The Importance of Porches in Appalachia

Talking about the role porches play in Appalachian living in this video. I also share some of the stories my front porch has to share.
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[@rickcollins9234]

Many years ago when I was a child, we made the long journey to my paternal grandpa's house in southern Kentucky next to Tennessee. We would usually arrive as it was getting dark. Since the house would still be hot from the daytime, we would sit on the porch, where my parents and grandpa would visit and catch up. Soon, I would grow weary as it was late. The only thing that helped as well as hurt was I got to swing endlessly on that squeeking swing he had. I loved it, but it also made me sleepy. When we finally went inside to go to bed, I was more than ready. That house and swing are long gone but the memory and sounds of that squeeking swing are clearly in my mind decades later.

[@Juniper687]

You are such a treasure. I'm so glad I found your Channel. Thank you for sharing with us.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you so much!

[@carolynharmon7074]

Loved hearing all the stories, there is nothing better than a porch.

[@N2Mtns2]

Tipper? I can accurately recall thee most impact “Front Porch” I’ve ever seen. In Cades Cove, TN. A pioneer camp had that had ONE family that Enclosed half their porch for the main purpose of hospitality to any hungry and tired passerby. Grammaw & Pappaw did that but theirs was in the barn. Truth. 🥰

[@N2Mtns2]

The Strangers Room: pre-Civil War, Cades Cove, Tennessee. Hospitality that simply struck me as *so very Christ like. 🥰 let’s imagine thirteen tired men hosted by us. 🥰🙏🏻🥰

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That's wonderful! I've heard of those rooms 😀

[@highndri1384]

I love your channel it’s so basic and real something we need a lot more of thanks for your efforts

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I appreciate that!

[@davidburchfield2720]

Love sitting on the porch at the end of a hard day to relax before bed time !!!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That's the best place to unwind 😀

[@abelincoln95]

Boy, Tipper! You strike a lot of memories with your stories. Where I grew up was also just cement steps both front & back. So, any chance as a child to enjoy a "covered porch" was a treat! We visited several relatives with porches and as long it wasn't unbearable heat, that was where everybody congregated. The porch swing was the sweet spot. I never got a seat in the swing unless it was just me on the porch, cause when the adults were around they got dibs!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Abe-so glad you've got those good memories!

[@N2Mtns2]

Amen, The Porch. 🥰

[@donaldwells2102]

My wife got her front porch after I retired a few years ago. I finally had the extra time and money to build it for her,only regret I couldn't have built it 45 years ago for her.She decorates her front porch with antiques and all kinds of flowers. She loves her porch, and I do too. Ghost Town, Maggie Valley,some great memories.cowboy shootouts. Thanks Tipper for sharing your porch memories and stories of family and home.It was soooooo enjoyable🙂.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Donald-you and your wife sound like Granny and Pap 😀

[@donaldwells2102]

@@CelebratingAppalachia Thank you Tipper, thats a wonderful compliment 🙂.

[@lovingmayberry2000]

My dad was in the Air Force, so we would always go visit my grandma in Effingham, Illinois for at least two weeks every time we would transfer to a different Air Force Base (about every 4 years). Us kids thought our grandma had the best porch with the best porch swing in the whole wide world! Miss her. 💙🙏

[@employme2]

Absolutely LOVED your stories! It brings floods of my own memories back to life. Thank you

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 Thank you!

[@garybrunet6346]

Growing up, my grandparents had a wrap around screened in porch. They also had an outdoor summer kitchen. I would love to have a porch. My friend has a gazebo and a labyrinth garden in a rural community. It s so peaceful to walk through the gardens and meditate. I’m so pleased that I found your channel. It gives me great pleasure to hear you reminiscing about Appalachia. It has changed my perspective relative to Appalachian culture.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That's good to hear-thank you Gary!!

[@melm230]

I have the best memories of sitting on the front porch or the side porch at my grandmas and shucking corn or snapping beans. Great grandpa would watch Hee Haw on the side porch and I would watch with him. In the evening the deer would come up to the house and eat apples from the apple tree and the rose bushes.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

What great memories you have 😀

[@nomdeplume2213]

Omg we must be related haha i love anything old. History is fascinating. I cant get enough which is partly why i love your channel so much ❤ i love your rocking chair story, its too bad more people arent like that nowadays

[@357bullfrog9]

Nothing like setting on the porch after supper with coffee and talking till bed time

[@jessicahoiberg9923]

That porch.... The place for books, naps, watching the deer come down the hill, hearing the frogs, watching the stars, smelling the roses. Oh that sweet place. After getting married, a porch swing was the first birthday gift my husband got me. Still one of my favorite gifts.

