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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:43:45 PM EDT
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People live in them. Usually poor people.
Generally nothing for you there if you don't know the people who live there. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:47:56 PM EDT
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This. The word refers to a geographical feature. Hollows can be roadless and unpopulated. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Holler is the proper pronunciation of the word Hollow when used in the context of a small valley. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:51:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: That is pretty much true, but in the past, not necessarily so. You'd be amazed where folks hacked a living in the mountains. I hunted a lot of hollows that have now been absorbed into WMA's, National Forest and Wilderness areas. You'll pass through one that looks like folks had never lived there, then find an old chimney or the scariest...an abandoned well. Last one I ran up on was about 20' deep and had a dead Walker hound in it. Guess the poor pooch fell in during a coon hunt and died from the fall or could not get out and starved to death. He was laying on rocks, metal and glass. I was only five feet away from the mouth of that thing before I even noticed it. Scary stuff. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:52:01 PM EDT
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A holler is a small valley usually where 1 family with multiple generations owns the whole thing. You could have 14 houses all owned by aunts uncles cousins and nephews. They are extremely tight and protective of each other against strangers. People who go looking for trouble in one have been known to disappear. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:52:42 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My aunt's old address was Betsy Layne. Now its changed to Pikeville even though she hasn't moved. You want to see some rough country, drive past her house down into John's Creek. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:52:53 PM EDT
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You’ll never leave Harlan alive... From a holler in eastern KY. [youtube]https://youtu.be/1n57WBtvtC4[/youtube] |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:53:49 PM EDT
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It's where people actually know how to fix their own shit, grow their own food, and are armed to the teeth. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:55:32 PM EDT
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I like to describe it as the small valley between two hills that usually only has one road in that dead-ends at "the head of the holler". You can also have a main holler with little hollers off the main one.
Example:  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:56:07 PM EDT
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Holler's down Copperhead Rd. Good place to hide yer still and garden from the DEA, at least til they get a chopper in the air. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:57:06 PM EDT
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Sounds like some good people. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:59:18 PM EDT
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It's the place between the hills. The hollow place.
In the Appalachians a holler can be deep, narrow, and dark at the bottom. Too narrow for a motor vehicle, just a foot path. The folks that live back there want to be left alone. Those creeks along the bottom of a holler are often enough called a "branch" in the Ozarks. They're also a branch if they are a tiny creek with water all year. There are also dry branches that are wet season streams, or only flow after a rain. Those wet season branches had water year round before the hills were cleared with trees for pasture and caused the springs to dry up. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:00:25 PM EDT
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I like to describe it as the small valley between two hills that usually only has one road in that dead-ends at "the head of the holler". You can also have a main holler with little hollers off the main one. Example: https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/96007/holler_jpg-857834.JPG |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:02:00 PM EDT
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Lol city ppl crack me up....
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:03:03 PM EDT
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The sound of a Glock 21 smoking a methbilly.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:03:16 PM EDT
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 Roger Alan Wade - One Big Ass Happy Family |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:04:43 PM EDT
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I have lived in hollers, between two hollers, and I own a couple. Unpopulated ones aren't usually full of junk. Even so, with enough time nature will take it back. The holler where my dad grew up only has a few headstones to prove people were there. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:05:04 PM EDT
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The sun ain’t seen some of them since creation.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:09:10 PM EDT
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Lol city ppl crack me up.... It's good for the soul 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:09:27 PM EDT
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The sun ain’t seen some of them since creation. Quote HistoryQuoted:
The sun ain’t seen some of them since creation. Quoted:
Well I'm glad you're having a good laugh. It's good for the soul |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:11:19 PM EDT
