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American. Lord of Beaver Creek. Appreciator of history and tradition. Story-slinger. Christ is King.

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Joined March 2019

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“This world is incomprehensible to the modern mind. A world where the screams of the vanquished cling to the air like the morning mist, and the rivers are tinged with the blood of both kin and enemy alike.” This one is best enjoyed while listening to some lonesome fiddle tunes.

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I think Kroger takes food lion to the woodshed every day of the week

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I speak for everyone when I say we need to bring back two tone trucks.

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@LonginusLegion Idk I think the map is really innacurate haha

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Shut your mouth

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Americans have no culture lol

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Alright, I have officially had enough of the “everything is too expensive I can’t start a family or buy a house” thing. First off, I get it. I’m from this same generation of 20 somethings who make these videos. Their points are valid, but damn it where did our spirit go? Yes,…

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Why are barns red? It may have been started in New England in the 1700s. Farmers would combine skimmed milk, linseed oil from flax seed, and rust. The rust would prevent any moss or fungi from growing on the barn, making it a useful addition to the varnish. The combination of…

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Ever wonder why houses are built with a lopsided roof? Eric Sloane has your answer. “The layout of early saltbox farmhouses was traditional: the kitchen was always protected by a great slope of roof toward the north with giant shingles added to clapboards for added insulation.…

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This is what we mean when we say RETVRN

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The Carter Mansion, oldest frame house in Tennessee, built in the late 1770s.

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The bald eagles are deafening.

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This fence wouldn’t look right if all the rails were perfectly straight. There’s character in that imperfection.

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These small windows jutting out of the roof are called dormers, and they’re a defining feature of colonial architecture. Particularly the gabled dormer, as seen here, gained popularity in the 17th century as a way to allow light into the attic. Citizens were often taxed based…

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Something about an old stone house

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Virginia is known for the split rail, or “worm fence,” but stone can be found in certain spots. Specifically in the northern Piedmont and Blue Ridge regions, but also all the way across rural northern VA and into eastern WV. In the Piedmont, you’ll often see long stone walls in…

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A particularly nostalgic American fence. The Split Rail Fence is a beautiful and traditional style of fence that was popular in colonial Virginia and spread as the nation grew. Timber was plentiful, and this was a cheap and simple way of marking property lines, containing…

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The jackleg or “buck and rail” fence is a cousin of the old split rail worm fence. Its main advantage is that it doesn’t need postholes, particularly beneficial before the invention of posthole diggers. Just like the worm, it is great on hard or rocky soil since you don’t have to…

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We will build like this again.

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2 months

Perhaps the Welsh “hiraeth” is the word you’re looking for.

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There’s a scene in some books and movies where a character returns home after a long time away only to find it unrecognizable or empty. I’m not sure why, but it always affects me deeply, more so than any other theme (ex: GWTW, Ben Hur, It’s a Wonderful Life, Doctor Zhivago)…

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This picture brings me peace

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All in favor of a revival of the old general store?

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Sitting about one Eiffel Tower’s length above the river from which it takes its name, is West Virginia’s New River Gorge Bridge. At 876 feet high, it’s the 5th highest vehicle carrying bridge in the world. From end to end, it spans 3,030 ft making it the longest single arch…

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You want to breathe life into the past? Learn their songs.

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Let us pray it stays a frontier

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Appalachia was America’s first great frontier, and is its last remaining frontier.

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Gambrel roof stone house. Might be my favorite one so far. Look how big some of those corner stones are. Amazing.

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George Washington’s childhood home, Ferry Farm.

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Oh bury me not on the lone prairie

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Wow. New fence for you guys. This one’s called a roundpole fence, or gärdesgård in Swedish. Common in Scandinavia, this fence is built by staking two vertical posts into the ground, and laying split logs diagonally between them. The branches are held at an angle by saplings woven…

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Colonial homes appeal to us because of their symmetry. “The early American house always started with a definite shape, and that shape was then divided into separate rooms; as the family grew, rooms were partitioned off into smaller rooms. Today we group together what rooms are…

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Well they came from Northern Ireland Searchin’ for the free man’s ground And he came to bet his fortune On a West Virginia plow

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The death of bench seats was a fatal blow to the American character

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Imagine being alive for the first radio broadcast, Model T, and talking picture, and then in the twilight of life, take the grandkids to the local drive-in to see “Shane” in Technicolor—and all from the comfort of your sleek and spacious Roadmaster.

