INDEX OF JOBS Intro - 0:08 Stevedore (also called a Longshoreman) - 2:41 Slop shop sewer - 7:00 Shoe binder - 8:40 Pure finder - 9:42 Scavenger - 11:45 Rag picker ( later became a Peddler) - 13:04 Ash collector - 16:08 Leech collector - 18:38 Bone grabber - 19:58 Night soil man or woman - 21:50 Chamber lye collector - 23:42 Pet squirrel collector - 25:03 Closing comments - 26:29
@___Mac___
Жыл бұрын
Nothing to see here, only the best comment on the video....
@walterkersting1362
Жыл бұрын
What about mobile barber?
@walterkersting1362
Жыл бұрын
I asked my mother for some money for candy as a child, she gave me a broom. I said what is this for? She said take this on your way to the store knock on peoples doors and offered to sweep their driveway off for whatever you can get. By this I was taught to make money, possibly the best thing she ever did for me.
@walterkersting1362
Жыл бұрын
(Fat guy in the video by the fire) standing around waiting to be selected for a stevedore job: Not you fat so!
@USAisAFK
Жыл бұрын
you forgot 19:26 "The really weird part to hear out of context"
@mikakestudios5891
Жыл бұрын
This is absolutely nothing like the 90% of my highschool classes. "Domestic" history is so overlooked. I love the cleverness of people just making their way in the world.
@gavinlun
Жыл бұрын
That's because your country is about 5 years old so there isn't that much domestic history haha
@mma.y
Жыл бұрын
If you decide to go to college take a labor history class. My first semester I took an intro to US labor history and stuff like this was covered
@onlythewise1
Жыл бұрын
@@mma.y some of it
@lysan4878
Жыл бұрын
There is only so much time. And we study American history, our state history, world history, and world geography. They can’t cover everything in a classroom but libraries are free and everywhere. If you don’t know something or are ignorant it is an individual’s fault, because you can’t read and learn by yourself. All public libraries in US, even rural ones, have free internet and computers to use as well.
@onlythewise1
Жыл бұрын
@@lysan4878 so you think history books are 100% correct all the time wow how ignorant are you , you need to read a book on how not to be so dumb
@doversailplanes
Жыл бұрын
I love how Townsends is like "The economy is collapsing, there has never been a better time to teach people about how to eat buried turnips and survive on millet" Love ti!
@renaissancewomanfarm9175
Жыл бұрын
LOL. I noticed. It's like... quit your whining! You think you've got it bad, just look at this!
@victorquesada7530
Жыл бұрын
@@renaissancewomanfarm9175 even more than that, the other videos that I have truly loved have been almost in the vein of Wendell Berry, about the value of community and togetherness, bringing skills, resilience, and mutual support together to deal with hard times. Yes, the perspective is important, and we need to broaden our palates (spelling that one always trips me up) as times, production, and supply chains change and fail due to fragility. But it's also a warning about what people had to do to survive, and where we might fall if we don't right the ship and make changes.
@bassmanjr100
9 ай бұрын
Men were real men back then, and women were not. 😂
@lovemesomeslippers
Жыл бұрын
I just saw both of these wonderful people yesterday at the reenactment in Indiana. They are just as warm as you would imagine. Both are natural teachers and it’s such a pleasure it chat with them both.
@Just_Sara
Жыл бұрын
Lucky!
@lazyhash
Жыл бұрын
where in indiana? what reenactement i would love to go
@lazyhash
Жыл бұрын
@@ashleighlecount thanks!!!
@kennethmoles4643
Жыл бұрын
I've met Carol and loved the time I got to spend talking to her. These are wonderful people!
@madisonm.2969
Жыл бұрын
Luckyyyy!!
@shaynecarter-murray3127
Жыл бұрын
What's wild about using the bone powder in bread is that compared to many of the other things added to extend flour, bone powder was the nicer option. Several things they used were straight up toxic.
@rafelingd
Жыл бұрын
suspect bone powder might actually make the bread healthier.
@pinchespiderman
Жыл бұрын
@@rafelingd Collagen and calcium
@mattiemathis9549
Жыл бұрын
Right!!! I’ve never heard evidence of it in North America but it only makes sense that it happened during difficult times…. Also, I haven’t found any other channel that focuses on North America like this one, and I haven’t watched all of his videos yet. I’m sure it happened, I just don’t know of the ingredients used to infiltrate the wheat…
@garethbaus5471
Жыл бұрын
Bone powder might even contribute essential nutrients.
