. Maine, I agree. I remember being deep in some woods in Maine with and associate, and to find stone walls way out in the vast nowhere, does get you trying to imagine the place, not as the woods it became, but as tilled land, once, under all the efforts of some ancient humans or other species! Mind bending stuff! Even ancient, and not so terribly ancient houses, way the hell out there in no place, is just crazy! How the landscape has continuously morphed throughout time. I haven't been in the deep, surreal woods for a long, long time. There is a specific sort of feeling and mood, the deep woods gives off in a unique vibration.
@VasilyKiryanov6 жыл бұрын
> they were trying to scrape together a living from the hard ground New England is quite a hospitable land, i must tell you. Much better than barren Scottish highlands or Irish swamps.
@draconus155 жыл бұрын
You can here in nc as well if you know where to look although most of the old sites i know of have been dozzed either by loggers or developers
@PeterChoyce5 жыл бұрын
A lot of those in NH were put up in the 1930s commissioned by a guy named Siefurt who was putting people to work during the depression
@notsure61875 жыл бұрын
right behind my housing development in the woods there was a large farm or possibly multiple farms. there's got to be a mile of rock walls out there.
@marktaylor86596 жыл бұрын
"Poorer than any Highland Scot or bog trotting Irishman." An interesting description of being poor.
@stupidcommentmaker5 жыл бұрын
Considering that most Catholic Irish were indentured servants working on plantation estates owned by Protestant landlords at this period in time, that tells you just how poor these people really were.
@dbmail5455 жыл бұрын
I'm Scots-Irish and the first people of my mother's family who came over were accosted by a French warship and put ashore naked. Now that's poor!
@dzevadhuremovic23745 жыл бұрын
@@dbmail545 when?
@txpyro18855 жыл бұрын
scots were poor dude they used nails for bartering because no money lol
@SassyUnicorn865 жыл бұрын
They ran off to the Appalachian mountains at one point and that must’ve been hard living.
@smctunes6 жыл бұрын
I've been watching your channel for years, wondering all the while, "why haven't these guys been picked up by The History Channel," or something similar. But, truth be told I think I'd hate to see your show watered down by tons of commercials and the inevitable PC glazing-over from script writers and producers. I guess I'm just saying thank you for what you do, and I'm glad we have this platform to appreciate you on (even if youtube is now being complicit in censorship.)
@inkblotCrisis6 жыл бұрын
It's going to turn into a 18th Century Pawnshop
@the-chillian6 жыл бұрын
inkblotCrisis "I know naught of such goods as this fine blade of Japan you have brought before me. I pray, grant me leave to summon a boon friend of mine who has made deep study of these matters, that we may both profit by his sage advice!"
@veryberry396 жыл бұрын
Don't worry, that would require the History Channel to talk about history.
@johnambrogio95856 жыл бұрын
It seems that all The History Channel has on is American Pickers 24/7. It started out as a good channel to learn about American History, but not anymore.
@chelinfusco64036 жыл бұрын
If they did, we couldn't enjoy the real honesty of it. Also, it will be filled with commercials and who know, propaganda. No, I'm glad they are here. I guess I'm selfish that way. ;-)
@glowinggold94885 жыл бұрын
Here I am 2019... living in a slightly chilly house. ITs a paradise compared to what thease sad poor people....
@timothygeaughan71103 жыл бұрын
In school I hated history, I binge watch this almost everyday, this is history done right.
@jeffmorse6456 жыл бұрын
I can't imagine what my indentured servant ancestors went through in Virginia in the late 1600s and early 1700s. I feel so soft and spoiled by comparison.
@grantarmbruster65913 жыл бұрын
My grandmother cried when I told her I wanted to have a self-sufficient ranch one day. "They fought so hard to get off the farm." They were Irish and German share cropers. Think grapes of wrath.
@vh23376 жыл бұрын
I watch all your videos and I think, 'If only history teachers made learning as interesting as you do'. Really. Well done.
@julied.82775 жыл бұрын
Mr grandchildren have learned nearly nothing of history from school. Couldn't even find Europe on a world map! We make sure they learn as much as we can find on places like this. For English history Time Team is great too on KZbin, plus the Ruth Goodman historical archeology series.
@davidtogi58785 жыл бұрын
Sadly for those who are not interested with the topic then he is no different than your history teacher. In the end its all about personal interest.
@arthurf85915 жыл бұрын
As a history teacher I like his videos, too. But reading out personal reports is not exactly what I would describe as the main goal of history classes. It can be a part of it, but children need context and the ability to question the objectivity of such sources.
@julied.82775 жыл бұрын
My grandchildren are in high school, well able to understand more than dry facts. They want to know the whys and how of history. This channel and the Ruth Goodman Farm videos, plus the old Time Team digs have done wonders for them. When we find any good subject matter we jump on it. This channel is a great part as it covers not just cooking but tool making, clothing, living conditions, customs, etc., as evidenced by those who lived it.
