I can only imagine what natural America looked like when it was fist found, many more animals and huge trees. It must have been amazing.
@Henry_L
3 жыл бұрын
there is a good book about that exact topic called "Paradise Found," if you are interested.
@busterhikney6936
3 жыл бұрын
Yes. The Native Americans must have thought so before the land later became fist found.
@MattEvans529
3 жыл бұрын
@@busterhikney6936 LOL! Let's give Oly some credit though, he at least didn't say when Columbus first found it, just when it was first found. The Natives would have at some point when humans first migrated here, been the "fist" to find and see the Americas.
@busterhikney6936
3 жыл бұрын
@@MattEvans529 Surely, trees then animals were present in the Americas for millions of years; we can only guess educationally who fist found it. Glad that this about land and not a butt.
@cleoharper1842
3 жыл бұрын
@@MattEvans529 Fun fact: the first explorers traded, among other things, small pox - before ever deciding they "found" anything. Completely unbeknownst to said explorers. At that time there was about 350K+ native Americans with a booming national trade system and a beyond rich culture, resource-wise. The small pox-ocalypse ripped through the tribes faster than Covid rips through anti-vaxxers. The population of the entire continent was driven down to apocalyptic levels. No exaggeration. The landscape changed again, becoming even more resource-heavy. One hundred fifty years later, at the fragile new dawn of the recovering tribes' post-apocalypse, Europeans came back to decimate the people (and their resources). I would give anything except my dog to see what this country was like in the interim.
@whatyoumakeofit6635
3 жыл бұрын
"My side of the mountain". The first book I ever read front to back. First book I read more than once. I read that book over and over. Once I read that book, all I could think about was running away from home and living in the woods. This lasted up through my teens and well through my twenties. I am 42 and still want to run away to the forest. As soon as I read the title of this video my side of the mountain immediately came to mind and I clicked on it. Awsome.
@reginasoules2837
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Just added that book to my summer bucket list
@jamespenn5788
3 жыл бұрын
Me too. I lived down in the woods when I was a kid with a bear and some deer. On the coast of Oregon the black bear don't bother humans. They get plenty to eat and they don't have to hibernate. A real mild climate.
@whatyoumakeofit6635
3 жыл бұрын
@@jamespenn5788 that sounds amazing.
@whatyoumakeofit6635
3 жыл бұрын
@@jamespenn5788 that sounds amazing.
@whatyoumakeofit6635
3 жыл бұрын
@@reginasoules2837" A must read ",..... as they say.
@bassin692
3 жыл бұрын
"My side of the Mountain" My favorite Book as a Child also. I live alone today on my side of the mountain in West Virginia.
@lindamaemullins5151
3 жыл бұрын
👍❤️
@oldsalt8011
3 жыл бұрын
our teacher read it to us in the 5th grade. it was great
@timcross2510
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! I thought the same thing when I saw this videos title! I live alone n the susquehanna river. As a teenager, I spent all my time after school in the woods.
@OhioRiverMudDuaber
3 жыл бұрын
I read that book dozens of times as a child
@t.b.1596
3 жыл бұрын
I can't believe that you also read my favorite book from my childhood. That book had such an incredible impact on me that I moved from California to Oregon to be around trees. Thank you for reminding me of my treasured book!
@fishinwidow35
3 жыл бұрын
The largest Sassafras Tree is in Owensboro Kentucky. They were going to cut it down many years back and a woman chained herself to it to save it. haha It's over 300 years old
@gorehammer1
3 жыл бұрын
Man, that’s only 3 hours from me. I better go visit.
@fishinwidow35
3 жыл бұрын
@@gorehammer1 On Fredricka Street I believe
@bluelava4282
3 жыл бұрын
Who was that Woman? I need a wife like her……….
@almadeliamorris8745
3 жыл бұрын
Going to go check it out next time I go to Kentucky. Its beautiful, and everyone is so nice to me. I'm from AZ. Love you Kentucky!!
@dycusburgkid
3 жыл бұрын
@@almadeliamorris8745 come on down….in western Kentucky along a portion of the Cumberland River there is a ridge between Eddyville and Kuttawa where there is a very small number of gigantic virgin oak trees. Takes 4 men holding hands to circle a handful of them. No equipment can get in there and the area it is located has them protected till the Lord says otherwise.
@RealLifeWorthLiving
3 жыл бұрын
Seems reasonable to me. After all, the Keebler Elves have a whole cookie factory in one.
@arlenethomas1167
3 жыл бұрын
😆😂🤣
@OICUR12
3 жыл бұрын
You ain't right. That's funny.
@jackieann5494
3 жыл бұрын
😅😂🤣
@hawkeyepierce2017
3 жыл бұрын
Well they are elves afterall
@rebeccablogs9567
3 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣🤣
@vickielewallen3799
3 жыл бұрын
Its funny, back then they "camped out," worked up a sweat by planting, hunting and fishing to survive, and now we sit in our air conditioned offices for 8 hours a day. The things *they* did to survive, we now do for vacation/recreation: gardening, going camping, hunting and fishing, etc. 🤣🤣🤣🤣 They had no idea how much "fun" they were having back then..
@johnlshilling1446
3 жыл бұрын
Yep! I'm a thinkin' they spelt it diffrunt, too!
@ericswain4177
3 жыл бұрын
Yep ! But the viewpoint changes when it is done out of necessity versus you don't need or have to.Lol !
@PepperDarlington
3 жыл бұрын
Progress, ain't.
@lonewolftech
3 жыл бұрын
@@ericswain4177 I’d rather live like that than in the modern society. Modern society is trash
@kentneumann5209
3 жыл бұрын
Having been homeless in Minnesota for several years, I take no pleasure from camping out, sleeping under the stars, feeding the summer mosquitoes, gnats, and biting flies, or suffocating in the humidity to escape them. I preferred winter to summer for that reason. Friends want to go camping for fun. No thanks. Although grateful for what I learned as a kid going camping, I will take a warm bed, a roof over my head, a toilet, and hot water over the cold hard, insect filled ground any day. Camping is not fun nor relaxing. Its a pain in the ass hardship. However temporary. You spend most of your free time setting up your camp just to be minimally comfortable for a night or two, then spend the rest of it tearing down the camp and packing up. Cooking is a nightmare of no sanitation, and using the great out doors to go to the bathroom as mosquitoes feast on your tender cheeks and other private parts makes for misery. Oh yeah. Chiggers and ticks. These days, ticks and mosquitoes carry viruses that cant be cured. Speaking of viruses, homeless is starting to look attractive, despite all the hardships, if im going to be forced by a society of morons to get vaccinated with a chemical compound that not only does not work to prevent the virus from affecting me, but could maim me for what's left of my life or kill me. The risk might be worth it if there was no other way. But since there is s far better way, ivermectin, and the government is censoring it, I am forced to question the motives of a government that would suppress what is 100% effective at curing and preventing the virus vs a vaccination that doesn't work and has deadly side effects. Real genius in action there. One could fairly conclude the government has taken a proactive role in trying to kill its citizens on purpose. Targeting those who are on social security and welfare. The old and the sick. Happy trails, happy campers.