[@jeanlilley3139]

One of my sons and I love rocking chairs, especially those on the front porch. When he was young, we would wrap up in a quilt at nite and sit on the covered patio in a double swing. My other children and husband never did much sitting outside, but this son and I still sit in our 2 rockers on the front porch, except when it's too cold! This same son built me a covered structure and hung up a swing made from cypress. This was very well built and is in the backyard, just under a huge oak tree. My dad's parents had a swing under their back porch. I loved sitting there or swinging in the homemade swing that hung from a big tree in the backyard. Yes, swings and rocking chairs go hand-in-hand with a porch! Thanks for the memory!

[@katmd405]

Love hearing your porch stories. Where I grew up we didn’t have porches. Just track homes. But I love old homes with big porches. And all the great memories they hold. Thank you for sharing.

[@dr.froghopper6711]

I’ve always wanted a house with a wrap around porch! Our home is a working home. We’re in and out from the garden or wood yard or courtyard all the time. A porch would certainly help keep the house clean. I suffer from heat sensitivity and sometimes direct sunlight is unbearable. It triggers nerve pain. A real nice porch would be really nice! Thanks Ms. Tipper!

[@wandasetzer1469]

Please build yourself a porch if you can. It will give you more joy than you can even imagine. I have read that a porch is neither inside nor outside, and if you are out there, that's an open invitation for neighbors to walk up and say hello. That was true in the house where I had a beautiful porch. It was in town, and my neighbors did walk over and have a seat for a little bit and talk. Seems like that's all over now. I want another porch, and with a swing!

[@taminacarver7348]

Nothing like sitting on the porch to enjoy a great storm!!! The smell, the sound on the tin roof and the energy!! The absolute best!!

[@bvdragonlady]

I sure have lots of great memories of sitting on the porches of my grandparents…it was a huge farm house and had 3 huge porches, 2 screened & 1 open….lots of playing there with my cousins….I’ve always dreamed of living in a house with a wrap around porch…I’m 69 and I’m guessing I want ever have that….but it’s ok to dream 😴! Thanks for the great memories!! I hope your week has been going good 😊 Brenda

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Brenda-yes its good to dream 😀 Hope your week has been good!

[@robertputt7794]

I remember purple hull peas and purple fingers, growing up on my grandmother's front porch... When she was canning, one my favorite things to do was sit on the porch and hull the peas... She might make some homemade ice cream and us kids would all take a turn turning the handle... I still love hulling peas because of the memories... Thanks for sharing Miss Tipper... You brought back wonderful memories... 🙂❤❤❤

[@buzsalmon]

Tipper, to put it simply the porch is not only the most important room of a good home, it is the most public and yet most private, where we look back to so many happy times we spent there doing so much with so many and even quietly alone.

[@peacefulwife5199]

Amen to that.😊

[@robinhaupt9119]

Thank you for the lovely porch tour. I get sentimental about plants/flowers in the flower bed that my children gave me when they were young.

[@lissahenry6751]

I love digging in the old dumps!!

[@dioad1739]

I’m sitting on my back porch now watching you listening and watching it rain God bless you and your lovely family.

[@cigarboxbart8207]

Since we didn't have electricity we were outside until bedtime. Dad flat picking an old arch top F hole guitar, my brother sitting on the ice cream freezer while I cranked it and played the harmonica. Mom was sewing or reading. Yep, those are the memories.

[@lisalooney2681]

Oh do I miss those front porch gatherings with my Family in Western NC & SC!! We absolutely learned that from my Appalachian Ancestors. Loved this Video, Tipper! Love your ways! God is Great! God's Speed Only!