@williamdaniels69435 жыл бұрын
history teachers in the 50s and 60s did make it very interesting. now they have changed and omitted so many things its not very interesting any more. remember NATHAN HALE he said: I ONLY REGRET THAT I HAVE BUT ONE LIVE TO GIVE FOR MY COUNTRY!: and then the british hung him. SAD
@dragunovbushcraft1523 жыл бұрын
Keep in mind, the difference between living in poverty, and living primitively, are skillsets. Sarah Kemble Knight's story, may be describing a "primitive" hut, but people satisfied with enough to eat, acceptable comfort level, and acceptable accoutrements, due to adequate skillsets, where the second story, may be describing "poverty", as the father, didn't have the skillsets to be living that way. For example: I was an outdoor survival instructor for the DoD for 25 years, and have been on MANY outdoor survival outings, with nothing but a good bushcraft knife. Sara Kemble Knight, may have described my camp as "retched", however, the medium sized debris hut I had constructed, was warm, cozy, and comfortable, albeit, a little small. Inside she would've found a nicely done, Dakota firepit, primitive tools, traps, and weaponry, primitive cookery/crockery, and water storage, a bundle grass chair that was as comfortable as any modern chair, and a nice, comfortable, draft bed that would keep you warm even on the coldest nights. I spent two weeks in this shelter, when the winter weather, was between -10, and -20 degrees f. Never once did I get cold, short of my trips to the latrine. My debris hut, stayed between 70, and 80 degrees inside, even on the coldest nights. I had plenty of food stores (Purslane that grew under the snow), did a bit of ice fishing, and trapped small animals, had a "nut cache" with Hickory nuts, black walnuts, pig nuts, had rose hips aplenty, so I never went hungry, as I managed to find plenty of calories. In case you're wondering, this was in South Central Ohio, near a medium sized lake, not far from the Ohio river.
@DieNibelungenliad2 ай бұрын
Poverty is often the result of barriers to gaining knowledge and waste is often the result of barriers to applying knowledge to resources
@TootieProduct6 жыл бұрын
I could listen to you read for ages
@notsure61875 жыл бұрын
Christopher Horan you met Ron Paul? cool!
@gorillaau5 жыл бұрын
Audio books as read by Townsends.
@LindaHobby16 жыл бұрын
My Grandma: "If The Lord is willing and the creek don't rise."
@odinsson2045 жыл бұрын
Linda Hobby John Wayne too.
@proud2bpagan5 жыл бұрын
Glad to know someone else knows that saying! My mom uses it all the time..I'm 40,and lately,I've found my mom shooting out of my mouth more and more lately,lol.
@claytonatkinson8654 жыл бұрын
proud2bpagan and she’ll continue to shoot out of your mouth more the older you get. Funny how that works
@southerngirl63984 жыл бұрын
Just a little trvia here...did you know that the word "creek used here was originally referring to the uprising of the Creek Indians? We have adapted to thinking of a small creek or stream but that's not how the phrase originally came about. Tossing in my 2 cents. God bless and have a great day!
@no-kz8wk4 жыл бұрын
@@southerngirl6398 ok inbred
@TheHekateris5 жыл бұрын
Those poor women, having to clothe, feed, and house so many children. I grew up in rural New England in the 70s in a one room shack w/out running water or electricity, and life was a real struggle, especially for my mom, but damn, we had nails and a front door!!
@kikicamacho67615 жыл бұрын
Oro The Nymph grandmom had 16 children in the 50s-60s. It’s crazy now but the norm on the farm
@silverstar42894 жыл бұрын
Yes, with no distractions of one’s time, Improving their home was a matter of choice.
@StoicObserverS4 жыл бұрын
Incompetent men who convince a foolish woman to marry then cannot actually build anything or take care of her or the kids he helps produce. More like that in the world today than not.
@mac113804 жыл бұрын
@@StoicObserverS Or he woman could learn to build and take care of herself.
@jerrypeukert57323 жыл бұрын
@@StoicObserverS Could also be described as foolish women who are attracted to the bad, exciting, boys do not respect and marry the decent ones. Ya think?
@dr.froghopper67116 жыл бұрын
Poverty hasn’t changed much in its requirement for versatility and out of the box thinking. What has changed is what people considered to be poverty!
@ericclayton25495 жыл бұрын
I enjoy this channel. You are always sharing different views of life in history. I find it refreshing to learn something different about the past. I for one love history, but I can see why some people are uninterested. Some things are retold and regurgitated to much in to many different lessons. I feel that this kind of history is so important. Just like today there was way more poverty in the past then anything else.
@dbmail5455 жыл бұрын
Kings could not buy the things poor people enjoy in this country. And I don't mean a warm bed in the summer and ice water in the winter.
@SurrealisticSlumbers5 жыл бұрын
What we call homeless people are the modern poor. They live in shacks in the woods such as this.
@DieNibelungenliad2 ай бұрын
Poverty is relative to what riches are available. So, you could have a ton of gold as an Egyptian pharaoh, but if your baby is born preterm, there will be no ventilator to save the child's life sadly :(
@DocBree134 жыл бұрын
bog-trotting Irishman 😂 as part Irish, I find this strangely endearing (although I’m aware it was meant to be quite derogatory)
@johng42505 жыл бұрын
Nails were so valuable that if moving the family would burn their old dwelling to retrieve the old nails to use again on their next dwelling.
@johng42505 жыл бұрын
Frankly I wasn’t there, I have read the method of retrieving nails was to burn the structure down and retrieve the nails. I suspect a claw hammer or cats paw just weren’t options.