@oldgoat1890
3 жыл бұрын
I have been hunting down in VW for years. When I was younger and not so beat up, I would sometimes just explore instead of hunt. I found a flat on a really steep part of a mountain. It looked like fire could not get to it or loggers. There was an oak tree there that I believe it would take three men locking hands to reach around it(Maybe). The upper story on it was unbelievable. I used to call it the "Keebler tree".
@DTA-me3kv
3 жыл бұрын
WV. Lol
@DTA-me3kv
3 жыл бұрын
What county was it in?
@warpath6666
3 жыл бұрын
@@DTA-me3kv Volkswagon County LOL!!! 😄🤣
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
7 ай бұрын
That is an interesting story. Why don't you see if you can locate it on Google Map? Perhaps it's visible on the satellite view. Maybe it can be protected by the owner.
@krystaldaniels7940
3 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of gnomes! When I was little, my favorite cartoon was David the Gnome, a cartoon about a gnome who lived in a hollow tree with his wife and rode through the forest on a fox named Swift to help other gnomes and animals in danger. All of the gnomes lived in a village of hollow tree trunks! 🥰
@taxat10n1sth3ft
3 жыл бұрын
I think I remember this! Was there an episode about rescuing a family of bunnies from flooding caised by a storm? 😲 I had forgotten all about it until I read your comment and now I want to revisit those cartoons with my children. I think they would LOVE them.
@joltjolt5060
3 жыл бұрын
They WERE gnomes lol and elves.
@worddunlap
3 жыл бұрын
On the West coast we had a redwood tree trunk in the front yard with a 'house' carved inside. It was an amazing place to be a child.
@amberbumpus6174
3 жыл бұрын
Why did this make me cry? It’s so beautiful to see how Abba provides for His creations.
@Badger1776
3 жыл бұрын
🙄 why did this make you cry? Real question.
@BestKCL
3 жыл бұрын
@@Badger1776 Poetic beauty, I guess.
@Reymundodonsayo
3 жыл бұрын
I got lost in the Redwoods and caught in a big storm. I sheltered the night in such a hollow
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like an adventure! was it fun or scary?
@darindietz710
3 жыл бұрын
Yes, I have always been obsessed or distracted by the idea of living in the base of a tree and specifically because of the movie 'My Side of the Mountain'. I thought I was the only one. Really amazing to meet a kindred spirit with such a specific memory. I am looking forward to seeing more of your adventures and will continue my own quest. Thank you so much for the video.
@garywebb5927
3 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I had a copy of my side of the mountain. I had some problems and that book was a great escape!
@irishgrl
3 жыл бұрын
I read that book too. It took place in the Adirondacks.
@BakedAndAwakePodcast
3 жыл бұрын
@@garywebb5927 Books do save lives. Glad you found yours
@doctormax54
3 жыл бұрын
I still have my copy. I think for some of us the idea of running away and living off the land was a dream that sustained us when we thought our options were limited. As a children librarian, years later, I saw few adventure books like I grew up reading although, Flanagan's superb The Ranger Apprentice Series, Wisler's My Brother, the Wind and Paulsen's Series - The Hatchet have great appeal. George's trilogy of books and the Hardy Boys' The Hooded Hawk mystery got me interested in falconry. The movie of My Side of the Mountain, was highly disappointing and probably because it brought to life on the screen what we wanted to do in a different way then we imagined the story being portrayed and of course, we were not in it! Unfortunately, many of our early ancestors saw the vastness of America having unlimited resources and did not understand there were thresholds to not cross. As a result, overconsumption of our natural resources was the result. We lost most of the buffalo, the elk in the east were killed off for over 150 years, wild turkeys were almost destroyed, and we lost the passenger pigeons. At the same time, Conrad Richter's The Trees discusses the forest destruction. These sycamores are not the only large trees. I have a quartersawn black walnut board which is 22 inches in width. And growing up in the 1960s, in the woods we played in, was a black walnut tree that was even bigger but was cut because portions of a major road were being connected together. How it survived for so many years in well settled lower Montgomery County, Maryland I do not know. We don't allow trees to grow big anymore. I would love to see us preserve trees for hundred years again that they might grow huge once more.
@kimsylvia5341
3 жыл бұрын
me too
@michaelgreen4183
3 жыл бұрын
My 4th great-granduncle, James Gillespie Kincaid, and his family lived in a hollow sycamore tree in Greenbriar, County, VA from 1807 to 1812. They then moved on to Fayette County, in what is now West Virginia.
@marktwain368
3 жыл бұрын
You say 'family' so can we assume they had bunk beds?
@michaelgreen4183
3 жыл бұрын
@@marktwain368 No doubt, with splinters!🤣
@joltjolt5060
3 жыл бұрын
Imagine living in a tree with a FAMILY! I'm not sure if that's sad, or really cool?
@katties2167
3 жыл бұрын
Hi great video, I'm from Australia and the little town I live in s called Springton, in the late 1800's German settlers settled into this little town (which was called Black Springs back then), a family named by the surname of Herbig were one one of the very first to settle in this wee little town. There was Mum, Dad and 14 children that all lived in a massive tree trunk base while they built their home. Both the tree and the Herbig homestead are still standing and even some of the Herbig's descendants still live in the town. I am now going to binge watch your channel. Thank you this was very interesting, I hope the rest are as good :)
@AmericanMythology
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for sharing!
@wvwookie3085
3 жыл бұрын
Just stumbled across this vid. I am a Buckhannon native and was hoping as I was watching this video that you included the Pringle Tree in your research. Pleasant surprise as it was the first to be mentioned. I too loved "My Side of The Mountain" which was introduced to me in 6th grade. Love it so much that I got a copy several years ago and read it to my kids. Very cool stuff, my friend.
@indianoutlaw9647
3 жыл бұрын
I'm from Hampton. Loved playing in those hills and Hampton cemetary has so much history. My family lived there for hundreds of years. We have alot of Cherokee in us and Scottish and Irish way back. My Dad was at least 7/8th Cherokee.
@wayawolf1967
3 жыл бұрын
One of the oldest trees in the Eastern USA is in the town of Harrodsburg, KY. It is an Osage Orange tree AKA Hedge Apple tree. It was growing long before Daniel Boone stepped foot in Central, KY.