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Been out hiking and hunting and found old graveyards that aren't even listed on USGS. Often hard to spot because the grave stones are just long rocks, jutting out of the dirt. No marble, no inscription, just a long rock sitting up. I helped some relatives reclaim an early graveyard from the woods one time. It was marked on USGS maps. Some of my ancestors are buried there. There might have been four or five proper grave stones (two of those being concrete, the others marble), but the bulk were just vertical stones. We did a controlled burn to get most of the duff out of the way. It actually shocked me how many stone marked graves were up there after clearing the duff, saplings and limbs. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I have lived in hollers, between two hollers, and I own a couple. Unpopulated ones aren't usually full of junk. Even so, with enough time nature will take it back. The holler where my dad grew up only has a few headstones to prove people were there. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:12:47 PM EDT
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My parents are buried in a hollow in Lee County, KY. Beautiful, rugged country.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:19:37 PM EDT
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My grandmother used to have an aunt in middle TN who lived in a holler back in the woods. It was a very Clampett-like arrangement, one of those "if your front porch collapses and kills more than two dogs" kind of things. There was a rundown old house and I don't think they even had electricity, or if so, maybe one bare light bulb in the main room. I visited a couple of times. She had a common law husband named Otto who I never saw do any work around the place; his main occupation seemed to be either getting drunk or trying to get drunk, and he was pretty good at it. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:20:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There is truth to that, ive got a hollar that goes back to my range, never sees sunlight, while still have snow back there long after its melted by the house Lol, its all good, we got some hollars you wouldnt wanna be caught at night down, if your outa state, forget bout it, your bear bait, lol I don't think I'll ever be in one,night or day. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:22:37 PM EDT
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When my wife was living in Nashville we took a long weekend and rented a cabin near Pigeon Forge. I drove around some backroads and there was a lot of "nice house" "two crappy houses with ancient satellite TV dishes" "falling down trailers" nice house nice house abandoned house. My wife said something about "wow look at this" and I told her "you know there are small towns within a half hour of your parents' house that look just like this" "I never went there" Generally speaking they wouldn't bother anyone, but I spent a ton of time in rural TN and PA and it was similar. There were some guys in TN who I think were considering trying to steal my wife's camera when we were pretty far out in the woods, but they never said or did anything so who knows. Good thing as it might have still been illegal to carry in Federal Parks Concealed means concealed.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:24:12 PM EDT
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My grandparents lived down a holler. people live up a holler. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:26:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: This. And most hollers have a creek, or crick, running through them. For example, you would turn off of St. Rt 23 up Broad Run, driving on Broad Run Road. Turn left at the yellow house past Yaeger's Run, go past old Hugh's place, and there was our house. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:26:43 PM EDT
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Reservations around the southwest have the same make up in some areas. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:29:41 PM EDT
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The reservations are far more remote. No matter how hillbilly an area is, it is still a few hours away from a large city. Areas like the four corners or the upper peninsula are like their own countries. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:30:00 PM EDT
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Beautiful voice, beatiful girl. From a holler in eastern KY.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://youtu.be/1n57WBtvtC4Quote HistoryQuoted:
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You’ll never leave Harlan alive... From a holler in eastern KY. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=https://youtu.be/1n57WBtvtC4 |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:31:20 PM EDT
[#30]
 Dwight Yoakam - Some Dark Holler |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:31:36 PM EDT
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I grew up in a Hollow. It was awesome and I wish I could it all over again.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:33:14 PM EDT
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Holler's down Copperhead Rd. Good place to hide yer still and garden from the DEA, at least til they get a chopper in the air. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:34:53 PM EDT
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this thread reminds me of Pikeville Kentucky, be afraid, be very afraid.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:34:59 PM EDT
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Had a friend (outsider to KY) who took a new job in Law Enforcement, maybe Leslie or Owsley, both ring a bell from looking at a KY County Map. The seasoned local staff warned him emphatically not to go back into the hills, miles and miles of "roads", not on maps, if you were not local, especially in LE, you might not come back out.