@casey71304 жыл бұрын
Saves you from the time dismantling, plus the process of straightening all the nails you bend as you pull them
@averycarroll90114 жыл бұрын
Casey Presnall it would take just as long as searching for those nails in a pile of ash and burnt wood with no light lol . Not to mention the smoke will make the nails turn black.. Good luck finding those
@ukaszw66234 жыл бұрын
Lol You didnt need exact claw hammer any tool could do this
@jamesahern98644 жыл бұрын
Nails didn't have wide flat heads yet yo grip with the claw
@radford766 жыл бұрын
I love your cooking videos, but this is just perfect and what anyone who loves the study of history is seeking. You have made KZbin a better place because of what you and your friends do. I wish this was shown in schools and homes everywhere in America. Thank You!
@TheRousler5 жыл бұрын
Many people in that time were driven from England by the Enclosures Act which, combined with improvements in farming efficiency, left many ordinary people jobless, homeless and in grinding poverty. Many just starved in hedgerows. The alternative of crowded inner cities competing for jobs in the new industries was just as bad. To them the grinding poverty in America would have been an improvement over the alternatives. You can see why so many despised the Crown. We really need to feel for our ancestors and what they endured. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_of_England_(painting)
@DieNibelungenliad2 ай бұрын
The Crown was far from fault by the 1700s in England and her colonies. That buck would pass to the big landlords dominating the parliament after the Wars of The Three Kingdoms
@lucianf895 жыл бұрын
It’s surreal watching this video, listening to a story written about a simple family who lived 300 years ago.... their story being heard by people all over the world today.
@patrickdingman69342 жыл бұрын
Used asked my grandpa to tell my about the good old days. ( Born 1907). He Said: "Boy they weren't good, they were hard ,we worked hard just to eat. I wouldn't wish that on anybody." He left school in 5th grade to work They were really frugal. My grandma saved Everything, Might need it later, she'd say. buttons, screws, fabric, etc....My great grand parents born 1880s were even more frugal they were alive yet when I was a teenager I was born 1959.
@noname01928374656 жыл бұрын
I like videos like these. Real people doing real things . Just living life
@codykonior4 жыл бұрын
I wish you'd narrate an audiobook of one of these journals. You'd be great for it!
@faithwalker5196 Жыл бұрын
Yes!
@CarolGasses3 жыл бұрын
My grandparents immigrated to the US in early 1900s living in a 1770s NH farmhouse. My dad said he chased the horses down in the field so he could work the fields with them. It wasn’t that long ago!! How soon we forget.
@2380Shaw5 жыл бұрын
After I went to college and got my BA in Computer Information Systems and didn't get an IT job for a long time I felt like crap. After finding about my 4th great grandfather who studied to be a doctor in England in the 1830s and was from a wealthy merchant family from Poole Dorset. I read a journal he wrote after he moved to Michigan and ended up farming instead of becoming a doctor. In his letter he sounded very disappointed just like I was after getting my degree and getting nothing more than factories or restaurants. Eventually I had some IT jobs like tech support call center and some programming.
@ValeriePallaoro5 жыл бұрын
You've spotted it. The man who could read and write and yet has no paper and pen cause he can't afford it, dire, indeed. To move out to another nation with hope of changing your life and then not even to be able to provide roof for your house ... wow.
@charlesmiller95895 жыл бұрын
Study is Self Discipline, You Just May get a Job you studied for but sometimes it just doesn’t happen and you end up working for Walmart a Great company BTW..
@ms.whitefolks12235 жыл бұрын
@@charlesmiller9589 💉💉💉💉💉
@MugenASMSi4 жыл бұрын
Hello, I read your post and acknowledge that you graduated with a CIS degree do you recommend that degree? Are there many opportunities ? I ask because that is the degree I am currently working on.
@vi683a5 жыл бұрын
You would make a great teacher. I am learning so much about history through such a humbling aspect as cooking can be!
@binkbonk71993 жыл бұрын
This is way more interesting than learning about the lives of another family of English aristocrats. As a regular person I love to learn how other regular people lived, as that would have been my life had I been born a few centuries earlier.
@JasmineTea1273 жыл бұрын
Agreed 100%
@chrisgordon57196 жыл бұрын
Then in many states, they had "Poor Farms" for the indigent. They went in the Spring to plant the crops. stayed for the summer and tended the crops, then in the fall, they brought in the crops. All product for sale for those that could afford it. The poor got the potato skins and carrot peels for potato and carrot soup. . Later, they turns into county work farms or cheap prisons. For the habitual drunks. Or now known as "County Correctional Facilities".
@JessPoetics1786 жыл бұрын
When William Bird compares the man to being poorer than any highland Scot or bog trotting Irishman. I was like, "He summed up my ancestors pretty well" Poor but proud.
@JingleJoe3 жыл бұрын
I can tell you a lot about the lives of the poor in the 21st century, which may give you some insight to the details of the poor of old; when you get cold, you can't get warm because you can't just make a fire now days and then your fingers and toes swell up and become red and painful, horribly painful and itchy, it's called chilblains and can last for weeks. I live now live in fingerless gloves and a jumper and cargo trousers and hug a radiator and it's still too cold.
@katehenry27182 жыл бұрын
Fingerless gloves? Yikes. No heat held for the fingers!
@nickjohnparker1 Жыл бұрын
Yeah we use to get chillblains from running around on the ice with bare ft and no gloves. Our mum used say don't worry about it so we didn't!
@DieNibelungenliad2 ай бұрын
I suffer eczema from the cold. The skin becomes so itchy and eventually painful and leathery until you can't sleep anymore. Had to spend hundreds of dollars each year on steroid cream and anti itch cream
@41buckk6 жыл бұрын
Do you have a video on how you made your shelter in the backround?
