Horseshoot Says:
Saturday, August 20, 2011 @10:01:00 AM

I grew up in KY, and lived a good part of my adult life there. I'm from where KY, OH and WV all come together.

erikforgod Says:
Saturday, August 20, 2011 @5:19:07 PM

Thats Naomi and Wynona Judd country if I am not mistaken? My family originally settled in Lebanon Kentucky ( central Kentucky ) before the civil war, afterwards they settled in far NW Ky and bought a farm there ..back then it was practically just a wilderness still...from what my pawpaw said his grandaddy told him...they had to cut down huge Beech, Oak and Hickory trees to clear the land ( my great great grandad J:P: Bickett wa the one that bought the land ) my family has been in that area ever since.

Horseshoot Says:
Saturday, August 20, 2011 @7:21:33 PM

My family came to the Sandy River Valley (via Virginia) just after the Rev War. My ancestor was a scout in the war. And yes, we are from the same area of the Judds. My Mother's side (Murphys) did not arrive till the mid to late 1800s. Ashland, KY.

erikforgod Says:
Sunday, August 21, 2011 @7:43:44 AM

It seems alot of the eastern Ky folks came through Virginia. My family first went to Maryland from England right before the revolutionary war. Afterwards they migrated to the mouth of the Ohio river, rented flatboats and came down the Ohio river to the falls of Louisville. There they went south to central Kentucky and Lebanon where they bought a farm..I still have some "very" distant" relatives living ( and also in graveyards over there ) when my great great grandaddy J.P. Bickett was a young man in the late 1800s, he struck out on his won, went to NW Kentucky ( Hancock CO ) where he and his wife "Betty" bought the farm that our family still owns. The remnants of the ole primitive cabin they lived on while the homeplace was being built is still there on the backside of the property...it had a dirt floor. The old Home place ( as we call it ) is still there but its in disreapir...the backside of the house is slowly sliding backwards down the back side of the hill or slope...its sinking.

Horseshoot Says:
Sunday, August 21, 2011 @11:09:05 AM

It's so cool to know so much of the history. On my Father's side, he had one great-grandfather who fought for the North (in the Cival War) and one who fought for the South. My Papaw, who is long since dead, told me when he was a boy (and his own father had been killed in a mining accident) both granfathers lived with them. They would argue about the war and each try to get my Papaw on their side. I asked "which side did you choose?" After he had answered the North, I assumed it was for moral reasons, slavery and all that. But he went on to say: "My Grandfather who fought for the North had a pension. The other didn't. So the North would give me a nickel if I sided with him!" I always got a kick out of that story.

erikforgod Says:
Sunday, August 21, 2011 @11:11:05 AM

Thats a great story...those ol-timers...its amazing the history old Kentucky families like ours have...its great to have such long backgrounds and stories to pass down. I know over in E Kentucky alot of feuds were fought over which side of the war one was supportive of.

Horseshoot Says:
Sunday, August 21, 2011 @11:47:10 AM

Yes, they were. Luckily, this was just two old guys grumpin' with each other. But it got serious, in some places. I could talk about KY all day! :-)

erikforgod Says:
Sunday, August 21, 2011 @7:53:04 PM

Me too horseshoot...Kentucky is like home to me.

Horseshoot Says:
Sunday, August 21, 2011 @8:08:57 PM

Do you get back often? I usually get back once or twice a year. I'm Mike. :)

erikforgod Says:
Monday, August 22, 2011 @8:38:42 AM

I used to get back once or twice a year but now that I am in Argentina much less....I was just back there in June visiting family and took some pictures which I hope to be posting here soon.

Horseshoot Says:
Monday, August 22, 2011 @9:53:28 AM

Glad you got to visit. It's obvious how much you love it. I should put a few pictures on here, as well

erikforgod Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @5:49:54 AM

yes...I would love to see them! I like pics of families and hearing the stories. My sister-in-law is scanning some pictures of "the ole homeplace" and my grandparents and family that I will be posting soon. Hopefully she will scan them today LOL. yeah KY is "paradise" for me...like Loretta Lynn used to say :)

Horseshoot Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @6:55:27 AM

"Daddy won't ya take me back to Muhlenberg County, Down by the Green River where Paradise lives!"

erikforgod Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @6:56:42 AM

hahah yep...Muhlenberg County..thats close by....strip-pit mining country though...its been stripped out pretty bad now...ole Muhlenberg has.

Horseshoot Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @8:34:16 AM

Yeah, that's what that song is all about. Sad. :-(

"I'm sorry my son but you're too late in askin', Mr. Peabody Coltrane has hauled it away."

Horseshoot Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @8:35:01 AM

That song would actually be very pretty with clawhammer banjo.

Horseshoot Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @10:39:25 AM

Here are the lyrics, if you are interested. Looks like I got them a little bit wrong. :-) It's called Paradise.

This song was first released on the Rocky Mountain High album. It is the only album it has been released on.

When I was a child, my family would travel
Down to western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my mem'ries are worn

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Adrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

And the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Words and music by John Prine

erikforgod Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @4:48:49 PM

My uncle sings this..its a John Prine song I think...

Horseshoot Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @4:55:54 PM

Yup. I'm gonna try to make a Scrugg's style break for it. Shouldn't take me more than a year! Lol! Did you get my private message re: the clawhammer debacle?

erikforgod Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @4:57:42 PM

not yet let me check..

Horseshoot Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @4:59:23 PM

Not really sent a lot of pm's. So not really sure how they work.

Horseshoot Says:
Tuesday, August 23, 2011 @5:00:24 PM

For me they usually show up in my yahoo email.

erikforgod Says:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 @6:04:07 AM

Horseshoot...I have a hotmail account...but I didnt receive any of them...weird.

Horseshoot Says:
Wednesday, August 24, 2011 @7:29:26 AM

Yeah, the system is odd. I guess if ya don't notice you have a message here, it forwards on to your email. I have never been able to find a true "inbox" at BHO. Mike

Horseshoot Says:
Thursday, August 25, 2011 @3:45:26 PM

Anyway, just add me on yahoo or msn sometime.