@stewiepid4385
3 жыл бұрын
BLM & Antifa will cut it down. 666
@tyjomello
3 жыл бұрын
@@stewiepid4385 hey that's enough lol
@fishinwidow35
3 жыл бұрын
Hedge apples are just plain weird
@almadeliamorris8745
3 жыл бұрын
Thats true. That's where my daughter and her family live. They moved there from Arizona. I love it over there. It has alot of history.
@bethbartlett5692
3 жыл бұрын
My Mother's family are the Lynch"s of Lynchburg, VA. Her branch moved over into KY in the early 1800's. G-Grandfather Lynch, the town founders had like 15 children. Married 3 times,wife 1 and 2 died in childbirth and he just continued to take younger wives and "carry-on" I suppose. lol. Mercy. Folks were different back then and he was obviously well to do (from a working for his wealth situation). At a.y rate the lived in and arounf Louisville, and I recall them speaking often of Bargetown. There was family there too. There was the one Lynch that went on to open Meryll Lynch. Mother was born in Toledo by chance, but was raised in Chicago and Kentucky. I should take a road trip up/over there. It's said to be beautiful country and its been a long time since I was in KY. Need to go to Lynchburg too. Then on to N Carolinia for some Surf Fishing. Your comment brought all this to mind.
@gregroos9397
3 жыл бұрын
Next to Ft Washington in Cincinnati, Ohio in the 1790s a wash woman who did work for the soldiers lived nearby in a tree and one of the branches was purported to be used as a chimney. In an old book on the fort there is a drawing of her and the tree.
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
Wow!
@michelewalburn4376
2 жыл бұрын
Have discalcula. so I mess up number and can't do math for shit. I read that as 1970 and was so messed up. Lol
@paulbriggs3072
2 жыл бұрын
@@michelewalburn4376 It was 1977- she was escaping from the Jimmy Carter Administration!
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
7 ай бұрын
@@paulbriggs3072Lol...a lot of people wanted to escape from Jimmy Carters incompetence. I was only 12 in 1979, and I was one of them!
@redradiodog
7 жыл бұрын
I live in Western Illinois. The largest sycamore and oak tree I've ever seen are west of me and only about one mile apart. Both are huge!
@AmericanMythology
7 жыл бұрын
That's cool! How big are they?
@ajgeorgoulis
3 жыл бұрын
I don´t know about those sycamores, but in Africa there are also hollow trees, baobab trees usually and they are potential death traps for anyone just entering them because of the fungus growing in them due to the batdroppings and also because of poisonous snakes and other critters. The biggest problem though is the danger of infection from bat and other animaldroppings. One has to really clean everything up and smoke everything out for a long time.
@mikieemiike3979
3 жыл бұрын
I think you can just wear an n95 mask and be ok.
@Chrisamos412
3 жыл бұрын
Well said, mold and animal droppings dust would be a deadly mix. In 1985 while in the servIce our US Ship anchored outside of Mahajanga Madagascar. Located somewhere along the waterfront in the city, there’s an impressive Baobab tree that’s reported to be over 700yrs old! It’s massive.
@jodyariewitz7349
3 жыл бұрын
😯Very interesting, thanks!👍
@paulbriggs3072
2 жыл бұрын
I believe you. Its called histoplasmosis.
@mikehagan4320
3 жыл бұрын
I was Fascinated with the " My side of the mountain" story when I was a Kid. The book was good. The Movie was Silly. I've lived the outdoor Lifestyle since then. And Now I Have a House in the Rockies on My Side of the Mountain. Great video! Best Wishes! M.H.
@hillbillyheadcam1729
3 жыл бұрын
The book influenced me too as a kid now I live on my side of the mountain as well! God bless you!
@buckbilly5789
3 жыл бұрын
When I was a young teen I spent many night's in a huge sycamore on the Ohio river night fishing 3 of us rolled out sleeping bags with plenty of room.
@d.aardent9382
3 жыл бұрын
Seems like they would be good trees for bat roosts also. As bats use shagbark hickory trees to rest under the shingle like bark.
@brutalhonestreviews4529
2 жыл бұрын
Your a keebler !!!
@catdaddy3302
3 жыл бұрын
There was a huge sycamore on the banks of the Mississippi that was so big, 3 or 4 people could sleep in it with a small campfire in the middle. About 20 years after I last stayed there, wind blew it down, roots and all.
@banjoist123
3 жыл бұрын
We had an arborist come by when a high wind storm blew a huge branch out of one of our oak trees. She said that many old trees shed their inner trunk wood to reduce weight. The inside is the dead part of the of the tree. The outer layer is the only living growing part.
@timothyrepp4259
3 жыл бұрын
Never hire this lady “arborist”
@suzannebeinart4359
3 жыл бұрын
I read My Side of the Mountain back in fifth grade, and was amazed how he survived a whole winter in a tree! I guess this shows how that is possible. Thank you!
@AnnaLVajda
3 жыл бұрын
Well animals live in tree hollows all the time we are just large mammals people forget that it's a basic shelter we don't have fur coats though so harder to keep warm for us.
@desraadams9501
2 жыл бұрын
Better than my van. I’m in Texas and only have one blanket. To old to do this. 65 thank you Biden?
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
7 ай бұрын
@@desraadams9501Yes Biden, and the other traitors who installed him in the Trump White House, against the expressed will of the American people.
@weekendmom
3 жыл бұрын
Jon Townsend would probably find this fascinating.
@chadjazeera9960
3 жыл бұрын
I thought the exact same when I saw the thumbnail! 😄
@jonmacdonald5345
3 жыл бұрын
I can see him making biscuits in the trees !
@christineholloway2983
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah he could fill it with his rocks
@AmericanMythology
3 жыл бұрын
I love his channel!
@weekendmom
3 жыл бұрын
@@AmericanMythology Same here, especially the Nutmeg Tavern livestream.
@MsBonijoni
3 жыл бұрын
✨love this trek back in to history. .I’ve got a real sympathy for the early reaches of this country in how settlers had to (literally) carve a homestead before building a cabin and farm . . ..I must have lived another life then because I get all misty eyed listening to the music of that era and visualizing life as it was then ..thank you for this glimpse of raw nature . .🌳
@tashaarellano7680
3 жыл бұрын
Here in N. TN....we have a old growth back in a haller off a small gorge that follows one the major running water ways that run backwards..along this gorge many old native American rock hangs where they said for over nights ..many many wonderful points have been found..but there is a deep limestone crack that runs to the flood plain of this ridgeline that looks like the deepest outback u can find in Australia..but smack dab in the middle of this bare bones dirt plain with a amazing cave entrance above it about 20 yards back..but the sycamore that resides there is as big a bluebird bus..and hollow at the base with..wait for it... rock placed stepping stones down into a chamber below the cave..it doesn't connect..but the is a deadfall inside from past fallings..so it did connect at one time..with a ancient hickory stump in the void..many nappings litter the ground inside..and a few cannon balls embedded in the cliffs beside the old tree from a confederate artillery range ...I don't wanna say the camp name .. although most people don't don't know the name of this camp but if they was to hear it and look it up they can figure out the location and then you'll be trespassing on some land that is not safe to trespass on let me tell ya.. sometimes Rock hunting is a dangerous game especially when they got an old Farmers growing s*** out there in the back that they don't want you to knowing about and it's a good walk to get back here now not to mention the den of coyotes back there which we kind of think might be red wolves.. needless to say there's a giant hickory on the top of the hill where the cave and the sycamore is located that has a pointing arm that was trained to point the way a native American Indian pointing tree... Probably one of the last ones in the country and if I give up its location I put it in jeopardy and I damn sure I'm not going to put it in jeopardy.... Cuz that game show is hard.. not to mention that's my point hunting grounds I catch anybody else out there picking up my airheads... oh buddy!