@townsends6 жыл бұрын
Stay tuned...
@41buckk6 жыл бұрын
Townsends Sounds good!
@nickm54196 жыл бұрын
@@townsends your channel is excellent for Survivalist type of people : ]
@elvenbourne6 жыл бұрын
Looks very Bushcraft. Something he's been working on since filming with Dan for the Frontier vids? Just my guess.
@Sean-jc6cu5 жыл бұрын
My family were poor Irish Catholics who immigrated to Boston and Ulster-Scots from West Virginia
@DannyWilliamH6 жыл бұрын
Imagine the boredom. I don't mean in a "think of all the things we have that they didn't" sense but a true *"we live in the middle pf nowhere and we don't even have a roof"* sense. A stranger coming along would be the highlight of your month. A stranger coming along and giving you the money to buy nails for your roof would seem like downright divine intervention. But imagine the housewife that lives in a roof-less hut with 6 children, imagine the constant anguish that you likely had to keep mostly to yourself.
@freezerfreezer90976 жыл бұрын
It's not as boring as you think, you just enjoy other things.
@fringestream9906 жыл бұрын
I'd guess there'd be plenty to do just trying to survive. Fun times and days I think were rare for the far majority of people in general. But they probably had more appreciation when times were good unlike we do today.
@elizabethwinsor-strumpetqueen6 жыл бұрын
I lived in a caravan 4 miles from the nearest main road - we had no car , electricity , we got water from the river , washed in the river , no TV , no radio , me and my 2 sisters and brother ,it was by the sea and we'd pick up scallops at low tide ....hard but happiest time of my life ....my mother did her best ....on the isle of Skye 1972 ....
@chandranapier22596 жыл бұрын
You find things to do. Make sure the kids can eat if it’s there, mostly caring for the 6 children. I’m sure having 6 was a LOT of work. I’m sure she was never “bored” as in nothing at all to do. From having a lot of family that lived through hard times, I am told it’s the fact that you wish you could do more that hurts. If they go hungry, it’s devastating emotionally to you and them and you’ll starve if you had a choice between just you eating and feeding them. If you feel they are lacking, you will do whatever you can to fix it. I don’t think people understand how hardship really affects parents and children in bad situations unless they live it themselves. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
@camouflagejumpsuit6 жыл бұрын
I imagine the father had the hardest times. It was his back that lifted the heaviest loads, his hands that honed the wood that built the walls, his arms that carved the stone grinding wheels, his shoulder his wife rested her head upon, his legs that traveled about the woods setting traps for meat, his eyes that watched his wife feed their children whatever he could provide, and his wits that built a meager business to sell grinding wheels to at least keep them going a day at at time, and his heart that knew there was never enough to spare for nails to put a roof over his family's head.
@Teresa-L.20243 жыл бұрын
I went to rural Mississippi in 1990 and visited people who lived not much better than this. Very sad to see the extent of poverty in the world's richest nation.
@heidimisfeldt56853 жыл бұрын
People in many other countries do not realize that. Not at all. They have the pictures portrayed by TV and Hollywood in their minds.
@InjusticeOfanimals3 жыл бұрын
Who will read our documents locked in our computers :(
@insightbytes21363 жыл бұрын
No one! It's going to be a constant chore to keep moving data.
@sapharodon2 жыл бұрын
It's an interesting question. A lot of historical research in the future will probably come from web captures, finding publicly available information (people's public blog posts, KZbin videos, etc). But there's a lot of information that'll just get lost to time, old accounts, hardware failure, proprietary filetypes that lose support, etc. Digital preservation is really, really hard!
@kennethruley25616 жыл бұрын
Bog trotting Irishman! Those are my people.
@dp75524 жыл бұрын
dwiggins01 "Ah, I love it when people openly despised the Irish to the point of murdering them" If you honestly find this "refreshing", please educate yourself. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Irish_sentiment If you still find it "refreshing" you need to seek help.
@joesmoe89834 жыл бұрын
D P I love it👍🏻
@DarkSnideoftheRainbow4 жыл бұрын
@@dp7552 When people say they don't like political correctness what they're actually saying is that they don't not being able to say what they really think.
@ColeWatchTower4 жыл бұрын
@@DarkSnideoftheRainbow and if you're of the opinion restrictions should be put on speech, you're part of the problem. Freedom of speech is a natural human right, as is self defense.
@margietucker17194 жыл бұрын
@@dp7552 I think you took the comment of dwiggins01...a little too much to heart. Most of us are aware of how many of the Irish (and Polish, and Italian, etc.) immigrants were treated back in the day. Dwiggins was referring to the lack of political correctness regarding the comment ONLY...not to the widespread treatment of the Irish in general, back then..which we all know was wrong. I have Irish ancestry myself...and I was not AT ALL offended by someone 2 centuries ago--using the term--"bog trotting Irishman". But then--I'm not thin-skinned and delicate, or easily offended. That's a major problem today. People's delicate sensibilities are so easily offended by EVERYTHING. I agree with dwiggins01....the lack of political correctness was totally refreshing! In fact it brought a smile to my face---as I pictured my Irish ancestors...who were grateful for their natural peat bogs that provided fuel for their homes. I salute my Irish ancestors---they were a strong and sturdy bunch of remarkable men and women, who persevered through tough times. I admire them. The fact that people centuries ago were allowed more freedom of speech and used it in ways that might be frowned on today---does not bother me one iota. Not to mention....being referred to as a "bog-trotter" is actually pretty mild. I don't care--and I bet my ancestors wouldn't either. THAT is what is being addressed here....that comment itself, the freedom of speech...back then... compared to now. Not any other actual atrocities that befell immigrants.