[@yuvondaseal6736]

Reminded me so much of my Grannie Campbells front porch!!! I'm 74 and my memories of that porch are exactly like yours. And today I still love my front porch. I usually get to sit out there till dark.....and I hear all the sounds of nature. .. And I spend lots of time out there through the daylight hours...❤❤❤

[@pamelazweerink2066]

I REALLY enjoyed your video and stories. It brought back memories of when I was a small girl, sitting on the porch with grandma shucking corn or snapping green beans during the hot summer months in Colorado. I loved the book you read. I could visualize everything he said. It gave me comfort to think of the simpler times. Please keep making these kind of videos with all your wonderful stories. I would love to hear more. God Bless

[@wayne00k]

P-O-R-C-H is just another way to spell HEAVEN. Growing up the porch was the place where we could spend time "in a grownup way" with father before bed. The "stoop" was where I sat with my grandfather at dusk and listened to his wisdom on hot and humid summer nights in Philly. My Aunt Dot's farm, where I grew up, had no porch - but a little cement patio off the kitchen door with the biggest picnic table you ever saw made my 3rd favorite spot at the end of the day. It was a place too where nobody needed to say a word.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I think you're right 😀

[@peacefulwife5199]

Lovely post. Very enjoyable to read. Thanks for sharing your memories. 😊

[@genemcnabb9389]

Loved the porch video and the Stories about all the “artifacts “. So interesting that there is a story about each one and that something simple like barbed wire and part of an old post means so much. I like things like that too and wonder what they saw during their hay-day. So interesting talking about porches and the old days when porches were the gathering place like you say for talking, playing and listening to the evening sounds. You are a great storyteller too.☺️

[@mikeogden5256]

My time in West Virginia enhanced the quality of My life and gave Me memories beyond all compare

[@spellmadam2947]

Morning porch coffee is the best. A dear friend of mine has a "rust garden". She puts all kinds of old rusted items in it that she finds on her hikes similar to your old tea kettle. It's really a cool garden.

[@kourtnilackes7086]

Oh how I love porches! The memories are countless from grandparents houses,our homes, from people I know to meeting only once. I love them😍

[@foghornleghorn262]

Porticos are a southern tradition. Many a fine mint julip, Kentucky Bourbon whiskey,and cigars have been enjoyed in a rocking chair on an oversized front porch.

[@357bullfrog9]

I'll just bet were pretty close neighbors

[@N2Mtns2]

I remember women went one way (kitchen areas) & men in khaki pants, suspenders, rolled up long sleeves & worn dress shoes laughing & outside askew till… until The Music Started late. The Weekends. 🥰

[@Iluvluvsukisukisuki]

Up here in New England we have a screen porch out back, it keeps these pterodactyl mosquitoes out 😂 I tell my neighbor I'm out back on the porch and come around if you need me when my kid is playing over there

[@357bullfrog9]

@@Iluvluvsukisukisuki I've got skeeters here in Kentucky that can carry off a man or full grown dog lol

[@jasonrichards3785]

Tipper, wonderful video. I've spent many an hour on the front porch of my grandma's when I was a kid. We usually were shelling peas or stringing and breaking beans late in the evening in the summer time. Usually peas came in a bit later in the summer and sometimes pea shelling started on the porch and ended up on the inside of the house in her living room with Hee Haw on the t.v. and the whole living room full of family members telling tales, shelling peas, and watching Buck and Roy and the whole gang.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Sounds like good times Jason 😀

[@maryanne4677]

I just realized why it is so hard for me to decorate. I love things that have meaning or history and that is what I want to have around me. Other people go out and buy new beautiful things, and I guess I could, but those things are not what I want. Others think I might be a tad touched, and maybe I am, but I call myself the keeper of all things. I need to get them out and give them a proper space to continue their lives and the memories they carry. I know my grandbabies LOVE hearing the stories and looking at my 'treasures.' Thank you so much for sharing yourself and your family with us. You have a beautiful family and have made a wonderful home to raise those 2 beautiful young ladies in. God Bless

[@hilslamer]

I never really thought about it. Porches are really the center of the house, where weather permits and when they are big enough. Delightful insight.

[@conniebaker1958]

That old tea kettle is really cool. Be a nice planter. I love your stories

[@margiemasih990]

I used to sit on my grandmother's porch in the evening and listen to the night come alive...

