Saddle'n Soar at Hell's Hollow Adventure Outpost in Blue Ridge
My sis and I recently did some outdoor adventuring for my 30th birthday weekend by visiting Blue Ridge. Part of our day was spent at the delightful Hell's Hollow Adventure Outpost where we did their horse'n zip package (which initially I thought meant we got to ride a horse *on* a zipline, but alas, not the case)
It was an absolute hoot with the guides and others we saddle'n soared with! If you're looking for a fun family adventure, definitely check them out!
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Blue Ridge Mountain Trail Rides and Zipline
Blue Ridge Mountain Trail Rides and Zipline i forgot the go pro for the horse back riding but it was amazing aswell the guides are top notch
Summer Guide: Blue Ridge, GA Rails & Horse Trails
From Blue Ridge Country magazine,
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Life in Blue Ridge as told through the people who call this town home.
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CHAINSAWBOBS HELLS HOLLOW TRAIL RIDE
CHAINSAWBOBS HELLS HOLLOW TRAIL RIDE
Exploring the Blue Ridge & Appalachian Mountains!!! | VLOG | ( Weekend Trip)
I spent a few of my summer days in the Appalachian and Blue Ridge Mountains with family ! We stayed in a cute cabin in Boone, NC ( video tour of the cabin is already up) and did trips during the day to both Banner Elk and Blowing Rock , NC. So much fun shopping, eating, and enjoying the beautiful nature. Will deffinetily have to come back to do some mountain zip-lining, horse back riding, hiking, and kayaking next time !
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fun adventure in a hot summer day
Living in Virginia: In The Mountain's Shadow
LIV breaks through stereotypes to discover the vibrant and colorful Appalachian charm by visiting with residents of the mountainous regions of Virginia and West Virginia. They describe their need for self-sufficient traditions and practices due to communication and travel challenges. Scholars discuss the history of the region, as well as social and cultural aspects of Appalachia.
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Appalachian Adventure 2018
A fun filled week of camping and offroading in West Virginia and Virginia.
Photo from the trip can be seen here.
GPS TripLog for the trip
Information on Good Evening Ranch
The MOST INBRED People Ever
Inbreeding is a topic we don't often hear much about, and for good reason. But it has an interesting history. Some of the most powerful people from history have been inbred. The nature of their birth did on some occasions change the course of history. In this video I tell the stories of some of them.
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Hells Backbone
Filmed with my GoPro hero 3, I went to Hells backbone near Escalante Utah. This is a cool drive if you have ever been.
Old-Time TOTW #70 Happy Hollow (10/27/19)
This week's tune is Happy Hollow, from the playing of Marcus Lafayette Martin (2 August 1881--20 March 1974) of Macon Co., NC. He was the son of Nathaniel Rowan Martin (1857-?) and Rachel C. Morgan (1839-1915), who was born in TN. Martin married Callie D. Holloway (1895-1956) on 24 December 1911. (source for above: Ancestry)
In addition to fiddle, Marcus played banjo, harmonica, dulcimer, and was an accomplished ballad singer. He learned most of his tunes and technique from his father, who was also a fiddler. In later years Martin said that his father could play the sweetest you ever heard. Marcus often played unaccompanied for square dances in his youth. (above information from Blue Ridge National Heritage web page)
Martin was recorded by various collectors in the 1940s. He more or less stopped playing by the early 1960s. He cross tuned quite a bit, and also employed low tuning. He is tuned quite low on his recording of Happy Hollow, done in 1941 (found on Larry Warren's Slippery-Hill.com). If we relate his pitch to the modern standards, he was tuned to the key of F, though a few cents sharp. He was in calico tuning, FCFA. I was pleasantly surprised to find this out when I listened to the source recording. I just learned the tune at the Crook Farm Old-Time Music Festival (Crooktop) in Bradford, PA, this past August. I started a jam in F calico about midnight, and that went on for some time. Everybody was really enjoying the calico tunes played so low. Then Gray Buchanan came by to join us and called Happy Hollow. I think I had heard the title before, but I did not know the tune. Little did I know that we were tuned very close to where Mr. Martin was when he recorded the tune in 1941.
My friend Noah Bowman informed me that an article from the banjo newsletter states that when Martin made the recordings for the Library of Congress, he talked a bit about the tunes before playing them. Martin said he learned Happy Hollow from Miss Dora Evans of Clay County, NC, and she wrote the tune.
