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[@marypatten9655]

My mom always told me to never forget who you are. She was Irish making me half Irish. Miss my mom.

[@daedalx]

Making 100% Irish. You are what your mother is.

[@sharondemarco2308]

Me too

[@carolfoxx8278]

Kevin I just love listening to you tell stories. You are a great story teller.😀😀

[@lisakrysicki5044]

Great story, thanks for sharing. Love and prayers to you and your family.

[@musicalbard3]

Good story. Thank you :)

[@romonaemory2767]

Great story, enjoyed it very much.

[@CarlaHanson68]

Happy Easter Kevin, Dearly, Daniel and everyone here. I hope you all have a beautiful day. 🥀🐣🐇🌻

[@dannybutts7396]

Great story. We have a place like that in Alabama.. and we absolutely will NOT dig up a grave... for obvious reasons

[@dannybutts7396]

@@shannonrutledge8872 you got it...North Alabama

[@crystalphillips696]

I wish I had your memory. Mine is awful. Great story today.

[@karrararra4820]

Thank you for sharing and telling us your stories

[@idablythe4847]

I am Heinz. English Irish Dutch Welch French and German. Our 5 th great grandfather William Whipple signed the Declaration of Independence. So much for being Heinz. Thanks for your story. My husband was from Hazard, Ky. He showed me around were he grew up. That was in 2000 and there were places that even he wouldn’t go to. He had a lot of family there to this day. He passed in 2010. Loved your story or truth!!!!!👍

[@vickimeyers2672]

Wishing you and yours a very blessed and pleasant Easter.

[@terryfinnin1659]

Hello from Ireland Kevin great story the substance from the coal we call slack and my mother used to wet it and it would stick together and put it on top of the burning coal and it would burn for hours stay safe 🇮🇪

[@faithbyrge484]

Hey Kevin and fam I hope you're having or had a good Easter but here's an expression and you'll definitely pick up on it I remember when I was a little girl and somebody said no matter what happens to you in life where things take you wherever your journey takes you don't ever forget where you came from seems today a lot of folks seem to have forgotten where they came from do you agree with that does anyone else in the comments agree with that a lot of people either are or have forgotten where they're cut they came from whether it's good bad or indifferent I didn't forget where I came from and I always try to make sure that wherever I am going or whatever is happening I try to leave it better than the way I found it or leave it how I found it whatever it may be life has taught me a lot in all these years one thing it has taught me is never forget where you came from

[@justinbrown927]

The last people I want to be related to would be the inbread nobility . I prefer salt of the earth hard working people with morals and determination

[@spo616]

I’m with you!👍🏻

[@valwright9871]

Too right

[@surveyingthelandscape4273]

Really interesting story... Happy Resurrection Day! Thank you& God bless 🙏

[@mariafields2155]

Yes Kevin I did enjoy your story as I do all of your stories I really enjoy listening to you and feel like I actually know you and your family I consider you my real friends and even though it's only through KZbin I have come to love your family as my own

[@patricik3adykohollandswort668]

What other people think of me is none of my business.

[@gailvaness]

I just seen some activity behind you Kevin way up into the Trees. The Branches were moving and the other trees weren't moving. Happy Easter 🐣 to you, Dearly and Daniel. Stay safe, Stand Tall, Keep your Head Held High.

[@hume6900]

You are a great story teller, Kevin!

[@karrararra4820]

Hello hope you had a nice Easter day

[@faithieray6266]

Great story. Happy Easter.

[@annowens7123]

Good story!

[@gibsonbrigh]

Happy Easter to you and family. Your rooster sees your six 😃 good story.

[@ruthannolp8760]

Wow, what a great story and yes I'm sure things like that happen. I hope you had a great Easter.

[@gailmayes8056]

Thin pieces of coal is called slack I think

[@stars4u313]

Great story! Thanks for sharing. I always enjoy your storytime at the homestead. I had your six the entire time. Seemed as if like your PBS friends were potentially listening too.

[@elainescott1105]

Hey Kevin did u have a good day bless u all

[@MikkiandAngel]

Yep, my family came from Ireland on a ship to the colonies since 1796 and they were indentured servants. I’m more than 65% Irish ☘️

[@lindadurkin828]

Thanks for the story. It was so interesting.

[@peggythames9308]

Very interesting story.