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

That's one of the best times of day to sit on the porch 😀

[@N2Mtns2]

And poetic. 🥰

[@vincentperratore4395]

I remember my grandmother's house 55 years ago, when she lived in Iaeger, West Virginia, and she had a really nice porch, yes, replete with a swing and chairs! Some of my most treasured memories were just sitting on her porch of an evening, warmly greeting transient neighbors, engaged in our small talk or just thinking things over, listening to the soft but incessant report of crickets and katydids, then hearing the silence abruptly broken by the familiar crescendo of klaxons, heralding another passing train of N&W coal cars on the embankment a block away. After an hour or so, the train having passed us on its way to Rodenfield and the neighborhood having receded once again into silence, we settled down.

[@BigDsHomestead]

Tracy Lawrence "If the world had a front porch like we did back then". 🎶

[@deborahringley4662]

My Momaw had a front and back porch. We always sat and yes rocked in chairs. I love porches. You bring home so many memories. I enjoy every single video you show. I tell everyone I meet about your Celebratin Appalachia video, since I found you. Your entire family blesses me and so many others to me and so many

[@buzsalmon]

Tipper, I loved this show! I wanted to say earlier how nice your porch is. I've always admired it. Porches as you can see are very important to me. I very much enjoyed your porch stories.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Buz. I hope you have a good day!

[@lceec7012]

You are a natural born story teller. So calming and relaxing to just sit and listen. My grand mother lived in a small apartment by the time I was born. She had a concrete slab as a back porch. She always had two chairs on it. We spent summer evenings drinking cherry koolaid and eating Sock it to me cake after an all day game of kick ball. Nothing ever tasted that good. Me and all the neighbor kids would also snap peas and shuck corn on that slab for my grandma. She would sit in one of those old porch chairs and tell us Bible stories. She could makes them stories come to life. She was a tiny Irish women with sparkling baby blue eyes. She was a kind women but also had lots of spit fire! She had 24 grand children and 32 great grandchildren when she passed at the age of 85. Still miss her!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

What wonderful memories 😀 She sounds amazing!

[@selenahadlow9700]

Loved this video.so many precious stories.You could write a book on your treasures.i am so enthralled with old things too.i wish I had kept a lot of moms little things.So I really loved the book too.sp very interesting.God bless you Tipper& family.Yout all a real blessing.♥️♥️♥️💝💝💝🙏🙏🙏

[@jessicamccain1000]

I love the porch video, I love old things too! I grew up in middle Ga where the houses didn’t have front porches, but my house here in Alabama does have one, though not as rustic and lovely as yours. Thanks again Tipper, for a wonderful video that feeds my soul.

[@lissahenry6751]

Y’all are all so talented. I love watching your channel. Especially when I’m missing my mama and daddy.

[@benitastevens612]

Love your story telling about your porch.

[@Sweetpea1128]

I recently started following thrifters on You Tube. My mother kept nothing, so there were things I loved that just “disappeared”. I have found so many things that I have bought to replace those things. I have had a very happy life, and still do. These keepsakes represent all of those great memories. Loved talk of the front porch. I love porches and swings and spent many happy hours sitting with my Grams on her front porch. ❤️

[@Ithilwen22]

We didn't have a porch when I was a kid, so we'd put down the tailgate of Granddad's truck and sit on it at night and listen to the owls and whippoorwills. I miss those days. My husband and I sit out on our porch in the evenings but there's a difference between sitting out in the mountains and sitting out across from the grocery store on main street!

[@saraanddarrinmoneer3696]

!st. Thank you Mrs. Tipper

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀

[@xianthe_]

How lovely! It has such a comfortable, homey, relaxing and safe space, almost like a retreat.

[@janetlavoie2441]

Some of my favorite porch times are in the fall...in the morning with a cup of coffee and a lap blanket...looking at all the pretty colors.

[@twothreestickstravel344]

Thank you for posting! Remembering my Aunt Mary’s and Great Great Grandma Zettie Hatfield’s porches in West Virginia. ❤️

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you enjoyed it 🙂

[@rdenham4250]

I've travelled most of my life (military child). A little less than a year ago, I moved to Appalachia. I now feel no desire to leave. The sense of place has a hold of me. Thanks for all the good videos, Miss Tipper!