@flameraven42
7 ай бұрын
Chalk was a common one if I remember right...
@robzinawarriorprincess1318
Жыл бұрын
Carol is a treasure! And Ryan is, as always, delightful. 😊
@sky.the.infinite
Жыл бұрын
Truly!
@sky.the.infinite
Жыл бұрын
@@fraizie6815 Lame.
@jaydoggy9043
Жыл бұрын
There's a photo of me at a friend's wedding that I keep for myself as motivation as "Never again" in terms of the poverty and literal starvation I was facing at the time. I'd taken my jacket off and was in the midst of reaching over to pat him on the back while he was seated, and you can see my very distinct rib cage and hip bone - I was only 115 pounds. I'd often pretend to be "full" if invited to a friend's place for dinner, just so I could gleefully accept the leftovers in a tupperware container so I could have lunch the next day. This was while working 50 hours weeks. Poverty is very real in the modern day, and there's no excuse for a wealthy to enforce it on hard workers. In some regards, we are still where we were 200 years ago in how we treat the destitute.
@conniewojahn6445
Жыл бұрын
I do so hope things are better for you now. And, yes the wealthy take advantage of workers, always have, always will. Labor unions help. Sometimes. Stay safe, Jaydoggy, and live long and prosper.
@jaydoggy9043
Жыл бұрын
@@conniewojahn6445 That was a very kind message and yes I have gone passed that stage in my life, like I said, "never again." It was actually youtube cooking shows that REALLY saved me and taught me how to cook and preserve food. I am in a great position now, and will not go hungry again :) Thank you for your kindness, and I wish you the very best for you and your family, too. Keep being you!
@Dmitrisnikioff
Жыл бұрын
Yep. Capitalism is inherently bad; there is no reforming it.
@lisahinton9682
Жыл бұрын
@Jaydoggy So, 115 lbs on what frame? A 5'6" female with small bones would look perfectly fine at 115 lbs. A 4'11" woman with a small bone structure would look quite fat. A man, at 5'11" and 115 lbs would be near death. Just a suggestion - always read through your comment and pretend you're reading it for the first time. Do you understand what's going on? Have an accurate picture? No? Then add some more info, such as, in this case, the fact of whether you're male or female, and how you are built, and maybe even your approximate age. Be well.
@phoneowner7936
Жыл бұрын
Been there. I started to look so bad my boss thought I had cancer.
@rulu1828
Жыл бұрын
It’s interesting that many of these jobs also kind of signal the coming of American mass-production and the decline of the artisans. It's cheaper to divide the jobs into simple procedures of unskilled/non-trained labour than to give whole process to a highly-skilled and expensive artisans.
@VH-ew7oq
Жыл бұрын
Rich people taking advantage of poor people. The only difference today is you can actually live on some of the wages... for now. I'm not a socialist or anything just can't stand exploitation.
@codymcdowell316
Жыл бұрын
That's how they killed the working man.
@starshot5172
Жыл бұрын
We're going to an age of full automation
@libbyhicks7549
Жыл бұрын
@@starshot5172 We shall see. when they remove the checkers from our grocery store, people start throwing food around. they bring em back quick.
@starshot5172
Жыл бұрын
@@libbyhicks7549 I just hope that in the future, more people will want pesticide-free, nutrient-rich foods more than now. We vote with our food, and education is how we improve the world at its roots.
@justdoingitjim7095
Жыл бұрын
I remember reading about poor mountain folk and how they'd get goods from the general store on credit. To pay it off they'd bring in things they made. I read one store's list for a man who payed his bill over a year's time. These were the kind of things he made, "Two pair of shoes (no sizes), 8 cords firewood, 73 cross ties (for the RR tracks), two buckets rendered lard (one gallon buckets), 120 chicken eggs, 66 duck eggs and other such things as he could make, acquire or barter for. Folks back then didn't get much money, so most of what they got they bartered for.
@nonyadamnbusiness9887
Жыл бұрын
I grew up with the idea of pioneers walking west beyond the end of the road and carving a farm out of the wilderness. It's only recently occurred to me that those were the poor people.
