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From the Horn Creek Website At Horne Creek Living Historical Farm, a multi-year project is underway to reconstruct the physical environment and seasonal work cycle of an early 20th-century family farm in the North Carolina piedmont. Visitors may encounter farm animals of all but vanished breeds once kept on the Hauser Farm or savor old-fashioned apple varieties grown in Horne Creek's heritage apple orchard. You can try your hand at cutting grass with a scythe or listen to a talk on how to ...

www.createspace.com - Buy Now Between Two Hills, the Story of Pocahontas, Virginia. Also a special thanks goes out to The Mayhem String band, YouTube's own Jeff Williams, and Nashville songwriter Betsy Ulmer for allowing us to use their music for this project. This town was Virginia's first coal boom town. There are very few Americans who have not been touched by the far reaching influence of the Pocahontas Fuel Company. The coal extracted by Pocahontas Fuel served nearly 1/2 of the country ...

Order NEW Film - Welcome to Coalwood by Steve Date Here web.mac.com It is about Coalwood, WV It's people and it's history. It looks great! Buy Now Pocahontas Virginia Documentary www.createspace.com October Sky Festival This weekend More Details Here www.coalwoodwestvirginia.com Listen to Homer Describe his latest Novel Red Helmet -filmed by Steve Date. www.homerhickam.com Put a New Yorker in the coal mines of West Virginia! I know it is on our list of must read. We visited the annual ...

Higher Res Version here www.lonelyplanet.tv This international collaboration would not have been possible without the wonderful generosity of Anthony Padbury, his fiancee, Dominika and the terrific people at the Goathland website (Andy). Thank You so much, it was a great deal of fun for me to do this small clip from across the pond, and having been a child before there were even digital watches makes it magical. Dan Goathland is a village in the North York Moors national park, England. It is ...

www.createspace.com - Buy Now Bramwell, West Virginia was a residential paradise, wealthy coal barons could live in luxury. They could enjoy a fabulous social life among their wealthy neighbors, There were plenty of merchants, ministers, doctors, attorneys and others that supported their lifestyle. In the late 1800s, Bramwell had electric street lights, a weekly newspaper, a water company, and even telephone service. Narration Dan Mccoig Photography Janet Original Music Nick Buy The Book ...

This is our birthday wish for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is 75 years old this June. Check us out in the Related Video box on Knoxnews.com www.knoxnews.com The backdrop to so many of our favorite memories. This quarter Adsense donation benefits the Friends of the Smokies Here is their YouTube Channel, sub them and say Happy Birthday to the Smokies! www.youtube.com dmccoig dan mccoig

On a recent Autumn trip up the Blue Ridge Parkway, we got a glimpse into the workings of the Mabry Mill. There were Rangers telling stories and grinding corn as well as Blacksmith and weaving demonstrations. Over twenty million visitors a year head up and down the parkway and Mabry Mill is a favorite destination. This video features beautiful photographs taken by Janet. From HappyMappy.com Perhaps the most photographed site on the Blue Ridge Parkway, Mabry Mill was a community gathering ...

See Paradise Gardens in this REM video (Radio Free Europe) filmed there. www.youtube.com This Southern Life, Howard Finster's Paradise Gardens. Jan and I had a chance to stop by Paradise Gardens in Georgia last month on vacation. Wow you have to see this collection of art created by the objects others discarded. It is an amazing place and if you are ever in northern Georgia you should stop by and see it for yourself. In addition to painting REM, Blackhawk and Talking Head Album covers ...

Our winter beach trip was supposed to be an escape from work, home, dogs and Travel videos, but sometimes its hard to resist making a video when something is staring you in the face. It also gave us a chance to use some past video and pictures from our last beach trip. Hope you enjoy. Scenes from Myrtle Beach, the Grand Strand, Huntington Beach State Park, Brookgeen Gardens, Surfside Beach, Murrels Inlet, and South Carolina.

Be sure to stop by and see us at dantraveling.com This is a short video we put together with what may be the last footage shot of the Wonderland Hotel before the Park Service salvaged parts of it and then demolished the rest, the artifacts were shipped to Oak Ridge Tennessee last fall 2006. The Wonderland was located in the (Ghost Town) community of Elkmont Tennessee in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Also we include some vintage 1936 National Archives footage on the Park. video ...