[@elizabethwooten7672]

Love my porch but I love the one at mom and dads the best! Looks out at the barn which is a staple of my childhood 🥰 We sit out there and watch the rain, talk and work crossword puzzles and sometimes me and dad do a little pickin and grinnin! He plays banjo and I play guitar ♥️

[@annmariesands3270]

I'm not sure a what age I came up with this, I have always called a porch a "hug". They always seemed like loving arms that surrounded the house and welcomed joy. A place, from which to greet passersby, to gather family and friends or to experience solitude. Thank you for sharing your "hug".

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I love that!

[@rebeccadavis6812]

"Set your cross hairs on God" that is a treasure! Oh my goodness, I could make so many comments that this video make me remember. That knot from a tree in the old Coke bottle reminded me of when my dad would get so frustrated with us sometimes and say " ...don't just sit there like a knot on a log...!!" and you've got one sitting there on your porch shelf : ) My grandma's farmhouse had a rarely used front porch. The back of the house came out (perpendicular) from the front section of the house which faced the road. The back part of the house had long narrow porches on both sides. The porch that was called the "front" porch was the side where all the cars pulled in/parked and e/one entered the house (which was the tiny kitchen). On the other side was the "back" porch, if you walked straight through, with the washing machine to the left of the sink, from the "front" porch to the "back" porch through that tiny kitchen which is really about as big as the kitchen was, it was just enough room to pass through from front to back porches. Like you said, the "front" porch is where all the adults sat/talked in the chairs/rockers and the "back" porch with it's long narrow concrete rectangular step off the side is where all of the stray cats would be as well as the large trees that had these big above ground roots gnarled around it and really just that sandy, dusty dirt that was packed down in between those roots. That was my play ground, going around the trees from big root to big root and the cats all around. I was the youngest of ten cousins so there were not but about three of us that played out there and many times I was by myself. Aunt Dot would fuss at anyone who let the screen door slam, LOL. At my parents home, we had a (back)deck, when we first moved there (mid 70's) we could sit there and watch the July 4th fireworks show at Tanglewood Park. As the years went on, all the trees grew up and we could no longer see the 4th of July fireworks show from home. We had a small front door stoop with no overhead roof. After my dad retired he had a roof built on and they enjoyed many times sitting out there one on one side of the front door and one on the other side. I remember sitting out there one day waiting on my boyfriend (now husband) to come pick me up for our date but he was over an hour late that particular day. Sitting there rocking, tapping my foot, he finally arrived, with flowers in hand. That was the day he took me out and asked me to marry him. He was so late because he was looking for my dad to ask his permission to propose to me; Dad was working over at the church with some of the other men and it apparently took longer than he knew to expect.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Love those memories 😀

[@terryfinley7760]

I’m glad Granny finally got her porch! ❤️

[@WildflowerAnn]

I love porch swings & rockers on porches ❤️

[@robertmoore2049]

Thank you for sharing this with us, Tipper. I love learning more about Appalachian life. By the way, pretty shirt! Nice and colorful!

[@bestillandlearn]

I love our back porch patio! I'm always out there!

[@andreaszule1558]

I love your porch. You are such a beautiful person so full of love for your family and your heritage. You have wonderful memories. I love to hear your stories. You have inspired me to start a journal to write about my little family. It started with a dream, to be free, totally free. To escape a country with a 3 month old baby to be free. I pray we remain that way. I can relate to your love of old things. One is a bag of earth grabbed quickly to remember......

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm so glad you started that journal!!

[@AmericanaGardens]

I appreciate your honesty and humbleness in your videos.

[@tomrobards7753]

Live that life as you pretty much described in this video all those wonderful memories

[@shirleyfrazier4476]

This brought a lot of memories about our front porch when I was growing up. We practically lived on it. One thing my husband and I do now all the time is head to the porch when it rains

[@carolynnewman5608]

You'll have such a blessed life , God bless and enjoy every minute of it.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I am so very thankful for my life 😀 Thank you for watching!

[@benlaw4647]

Enjoyed this! Love the sounds of the birds singing....that old cast iron tea pot is awesome! Thanks for sharing your porch items! Like you , I always think of what items have been through in the past....when I see a 200 year old house or even a very old tree , I think about if they could talk, what stories they could tell....all the winters they have endured...thanks again tipper ....God bless....🙏

[@brianoregan1216]

Hi. Thank you so much for your posts. I'm a first generation American. My parents came here from Ireland. So I grew up loving this Beautiful Country. I have always wanted to visit your part of our country. The Irish Scottish history is palpable in the music from there. I grew up hearing traditional Irish music in our living. Mom played the Irish fiddle and Dad played the accordion.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

You are so welcome!