@lynnodonnell4764
Жыл бұрын
My aunt who recently passed at 97yrs old told me our family had ancestors arriving from Germany/ Prussia who traveled across the US to Iowa via COVERED wagon to become farmers. This was mid 1800s I do believe. They were no nonsense folks with fortitude and stamina. The farm was successful and still stands today. In the 1930's the outhouse WAS still being used. Even in -30° Iowa winters!
@willbass2869
Жыл бұрын
The poorest people didn't go West. They stayed back & filled the cities on eastern seaboard. They couldn't afford the supplies. I've seen my family's 1807-1810(?) "passport" they filed to travel through Cherokee territory in Georgia. They caravaned from S.C. bound for Mississippi with 2 other families. That was the edge of the frontier for all intents. The number of firearms, axes, cattle/oxen (about 30) was not something the poor could accumulate.
@MasterMichelleFL
Жыл бұрын
My ancestors are the Olivers of Cades Cove. 🥰 Their lives were treacherous and fascinating. Only the truly strong survived!. ❤
@nonyadamnbusiness9887
Жыл бұрын
@bina nocht There's a story in Davy Crockett's autobiography about him giving bear meat to a guy employed to grub out a field on someone else's claim so he could get the cash to stake his own claim in the Jackson Purchase. Davy himself moved there because he was down on his luck, having failed at yet another business. People with money didn't go west to live in a shack with a dirt floor.
@victorquesada7530
Жыл бұрын
That's the quote that starts off the homestead build on this channel: the man who exhausts his credit moves west. The successful ones had tools, supplies, know how, and support. Many didn't, and would have faced certain death. They must have filled up the cities.
@GlassArtist07
Жыл бұрын
While watching this... something clicked in my memory banks.. From Kirk Douglas’ first autobiography (1988), The Ragman's Son - “My father, who had been a horse trader in Russia, got himself a horse and a small wagon, and became a ragman, buying old rags, pieces of metal, and junk for pennies, nickels, and dimes … Even on Eagle Street, in the poorest section of town, where all the families were struggling, the ragman was on the lowest rung on the ladder. And I was the ragman's only son.”
@krockpotbroccoli65
Жыл бұрын
The job of the wrecker was a huge one for poor folk here on cape cod back in the old days. They were literally scavengers who would go and loot shipwrecks for everything down to the timbers. There's numerous old houses around here that were constructed from salvaged shipwreck timbers.
@willbass2869
Жыл бұрын
"loot"? I think "salvage" is the correct term. Salvage of a wrecked ship had been a LONG time accepted activity even in colonial times. English common law addressed it, iirc. Nothing nefarious or untoward about the people engaged in or the activity itself.
@Pygar2
Жыл бұрын
@@willbass2869 Imagine a port shaped like a C . On either end of the C, a lantern is lit on pitch-black nights. Aim your ship towards the middle between them, and you're safe in port, in calm water. Now imagine a wrecker putting up two lamps with rocks between them, not far away...
@willbass2869
Жыл бұрын
@@Pygar2 my, my how dramatic! Hollywood's a'callin....
@Pygar2
Жыл бұрын
@@willbass2869 Not drama. Real, grim history. Look it up.
@sarasolomon4812
Жыл бұрын
Wow! Such an amazing topic! I'm so glad Carol and her husband are making the effort to remember the little people who kept society running at the ground level.
@ah5721
Жыл бұрын
Basically the slop shop and shoe binders were the first fast fashion and still now they are paid poorly... . Fun fact right now the Mississippi River had been so dry no barges can go up and down so they have been dredging and putting levies in around Louisiana to keep the water from sea coming in.
@cherylT321
Жыл бұрын
Wow, we are really going backwards in time!
@Just_Sara
Жыл бұрын
That half hour went WAY too fast. It was great to see Carol again, I still get emotional when I watch her hour-long video on Maggie's story.
@brandon152lee
Жыл бұрын
Can you please share the link?
@nessamillikan6247
Жыл бұрын
m.kzitem.info/news/bejne/y6eFzYukoH5mlI4
@victorquesada7530
Жыл бұрын
@@brandon152lee I think this video might be what she is referencing: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y6eFzYukoH5mlI4
@raraavis7782
Жыл бұрын
@@brandon152lee Here you go: kzitem.info/news/bejne/y6eFzYukoH5mlI4
@brandon152lee
Жыл бұрын
@@raraavis7782 🙏
@snakejumper3277
Жыл бұрын
I discovered from an 1880 census that my g-granddaddy was a "turpentine laborer" in the Wiregrass region of Alabama. Turpentine was the biggest industry in that area due to the Longleaf pines. I like to reflect on the idea that I come from many generations of hard working People of the Land.