For this Old-Time TOTW recording, we were tuned to G calico (GDGB). I generally play calico tunes in GDGB, but will go down to FCFA, and even EBEG#. Oddly, I play them less often in AEAC# as most people do now. I often have people ask me what guides my decision to tune to a certain key. Why GDGB one day and FCFA the next? For me, fiddle tunings are about mood and tone color. It really all depends on how I'm feeling and what sound journey I want to take with my fiddle and the people playing with me. When I'm playing with larger groups of people, people who do not have much experience with low tuning, or people who do not feel comfortable with low tuning, I tune to the keys in which most play (GDAE, ADAE, and AEAE). In my travels, though, I have found that people are curious about low tunings/cross tunings and really enjoy trying them.
Joining me here are friends Stephen Rapp on banjo (Kent, OH), Jeanie Creamer on guitar (Hocking Hills, OH), Bill Miller on bass (Bellville, OH), and some energetic dancing from our friend Bonny Shiplet. If it looks like we were having a good time, that would be an understatement! I love these folks and was very happy to make lots of great music with them on a trip to southern Ohio earlier this month with Stephen.
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Jeep trip to Southern Utah - July 2017
Had an amazing weekend wheeling all over Southern Utah! From the 5+ lakes we visited on Boulder mountain, to the beautiful drive around Fish Lake, the back trail through Capitol Reef National Park, and all the way out to Escalante where we drove Hell's Backbone and saw the Petrified Forest State Park (not nearly as cool as it sounds), couldn't have asked for a better adventure or better company.
What is This Loud NOISE?
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Last night I was surprised to see that the Tallahassee, FL, National Weather Service admitted that the returns on the radar were military chaff, not rain. This area got bombarded on Monday and yesterday. See the second paragraph below.
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AFDTAE
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TALLAHASSEE FL
903 PM EST TUE MAR 8 2011
...SEVERE STORMS POSSIBLE WEDNESDAY...
.UPDATE...
THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT APPEARS TO BE ON TRACK WITH GRADUALLY
INCREASING CLOUD COVER AND LOW TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM THE MID
50S OVER THE EASTERN FORECAST AREA TO NEAR 60 OVER THE WEST. A
FEW SHOWERS COULD REACH THE WESTERN BORDER AREAS LATE TONIGHT BUT
MOST OF THE SIGNIFICANT RAIN SHOULD HOLD OFF UNTIL DURING THE DAY
ON WEDNESDAY.
ALTHOUGH RADARS THIS EVENING ARE PICKING UP ECHOES ACROSS THE
FORECAST AREA...THESE ECHOES ARE LIKELY THE RESULT OF MILITARY
CHAFF AND NOT RAINFALL AS THERE IS CURRENTLY LITTLE CLOUD COVER
WHERE THESE ECHOES ARE LOCATED.
Tallahassee Florida, 3-09-2011.. Around 6:30 on.
What is this noise??? We thought for sure it was a Tornado, But it never changed it's position, and it lasted for well over 20 minutes or so... It was Soooo Loud, and it was shaking the house and the ground.
I called 911, They said they didnt know what it was, But that there were MANY calls coming in about the noise. They said they were sending patrols out to check it out...
There was a Flash of light that came from the same direction of the noise, then the noise just faded away. It was a relief obviously, I still thought it may have been a Tornado, But it also wasn't making any sense to me. We even put the kids in the bathtub and put a mattress over them just in case.
I called the News Station also, They told me it wasn't a Tornado, And that the police had told them to tell people it was an airplane revving it's engine at the airport. I live 4 miles from the airport, And I have lived here for 20 years, I have never heard an An airplane rev its engine at the airport, that was just insanity.
So when the noise was over, we drove down to the airport and stopped at a gas station nearby, They said they didnt hear anything. So it was not coming from that direction!
AND, on the 11 o'clock news that night, the weather man made a comment about all the calls that had come in about the noise, He said, Dont worry, It wasn't a Tornado, and it was confirmed that it WASN'T an Airplane, ALL You were hearing was THUNDER!!!..
If anyone has ever heard Thunder that was anything like that, Please let me know. It is just so Strange to me that the Stories kept changing.. Like we are stupid or something and dont know what Thunder sounds like.