[@kdrazalotg-usa6345]

Pretty cool story! Reminds me of a story my dad used to tell us about this cave, where this guy found an old man with his parrot who could speak.he said "My how old are you?!" and the old guy says " If you think I'm old, you should see my father!" And as this man keeps going deeper within this cave, he keeps encountering an older and more ancient man with a parrot (each looking like from a different generation, until he finally meets this little old Pirate guy, crotchety one toothed, and barely able to get the words out: "Well, if you think I'm old...you should see my...father..."

[@skylights2379]

Great story!

[@reneetibbetts4813]

Love listening to your stories Kevin👍you found your calling. I appreciate that you let us into your private life for your wisdom and stories.

[@bagger87]

Thats a great story. Nice one.

[@patti7533]

People who matter don’t mind, people who mind don’t matter

[@graymcgoldrick8388]

Great story thank you with your narration and Smithsonian mug too. Always enjoyable to listen to you in your relaxed manner. Have you ever thought of doing audiobooks with short stories like this with your great accent and humour to boot.

[@nursebarbi9182]

This is an excellent idea!

[@gatorgogo2742]

Another great story and I believe every word of it! The small rural town I'm from still has only 1 traffic light after I've been gone 75 years. The original police station was on the corner by the light. There was a button on the outside wall we could push to get a better look at the cars going through town. One day a big black fancy car was stopped and we kept it there for a while until someone could read a name on it. It was a Chrysler New Yorker!

[@bonniemartin7253]

I see a lot of pixelating from Kevin’s right shoulder to the twisted tree and over his left shoulder ???JS

[@davemessenger4764]

Liked this story Kevin

[@stephaniemays7448]

I never got questioned on my heritage until we moved to Florida in the summer of 92, I was 10 1/2. The first thing out of the other kids mouths was, Are you German? You must be German cause of my blonde hair and blue eyes. Yes my nationality is german and my ethnicity is caucasian. I also got asked what Detroit was like, um I have no clue, I grew up in Ypsilanti. It just floored me how much pressure the kids put on me about heritage, like why does it matter?

[@keljells]

82 baby??? We’re the best kind! 🙃 Though I’m a red headed freckle face, so I can’t hide my ancestry. It won’t leave me lol. I grew up outside Boston so my heritage was never side eyed, though. Our families for sure went through it, I’m proud to be of their stock!

[@stephaniemays7448]

@@keljells I was born at the end of November in 81

[@stars4u313]

I am also an 82 baby!

[@keljells]

@@stephaniemays7448 close enough! We’re still kindred spirits lol

[@keljells]

@@stars4u313 kindred years souls lol

[@rosemaryberry865]

Have a wonderful Easter you guys.

[@jackieblu7111]

Great story Kevin... That rooster sure is vocal.. 🐓👣👣👁👁

[@meredithweller6642]

Love your stories

[@karenrogers7830]

Love your stories. Thank you.

[@vincentwelch7286]

This story can now live a little longer. Thank you.

[@valwright9871]

Well even if you cannot write a story you certainly can tell one. Loved it.

[@dreamweaver7810]

You are one neck of a story teller!! Had my attention through the whole story!!

[@StonedustandStardust]

I have mountain folk on my Father's side. His Mother was Irish and they lived in West Virginia. I had pictures of HER father who was a blacksmith and a Marshal. My favorite picture of Great grandpa Doyle was of him with a fiddle on his lap and a parrot on his shoulder. She also said they were NOT Irish, but Scotch Irish. I will find out the truth when I have my ancestry done. I have always been drawn to Irish music, so we'll see. Makes no difference to me. I love Bluegrass too.

[@keljells]

So funny that I was told to say we are “scotch-Irish” as well, meanwhile we were straight off the boat Irish. I never understood until recently. Nice to “meet” you friend.

[@cindylooaxe]

They were elite Irish ?

[@cattitude7809]

Another awesome story!!! Well, I just had to look up that sunscreen song, as I've never heard of it!!! Boy, if everything in that song isn't true!!! Especially today! Wish I could have somebody tell me these things when I was 20!!!!!

[@moonwolfdancer1103]

I believe your story because you said the coffins weren't silver but the hinges were. There's a lot of unexplainable phenomenon that goes on and seems most folks would rather it go away. I've experienced my share.