@nothanks9503
Жыл бұрын
Wow he made coffee for the navy huh that’s neat
@HLBear
Жыл бұрын
This is such an interesting topic, and very important to understand. Thank you for a great interview (in a great cabin, too)!
@mcvayfamilyhomestead
Жыл бұрын
I love Carol! She is such a wonderful lady and a wealth of knowledge!
@paveloleynikov4715
Жыл бұрын
I can't help but remember Terry Pratchett's Ank-Morpork books. They sometimes looks like historical books disguised into fantasy, and very relevant to this video
@maxibake9323
Жыл бұрын
This was Fascinating, & such a cosy setting in the Cabin. I remember the Rag & Bone Man as a Kid in the 70's in the UK. TFS, & take care everybody. ❤🙂🐶
@Tungsten96
Жыл бұрын
One of the purest channels ever. I love you guys.
@Rozewolf
Жыл бұрын
Day labor hiring still exists. :( Just as with the Stevedores ... This was a good overview. Thank you.
@royalpitamamma
Жыл бұрын
The pure finder got me. Had an old man ask me to clean up the dog mess in his yard. I found a few grey ones and was going to toss them in the trash and for some reason he wanted to save those calling them "very important." I have no idea what he was gonna do, but it was so odd...now I wonder if he was gonna try and take the nitrates off.
@ParsonJohnMaggie
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing.
@benjaminscribner7737
Жыл бұрын
Always great, learning more from this channel than anything I ever learned in school.
@CritterCamSoCal
Жыл бұрын
Times have changed: Stevedore = Longshoreman (in LA the Longshoremen are union and earn $100,000 USD Plus) the modern equivalent is day laborers waiting outside Home Depot.
@OptimusWombat
Жыл бұрын
These videos are amazing. Just a simple conversation, but you learn so much. I still love the 18th Century Cooking series, but I'm glad that Townsends has expanded beyond that.
@Vexation4632
Жыл бұрын
Thank goodness things have changed. I started as a stevedore in Tacoma Wa. in 1979. Retired as a ILWU Marine Clerk 43 years later. The employer "shape-up" helped birth the ILA and later the ILWU Unions.
@jimivey6462
Жыл бұрын
The teaching of history often focuses on the social, military, and political elite, but not enough on the common man.
@alecmullaney7957
Жыл бұрын
Never forget - the suffering of the poor is always a tool for the rich to profit.
@RIBill
Жыл бұрын
Nearly all those jobs still exist in the world today. In India, there was one spot outside a City we went through where 2 guys were in a sewage pit, digging it out and putting it on the street and 2 other guys shoveling it onto a horse cart.
@victorquesada7530
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing Frontier House with my dad, only to have him exclaim "I had that stove!" when we saw the wood stove. There are many places where these jobs are still the ways that people get by. While I am glad to be removed from many of them these days in this place, there is still much to learn. Thank you for this content Carol and crew!
@skilletpan5674
Жыл бұрын
It's similar in Vietnam. Lots of manual labor jobs that haven't been replaced by machines yet.
@robertabray-enhus3198
Жыл бұрын
Because those are still third world counties. In the US we no longer employ people like that.
@RIBill
Жыл бұрын
@@victorquesada7530 there was a guy I knew who took a job at a sewage treatment plant. On his first day, they gave him the job of ALL first-day people. He had to pressure wash the solids holding tank. After several hours of standing in human fecal matter, the tank was clean. He reported that to his supervisor and the whole crew went to inspect his job, knowing what was about to happen. As the supervisor recognized his job, he pointed up at the ceiling and says, "You missed a spot!" And the whole crew starts laughing, because he had to do the whole job again, starting with getting feces raining down on him.
@conniewojahn6445
Жыл бұрын
@@RIBill How awful.
@uriah-s97
Жыл бұрын
I couldn't even imagine going through life like these people had to!! We have it so easy today, just makes you feel so blessed and grateful. Chatted with the old badger, got to see the drop out coffin, super crazy!! By the way Ryan, my wife and I love the coffee we got this sunday, really cool talking to you, and tell your wife we love her videos on townsends plus! and watch out for the chickens! We had the opportunity to talk to MICHAEL DRAGOO and we had his book signed! 🤯 Awesome video, keep up the amazing work Townsends crew!!