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Double quad chimneys. Where else do you see that? Imagine the warmth put off by those hearths. Note the symmetry as well.

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We did it fellas, another Saturday of good wholesome work.

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Davy Crockett and a few of his men from Tennessee were found dead with the bodies of over 20 slain enemies around them. A Mexican officer on the death of Davy Crockett: “Crockett was the last man slain and that he fought like an infuriated lion… His last stand was in a small…

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Been obsessed with railroad trestles lately

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It’s a crawdad

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No cargo ship can reach me

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Going to start a hardware store chain and only hire retired old dudes. We will dominate customer service.

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GM. Remember that your ancestors would kill for the opportunities afforded to you. Make the most of it!

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@TurboThaad My favorite is when the New Zealand basketball team does it to team USA in the Olympics only to lose by 80

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Smoky Mountain rain keeps on fallin’ I keep on callin’ her name Smoky Mountain rain I’ll keep on searchin’ I can’t go on hurtin’ this way She’s somewhere in the Smoky Mountain rain

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You’re telling me I’m not supposed to be proud of the country that built this?

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In the corner of the hardware store Gathered round on a checkerboard Old men tellin’ lies and crownin kings’

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Sherwood Forest Plantation in Charles City, VA is steeped in history. It is the only house to be owned by two unrelated U.S. Presidents. William Henry Harrison owned it from 1790-93. It was purchased by his VP and successor, John Tyler, in 1842. It is the longest framed house…

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“What are we holding on to?” “That there’s still some good in this world, and it’s worth fighting for.”

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Big ol’ chimney right in the middle. You don’t see chimneys like that these days.

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The oldest remaining brick home in America, Bacon’s Castle. It takes its name from Bacon’s Rebellion, when Nathaniel Bacon’s men drove the Allen family from their home in 1676.

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There was once a dream that was Rome. You could only whisper it, anything more than a whisper and it would vanish.

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We’ve all seen a barn like this.

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On this day in 1789, George Washington was inaugurated as the first President of these United States.

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Going to stare into the eclipse like my ancestors before me with bare eyes and a fire in my heart.

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Appalachian small town story time: One evening when I was just a teenager, my family and I went down to the Dairy Queen together. As we approached, we noticed a rather large crowd gathering outside. Now some of you may know this, but it’s not uncommon for folks to congregate…

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Probably don’t have grapefruit IPAs here

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Remember to get off twitter sometimes and go find a fella like this. No amount of schizo-threads can give you the wisdom that long life can offer.

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“But there’s nothing to do there”

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Who knows this town?

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John Adams’ homestead, Peacefield in Quincy, Massachusetts. Something unique about the founding era is that most of the leaders yearned for a simpler life. Though Adams travelled the world as a diplomat and spent many years in Philadelphia, in his heart he was a simple farmer…

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Nightfall by N.C. Wyeth (1945) This painting inspires me.

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A son of old Virginia, a man of action.

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Americans used to be obsessed with the Wild West. Countless movies, TV shows, books, songs. That’s something I’d like to see get rekindled. Watching “The Rifleman” on a classics channel right now, never heard of this before.

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Lewis Wetzel was a famed American frontiersman. His father, John, was a German, his mother a Flemish Huguenot. They settled West Virginia’s northern panhandle in the 1770s. Lewis was nicknamed “Death Wind” by the Wyandotte because of his lethality with a musket. It was said that…

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I am savin’ up my money To buy a little cabin home for two When the roses bloom in Dixieland I am coming back to you

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Satan can’t make me doubt it It’s real and I’m gonna shout it I was there when it happened, so I guess I ought to know

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Post your Shire.