@timothyrepp4259
3 жыл бұрын
There is no such thing as an Indian pointing tree.The tree you have is very special nonetheless.It was definitely trained ,most likely to be a knee in a sailing ship or anything else the colonials needed a curved piece of wood for.It was common in Europe and early America to train entire woods for future generations to use the trees for the preshaped parts they needed.
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
@Tasha, that is a very good story! No wonder you want to protect that special place. Thsn you.
@maobfh
3 жыл бұрын
Husband is from Buckhannon and had told me about that tree. Even standing in front of its offspring, it is difficult to understand a couple of soldiers living inside of it for a couple of years. The last tree in Ohio is fantastic, though. With the entry area and a crawl through area to a more sheltered section, it is a brilliant hideout and shelter. Was it hollowed out enough to be a chimney to have a fire? Though it lacked the camouflage and filter of leaves in the tree, walling yourself into the isolated halt and having a wind draft for a fire makes it ideal. You could not afford a large fire but would you need one (big fire)? I don't think my great grandchildren would share the benefit of such a tree if i ran out and planted a sycamore, right this second. Too bad! Great video!
@knitterscheidt
3 жыл бұрын
My urban-suburban 70 yr old home in Ohio has 2 Sycamores in the front yard planted when the house was new. The entire street is lined with Sycamores.The bark peelings are prolific this year. I do the same thing with them as the leaves in fall. I rake them into piles and shred them with a mulching mower with a bag and spread the result in the shrub beds around my house. I've never had to buy a bag of mulch at the big box. I see them out my living room window now and feel blessed to have them. Oh and so does the squirrel sleeping in the trunk knot hole poking his head out for fresh air.
@joyful1962
3 жыл бұрын
I'm a direct descendant of Samuel Pringle. He and his brother John also had wives living with them. They lived there 4 to 7 years.
@indianoutlaw9647
3 жыл бұрын
Pringle is in my linage to. I'm from Hampton W. Va. My parents and the rest of my family are buried in Hampton cemetery. I sure miss those days in the 1950's.
@matthewturan9343
3 жыл бұрын
I would have loved to see this country's forests before man logged them. I got some big sycamore on my land in Kentucky. Recently had a very large hollow one go down in a bad storm. Gonna miss that old tree.
@bethbartlett5692
3 жыл бұрын
I recognize this voice, he has another KZitem Channel and is a really articulate Storyteller. I like this format too, *something bout Exploring and Storytelling that goes together so well.*
@MaxDManiac
3 жыл бұрын
I measured a sycamore tree about 7 years ago, on the banks of the Guyandotte River close to Salt Rock, West Virginia. It wasn't hollow, still one solid trunk and measured 13' 3" in diameter at 5' up. True story.
@olgierdogden4742
3 жыл бұрын
Every little boy and girl knows the joy of climbing trees and seeing this reminded me of this fact and I loved climbing up inside the the hollow chimney of an old Oak Tree which is home to hundreds of different creatures.
@peterdawson2403
3 жыл бұрын
How incredible and beautiful those trees are!
@tracicomstock6525
3 жыл бұрын
I really enjoyed this. My mother's ppl came from S.C. and my daddy's ppl are from Alabama. I am from Georgia. We have DEEP Southern roots just like this tree.
@martinphilip8998
3 жыл бұрын
A cylinder, even hollow is quite strong. Oaks in Britain have reached a very ripe age and are hollow. Also, I know a Japanese folktale in which there was a lying contest. The first speaker explains that in his province they had an ox that could drink Lake Biwa dry in one gulp. The second speaker said that in his province they have have a hollow tree that was so large it could fit 100 tatami, or whatever the word is. The last man spoke and told of two cedars that grew to the clouds. The first two were unimpressed and belittled his lie. He said that it was not important exactly how tall they were. It was how they were to be used. We will kill the ox and use his hide to make a drum using the great hollow stump. The cedars will make for nice drumsticks. He was given the seat of honor. Please forgive any errors because English is my native language.
@sharonkaczorowski8690
3 жыл бұрын
A tatami is a woven mat used on floors.
@martinphilip8998
3 жыл бұрын
@@sharonkaczorowski8690 yes, so that’s quite an area.
@ronlawrence342
3 жыл бұрын
I love the mindset to preserve these old trees. The area I live in very few seem to care for the preservation of trees . I’ve watched over the decades as millions of mature hardwood pine mix forests have been decimated by billionaire timber companies. Wiping out hundreds a species only to be replaced with two GMO type pines . I’ve watched the animal life and many bird species disappear in these areas . Seen Millions of oaks , hickories , magnolias , beeches , dog woods , persimmons , ashes , elms and others pushed up and burned in rows . No tree hugger but they could have left 20 percent of the old growth trees. Cut right up to roads and streams , leaving a biological desert . Know of a multimillionaire contracter in town that wanted to build a subdivision that had a - who knows 400 year old Spanish oak on it - it was gorgeous snd stately . No one cared if he built the subdivision , the community just didn’t want him to cut down the Oak. He was told by a judge to cease and desist from cutting it down or pay a big fine . He sent some of his men in the middle of the night to cut the tree down and said he’d just pay the fine . This is the attitude you get when you’re used to getting your way because you’re rich in a relatively poor area and money is all that matters . Just made me sick . Killed something that could never be replaced to build one house and he was already a very , very wealthy man .
@edmundf.kuelliiispiritualn2963
3 жыл бұрын
I feel the pain. Grew up that way in the woods that got cut down.
@barbarat5729
3 жыл бұрын
I am going to have to order the book TODAY for my grandkids. I read "My Side of The Mountain," many times as a child.
@ernestwingerd6436
3 жыл бұрын
I never heard of it.I got to read it too.
