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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:41:19 PM EDT
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You’ll never leave Harlan alive...
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:42:58 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 1:44:35 PM EDT
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My grandparents lived down a holler.
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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 1:48:06 PM EDT
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Actual word is hollow. Definition is a hole or cavity. In those parts is is known as holler.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:48:55 PM EDT
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Ridge to ridge, you gotta holler across for someone to hear you on the other side.
A small valley or dell for you yankee types. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:48:56 PM EDT
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a holler is a road often one lane that is often pretty remote and un kept. There may or may not be electricity, city water/sewage.
There will most certainly be dilapidated vehicles on blocks, a well and likely at least one trailer. A large barn may also be present but it is about to blow over or has collapsed already. If you dont look enough like an outsider you will likely be welcomed with moonshine, 12 gauge ammo or cigarettes. Should you not look the part, stern looks and discontent will follow. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:49:07 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 1:49:31 PM EDT
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Some of dem hollers is so far back in they have to pipe in sunshine.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:49:44 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Actual word is hollow. Definition is a hole or cavity. In those parts is is known as holler. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:51:21 PM EDT
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In Pennsylvania we had hollas.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:52:43 PM EDT
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"Hollow"
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:55:10 PM EDT
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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 1:57:59 PM EDT
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Sounds like a place you don't want to make a wrong turn into.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:58:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The small low spot between 2 hills or mountains not to be confused with a valley which is larger. And most hollers have a creek, or crick, running through them. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:58:41 PM EDT
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The small low spot between 2 hills or mountains not to be confused with a valley which is larger. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Actual word is hollow. Definition is a hole or cavity. In those parts is is known as holler. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:58:59 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. Unless you are an outsider, then it easily can be one way in, no way out...ever. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:59:04 PM EDT
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Sounds like a place you don't want to make a wrong turn into. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:59:11 PM EDT
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Holler is the proper pronunciation of the word Hollow when used in the context of a small valley. It has a nice ring to it. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 1:59:15 PM EDT
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Just thought I’d check Netflix for the series, NOPE! It appears Amazon has it and The Shield exclusively on their streaming service. Sucks. I’d love to go back and rewatch all those episodes.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:00:16 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 2:02:34 PM EDT
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 Loretta Lynn - Coal Miner's Daughter.1971. Edit: better version |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:02:38 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 2:03:15 PM EDT
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Just thought I’d check Netflix for the series, NOPE! It appears Amazon has it and The Shield exclusively on their streaming service. Sucks. I’d love to go back and rewatch all those episodes. Great series. I am watching on Amazon. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:03:33 PM EDT
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Backnin the Woods were you wouldn’t want to go on a road that has no name.
Now all ye Kentuckians call your state reps to move SB 150 for Constitutional Carry out of committee without the 3 poison pill amendments. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:04:03 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 2:06:00 PM EDT
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I've done surveillance in hollers back in the day. It was risky.
In some narrow hollers, the sun rises at 10 and sets at 2 LOL. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:08:05 PM EDT
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What do you gentlemen require? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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 2:08:28 PM EDT
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The area between on ridge and the next is a "hollow." Most folks pronounce "hollow" as "holler."
Most "hollers" don't have anyone living in them. Drainage made them, nature populates them and we just walk up/down/across them for one reason or another. Many hollers are good places to live. Creeks, some decently flat areas for houses/sheds and gardens. Think there's lots of old cars in hollers? You ain't been "home" in a long time. When the price of scrap metal went up many years ago people even drove out into the boonies to drag old cars/trucks/equipment out of the woods and trailer it to the scrap metal yards. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:14:42 PM EDT
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Behind some of the old homes or trailers, down the hill a ways, is a large pile of stuff, that offers a snapshot of history stacked one upon another...cars, washing machines throughout the ages, the evolution of TV's and other appliances, furniture and clothing. All thrown down the hill when no longer working or wanted.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:17:54 PM EDT
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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 2:19:31 PM EDT
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This. And most hollers have a creek, or crick, running through them. Quote HistoryQuoted:
Quoted: The small low spot between 2 hills or mountains not to be confused with a valley which is larger. And most hollers have a creek, or crick, running through them.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:20:51 PM EDT
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I've done surveillance in hollers back in the day. It was risky. In some narrow hollers, the sun rises at 10 and sets at 2 LOL.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:22:45 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 2:23:50 PM EDT
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Around these parts we have hills and valleys, hollows branch off valleys, and "slides" branch off hollows.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:27:37 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 2:27:49 PM EDT
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it's a draw. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Actual word is hollow. Definition is a hole or cavity. In those parts is is known as holler.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:28:06 PM EDT
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Behind some of the old homes or trailers, down the hill a ways, is a large pile of stuff, that offers a snapshot of history stacked one upon another...cars, washing machines throughout the ages, the evolution of TV's and other appliances, furniture and clothing. All thrown down the hill when no longer working or wanted. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:29:11 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 2:29:34 PM EDT
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Sounds like a place you don't want to make a wrong turn into. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:31:42 PM EDT
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Got any photos handy? 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 2:31:45 PM EDT
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Spent a lot of time in Betsy Layne and Harold is the early 70's. Went up in the hollers back then to get shine. Better know which one to go up, have a 4WD, and where to stop. Looking up the hill next to the shack you could see the chronological life of junk piling up, starting at the top with turn of century stuff to the bottom with ringer washers and actual ice boxes, cars and pickups from multiple decades strewn around. The people were always friendly though, if they knew you. If they didn't they were very cautious, very.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:32:27 PM EDT
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 The Lost Trailers - Holler Back |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:34:04 PM EDT
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Holler is slang for a hollow. It’s a short valley. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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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 2:34:58 PM EDT
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Sun comes up about 10 in the mornin'
Sun goes down about 3 in the day... |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:37:17 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Of which? |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:38:59 PM EDT
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Spent a lot of time in Betsy Layne and Harold is the early 70's. Went up in the hollers back then to get shine. Better know which one to go up, have a 4WD, and where to stop. Looking up the hill next to the shack you could see the chronological life of junk piling up, starting at the top with turn of century stuff to the bottom with ringer washers and actual ice boxes, cars and pickups from multiple decades strewn around. The people were always friendly though, if they knew you. If they didn't they were very cautious, very. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:40:09 PM EDT
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Where your dad grew up would be cool. ETA: I can try to describe it. Dad is 76, his family was the last to leave when he was about 15. All buildings were log and rough lumber and rotted away. The "road" crisscrosses the creek several times and is about 2 miles long. Grandpa only claimed to own a small part in the back, but they used the whole thing. Some large corporation now owns it for timber and mineral rights, but the locals still use it for hunting. I was there twice in 2002. The grave yards weren't typical. Two or 3 graves on one hill, 2 or 3 more at the bottom of another, etc. They were poor so most only had little plaques. It took dad a few tries to remember and find them. We made headstones out of concrete and hauled them in on 4 wheelers. If not, even the plaques would probably have vanished by now. Lots of mature trees and steep hillsides with some kudzu thrown in for good measure. Rattlesnakes and Copperheads everywhere. Dad said it was a dangerous place to play as a child who didnt own shoes. |
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:41:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I'll ask him when I see him. I dont know of any pics, but he does have some 8mm film somewhere. 
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:41:31 PM EDT
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We'd call it a draw.
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Posted: 2/25/2019 2:43:24 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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