@KMF3
Жыл бұрын
You may not have to imagine it. Be prepared.
@gregGould
Жыл бұрын
It wasn't 200 years ago but during the depression when they were building the Golden Gate Bridge there was a line of men waiting to replace any worker who fell (and probably died) or replace any worker who lost their nerve and couldn't continue working at those heights. Interestingly only 11 men died building the bridge but 28 men died building the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge that was completed 6 months prior to the Golden Gate Bridge.
@Pygar2
Жыл бұрын
The Hoover Dam required an endless stream of wheelbarrows of concrete dumped in, 24/7/365. For years... Mean supervisors just seemed to... vanish, somehow. By accident or on purpose, if you went in, you stayed there- to stop the pour was to weaken the dam!
@anbuspecial
Жыл бұрын
Wow, What a wonderful surprise to be this early. Thank you for these videos! They are honestly Fantastic!
@lisapop5219
Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing on the waterfront for the first time a few years ago. It came out in the 50s and showed the longshoremen standing around trying to get hired
@chrislemery8178
Жыл бұрын
The details. YES, that's why we watch this. He's so right. We want to know how most people lived. Not just the lords or landowners. Immensely informative.
@stevep5408
Жыл бұрын
Ryan you hold your own! John is great, you aren't a step down in any way. Well done sir. Your cooking videos are awesome.
@chippychick6261
Жыл бұрын
Look ,at your own family history. My Irish great and great great grandparents were dock labourers , rag pickers, piecemeal seamstresses. Even my dad shared his childhood experiences of all 7 kids working in the 1930s when his father died young. His mother was loved by the family she cleaned and did laundry for, but she didnt have much energy for her own children.knowing this pushed me to become self reliant as possible. 💛 gotta love our history
@rotaman8555
Жыл бұрын
Gray squirrels are considered invasive nuisances in Britain and are becoming a threat to the native red squirrels there. I wonder if Ben Franklin is responsible for introducing gray squirrels to the island? If so, that would be another reason the British might despise Ol’ Ben!
@michaelsexton8885
Жыл бұрын
Ragmen are still in business today. When I worked for a RSPCA shop (2010) all the clothes we couldn't sell to the public were sold to the Rag man for pennies a pound.
@KMF3
Жыл бұрын
Really? What do they do with them?
@cherylT321
Жыл бұрын
Interesting!
@Marlaina
Жыл бұрын
I like that they recycle
@KMF3
Жыл бұрын
@@Marlaina yes true recycling not like what we supposedly have nowadays that's usually a farce.
@valley_robot
Жыл бұрын
They get sold to China and then we buy them back in Primark
@LadaFunDeshOfficial
Жыл бұрын
That's so interesting! I love learning about old days and how people lived before
@olddawgdreaming5715
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing with us Ryan and Carol, that was interesting on the different jobs that people would do to survive. Stay safe and keep up the good work and videos. Fred
@OldUncleDan
Жыл бұрын
Our lives aren't easy but we're better off then our ancestors let's be thankful 👍🏼
@troydodson9641
Жыл бұрын
No, how can I? If I don't complain, then no one can hear me. This is a joke, I swear
@manicmandownup
Жыл бұрын
What is your basis of judgement for this statement? I’m better off because I can go to Walmart? I can be tracked and have my brain turned to mush with my cell phone? Some heavy drinker’s dug out and cleaned outhouses. Not everybody did that. Some people rummaged through trash, some people picked up dog poop. So what? Do you know how many people struggle and suffer today? Do you know the extent to which the environment has been brutalized to be “better off” than our ancestors? How much better off are we, really?
@heatherrue2655
Жыл бұрын
Are we though? We’ve lost all ability to take care of ourselves without help.
@manicmandownup
Жыл бұрын
@@mattstone8878 for sure…germ theory and sanitation are great examples of progress. Like Heather rue pointed out, in many ways we have lost our ability to take care of ourselves. Leaving a close knit agrarian family unit was quite a mistake in many ways.
@Stettafire
Жыл бұрын
Just cus other people have/have had it worse doesn't mean your problems don't exist
@sebastienhardinger4149
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fantastic video, love talking about the common people and how they made their livings
@Thepaintedtiger
Жыл бұрын
Thrums is what you call the threads at the end of a warp that are loom waste, the length of them varies depending on the loom....18-24 inches is common.