@jeffreyrobinson35556 жыл бұрын
I was at an event at Fort Osage in Mo. One of the men there had a camp of just what was in the estate of a French boatmen who died about 1750. A blue duffel coat two blankets, a ‘mosquito net’ that was a thin cheese cloth like affair about the size of a pup tent with ends. A ‘mess kit,’ ‘house wife’ and fire kit. Small items such as a couple of knifes, fusil and-shooting supplies, pipe and tobacco, a brandy jug and some extra clothing. It seems he was in late forties when he died.
@starman82255 жыл бұрын
I have memories that make me a wealthy man.
@OakKnobFarm6 жыл бұрын
Right around the corner from my house is "Poor Farm Road". All of the debtors / poor people were apparently sent to an institution there (involuntarily in many cases). I believe they worked the farm, essentially to feed themselves, under the supervision of their keepers.
@grumpygrumpgrump1366 жыл бұрын
Oak Knob Farm You don't happen to live in the Natchez area do you.
@OakKnobFarm6 жыл бұрын
No sir, New Hampshire, actually
@grumpygrumpgrump1366 жыл бұрын
Interesting, my Father lived on Poor Farm Road in the Natchez, Mississippi area for more than 25 years. I always wondered how it got that name. Now I know. Thanks.
@OakKnobFarm6 жыл бұрын
@@grumpygrumpgrump136 sadly, I think poor farms were pretty common
@grumpygrumpgrump1366 жыл бұрын
Evidently, my friend evidently.
@butdaddy83614 жыл бұрын
It’s like his reading us a bedtime story
@zhinka15 жыл бұрын
I grew up without running water or indoor toilets. We had a loom, gardens, and only went to town for church and school. You do not have to go far back at all.
@brianwalsh14014 жыл бұрын
A lot of people around the world live in these conditions now. I watch a video of a young lady in Tokyo living in a small room in and internet cafe because that was all she could afford. She said she had to leave her home because her parents couldn't afford her to live there. This is like the tech version of poverty. I felt for her. She seemed melancholy.
@GarouLady6 жыл бұрын
I find the stories of the poorer or middle tier families interesting. The frugal and resourcefulness they have is just jaw dropping. I have several copies of The American Frugal Housewife by lyndia Child in my library.
@VasilyKiryanov6 жыл бұрын
Resourcefulness? Not having nails to fix boards for the roof, and hiding from the weather in a haystack instead... Wonder if that man (who could read and write very well) knew that fella they call Thatcher... And the other - old man in a 'cottage by the river', where light came through the walls everywhere. Has he never heard two words 'mud' and 'hut' put together? Well, he could've turned to beavers for some education. Besides, wicker furniture is not THAT hard to master. I've even seen wicker beds, sofas and tables. Let alone chairs and chests. Anyway, these two little episodes give us quite an insight on early american 'resourcefulness'. And, probably, modern, too. Venturing out to live a life in the wilderness, with practically zero knowledge and skills to do that! Common sense AT LEAST calls for not doing that alone - but no! No social interaction whatsoever.
@ciphercode22983 жыл бұрын
My father's family came from Ireland in the late 18th century and some were indentured servants in coastal Virginia. Later on they farmed around Patrick henry county, va. My grandfather who was born there in 1870 eventually moved to West Virginia after his wife died. He resettled, remarried and had a few more children. My father grew up working in the coal mines and on the family farm. Oh how I would love to farm and get out of the rat race.
@MDAdams72668 Жыл бұрын
If you have ever farmed you would KNOW the "rat race" is EASY 16 hrs a day 7 days a week during planting and harvest 10-12 the rest of the year(save winter)
@ciphercode2298 Жыл бұрын
@@MDAdams72668 I dont want easy,so to speak,just out of clocking in and out being at the mercy of crappie corporate suits.
@MDAdams72668 Жыл бұрын
@@ciphercode2298 I have done both personally. I prefer the work (farming) but on the scale of hard ignoring buffoons is far easier than actually having to get things done no matter how sick(or injured) you are If you don't you are broke and animals/plants DIE
@ciphercode2298 Жыл бұрын
@@MDAdams72668 when my dad was growing up they kept 13 acres of field crop,a large kitchen garden,chickens, ducks,pigs,and cows. The land was theirs so all they had to do was sustain themselves. They bartered and traded for what they didnt have,but yeah he grew up through the great depression and their days started at 4am taking care of the animals before they walked to school and said he worked after they got home until after dark and then did homework before bed. We're homesteading some raising a kitchen garden,rabbits and chickens. We've paid off everything and shredded all our credit cards. Of course we're still on public utilities and still go to the store,but we've gotta start somewhere right? We've went from workin 50+ hour a week jobs to 20-25 hours a week.
@MDAdams72668 Жыл бұрын
@@ciphercode2298 Well yup you got it. All the funny money in the world will never sustain you and yours in times of trouble I found the same "compromise" years ago and my family (grandkids included) are all better happier people for it Good on YA and yes I still do the occasional work in my old field BUT usually not for money(generally a barter deal) I still buy a lot of food at the market(where else can you get cucumbers in February) Just because I do not want to rat race does not mean I am willing to give up modern timesavers/conveniences(this computer and internet included).