[@ReeImagined]

Our back porch was where we went inside the house, and it was where we fed the dogs and kept those returnable glass soda bottles stacked in their wood cases. Our front porch was where the swing was, where you could watch the occasional car on the road, where the huge maple tree shaded the front yard, where we shucked corn or snapped beans. You'd wave at the mailman. I wrote a Sunday sermon in that swing for the Youth Group Sunday one year. I got my first kiss on that swing.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

What great memories 😀

[@g1stylempdesign929]

The porch was the common place of common people to enjoy the passing weather together, to observe the pulse of the heart of the community and get ya some fresh air in the summer to cool the beaded brow from the heat

[@bonniericica6895]

Great to hear about porches, for though I was a small child, I do remember my grandparents on my mothers side that had a porch swing and where we all gathered!

[@cindybarton8562]

💕Porches & swings❤❤❤❤ Oh my word, Yup!!~* ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ You 💖 cover topics & such that are so dear to my heart and my own memories❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@priola7587]

Wonderful reading and stories. That old kettle is so elegant. What a shape, and a star on the lid! A porch with a roof off the kitchen is my big dream, though I have a perfectly nice old patio. Thank you.

[@csnanny1882]

I think I told you that I just found you, I remember watching you some time back , some how I lost you, but I am so happy you popped up the other day. I was born and raised up in Tn. until I was 15. I am now 85 living alone in S.Florida. I love your home, your yard and porch is just awesome . No wonder you have so many subscribers,you are an awesome person . I could set and listen to you and Matt talk for ever. And that’s what I did for the pass 2 days. It’s been to cold to get out of the house. So thank you for the wonderful intertainment .I see you have many videos I will be watching. God bless you , stay warm and keep well.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you so much 😀

[@clsieczka]

Very heartfelt. You’ve also made many happy memories for your family. Can’t get any better then that. Chris

[@yecats953]

What a magical place. Love all of the pieces of history you have honored there.

[@nancright1352]

Thank you so much for sharing this, if the world could get back to these ways of life it would be lovely.

[@vickygoodrich4761]

I love how everything means something to you. How you can see the besuty in things that others may overlook. Speaks a lot about your character and your heart. What a beautiful person you are and the perfect candidate to represent and tell the stories of the appalachians and it's history, people and heritage. You give it the heart and soul and touch our hearts and soul as your stories unfold. Truly amazing human being. I love you for this and i thank you so much! You make me proud to be from the appalachians. Hope these videos bring you every blessing, because it blesses all of us!

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Vicky-you are so kind! Thank you!! All of you make me proud to be an Appalachian too 😀

[@Gjustme52]

I am so glad to have found your channel, in this world today you all are a treasure.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Welcome and thank you 😀

[@OutdoorsandCountryLiving]

You are great. Thanks for sharing. Love it!

[@mickietaylor8186]

I used to love sitting on the porch. I don’t have one now just a patio but it doesn’t compare to the porch on the farm everyone always wanted the swing. Lol we had an old windmill. It was so relaxing 😌

[@nadinestapler3881]

I loved your stories about your porch, I was smiling the whole time. Thank you

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@cindychesna829]

What a lovely post! Thank you!

[@lemmetellyousomething679]

Porch is the only place where i find mental and physical peace. I almost spend every minute of my off day from work lying there on Rocking chair

[@marjoriemcclure2138]

I have fond memories of my time on my grandma's porch. It was a massive wrap around affair that had a door on either end and one in the middle. What could be better for a rowdy pack of kids? There was a rattan love seat, loaded with, flour sack covered pillows, multiple rockers, and a railing covered with flower pots. We would play hide an seek, and run through those doors, for hours. If it was raining, we played on that porch. When I built my house, I put a wrap around porch on for my grandchildren.