@terryfarrell1757
3 жыл бұрын
Yes I can take you to a really large sycamore tree it's located on Route 79 about 12 miles south of Hannibal Missouri overlooking the Mississippi River. I found it years ago when I was coyote hunting and Bobcat hunting in that area
@AmericanMythology
3 жыл бұрын
I’d love to see it!
@randomvintagefilm273
3 жыл бұрын
Can you take a photo of it?
@drivenmad7676
3 жыл бұрын
I've always loved Trees. The sycamore is one of my favorites.
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
The Sycamores were planted a lot as ornamental trees in Yakima, WA, a town in the dry desert land in WA. They had little hard balls like pompoms that were made of seeds packed together..Another tree that was planted everywhere for shade were Horse Chestnuts. They had these hard green seed pods with sharp thorns all over, inside were the chestnuts, horse chestnuts, that were inedible snd supposed to be poison, not to eat..I akways wondered if horses could eat them?
@jake-gd8rb
3 жыл бұрын
I live in washington and sometimes while out mushroom picking or fishing you can find tree trunks that are massive.there are pictures from when the town was just a logging camp and they would have a cart and 4 horses to pull that cart as well as 20 or 25 guys all sitting on the massive tree trunk it is truly awe inspiring and honestly makes me a little resentful that something that majestic was cut down without any regard for the facts that they are irreplaceable and were hundreds of years old.fact is we still don't have any trees that have grown to that size in all the time since then and most likely we wont see anything like it for several hundred more years if ever.some of those trees were alive for decades before the discovery of America by whomever it was. the native Americans or the Vikings or Columbus and from some studies perhaps people from the Asian lands china Japan ECT.ect.
@TheRisskee
3 жыл бұрын
I've never seen a giant sycamore tree but I had the privilege of growing up in CA (before it went to crap. Still live here but trying to get out) and my favorite place is Yosemite, is home to giant Sequoias. My church has a private camp in Yosemite called Camp Wawona (one of the last privately owned properties in the National Park) and I was taking a group of teenagers backpacking summer of 2016 and we had to pass through Mariposa Grove where a lot of the giant Sequoias are. The Grove was closed to visitors for some maintenance that year but we were passing through the back side of it and because we were affiliated with the camp, we had right of way to pass through legally. Unfortunately, that was a very dry summer and we ran out of water the first day with no fresh running water sources to pump from. We made camp right there in Mariposa Grove and I have to say it's one of the coolest things I've ever gotten to do. The kids had come back from "talking to a man about a horse" (going to the bathroom) and said they'd actually found a bathroom. I didn't realize we were that close to the main path for the grove. The next day I headed out to do my business when I heard tractors and workers coming my direction and, even though I was ok to be there, I didn't want to have to explain anything and get caught up with the Rangers so I ran to the nearest Sequoia and ducked inside. It was one of the smaller dudes in the forest but I was able to stand up straight and get deeper inside so as to not be detected. Seemed like they talked right outside forever but finally walked away and I booked it back to camp and told the kids and staff to get their gear on because I wasn't sticking around to be found and questioned. It sure was exciting though! I imagine if the workers had come just a bit closer they might have spotted me and probably would have flipped out which makes me giggle to think about. 🤣 as bad as the no water situation was, I'll never forget the night spent with the giant Sequoias and I hope the kids don't forget either. That's a once in a lifetime type of thing that pretty much no one is permitted to do ever. I'm sure park Rangers would have asked us to move or even cited us if they'd found us there as we were allowed to travel through but not to stay the night. Thank God we don't use tents on those trips or everyone wouldn't have already been packed up ready to bug out. Anyway, I get a little joy when I get to share that story. There's more to it but I don't want to get retroactively fined for something that was stupid and I shouldn't have done, especially during the summer in that area which ended up turning out just fine.😅 if it hadn't, I'd probably would be in jail right now and you'd be reading a very different story written by someone else with a splashy headline. 🤣 Btw, My Side of The Mountain is probably why I am the way I am when it comes the wilderness. I'm just a different type of gal.🤣
@scar3xcr0
3 жыл бұрын
Guiding a group of teenagers on a backaking trip without first scouting water sources is negligent and dangerous.
@TheRisskee
3 жыл бұрын
@@scar3xcr0 we scouted it first and water was flowing well a few days before. You have to remember, this is California. Water conditions change without warning. It all turned out fine and there was back road access from camp to get water to us if we needed it and that's what we did. If it hadn't been near camp, I and the staff wouldn't have taken them at all because it was a particularly dry summer.
@dictionaryzzz
7 жыл бұрын
todays trees are mere bushes compared to the ones that existed in pre-settlement times. One day they will return if enough land is protected from logging and development.
@AmericanMythology
7 жыл бұрын
For sure! There are still a few giants lurking around these days, so they could definitely make a comeback.
@sheezy2526
3 жыл бұрын
Most people wouldn't really cut down a giant tree and will naturally have respect to it. But white peple arn't most people
@dictionaryzzz
3 жыл бұрын
@@sheezy2526 Race is irrelevant. Greed is the source of the problems.
@KarenHernandez-wb9mm
3 жыл бұрын
@@sheezy2526 Please don't lump all people together. There are good and evil in all walks of life And professions. 😇👿
@garyshinn4626
3 жыл бұрын
@@sheezy2526 I think you just made a racist statement. Racist ,
@nelsonx5326
3 жыл бұрын
I read 'My Side of the Mountain' when I was a little kid. That was more than a book for me, it was a whole adventure in my head, like I day dreamed all the time about escaping to live in the woods. Now that I think about it, I was only ten years old and already life was a rat race. There was a large area of woods near where we lived in the suburbs, the woodsy area was 2 miles by 5 miles, pure undeveloped. We used to get lost in those woods all day every day in the summer. Build forts, paint our faces with 'Indian Paint Pots' which were just these round rocks with various colors of iron ore clay in them, yellow to red and black. So, 'My Side of the Mountain' was made into a movie? All the kids fitting in that tree was cool. It was shocking when the camera switched and this guy became such a baby face.
@atheinasophiajade1044
3 жыл бұрын
Omg yes best book ever!
@currentriver4951
3 жыл бұрын
Found that book around 10, don't know how many times it got reread!!! 10-15
@TheRisskee
3 жыл бұрын
I didn't know it'd made into a movie until reading the comments on the video. I almost don't want to watch it because it might be too different from what I imagined in my mind when I read it 20 years ago. 😅 It would be cool to compare notes and see how everyone pictured things. It's like creating memories of places you've never been and things you've never done. It's obviously been years since I read it but I still remember how I pictured everything and it was just like being there as if I'd dreamt it. I'm one of few female wilderness survival teacher probably because of that book. It shaped my whole life.❤
@currentriver4951
3 жыл бұрын
@@TheRisskee same, watched part and quit, cant ruin that book! Been about 35 yrs for me. I never imagined the tree that large!!