Anyway, I Dont Know What it was.. But if you have any clue at all, Please do tell
Also, Very strange how after the Flash of light there was no thunder, the noise actually stopped.
Oh, and the NASA Space shuttle Discovery had already landed in south Florida about 5 hours earlier that day. It wouldn't have hovered for 20 minutes anyway, But just saying.
I had to load this video in a lesser format so that it would upload... If i can find out how to do a higher quality I will.
HAARP????
Appalachian English
Excerpt on Appalachian English from the documentary film Mountain Talk.
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The people of Southern Appalachia tell the story of their diverse mountain culture and dialect in this popular film. Featuring Popcorn Sutton, Mary Jane Queen, Orville Hicks, Jim Tom Hedrick and many others, with back-porch music performed by Henry Queen, Mary Jane Queen, Gilford Williams, Rufe Sutton, Leon Wells and many others. Narrated by award-winning playwright and author Gary Carden.
Film by NEAL HUTCHESON
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it Aint Too Late -Quicksand Soup
It Aint Too Late. written by Sand. Live at the Radio Room Grand Junction Nov.2019...Quicksand Soup is Sand, David steward, Eric Jones, Tamara Freida and Alan Snow
VHCC Old Time String Band- Heartwood- Abingdon, Virginia 4/10/2014
This video feature the first and last selections from the Virginia Highlands Community College Old Time String Band concert with Shortnin' Bread and The Crawdad Song. The class is lead by Mary Munsey. Information on Virginia Highlands Community College and their old time music class can be found on their website:
The Crooked Road: Virginia's Heritage Music Trail presented a Youth Music Series concert featuring VHCC Old Time String Band from Abingdon in Washington County on Thursday, 10 April 2014, from 7:15 to 8:30 p.m. at Heartwood- Southwest Virginia's Artisan Gateway- in Abingdon, Virginia. The Heartwood facility is located at the entrance of the VHCC campus in Abingdon. The Youth Concerts are held on the second Thursday of each month.
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The Chessmen of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs (Barsoom #5)
In the fifth book in the Barsoom series, Tara of Helium, daughter of John Carter, becomes lost in an unknown area of Mars when her single-seat flier is caught in a rare Martian hurricane. She is then captured and turned into the prize in a tournament of Martian chess, jetan, that is played by live game pieces, and to the death.
Prelude. John Carter Comes to Earth - 00:00
Chapter 01. Tara in a Tantrum - 5:56
Chapter 02. At the Gale's Mercy - 30:02
Chapter 03. The Headless Humans - 54:05
Chapter 04. Captured - 1:21:34
Chapter 05. The Perfect Brain - 1:49:33
Chapter 06. In the Toils of Horror - 2:12:31
Chapter 07. A Repellant Sight - 2:41:25
Chapter 08. Close Work - 3:07:44
Chapter 09. Adrift Over Strange Regions - 3:30:54
Chapter 10. Entrapped - 3:56:36
Chapter 11. The Choice of Tara - 4:19:32
Chapter 12. Ghek Plays Pranks - 4:44:22
Chapter 13. A Desperate Deed - 5:06:28
Chapter 14. At Ghek's Command - 5:31:30
Chapter 15. The Old Man of the Pits - 5:56:38
Chapter 16. Another Change of Name - 6:20:22
Chapter 17. A Play to the Death - 6:44:52
Chapter 18. A Task for Loyalty - 7:07:58
Chapter 19. The Menace of the Dead - 7:34:13
Chapter 20. The Charge of Cowardice - 7:54:49
Chapter 21. A Risk for Love - 8:19:47
Chapter 22. At the Moment of Marriage - 8:41:38
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Book #5 in the Barsoom (John Carter) Audiobook Series:
This is preceded by Thuvia, Maid of Mars:
Outlaws leader tells his side of the story
Mark Lester, regional president of the Outlaws Motorcycle Club, relates what happened at the group's clubhouse on New Year's Eve 2009. The Knox County Sheriff's Office raided the clubhouse on the evening of Dec. 31, 2009 and arrested Lester and a fellow Outlaw member.
Although the operation took place within the city limits, the Sheriff's Office executed the raid while Knoxville Police Department officers played a supporting role.
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