@pokeweed10k156 жыл бұрын
Poor people today have it about the same. Whether ur taking shelter undsr fodder or cardboard. Poor is poor
@flufanga5 жыл бұрын
Disagree completely. Today's "poor" lounge around in overheated homes, watching a big screen TV, obese from gorging on meat every day, not strangers to drugs, drink, or tobacco. I observe this firsthand being a landlord in Cleveland, OH.
@tanukiZoot5 жыл бұрын
@@flufanga you're forgetting about the even poorer people who can't even afford a home...
@jeas49805 жыл бұрын
Natsu Dragneel Agreed. The homeless have a way of "hiding in plain sight." It's a disgrace that we can't get this corrected...although many choose this lifestyle they are the broken. Mentally, physically and emotionally. But they're sane enough not to be part of the system that would use them and throw them away. I guess you have to really know them to understand.
@flufanga5 жыл бұрын
@dwiggins01 Worse yet, govt. subsidized 200 pounds per capita annual consumption of pig meat. Poor little pigs! Oughta feed the lazy and shiftless to the pigs and not the other way around.
@jesslesinski6 жыл бұрын
We’re just gonna gloss over the “bog-trotting Irishman” thing, then? 😂
@Krakkokayne4 жыл бұрын
Yeah i guess so 😂 simpler times huh?
@Triumph2024.4 жыл бұрын
I've been called a Booze-Trotting Irishaman. I wonder if the Bogger is a distant relation.
@chrish41304 жыл бұрын
I just watched this in Jan 20. I laughed when I heard that! Can't change history, it is what it is. haha.
@chopperman80424 жыл бұрын
@@chrish4130 yes, the history is truth no matter how offensive
@Triumph2024.4 жыл бұрын
@@chopperman8042 who's offended?
@oakstrong14 жыл бұрын
The sad thing is, I have seen the same kind of poverty today in developing countries (living in a ditch next to a road and no money to buy grass in order to build a roof after a storm), with equal contrast of wealth. It makes me think: How do we define development and have we really developed at all when we let that happen? My family lived in a house with no running water and which was so cold on the inside that we had to break the ice of the drinking water bucket at breakfast and when coming home in the evening. When we built a new house, we moved into it before it was finished and slept on the floor before it was even had all the indoor walls: we took an advantage of the central heating that had to be on anyway, prevent pipes freezing and bursting. It was wonderful to wake up in a warm room and the following year we had flushing toilet indoors and tap water! 50+ years on and I still appreciate every day of having clean water coming from a tap and dirty water disappearing down the plughole or when flushing the toilet.
@lonelyzombie31286 жыл бұрын
You should do weekly journal readings. I really enjoyed you sharing this thank you.
@lamoinette236 жыл бұрын
second this suggestion..
@trevorh64386 жыл бұрын
make it so.
@bigred39956 жыл бұрын
First great video already,thanks for preserving history.
@robandrews48155 жыл бұрын
Oh man, anybody with a tooth ache was really screwed.
@reinepoaty67475 жыл бұрын
I laughed but what you said is so true.
@lobsterbark4 жыл бұрын
At least they are less likely to get one, lacking the sugar in their diets we all have so much of these days.
@kbflorida8883 жыл бұрын
And a broken limb you were doomed.
@blissfularrogance35293 жыл бұрын
My grandmother was born in Ireland in 1895 and she left to America in 1912 . She said she had her tooth pulled in the barbershop 💈 and they put a piece of cloth over her eyes and proceeded to pull . A lot of screaming was involved.
@sandraargo83823 жыл бұрын
Imagine a C-section.
@scruffy35285 жыл бұрын
This guy has the friendliest demeanor and expression.
@SuperEggsNBacon3 жыл бұрын
So true nacchan
@boostjunkie23206 жыл бұрын
My grand father didnt have electricity until he was 18 year's old. Great grandma's house that he grew up in did not have running water until 1992. This was in West Virginia on a 200 acre farm with two 3 bedroom houses that was purchased for only $500.
@MrsMwl20045 жыл бұрын
My family grew up just like this. My great grand ma never had those. She died in 2005.
@60cmad5 жыл бұрын
I looked at a piece of land down around Hinckley a few years ago...There are some parts of West Virginia that STILL don't have electric because it would cost in excess of $200K to run power lines to the nearest place they could connect to...a lot of people just don't have that kind of money...
@glowinggold94885 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1964 so things were decent for me. I do recall though my gram having one of those old washing machins that have a ringer u put the clothes in, She also warmed the kitchen with one of those stone gas heaters . We ha one huge window on the floor in the living room id stand on to get warm in the morning before school...
@cm014 жыл бұрын
"My family owns a farm with multiple houses but we're poor because their infrastructure was bad (and isn't anymore)" Ok boomer
@alsaunders78054 жыл бұрын
Same here. My great grandparents lived outside of Blue Jay W Va. They never got electricity that I know of and didn't get indoor plumbing until the 70s. They died in the 80s, her at 98 and him at 103.
@Iowarail6 жыл бұрын
Highland Scott or Bog Trotting Irishman..........I resemble that......