He worked in the area for about 4 years before moving, he said they were not kidding. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:36:28 PM EDT
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A holler is a like a box canyon, only the box belongs to your cousinsister, which suits you just fine.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:37:02 PM EDT
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I'm watching Justified again and they mention going up to some holler. What is a holler? Is it some place at the end of a dirt road in the hills with a bunch of ramshackle cabins? Just curious. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:38:46 PM EDT
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My parents are buried in a hollow in Lee County, KY. Beautiful, rugged country. Lee ya say? We're from Bloody Breathitt right on the Lee co line. Earned its name honestly. eta: Hell, as I think about it, we're liable to be distant relatives. Lots of pretty common family names around there. Crawford, Gabbard, Lawson, Coomer. Hollers can be as small as a re-entrant which is basically a run off. Some get named like Horse holler where someone walked a poor horse up and shot it dead. Some are big enough to have smaller hollers branching off from it. I happen to prefer to travel at the top of the holler. Bottom of the family holler.  Attached FileThe type of domicile and folk you're liable to run into in a holler.  Attached FileNot shittin' about the dangers. There's a house and two wells in this pic.  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:39:47 PM EDT
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Where I live now, the neighbors have an old family cemetery in their backyard. It backs up to my barn so I have a pretty good view of it. There are supposedly over 20 graves, but only 5 or 6 have legible stones. The rest are rocks. The legible ones date from 1890s to 1930s. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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I have lived in hollers, between two hollers, and I own a couple. Unpopulated ones aren't usually full of junk. Even so, with enough time nature will take it back. The holler where my dad grew up only has a few headstones to prove people were there. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:42:08 PM EDT
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this thread reminds me of Pikeville Kentucky, be afraid, be very afraid. And there must be something directly correlated between living in east KY hollers and driving/parking. East KY drivers stink at both. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:42:12 PM EDT
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this thread reminds me of Pikeville Kentucky, be afraid, be very afraid. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:43:22 PM EDT
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Sounds like some good people. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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It's where people actually know how to fix their own shit, grow their own food, and are armed to the teeth. They even have their own names for things. "Draw check" = disability check. "Crazy check" = a check you get every month for your children from SSI when you get them to qualify for a fake disability. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:44:04 PM EDT
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It's where people actually know how to fix their own shit, grow their own food, and are armed to the teeth. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:51:24 PM EDT
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@lorazepam Lee ya say? We're from Bloody Breathitt right on the Lee co line. Earned its name honestly. Hollers can be as small as a re-entrant which is basically a run off. Some get named like Horse holler where someone walked a poor horse up and shot it dead. Some are big enough to have smaller hollers branching off from it. I happen to prefer to travel at the top of the holler. Bottom of the family holler. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/206831/11026142_10207190020134006_8931248090853702880_n_jpg-857881.JPG The type of domicile and folk you're liable to run into in a holler. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/206831/cabin1_jpg-857887.JPG Not shittin' about the dangers. There's a house and two wells in this pic. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/206831/11402936_10207190021974052_4451050832758711183_n_jpg-857888.JPG Quoted: Here is a pic of the oldest section of a graveyard that is still in use and maintained not too far from where I live. These are from the original "pioneer" part of the yard as it was part of a circuit church. The are just spikey stones jutting out of the ground. The two tallest are about 8' high and nontypical for early graves around here. The little plaques show the two tallest as being from the 1820's, so these folks settled here before the indian removal. https://s3.amazonaws.com/gs-geo-images/b4a6daa9-7e97-41d3-9f3b-49c1029d981d_l.jpg |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:53:47 PM EDT
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At home, down in the holler.....
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:53:58 PM EDT
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@lorazepam Lee ya say? We're from Bloody Breathitt right on the Lee co line. Earned its name honestly. Hollers can be as small as a re-entrant which is basically a run off. Some get named like Horse holler where someone walked a poor horse up and shot it dead. Some are big enough to have smaller hollers branching off from it. I happen to prefer to travel at the top of the holler. Bottom of the family holler. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/206831/11026142_10207190020134006_8931248090853702880_n_jpg-857881.JPG The type of domicile and folk you're liable to run into in a holler. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/206831/cabin1_jpg-857887.JPG Not shittin' about the dangers. There's a house and two wells in this pic. https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/206831/11402936_10207190021974052_4451050832758711183_n_jpg-857888.JPG |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 3:55:23 PM EDT
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Squeal like a pig, boy
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Posted: 2/25/2019 4:02:42 PM EDT
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At home, down in the holler..... https://amp.businessinsider.com/images/52ea8f636bb3f7162f631ef3-750-562.jpg |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 4:08:58 PM EDT
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Where is this? Lot's of poverty and alcoholism there now. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 4:11:15 PM EDT
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Squeal like a pig, boy |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 4:13:56 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Prenter Hollow, W.Va. Old coal mining community. I saw many of these old coal mining towns as a kid, being born and raised in the SW VA.mountains, with both my parents having been born in Logan county, WV, and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountain towns of Galax and Fries, VA. Lot's of poverty and alcoholism there now. |
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