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
Wow, your real life adventures soundblike pure bliss!! I never heard of that book til today, but I lived that same dream, in my backyard and any scrap or greenbelt in parks, When I “grew up”. (yeah, right). My husband and I bought undeveloped land, second growth forest from a forest fire.and built a house, our kids played in the woods, I am still here with my trees, my friends , they are a buffer zone from the chaos out there. and I protect them by paying the ransom of property tax every year., to keep them free and wild, as long as I can stay alive. 🌲🌲🌲🌲 from WA ..we need rain! The trees are not amused with climate change. Maybe if I wash and wax my car.? 🌲
@mrdrenalin69
3 жыл бұрын
I found a large hollow sycamore tree several years ago, while duck hunting. It was probably 7 to 8 ft in diameter.
@daviddickey1994
3 жыл бұрын
Interesting. I have often wished I could travel back about 250-300 years to see the forests that covered the eastern US. Too bad they were destroyed.
@shovedhead
3 жыл бұрын
Do you ever wonder how things would have been if more people from Europe tried to integrate with the native peoples that they met? I do sometimes.
@oldgoat1890
3 жыл бұрын
I used to hunt the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The accounts of logging swamp oak for ship building say that trees less than seven foot thick were not even bothered with.
@donnaeturner
3 жыл бұрын
You could come up to Western NY and see all the trees you've ever missed.
@dycusburgkid
3 жыл бұрын
We have a bigger tree down here in western Kentucky. On the Cumberland River you
@whereswaldo5740
3 жыл бұрын
My grandpa told of trees where three men couldn’t touch fingers reaching around. That would be 12 feet. That would be more than 6 feet across. He said they cut them all down. And burned them up just to get rid of them. He wept. He said dirt washed rocks down into the gardens in the valley. Such waste.
@Psychedelic_Cowboy
3 жыл бұрын
You did a very good job sir. You deserve a lot of praise for your work. A very interesting top well covered!
@gracie.arnold
3 жыл бұрын
my goodness... i have always absolutely loved trees... and so glad to see this video.. thank you for seeking what im too old and tired to do
@nedaCFilms
3 жыл бұрын
I grew up in Clarke County, Virginia. Stunningly beautiful mountains and Shenandoah river.
@paulatwood998
3 жыл бұрын
KZitem recommended this video to me and I'm glad it did. By the way also, I read the book as a youngster about "My Side of the Mountain" and I found it very interesting. We have a gigantic sycamore tree here in Illinois Indiana that has a base that the trunk that is more than 12 ft across. The old tree is decades-old and it was blown over in a storm back in the fifties. Since it was the largest and oldest tree of its kind in the county, it was hauled into town and displayed inside of a building in one of our local parks put on display.
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
If you can just leave a tree where it fell..it is not dead, , it will regenerate new life and send out shoots that grow into saplings and seedlings will sprout around it… and treeesc nearby will send rootlets to the fallen tree’s roots to nourish it ..I have seen full grioen trees growing out of a long ago fallen “ nurse log” in my own land of second growth from a 159 yr old fire and salvage logged cedar forest. The trees are maple, cottonwood, alder snd fir, only stumps of cedar remained, and they seeded new cedars that are 30 ft high and bushy.. So life can recover snd go on if undisturbed snd it only takes a few generations..or decades of human lives. Trees are so wonderfully intelligent snd mysterious. Every tree is a whole universe and habitat for smaller creatures, and each tree has a unique biosphere of microorganisms under neath in the soil. If only humankind woukd open our eyes and hearts to see and love trees and be loved by them invreturn🌲🌲🌲🌲❤️😎
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
Edit..the fire was in 1894. so not 159 yrs., only 127 yrs..sorry for all the typos ..senstive keyboard..big fingers 😎🌲
@thetruckersmanifesto3873
3 жыл бұрын
I worked on a ranch near kerrville Texas. Cimarron ranch. Its owned buy the guy that owns golds gym. Never met him. But they got an oak tree there, huge, it was used buy Indians hundred years ago. Found arrows there. Flint. Them old oaks got history. Of you ever go to Oklahoma, Texas, check out the oaks there.
@kimhorton6109
3 жыл бұрын
If your out in the yard clustered up around a fire, there’s little wonder you can’t see stars and it’s so dark otherwise Cottonwoods are a fast growing, short lived tree hat can live 200 yrs but most are dead in 70. Sycamore’s are slower growing but the tree tends to hollow out after 50 years. They have been known to live as long as 250 years.
@dalethehardluckcowboy7852
3 жыл бұрын
I was about 12 when the movie "my side of the Mountain," was released. After seeing that movie I began a lifetime of love for the woods, from the pines in Oregon to the Sycamores in Kentucky...
@tsclly2377
3 жыл бұрын
Excellent.. much needed little known history. In 'Tales of the Pioneers' (I listened to it; Books on tape 1990), one of the stories was of a native American Indian that has to shelter in a tree hollow during a snow storm in what is now Ohio. Perhaps the same tree that was shown.. but the description was of a smaller hollow.. as I remember.
@j3ff3ry18
3 жыл бұрын
ok. not only does my familiarity w/ my side of the mountain run way back into the 70s , but I grew up in the woods & love trees , crave American history , have been brednspread in the S.East & can't believe some of the great details about these topics in this video . I cannot believe I hadn't heard of this more than in a casual passing . Nicely done!
@thatlarryguy6841
3 жыл бұрын
A tree with a family tree. Pretty cool.
@michelecox5241
3 жыл бұрын
I am so glad I found you. That was amazing!
@NathanG454
3 жыл бұрын
There’s one in our pasture that’s 8ft from one side to the other.
@jasonrubli9537
3 жыл бұрын
I loved My Side of the Mountain. It is one of a very few books I've reread. Even as recently as last week I thought being able to live in one was an exaggeration. I had no idea they could be that big. Thanks!
@johnathandeckard1954
3 жыл бұрын
There used to be a huge River Sycamore on the banks of the Green River in South Central Ky someone put an old 12ft John Boat on it as a door. Never measured it but several men could sit inside.
@x777aria
3 жыл бұрын
im guessing it's no longer there?
@johnathandeckard1954
3 жыл бұрын
@@x777aria I couldn't say for certain, haven't been there in 9-10yrs.
@wendellgamstead4933
3 жыл бұрын
Mr.Peabody's coal train done hauled it away.
@stephenolaughlin6595
3 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1962 in STL Co Mo. We had a huge sycamore tree in our yard I believe it’s still there, I’m going to have to get a closer look. Childhood memories last like a sycamore in our mind.
@chriscarey1478
3 жыл бұрын
Just east of buffalo, mo. at Big John river access there stands a sycamore tree that has a tunnel through it, and a trail goes through it. I've not measured it, but it's huge.