@jcorbett96206 жыл бұрын
That's "Bog Trotting Irishman" - Ireland was known for it's boggy or marshy terrain and so it was common (though somewhat derogatory) to refer to a native of Ireland as a "bog trotter" i.e. someone who spends a lot of their time crossing a lot of marshland.
@Iowarail6 жыл бұрын
@@jcorbett9620 fixed, damn auto spell and my lack of proof reading.
@grassroot0116 жыл бұрын
Then when they moved to Tennessee or Kentucky, they became,," Ridge Runners."
@Iowarail6 жыл бұрын
@@grassroot011 Carolinas to Alabama, Georgia, Southern Missouri and Iowa. Scots get around.
@BlueRidgeMtns1005 жыл бұрын
@@Iowarail They do... or did. I "resemble" both the Scot and the Irish in my family closet (Protestant strain of both bunches). Predominantly Scots-Irish (which the old people always called Scotch-Irish) with a few stray English amongst them.
@hollyp98112 жыл бұрын
I find learning about how people in the past lived fascinating. Many years ago, I read a book that talked about peasant life by looking into obituaries and how people died. It was so interesting. I’m so thankful to have found your channel!
@kittysunshinebandit12355 жыл бұрын
My daughters grandmother showed me the cabin she lived in as a child. Their floor was the ground.
@muammarbinsharif64253 жыл бұрын
Your daughters grandmother?
@fab60s646 жыл бұрын
Good insight to some of the past . I wonder though , Did they have stress ?? In my life I travelled to many countries and I found that often in poor countries people were happy . I also found that they liked to share what little they had with others . I have been in countries where the people are dirt poor and living in a Hut , Yet they shared the little food they had with me . I live in the western world and people seem so unhappy and stressed and where I live we have one of the highest suicide rates in the world . Mind you , Im not sure I would like to live under a Hay stack in the winter !
@timmybohannon935 жыл бұрын
Hey it aint nothin
@sarahstrong71743 жыл бұрын
If you work physically hard it helps to reduce the stress, especially if you experience increased comfort as a result of that work.
@terrywestbrook-lienert22966 жыл бұрын
This was compassionately and thoughtfully done. Thank you for making this historical look on poverty in Early America.
@buckshot64813 жыл бұрын
My Great great grandfather raised his family in a two room cabin with a loft for his children to sleep in and just dirt floor. The walls of it were still standing on family property when I was a boy.
@57WillysCJ6 жыл бұрын
Diaries and travel accounts were and are important links in the past. Read Francis Parkman's Oregon Trail from 1849. There others who upon returning from trips wrote very descriptive articles and books of their travels. Small town newspapers even wrote articles on people visiting family in other areas. It like reading blogs or vlogs today.
@LadyCatFelineTheSeventh6 жыл бұрын
There are actually many ways to build a house without nails, all of which are ages older than the 18th century. In fact, plain grass or hide ropes can secure just as well as nails (maybe not as long term, but certainly good enough). I think the anecdotes were either exaggerated or perhaps the individuals they ran into were lacking some basic knowledge. I wish the authors would have given a description of the towns they lived in (or near) for some comparison. For poor - I had one great grandfather in the 1800's who lived with his wife and kids in a tent until they saved up for a house (even have a picture of grandma cooking on a fire with her kids), another grandfather from the same time period built his house out of sod cut from the ground and stacked (it's still there today and considered an historic home). My dad grew up in a cabin on the reservation in the 1950's that they covered in plain mud to keep drafts out. It had to be re-applied every few months, but the mud was free and it worked. So I do think something else was going on in the accounts that the authors aren't elaborating on, that perhaps relates to circumstances that border more on "tragic" than "poor".
@betoian6 жыл бұрын
Yes, I was also thinking that it is easy today to have so much knowledge as to master in building houses or surviving in the forest as the guy in 'Primitive Technology' does with his universitary knowledge. But we cannot understand being in those circumstances of the past. From today's perspective he might have well managed if he had made friends with a native and arranged to live more or less as they did, completely adjusted to their local nature. At least for a while...
@l.janescroggins25556 жыл бұрын
Wonder they didn't learn to build decent shelters from the natives
@Donbd836 жыл бұрын
The Japanese are masters of building structures without nails they are fitted together like a jigsaw puzzle and glued in place a good portion of these buildings still stand today including their castles, no nails just glue and tension and interlocking joints.
@heideknight91226 жыл бұрын
My relatives had a lot of family move with them and built small cabins and then built a house. Have a single picture with the partially complete house in the background. Must have had tools and building knowledge already.
@ronwilliams3576 жыл бұрын
A lot of natives were hostile. My great-great grandfather settled in Michigan before it was a state, and he wrote frequently in his diary about their fear of the "forest savages."
@melodicgrog3 жыл бұрын
I’d exchange my entire bank account for the freedom they had. Of course with inflation my 10k would be with 50p then.
@tjlarson98596 жыл бұрын
Wow! literate, and possessed of a valuable skill - yet near desperately poor; perhaps to improve with more neighbors around. I checked on drill auger-bit history (to drill and put roof together with pegs) but they came along later, it seems. Seems like he might also be a capable mason with his stone cutting skill. Or even teach school. Just too little population around there to make a living I guess.
@tjlarson98596 жыл бұрын
If I understand your term, this would be some sort of pegged construction, which seems to me to be a useful method for this type of situation. I wondered what would be the method of drilling (or maybe burning?) the holes for the fasteners. Also, of course, why this or a similar method would NOT have been used to put on a roof.