@wfldfire
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for this wonderful topic. Carol is a delight.
@wizardofkozz
Жыл бұрын
Carol is a great storyteller. Thanks!
@egyptcat4301
Жыл бұрын
She's a fantastic storyteller, and you're a great intervierer! Enjoyed this so much!
@sheilam4964
Жыл бұрын
👍👍👍👍👍 I always look forward to learning what Carol has researched.
@motagrad2836
Жыл бұрын
Up in NE Illinois and SE Wisconsin we had "Rag and Bone Men" in the early 20th century according to my Mom and grandma
@floraldays5642
Жыл бұрын
My mother said the same thing about the "raggedy bone" man when she was a child. He would travel down the street that her grandmother lived on peddling his wares or accepting rags. This occurred in a town in Eastern Massachusetts.
@madbeach590
Жыл бұрын
I was able to view this museum last weekend at the Rev War event near Camden, SC. As a living history interpreter from St. Augustine, FL, I throughly enjoyed the museum. As always Carol and Frank have done a wonderful job at bringing the life of everyday colonial people alive. Don't miss seeing this exhibit if you get the chance!
@freefoodchef7939
Жыл бұрын
Wow, I haven't even watched this whole video yet --- in fact, I'm only a few minutes into it so far -- but I'm in love with this topic! I've always been very interested in women's history and the history of poverty, so this is right up my alley. Thank you so much for exploring this extremely worthwhile subject. 🙂
@ec6933
Жыл бұрын
I'm sorry John but I'm gonna say you gotta share this channel with Ryan😂😂😂 maybe it's just nice to have a fresh face? I definitely feel like Ryan has a gift. It Kindof feels like you learn along with him where John is like listening to someone who's already been there lol
@kbr1980
Жыл бұрын
They still use grind up bones in our food today, they put it in powdered sugar. Some brands of powdered sugar say no bones used.
@alia7368
Жыл бұрын
I watched the pumpkin soup video over again, and it had me thinking: Have you ever thought to reach out to Chef Sherman of Owamni restaurant in Minneapolis to do a collaboration of Colonists and Native dishes? Especially since it was the Natives that saved so many (until a certain point) from starvation.
@ambercm515
Жыл бұрын
In the UK we still have "rag and bone men", at least in the town I'm from. They go around calling for iron and scraps, any unwanted items. Their call had a plaintive drawn out tone, I couldn't distinguish the words. But my parents would say it was the rag and bone man. It was part of my childhood in 90s and early 2000s, every couple of weeks they'd come by in a truck. Vice did an article on it recently: The Last Rag-and-Bone Man in London Until the end of the 1970s, the scrap collectors were a familiar sight all over the city. Now, not so much.
@Jo-hello
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating! It feels like these people were actually there! Telling what they saw Thank you! Great video. I’m going to go tell my children what they might have been doing 200 years ago! 😄
@SkycladWanderer
Жыл бұрын
Hell yes love this guy and the lady was so informative
@janettemasiello5560
Жыл бұрын
It's fascinating to learn new things about a time in our country that was difficult for so many. They had Fortitude that I think many of us lack today.
@NieroshaiTheSable
Жыл бұрын
Surviving the worst because you have to doesn't mean you can't find unfairness reprehensible. And vice versa.
@janettemasiello5560
Жыл бұрын
@@NieroshaiTheSable Umm...ok
@libbyhicks7549
Жыл бұрын
Well, they weren't circumcized or injected with poison as infants. They weren't marketed over-processed highly-refined additive-laced foods. They didn't spend most of their days slumped awkwardly in chairs. We are on a highway to nowhere fast.
@libbyhicks7549
Жыл бұрын
@@NieroshaiTheSable That is correct. Just because you survive does not make it okay.
@pilgrimsway2644
Жыл бұрын
This is very convicting, humbling and sooo very interesting! Love all that you guys are doing with your channel.
@meredithlynn
Жыл бұрын
A tea vender, they carried the heated beverage on their backs and bring tea to the shops for the workers. I don’t think we can even imagine how hard it was to survive down trotted times.
@ajurado800
Жыл бұрын
Always fascinating content with Townsends. Thank you!
@glennfyfe1357
Жыл бұрын
One of my favorite videos yet. Very good and enjoyable. Thanks, more please.