@KC-ve8qz
3 жыл бұрын
I am so happy you came across my feed😁👍🏽
@JamesSmith-ym3hc
3 жыл бұрын
Outside of Waverly Ohio along Crooked Creek there was a large sycamore hollowed out that leaned out over the creek. We nailed 2x4 steps up inside about 10 feet to a hole that used to be a limb and could look down at the water. Much fun as a wayward kid. We also used to climb around on the Logan Elm, it's just a memory now.
@indigo1615
9 ай бұрын
Is the sycamore still there?
@lj6284
3 жыл бұрын
Much respect man!!! You put legitimate hard work,research, and effort into this video. Excellent job
@thegeeg1751
3 жыл бұрын
Amazing the many ways the Lord provides! A safe haven in a wilderness!
@caryn9561
3 жыл бұрын
I bet it was so cold though.
@pauldamian0828
3 жыл бұрын
@@caryn9561 there was fire and pelts for those who knew how to hunt and survive
@randyclark8774
3 жыл бұрын
Nature is truly amazing.
@pauliewalnuts5241
3 жыл бұрын
@@randyclark8774 God is amazing
@gentleasa5728
3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely 🙏
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
What an amazing video! Living in a Hollow tree! My great grandmother told her children about her childhood during the Civil War. Her family had a farm or plantation in Mississippi.They were driven from their home and were refugees camping in the woods. She said the family lived for a time in a HOLLOW TREE. They eventually settled in Orange, Texas, where, in the 1880’s ’ she married my great grandfather and moved to Kansas. I met her in 1960 when she was in her late 90’s and I was a girl of16. I asked her about the hollow tree, but she could not tell me any stories by then. She thought I was a boy because I was wearing pants, but remembered my Dad, so she figured I was her grandson and I could not convince her that I was his daughter. . I have collected our family history, but the hollow tree story is oral history and I do not know where it was located. Your video is a bit of validation that oral history does preserve events that can’t be documented, but should not be discounted and may eventually be proven by future family researchers. For example, my father in law always said his ancestors were knights and lived in a castle in England. He had been told this by his elders. In 2001 I connected with a distant cousin of my husband, who sent me documented history of his family. The “ castle” is a Tudor era mansion on the list of historic buildings in England, and the family were wealthy merchants who had been granted a Coat of Arms, which was still displayed over the fireplace in the house. The ancestor emigrated to Virginia colony in the mid 1600’s’ before the English civil war. So the oral history was accurate in general, only differing in detail, and had been preserved for over 300 yrs in the family. Thank you for this video I have subcribed.
@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER
7 ай бұрын
That's a great story. Thank you for sharing it here! I enjoyed it immensely! 😊
@mudduck754
3 жыл бұрын
Down in Puyallup washington there is an old tree that's been cut down at about 8 foot that has a roof and a normal size door. I first seen it when I was a kid. And fifty years later it's still there.
@Str8stbowtie
3 жыл бұрын
Also my favorite book both as a child and to this day. The story of which is solely responsible for my initial desire to discover what lay beyond the fence in my back yard. It provided the bravery and willingness I needed to push on past fears and boundaries in order to seek out adventure and a life in the Forest, Which led me to my most cherished relationship. The one that defines my connectivity to our natural World and has gives me purpose and refuge in my worst of days. And ever since, in turn continues to fuel my wanderlust and constant yearning to be in the woods and On the Side of My Mountain in Shady Valley.
@davidanderson2973
3 жыл бұрын
Is that Where the Saying, " You're Outta Your Tree Came from ???? "
@barryperdue7520
3 жыл бұрын
I'm 70 yrs. old. When I was 19,I was employed to my brother who was a lumberjack . We were contracted to cut a sycamore tree near Plain city Ohio. My brother used a Disston twin cylinder chainsaw which had a 7ft. bar with a handle on the end of it. One person held up the motor while the other the end of the bar. We had to cut a three foot deep chunk out of the trunk in order to get the 7ft. bar though the butt log. I counted 377 rings in the stump and had to quit because my brother was moving to the next tree, this tree Still had about 24 inches of rings yet to be counted. the really incredible thing was that this tree was NOT HOLLOW! I WANTED CRY!!!
@AmericanMythology
3 жыл бұрын
Wow! What a giant.
@robertvanbuskirk3492
3 жыл бұрын
Awesome You need to go tour Beall Woods State Park in Southeastern Illinois It's the largest stand of virgin timber on the east side of the Mississippi
@bluecreekdetectors
2 жыл бұрын
Great video! Man that would definitely be a welcome sight for an early settler trying to find shelter. 790 years old.... just wow
@Danmccarter
7 жыл бұрын
Very good job. when I was a boy I liked to pick up the sycamore balls and throw them to watch the seed fly. The sycamore seems to be very scarce now.
@AmericanMythology
7 жыл бұрын
Danny McCarter, thanks! Here in Ohio there are still plenty of sycamores, but the real big ones are kind of scarce.
@chickasawstarrmountain9747
3 жыл бұрын
We still got them in Tennessee
@madag1982
3 жыл бұрын
The one old picture in the begining of the video with all the people standing in front of the tree i believe is a american chestnut. They were the largest tree on the east coast. They called them redwoods of the east.
@eagledove9
3 жыл бұрын
If I can ever buy land someday, one thing that I'd like to do is create some kind of environmental land trust, where it would be legally agreed upon that no one would cut the trees in some part of the land, or the whole thing, forever, that is, until our legal system collapses and we no longer recognize legal paperwork from the 2020s or whenever it will be that I own land. There are some land trusts that already exist, for environmental protection, but I would specifically mention not cutting the trees as part of the trust.
@philup6274
3 жыл бұрын
Or if you do cut one you have to plant 10.
@GarrisonFall
3 жыл бұрын
I'm lucky to own some land in a temperate, green part of Australia. I'm going to see if Sycamores will grow here. If they do, I'll plant one or two for my great grand-children, or maybe their kids, to play in. I already have Oak, Spruce, Plane and Pine trees which look good amongst the native species. We can attach legal caveats to land to take care of the property's environment. Good luck with your project. (My Side of The Mountain was a favorite book of mine as a child as well.)
@danno1800
3 жыл бұрын
That’s a truly wonderful idea - good luck!
@edmundf.kuelliiispiritualn2963
3 жыл бұрын
@@GarrisonFall great!!
@jeffstull2534
3 жыл бұрын
As a kid growing up in western Pa. in the 50's and 60's I remember many large trees in the woods that I crawled into and played in.
@Tammissa
3 жыл бұрын
I read that book in elementary school! I remember he called an animal Frightful I think? Good book.
@dalegates8621
3 жыл бұрын
Well done. I am glad I found your channel.