@tjlarson98596 жыл бұрын
Yes, I'm familiar with bow-drilling, widely used all 'round the world since paleolithic times. Mainly wondering WHY this poor guy couldn't find a way to build a roof without nails. ANYONE might have been able to whittle pegs out of hardwood and construct a roof, seems like, but quickly and (fairly) accurately drilling holes for the pegs would certainly be ONE issue. So, wondering what sort of BITS or drills might have been available. Possibly even getting enough iron to make one drill-bit (like a spade-bit? maybe) would have been too expensive or just not available in his area. Blacksmiths would have stayed in populated areas, to make a living. :-> ;-)
@maryshaffer84746 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't want to be disabled or have poor eyesight then. I definitely wouldn't go through childbirth then.
@michaelynedwards10436 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you'd go through childbirth, several times over.
@lysanamcmillan79726 жыл бұрын
If she survived.
@debbiemarlow40276 жыл бұрын
I can not see 2 ft in front of me with out glasses been this way since I was 8. What would life be like for me.
@ellemnop1236 жыл бұрын
Debbie Marlow You wouldn't have been nearsighted. Our poor eyesight (I am almost legally blind) is caused by indoor living.
@lysanamcmillan79726 жыл бұрын
Michelle, that is utter nonsense. People were inventing glasses to try to fix poor vision centuries ago.
@timbushong43876 жыл бұрын
Speaking of 1728 and the Virginia/North Carolina border, I read this recently: In 1728, a Virginian named William Byrd wrote his History of the Dividing Line, a critical commentary on North Carolina society. Speaking of the town of Edenton he wrote "this is the only Metropolis in the Christian or Mahometan World, where there is neither Church, Chappel, Mosque, Synagogue, or any other Place of Publick Worship of any Sect or Religion whatsoever. What little Devotion there may happen to be is much more private than their vices. “The People seem easy without a Minister, as long as they are exempted from paying Him. Sometimes the Society for propagating the Gospel has had the Charity to send over Missionaries to this Country; but unfortunately the Priest has been too Lewd for the people, or, which oftener happens, they too lewd for the Priest. For these Reasons these Reverend Gentlemen have always left their Flocks as arrant Heathen as they found them." “The established church, here as elsewhere in the colonies, also suffered from a dearth of worthy candidates for the pulpit. In some instances, clergymen disgraced their callings and brought scandal to the church by keeping concubines or being drunk in public.” He didn't seem to like North Carolinians.
@nobodyspecial68816 жыл бұрын
Sounds like Natchez MS (Under The Hill) in the early days
@lauraz28966 жыл бұрын
I believe that I am a descendant of the Byrd’s of Virginia
@catcook33245 жыл бұрын
If you read the Journal of Madam Sarah Knight mentioned in the video and linked under it, she says a similar thing about some of the towns she passes through in Connecticut. Saying that the townspeople refused to support the pastor, the church was next to the tavern, and that the people would rather give the sheep dung in support of the pastor--sentiments like that. I highly recommend it, it's fascinating.
@boadiceameridionalis37325 жыл бұрын
He did not. Scathing commentary. He was a rung or three up the social ladder, at or near English landed gentry, so guess it was a people safari for him. And he didn't like it in the less civilized wilds of North Carolina, as it was mostly rural, agrarian, or just plain unsettled. Funnily enough, I just got Byrd's book - the saucy one - and it is in my 'to read' pile.
@lauraw17676 жыл бұрын
Such an awesome interesting channel ❤️ it.
@elizabeththequeen9436 жыл бұрын
Well, of course, that is why we have no dwellings of the poor still around from then. In New England, their 1 and 2 room P&B homes, would be pulled by oxen into neighboring yards and used as an outbuilding (pig pen, hen house) by someone else if they left it uninhabited for a long time! Sometimes they would be eventually purchased and then added onto in all directions by another financially challenged family. Many poor families simply rented single rooms in tenement buildings and lived in them with all of their children.
@davestevens16006 жыл бұрын
Quite right! Long live the Queen!
@swagatron94774 жыл бұрын
I'm 26 from the Appalachian mountains and I often talk to my memaw about her life growing up and her parents and their lives were not too different from these men and women, over 200 years later. Poverty and location do a lot to people's lives and we've often times had to dig coal out the side of the hills to heat our homes, many families here still do. I try to learn all I can from them, the wild plants that can be cooked up, small tricks and tips, those things mean far more to me than all the gold in the world.
@MommiDonni13 жыл бұрын
Wisdom can't be bought. It must be earned through life. Thanks for sharing!
@GLGC6885 жыл бұрын
Even if he didn't have nails, why didn't he do a thatch type roof or some kind of covering?
@ValeriePallaoro5 жыл бұрын
Lack of skills; or thatch, maybe? It's not just a put together job; if you have not the learning of it. We are lucky to see lots of things done on the youtubes, that we can say 'oh, that's how you do it'. In the past it was all reinventing the wheel.
@Caldella5 жыл бұрын
From the description around it, it sounds like he doesn't have materials to fasten a cover or supports to keep a cover up, or the money to buy them.
@BrokenAbyss4 жыл бұрын
Valerie Pallaoro tbh that doesn’t make a ton of sense. I would be shocked that someone to sail across the world couldn’t put multiple layers of branches as a roof.