[@twilightzone-ex-hostage1997]

I was born and raised in the northeast but my folks and entire extended family have deep roots in southeastern Kentucky and farther back the James River area of Virginia and Guilford NC. My heritage is absolutely Scotch -Irish and the influences of Appalachian Bluegrass music. I spent many many long summers and holidays there among those proud honest hard working miners and mill operators, and some Old Regular Baptist on Sunday ; ) There is a feeling traveling down there, when the foothills of Ohio give way to the Old RT 23S into Kentucky that tho I'm not native to the lands and mountains and hollers, I strangely belong to it, like DNA connection. My ancestors worked hard at a life carved out of land they had to fight for, to escape persecution with little more than hope for freedom to live their chosen way making sure each following generation had equal or better opportunity. When I learn about them, and try to imagine their lives, my heart bursts with a fierce pride and a bittersweet longing to visit with those folks, just as they were, and say tell me about your life!! Thank you for your stories, they tap into my memories, listening to the old folks tell stories. And above all, thank you for your service to this country Sir, blessings!!

[@AP-uo7sp]

My grandpa's family was from WV. I believe they were poor irish immigrants too. He told stories about Pinnacle Rock.

[@elizabethvarnadoe420]

Happy Easter, Lake family.

[@thefoggymountainwitch]

Thank you for your story time!

[@tirzah4930]

I’m a McCurry...Scott’s-Irish. I’m guessing my people came over in the famine times in Ireland. I was adopted, but genealogy searches have my family line going back to the Inner Hebrides about 7th century, then I lose track with name changes and spellings. Between the time I was adopted, inn1950, and the arrival of my relatives here, mid 1880’s ? is where I lose the family line, unfortunately. They were from the mountains of N. Carolina. John and Edna (nee Waldrop) McCurry....so, about 70:years of history is all it takes to break the chain. I looked for decades, but there’s an abundance of McCurry’s in them that hills 😂👵🏻😂. Enjoy your channel greatly! Thank you!

[@smokinggar714]

Did you know that before blacks were used for slaves the English used the Irish for slaves and a lot of them were brought here to be used as slaves and when they brought in blacks a black slave was sold for ten dollars and you could get two Irish for three dollars

[@justinbrown927]

I can hear that Big Foot Sasquatch trying to sound like a rooster in the background. He has got it down pat and I am truly impressed.!! Lol

[@christineparker3088]

9.40 in middle of pic to very rear of woods focus is interesting!

[@SmallWonda]

Just realized I've known a Lake for over 20-years! She's not Irish thou'... Spooky story... Thanks... 👍🐾🐅👻😎

[@keljells]

My family is a potato famine family... they dealt with the 1920s “no Irish need apply”, but I’m up outside of Boston MA, so typical right? We’ve got 8 kids the generation above me... my how things have changed. My grandparents even spoke Gaelic, which I was taught as a child bc they brought their syntax idiosyncrasies with them through the years.

[@cramerbryant2820]

Love the story and got your six

[@mimihong4835]

Hey Kevin. Got your six. At about 15:24 above your left shoulder at the edge of screen. Something keeps poking in and out. Saw earlier too but didn't get the time stamp.

[@rubymoon9055]

I’ve always heard if you can’t trace your family history back it’s Indian Ancestry a lot of times

[@warrenbooth2103]

Around the same time in history were the Scottish land clearances where thousands of Scots were evicted.

[@meeesy]

Awesome story!! I believe it!

[@garyjenkinson3951]

Happy Easter!!

[@susanbrungard8891]

Great Story. They really suffered.

[@danielledeems1285]

Love it!!!!

[@donnavaughn5393]

Thanks you kevin it's slate. I no from west virgnia have a good evening happy Easter

[@cilandialane3084]

I was told it was called shale. Is shale and slate in the coal mines both?

[@slowerlifeonpurpose]

I loved that story, can you tell us more like it? Happy Easter and thank you!

[@deannajones8133]

3.20 right after you look back something walk behind the back trees, you see it again as it walks to the left of the screen, I got your 6

[@swandive700]

Reminded me of the song "You'll NEVER LEAVE HARLAN ALIVE"

[@hereforfun4855]

That is where a lot of the mountain folk music came from.

[@joannebarry9830]

You are perfect Kevin. Never change …. please!!!!