[@evilscience3164]

Tipper, I love your stories and when you read others stories. Speaking about local dumps, I live on a creek in Southold NY. and there were 3 or 4 dumps along the shore. They were probably shared by 2 or 3 families each. When my sister and I were young we were always rooting around them. We found quite a few old glass medicine bottles intact, most of them were whooping cough remedies. We would also dig around and find Indian paint pots, wampum, arrow heads and broken pottery, it was buried treasure. We had a screened in porch facing the creek, my mother would put me and my sister out there when she needed to get things done around the house without a couple of kids pestering her. She even bundled us up in the winter and put us out there, she called it Siberia, we loved it. My father as a kid slept on the side porch in a hammock buck naked in the summer because of the heat. It' s kinda funny how I can understand and connect with your experiences even though I live up north and you live more southernly. The thing I like about that is that people are more similar to others than it would seem. Love you kiddo.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you-I love your mother sending you to Siberia 😀 So glad you enjoy our videos!!

[@focusedfreebird]

I remember visiting with a friend in n. Carolina and stone mountain, Georgia as a kid and the people down there are the friendliest and most hospitable. Big breakfasts were a routine. Went and visited friend's relatives living very rural. A very peaceful way of living. Great people.

[@kimnichols1458]

I used to love playing on the front porch of my Aunts and Mamaws house and sit on the swing and listen to all the wonderful sounds and the cars going through and trying to guess which direction they were coming from. I also loved catching lightening bugs. I would always help with breaking up green beans and shucking corn with my aunts and cousins so they could can and cook with.

[@crowdedisolation]

Great stories. I enjoyed the video very much. Porch sitting has almost gone by the wayside. I miss having a swing on the porch.

[@angelharte764]

Love all your stories, relax me and take me away from the city life .I would love to live there!

[@hermitbob7304]

Thank you Tipper. I just found your channel and I love it so much. I'm a Northern Appalachian boy, but most of what you talk about is common to my upbringing. My porch story was when I was about 3-5 yr old, laying my head on Mom's lap on the porch swing, listening as the storms rolled through. We'd count the distance from lightning to thunder until I fell asleep and Mom would carry me to bed.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

I'm so glad you're enjoying our channel-thank you 🙂

[@homesteadingpastor]

Wow! Another outstanding video Ms. Tipper, I was raised on the porches of grandparents and other family members as a kid. Nothing like the swings and rocking chairs on the front porch, we have the swing and some regular standing chairs on our front porch here at our home now and use them A LOT!! Loved listening to you share all the stories of days gone by and what all the different items on your porch represent. Really interesting story about the green man. Lol GOD Bless Y’all. 👍🏻🙏🏻😇🙌🏻

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

Thank you Pastor Lon 😀

[@coraruppe8769]

I love your beautiful family and all the videos that you make! We need more of these times in this world today!💕

[@rebeccachambers419]

I’m like you in that I love to look at all the things are old houses and think about the people who used to live there and own these things.

[@misscindy3414]

Thank you, Tipper for sharing your very special porch with everyone! There is a very special kind of peacefulness that dwells on your porch, I feel it every time I'm there. I love to sit there in one of those wonderful rocking chairs Bill gave you. You're the best! Every thing you do and every post you create comes straight from your heart!

[@jcmullins3871]

Love your channel especially when you read stories..I am homebound with Advanced Parkinsons Disease and read alot. It's relaxing to hear you read a loud

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

So glad you enjoy our videos!! We appreciate you watching 😀

[@AGhostintheHouse]

My Mom is from the Ouachita range in south east Oklahoma. Through out the 70s and early 80s we would visit my Mom's home from Florida every July 4th for 2 weeks. The porch with a swing which wrapped around half the house and the carport and the front yard with a porch swing hanging from an A frame all under huge shade trees were the gathering place of my extended family and make up my fondest childhood memories.

[@CelebratingAppalachia]

😀 I'm glad you've got those porch memories 😀

[@jacquelineganske7809]

Hi Tipper! Enjoyed hearing your porch stories today. It’s great how it really is just an extension of your home, an extra room if you will. I must say I enjoy all your vids and look forward to seeing what’s up your sleeve for us. 👍

[@jdm_mustang4065]

Such a great video, whether spending time with old friends, or making new ones, isn' t a porch the best. Thanks for sharing. Also loved the stories of the rocks, have many heart shaped ones I have found over the years, just think they are special.

[@rogertaylor977]

Your videos make me miss home and the mountains hope I can go back before it's too late

[@yankeeairpirate1799]

Yep love my Porsche 911, and it loves the twistie roads