@amythompson7700
3 жыл бұрын
We played inside of one in our front yard growing up. My dad attached an iron ladder inside, so my sister and I could climb up to the crotch. We thought we were Royalty sitting up there. We live in Pennsylvania woods.
@jasonbourne3518
3 жыл бұрын
This just turned up in my feed and I really really loved it. My side of the mountain is my all time favorite book. I can't even describe how much it impacted me, my childhood and now adult life. I'm always planning my run to that tree.
@francesrude3007
3 жыл бұрын
This is cool. I am 78 and ALWAYS, ESPECIALLY IN MY YOUNGER YRS.I always wanted to "tent out" wherever. Of course, it never came to fruition. I had children and husband. LOL.Think of ALL the money one can save by living in a tent(OR TREE). LOL. It is STILL a great idea.LOL. Thanks for the vid.
@flintrichards945
3 жыл бұрын
I have always been fascinated by those big sycamore trees out here in the west they don’t grow near that big but I’ve always love that one picture that you showed in the beginning of the video with all the men around the big tree on the side of the river that’s one of my favorite pictures.
@babybluz32
3 жыл бұрын
Incredible. I love to find huge trees like this. But have never seen a sycamore even close to this
@therockinboxer
3 жыл бұрын
We have a historically large cedar tree hidden in the depths of the great Dismal Swamp here on the border of NC and VA, at a state park called Merchants Mill Pond. They do a guided hike out there once a year I'm told. Have yet to visit. Also, in NY we have some pretty big oak trees that have indications that they were ritual sites of some sort, with rings of stones circling the trunk at about 50 feet from the base. Lots of Forrest folk lore in Central New York. But you'll have to find a Keeper to take you there. That's if they don't intentionally try to get you lost, first. I think my friend wanted me to feel that I had earned the privilege by trucking many miles to see it. It was well worth it, and it revealed to me a hidden culture that still exists today. If you hear a twig break when your alone in the woods... it might be the Keeper of that forest.
@prarieborn6458
3 жыл бұрын
I believe in those Keepers! As long as you show respect and don’t talk or even think about cutting or chopping anything, its safe. They can make you get lost or drop a branch , make the trail disappear. We went on a “day hike” ( yeah, right) to walk up to the top of Mt Plichuck in Western WA Cascade range foothills. There was an old abandoned Fire lookout post on top with a panorama view. Our guide, a friend who knew the trail, got way too far ahead of us..left us behind, We lost the trail when it was blocked by a huge tree-fall, and followed a trail sign made of sticks and small stones to a detour. We were diverted into clearing where the trail disappeared and suddenly the straps on my husbands backpack broke..and it fell off. We saw a large stone slab,like an altar that had a bunch of wilted wildflowers on it..like an offering……we sat down and rested and left some tobacco there as an offering, too. We hunted for a trail back or out and followed a track that led us into a swampy bog up against a cliff….we were good and lost!! We heard voices and high above were hikers coming down the mountain, and they guided us to the true trail again..We did finish the hike, but had to hike down in total dark..no moon and no flashlight..which must have been lost when the backpack fell off. All the while remembering that only a month before 2 hikers had vanished on that mountain and had not been found..or ever were as far as I know. We have always thought that we had an encounter with the Guardian Spirit of the mountain in the clearing that day and were allowed to leave safely. The Indians out here teach that a tobacco offering is a good thing to do to thank the spirits in nature.Other things to offer are food, flowers , sage , or even a hair offering., pluck a hair or comb out a few..when camping and let the breeze take it. Our hike took place before cell phones, and even if we did have one, there prob would have been no signal up there…It is never a good idea to split up a group like what happened to us. Our guide should not have abandoned us because we did not know the trail. I sure would like to see that hidden grove in NY. I am glad that it is protected from profane vandals. Westerners who have never been that far East, like me, tend to visualise NY as a solid mass of concrete and skyscrapers.What a good feeling it brings to know that there are still wild spaces beyond civilisation. 🌲
@walterschiller8281
3 жыл бұрын
There is a story of one our ancestors who floated down the Ohio River on a raft and when he landed he lived in the hollowed portion of a huge tree. From reading this it most likely was a giant Sycamore tree. Thanks for this video as it sheds a little little on this ancestor. Name Andrew Anderson.
@AmericanMythology
3 жыл бұрын
I’ll look into that. Thanks!
@sheilagravely5621
3 жыл бұрын
I saw the movie when it came out as a child,, m.s.o.t.mountain. I have been fascinated with it all my life. Love this. Thanks
@bessiemann7468
3 жыл бұрын
My old home place has a scyamore that if four men held hands in a circle they might reach around the tree. I played many days near that big tree
@ROBERTBURKHART
3 жыл бұрын
My great great great grandfather hollowed out a sycamore tree and lived in it for a long time.
@justa.american8303
3 жыл бұрын
I belive 'My Side of the Mountain' stirred the imagination of more children than Mark Twain's books like 'Tom Sawyer'. And to think some of those old trees are still around and growing...Amazing! Those are National Treasures.
@jeromehall5545
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks brother for this video. It’s simply amazing to see these huge trees and to hear the history of uses for them. My dad used to have a huge sycamore tree I grew up climbing; sadly it was cut down and 20 years later I still miss that beautiful tree. Forever in my heart and mind.
@sl2445
5 жыл бұрын
I love this book so much!!!
@dawnstewart8065
3 жыл бұрын
My oldest son still mentions how much he loved reading that book .
@morecm3322
3 жыл бұрын
Simply amazing. This week MTA cut down without notice live healthy trees to protect the trains. It was awful google harmon station tree massacre. People need to respect trees. What happened to the tree George Washington found. Thank you for this incredible video.
@Chrisamos412
3 жыл бұрын
Over 700 yrs old….amazing! Can you imagine the impressive trees that once dotted this Land!
@judahtribe7
3 жыл бұрын
What would you do if a bear wanted to come and move in maybe it had been his Den previously or something
@marktwain368
3 жыл бұрын
Ummm...put in a door. Like Bilbo Baggins did in The Hobbit.
@KillrMillr7
3 жыл бұрын
Sycamores usually grow along or near rivers, creeks, streams which is why they're able to grow so tall and broad. Growing up near the Shenandoah Valley, where I live now, yes there are many Sycamores large enough to live in and around. The natives used Sycamores for making containers, mortis and pestals other utilitarian things. They are beautiful, looking somewhat like a white birch with a different bark.
@poppopartist3870
3 жыл бұрын
Believe me if they had these trees in SF they would be occupied by the homeless
@jodyross6185
3 жыл бұрын
where I live, British Columbia, Vancouver Island.. we have Douglas Fir trees that age 800 years old that are quite similar to the Sycamore tree in size and relation. as a coniferous giant
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