George Washington's Initials carved into the stone. This is a trip we took up to see Natural Bridge on Memorial Day weekend.

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The Mountain people walked and rode horseback on these narrow back roads in Virginia, many roads were dirt back then. All just to visit their rock churches and to hear Rev. Bob Childress teach and preach. Thanks so much Kim Komando for featuring our video as your Video of the Day! Your Technically Awesome. We Guest Blogged on this really great website Fun Things You Should Do thingsyoushoulddo.com Our Google Map Tour of the Rock Churches maps.google.com This video helped us raise money ...

Vegetarians beware... the town of Nahunta, North Carolina, is home to the United States' largest pork display. "nw" Last Year Winter was a Beach This year it is Fatback, chitterling, bacon, bbq, hog, hawgs, country ham, souse, cracklins, neck, pig feet, and us at America's Largest Pork Display! We go off our path to visit the North Carolina town of Nahunta Thanks to nahuntaporkcenter.com www.pork.org dmccoig dan mccoig

Check us out on GoogleMaps maps.google.com We were passing through Kernersville, North Carolina and spotted this little white van, parked at a restaurant, with bold red letters and a large phone number printed on the side. It read "History Making Farming Author - On the move" We had to find out what this meant, so we called the number and it led us to a farm in Rural Hall, NC to meet a wonderful storyteller on a mission to teach children how to grow their own food. Contact Vern "The ...

Ghost Town Elkmont Houses are located in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee Music- Nick Ulmer Narration- Dan McCoig Photography- Janet Lockerby Audio- T Edwards Elkmont info website parkplanning.nps.gov or Google "Elkmont Historic District" These buildings are going to be gone soon and their stories with them. National Archive Footage video.google.com

POT FULL OF CASH NEEDED Read Random Mumblings blog about the museum in Seagrove and its need for donations. www.jacklail.com We like to purchase things that are handmade! We visited Seagrove, NC and met with three potters to talk about the rich heritage of the area.

Buy Today - www.createspace.com DanTraveling is The Most Viewed Southeastern Travel Show on YouTube. (The purchase of this dvd helps us continue to travel, but more than that, we hope you enjoy it.) This sixty three minute dvd includes the popular titles "A Single Seed" and "Mountain Churches of the Blue Ridge." The following favorites are on this one hour disk as well. The North Carolina Transportation Museum in Spencer, NC Bethabra Park in Winston Salem, NC Moonshine Face jug making with ...

Korners Folly In Kernersville, NC is the Strangest House in the World and just yesterday it was confirmed to be haunted too. For more haunting details click here www.kornersfolly.org For more of our adventures, Jan's Blog metalologygethammered.blogspot.com My twitterings twitter.com dmccoig Dan McCoig

This is a video discussing the beginning of the Little River Railroad and Lumber Company Museum in Townsend, Tennessee. Harry Kidwell was one of the founding members and he recounts the discovery, and movement of a locomotive engine and caboose from North Carolina back to it's home in Townsend, Tennessee.

A favorite place of ours to stop on the road to Myrtle Beach. Our Google Map Link tinyurl.com Worlds Largest Strawberry Website worldslargeststrawberry.com Dan Twitter twitter.com Jan Twitter twitter.com dmccoig dan mccoig

This is a Re-working of our Mabry Mill Video shot on the beautiful Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia, This version is in widescreen and HD. You'll hear the Rangers describe life in Appalachia in the 1800s and the importance of the local mill. You'll see corn grinding and see dozens of gorgeous photos taken from our Fall adventure into the mountains of Southern Virginia. The closing credits still have the original country song from the Sullivan Sisters and it is wonderful as well. We hope you ...

Ocracoke Island, North Carolina has been described as the Pearl of the Outer Banks and was named America's Best Beach for 2007, by Dr. Beach. It is famous for its miles of clean beaches, wildlife, fishing village and connection to the pirate Blackbeard. He met his demise on Ocracoke. Except for the Village, the rest of the island is part of the National Park Services Cape Hatteras National Seashore.

Just up the road in our Backyard is Mayberry, NC. The town of Mount Airy is the boyhood home of Andy Griffith and the inspiration for the TV town of Mayberry. dmccoig dan mccoig

We spent a week in the mountains of North Carolina and the rain followed us. This was shot on a small mountain road between Franklin and Highland, NC. dmccoig dan mccoig