@wickedeternity2002
Жыл бұрын
We (Caroline) and I have met. Specifically at the Vincennes Rendezvoused we had the chance to cavort. Very nice lady that Caroline. Thanks for the knowledge, good conversation and general Schengenganze that constitutes your trade!
@stephpavone
Жыл бұрын
Loved this episode-Carol is an amazing source of information and she shares it with such passion. Could listen to her all day ❤
@ArianaBauer
Жыл бұрын
Oh wow - i had wondered if we had been in this booth at Fort du Chartres and i was not 100% sure until you showed the setup! We have and I love it. It was such an eye opener. Will they be there at the November Winter Rendevous coming up?
@ParsonJohnMaggie
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for visiting!
@EnglishCountryLife
Жыл бұрын
An excellent & interesting video - thank you
@tabbyteacup9847
Жыл бұрын
I found this very interesting. Thank you. I'm sitting here in my cold house and your fire is making me feel warmer. :)
@tinamathews3379
Жыл бұрын
Temporary labor jobs are like that today. You go to the office, and wait around to see if they had a job for you, or not. Also, in the cities, there are people who distribute flyers, in the same way.
@raraavis7782
Жыл бұрын
Oh, it's the 'Poor Irish Lady', who ended up as an indentured servant again. That was such a moving story. And an aspect of history, I had never heard of before. Looking forward to what she will tell us about today. She really has a way of making history alive!
@conniewojahn6445
Жыл бұрын
She certainly does!
@Scriptorsilentum
Жыл бұрын
there was possibly the grandest house on this little island i lived on in the very early 80s. very, very big, built early 1800s. there was a cute little room beneath these curving stairs from the second floor. very small office, built-in drawers beneath the stairs. the ignorant old woman that owned the place said that's where "the irish girl lived. i can remember my ma-ma having to boss the irish girl..." they could afford some poor irish woman to stick her in a tiny room after a long tedious day. this was no mansion but these people had a few bucks way back when. i bet "the irish girl" hated them and what i saw of the daughter/grand-daughter it was likely deserved.
@neoasura
Жыл бұрын
This makes me glad and fortunate I was able to get a union paid apprenticeship into a skilled trade. Since I wasn't able to afford college.
@Charlesdward6491
Жыл бұрын
In the book Caleb Krinkle, by Charles Coffin, character Dan, from the town of Millbrook, was a peddler and I remember he too would collect and trade for rags. It was published in 1875 if memory serves.
@victorquesada7530
Жыл бұрын
I know this is kind of silly, and the rest of the video is fascinating, but thank you so much for the comment around 21:10 . It filled a hole in my brain I didn't even know I had!
@dylanvisitacion8618
4 ай бұрын
We called those ends on the fabric "salvage," in upholstery. That name makes a lot of sense now, after hearing that the Rag Pickers would collect them.
@tylerkrug7719
Жыл бұрын
Very interesting! Thank you for sharing.
@dianeb9449
Жыл бұрын
I remember the "rag man" in the late 50's/early 60's. He drove a horse & wagon would & come up the street singing "rags" with an accent. Housewives would come out & give him their old rags. They were the people who grew up in the depression & knew the value of things. The children would also come out to watch him & his horse. Everyone was happy.
@restorer19
11 ай бұрын
The modern equivalent of a Stevedore in my (more inland) areas are "day laborers". Workers will show up outside of a large hardware store and wait, and contractors will come by with pickup trucks and choose a few people, and they get to work for a day doing mostly manual construction labor, and everyone else has to wait for the next person to come by to choose more.
@debraroberts1496
Жыл бұрын
Oh my goodness, what a wonderful and fascinating video! I loved it! Carol was so informative. By the way, not one job jumped out at me for employment 😂😂
@TheVioletMaze
Жыл бұрын
16:29 She says the land was new so they didn't need fertilizer. This assumption is very common place. But I would like to point out that Native Americans were here and farming far longer before settlers came in. The Native Americans did not do monoculture farms, meaning, they planted many different kinds of plants together in one plot. This kept the land rich with nutrients. They understood sustainable farming. But then the settlers planted farms without that knowledge and that is why eventually the land needed fertilizers. I just want to give credit where credit is due.
@cherylT321
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. Native Americans respecting the land are often overlooked!
@temmy9
Жыл бұрын
You do realise Europeans practiced advanced crop rotation for hundreds of years right? Monoculture is a *modern* thing.