[@joannebarry9830]

oh and ps....s..... I don't even bother getting your six anymore... I just love listening to your insane rambling, yet oddly compelling rants... lol

[@davidhead5943]

It was the luck of the Irish ! A elite team of silver leprechauns coming to get their stuff back !

[@loriwilliams77]

I just watched the video today. Great story, Kevin. 3:19 After Kevin looks backwards, wait a couple seconds. Something big appears. It walks between a gap of 2 trees from right to left at the top of the hill then disappears. Freeze the video, follow Kevin’s pointer finger up to the tree line. There’s a small gap between 2 trees. Now rewind and watch the video leading up to 3:19.

[@karenhamon2036]

I grew up in the south west and now live in the east coast......I miss the south west. Hate the humidity and the bugs!

[@nancymacdonald6205]

I really loved that story

[@BytheWay333]

Awesome story!

[@skylights2379]

The Irish coming up the St Lawrence River into Canada were mistreated, sold into slavery, and hounded as well. Thankfully, my ancestors landed on an island and settled there.

[@gudrunwicart]

Great story!!!!!

[@vixendoe2545]

Both my parents have Scottish ancestry. Dad' s people had the detour through Ulster, Ireland. There is German, Russian and Scandinavian for spice.

[@keljells]

I like your spice. Keeps it interesting. I’m Irish scotch but threw in a little Swedish for my spice. lol

[@patriciapomeroy2478]

Very handsome man

[@margueritewarriner3706]

Love your stories.

[@BUGMAN-22]

Moms family is from the far south east corner of Ky and WV. it is the kind of place you are talking about. country folk have many stories and beliefs I will never doubt. Them Mountains have their own mystique and there are some funny things I have seen there I do not tell cause I am not crazy and do not want to be thought of as such.

[@keljells]

Have you seen that wild “commune” they have out there that they are trying to recruit people to now?

[@cocacolafiesta]

Dirt baggery.....first I’ve heard of that but possibly may be guilty of it too🤔🧐🤔

[@paisley293]

The Irish were mostly discriminated against because they were Catholic, as opposed to the majority of existing Americans who were Protestant. Wikipedia>> "In the Early Modern period following the advent of Protestantism in Great Britain, the Irish people suffered both social and political oppression for refusing to renounce Catholicism. Irish racism in Victorian Britain and 19th century United States included the stereotyping of the Irish as violent and alcoholic.[18] Some English illustrators depicted a prehistoric "ape-like image" of Irish faces to bolster evolutionary racist claims that the Irish people were an "inferior race" as compared to Anglo-Saxons.[19][20]

[@aoifemurphy7452]

Thanks for the story Kevin it’s slate !! X 🍀🍀🍀🍀 and in England the signs used to say “No blacks , No dogs , No Irish “ !!! Happy Easter to u n giggly girl god bless love 🇮🇪 Ireland xxx

[@user-qr6cb2sv6k]

Creepy .......love your stories!!

[@SuperLisalis]

Now that is Scary Kevin, Night Night, Aghhhh!

[@maebellaakamaegirl190]

Happy Easter To You And Your Family Member 🐣🐇🐥.

[@christineparker3088]

17.17 twisted tree to the left of Kevin as u look at pic has got something pixilated under the twisted part. Over his right shoulder phantom outlines!

[@Jesusgirl4ever8136]

That was a cool story for sure.

[@deboraarcarola8563]

I did enjoy the story. Thanks Kevin Always, Debbie Boyd

[@davidhead5943]

So far On my Father's side of the family we have gotten to the 13th century and still counting. I'm the 13th generation of men to carry my last name !

[@Jesusgirl4ever8136]

I am Mississippi Choctaw from Oklahoma and we have everything to do with the Potato Famine.

[@stephaniegamble3571]

Is it just me or is the audio muffled recently? Like a mic is too close or under the shirt.. Something is making it muffled and not clear.

[@Wistful77]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@Wistful77]

had to sub. :)

[@JBowser]

I have been watching what i believe to be a woman in the background. there is a skinny dark tree next to that in between the trees looks like a woman. Tell me if anyone else sees her please.

[@crystalleedouglastrammell8896]

I ç her jeññy b

[@JBowser]

@@lisawho2 yes.

[@DB-po8rs]

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