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Are you from the Bambi Belt?

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You can’t convince me that we shouldn’t romanticize the past.

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It’s Sunday. You know what to do! God bless you all.

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GM. American manufacturing appreciation post.

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This country was built by ambitious men. We are risk takers.

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GM. Your ancestors would kill for the opportunities afforded to you! Remember that!

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Tuesday, April 8, 1975. The people of Patapsco Neck, MD petition to name the new bridge under construction the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The leader of the movement, Ben Womer, shared his thoughts: “Now, when they get this new bridge built here on the neck, you’ll be almost…

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I call this picture the double barrel chimney

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Of all the nicknames of American history, I assert that “cowpuncher” might be the coolest.

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Guys love staring at the fire, some things will never change.

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Tolkien smoked a pipe while he wrote why shouldn’t I?

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Wife hates the no soap rule. It’s a point of constant contention at Fairbairn Manor.

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@Partisan_O It’s a shame that the original point of the states (federalism) is so unknown to our population. The last and most powerful check on Washington. When Colorado does it for weed no one cares. When Texas does it for the safety and sovereignty of their population they screech.

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You guys off work yet?

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“What’s that now? Yeah it’s pronounced Pala-STEEN, it’s out there in East Texas. They’re tryin’ to do what? Free it? Well ain’t it free already?”

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Which one of you heathens is out there calling it a potato bug?

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You’re not chewing the fat enough.

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Mine are unashamedly mainstream

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Top 4 favourite films? Tag 4 friends 🌿Braveheart 🌿P & P 🌿No Country for Old Men 🌿Outlaw Josey Wales @justbetsybhoney @FairbairnBC @LordRanglican @JustKimB

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You should always have a couple irons in the fire. Keeps you sharp. This applies to books, projects, exercises, all of it.

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The Mingo Oak was the largest white oak in the entire world in 1938. This giant sat on a tributary of the Tug Fork, a river made famous by the Hatfields and McCoys, in Mingo County, WV. It grew to be over 200 ft tall, and measured 30 feet in diameter at its base. It was estimated…

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On the subject of westerns, I do think History’s “Hatfields & McCoys” captured the genre’s frontier spirit even though it isn’t set out west. There is huge untapped potential for books/movies/shows about pre-1940s Appalachia. After all, it is America’s original frontier.

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Notice how all these great properties in early America have names. Monticello, Highland, Peacefield, Sherwood Forest. I think we should start naming our homes again.

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Gambrel roof, brick chimney. This is coastal Virginia to the core.

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My family has never been a churchgoing family. My folks came to church with me this morning. God is good.

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It’s finally Friday I’m free again I got my motor running for a wild weekend

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We will not tolerate negativity. We will not tolerate black pilling. We will extinguish the plague of doom and gloom from our midst. Losers, whiners, and the like will all be left behind. There is too much to be grateful for! Onward!

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We miss you, Sears

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GM! Saddle up, there are great lands to be explored.

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The Europeans are sleeping. Quick, post things they don’t understand.

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The Europeans are sleeping. Quick, post things they don’t understand.

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I gave a hard time believing this one, any theories guys?

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If you’ve never seen Charlie Daniels tear through his bow on that black fiddle with the rosin flying everywhere, I feel bad for you. This is a Charlie Daniels appreciator account.

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The Puritans know how to build a house

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The audacity of the guy in the middle to choose that hat

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I approached the door and an energetic gentlemen, who must’ve been on his 3rd or 4th cup, flung the door open for me with a smile. As I filled my cup, two old HVAC workers filled up next to me, doing so with an assured indifference that suggested they’d stopped at this gas…

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When I die, you can make my tombstone Outta number 9 coal, outta number 9 coal The combination of clarity and speed that Tony Rice achieves with just an acoustic guitar and a flat pick is second to none. Notice how he uses open strings to fill in any dead space. You can’t tell…

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I believe Saint George slew the dragon.

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