@davehoward2791
Жыл бұрын
I’ve been watching this channel for several years and tend to watch episode after episode til I fall asleep at night. Tonight I realized that I have never subscribed, so shame on me! I love your content, please keep your incredible videos coming. Liked and (finally) subbed! 👍👍
@tokencivilian8507
Жыл бұрын
Great episode. Fantastic conversation and extremely educational.
@MiddleEastMilli
Жыл бұрын
Excellent interview, Ryan!
@MapleRhubarb
Жыл бұрын
Absolutely fascinating! Saving this to use in my classroom
@agimagi2158
Жыл бұрын
I was excited for this since the tavern livestream!
@lineman1871
Жыл бұрын
Longshoreman went from a job that paid little to one that has an 80k base salary with good benefits and Pensions
@virginiasaintj
Жыл бұрын
Unionization helps
@kellysouter4381
Жыл бұрын
That's quite a union!
@gingerjak7928
Жыл бұрын
Longshoremen can thank the Teamsters for their pension. Unions matter. 👍😄
@KairuHakubi
Жыл бұрын
@@virginiasaintj and all it cost was their souls and the economy.
@chuckbrotton2449
Жыл бұрын
Why Teamsters? Longshoremen have their own AFL union the International Longshoreman's Association (ILA)
@shannonperry515
Жыл бұрын
Such rich material! Thank you for this!
@davestelling
Жыл бұрын
Always a treasure checking in here - thanks, very much...
@Mandragara
Жыл бұрын
It's through the sacrifices of people like this that we were able to collectively achieve modern society. The metaphorical old men planting trees for the children to enjoy the shade of
@williamcarter1993
Жыл бұрын
yes stevedores are called longshoremen now very nice and informative video and both teachers sound very kind and are knowledgeable
@dunerider88
Жыл бұрын
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing!
@mvargasmoran
Жыл бұрын
Stibador, or in Spanish: Estibador, is still a job, but it's not only done in harbors, but anywhere you have load, crane renting companies, construction, heavy machinery, and mostly any crane and freight related job. It's a very precarious job, you have a crew, and some weeks you are not picked.
@AE-Psalm91
Жыл бұрын
What a great video, so articulate and such amazing info!
@lindafriesen3559
Жыл бұрын
Old street "merchant" round; Mackerel, Fresh mackerel; Chairs to mend old chairs to mend; Any old rags, any old rags.
@MasterMichelleFL
Жыл бұрын
Omgoodness I almost fainted when She(Carol🥰) mentioned "leech collectors"... just saying. And I paused the video to make this comment, and I'm afraid to start it again 😅 🙃 😬 👏👏👏👏👏👏
@DipityS
Жыл бұрын
What a fascinating interview - thank you for sharing this interesting video.
@BlackMasterRoshi
Жыл бұрын
22:08 Sequel to The Gang Crack the Liberty Bell- "The Gang Become Nightsoilmen"
@VernonWallace
Жыл бұрын
So very interesting. Thank you both.
@googiegress
Жыл бұрын
Re: bone flour and bakers. I find it interesting that a baker was willing to pay a bone collector, boil and clean the bones, grind them into fine powder - and this was cheaper per pound than buying flour.
@dsiepiela6449
Жыл бұрын
So much new info!! Thanks.
@LadyOfRain1
Жыл бұрын
The baby squirrel market in England for pets has been the reason for the encroachment on the native Red squirrel population over there. There are actually restaurants that serve squirrel on their menu b/c it's not illegal to take them for commercial meal production b/c of their now very large numbers. This sounds totally nuts to folks in NA, but Jamie Oliver did a whole show on it and even spoke to one of the Restauranteurs that serves it on his menu!
@RaimoHöft
Жыл бұрын
👦🏼"Can you taste the difference between squirrel and rabbit?" 🧒🏻"Ahm... no." 👦🏼"Ok................... we're having rabbit!" 😁😁😁😋😋😋🤪🤪🤪
@LadyOfRain1
Жыл бұрын
@@RaimoHöft ROFL! I have had rabbit, tastes like turkey to me, never had squirrel....yet...
@sophroniel
9 ай бұрын
Ironically bonemeal was possibly the most innocuous and safe adulterant bakers could use!
@Tenelia
Жыл бұрын
i love that the first few seconds of every video has some a good guitar strumming
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