Open house day at Pioneer Village, Searcy, Arkansas

[coolbluelights]

That place reminds me of Sturbridge village. I went there on a class trip about 21 years ago. Somewhere in Massachusets I think. what a cool video to watch and listen to while cleaning a radio chassis ^^

[joernone]

@coolbluelights,

Thank you, Daniel. I'm very happy you enjoyed the vid. We'll be going back to the village for the next open house May 5th and 6th. I have to go back...I'm about out of fresh honey and homemade sorghum. Both are sold at the village.

Regards,

John

[Cobunist]

Awesome video. I'm definitely going have to drag the wife down to Searcy this spring for their next open house. Thanks for sharing.

[joernone]

@Cobunist,

I'm glad you enjoyed the vid. It was a ton of fun talking to all the pretty ladies and all that. The next open house is Saturday and Sunday...May 5th and 6th. I hope you can make it. We'll be there...our sorghum and honey jars are almost empty. :-)

Thanks for coming by.

Regards,

John

[umajunkcollector]

John, how come those little ol' southern bells from Arkansas don't say things such as "little ol' me" and "you all"? Those beautiful long dresses reminds me of Gone With the Wind. Quite frankly Charlotte, I don't give a dam! Maybe we otta call you JOHNNY REB! I really enjoyed this vid = great job John!

Donny the yankee

[joernone]

@umajunkcollector,

I've always had a liking for the full-length dresses worn by our ancestral women. Actually, I like many of the older things...but I'm glad to be living in this day and age. I can't imagine what it must have been like to have an absessed tooth in the old days. :-)

I glad you ejoyed the vid. We plan to go back in the Spring for another open house event. I'll probably make a second vid.

Regards,

John

[umajunkcollector]

2:18 Granny Clampets xxx rhumatism medicine maker aka a lye soap cooker?

Back in the pioneer days, they used telegraph, tellyfone, and tell-a-lady!

Seein those old feather beds upstairs in the loft reminds me of John Denver's "Grandma's Feather Bed" song. Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

[Kalkaekie]

Enjoyed the tour !!

[joernone]

@Kalkaekie ,

Glad you liked it, my friend. Maybe I'll do another vid when we again visit the village next spring.

Regards,

John

[MrRaddios]

nice vintage stuff

[joernone]

@MrRaddios,

I always get a kick out of seeing old things...genuine Americana so-to-speak. Things that would be gone forever were it not for the kind of folks in the video.

Thanks for watching. Hope to see you again.

Regards,

John

[dennis525371]

John, that was great video. That was a pie safe, the cabnet with the stamp sheet metal in the doors, they would put the pies in there to cool. Dennis

[joernone]

@dennis525371,

A pie safe...thanks, Dennis, I remember that now. We had a good time at the village. I understand each year it gets better and better.

Regards,

John

[THOMMGB]

Pretty good. You're a natural. It's nice to see regular people showing how things were done in the old days. You should have your own cable show. Tom

[joernone]

@THOMMGB,

Tom,

My own cable show? Are ya trying to kill me? I'm having enough trouble keeping up with these Youtube vintage radio restoration projects. :-)

Thanks for dropping in.

Regards,

John

[chairuser4]

What great vid and place I'd love to see it to,love places like that,gave me the thanksgiving mood I needed.

[joernone]

@chairuser4,

Right you are, it is a great place to visit, where one can always count on meeting a slew of genuine, down-home Arkansas rebels, the salt of our southern earth. I very much like being around them...although they can sometimes be pretty hard-headed. :-)

Thanks for watching, my friend.

Regards,

John

[Radiowild]

Looks like you had a lot of fun! Glad to see your computer is up and running again. Would have loved to have a hand full of the "kettle corn". RW

[joernone]

@Radiowild,RW,

It was a lot of fun. My grandson bought a large bag of the kettlecorn and it was all gone before we left the village.

Thanks for the visit.

Regards,

John

[banjax66]

Great video John. I found it very interesting.

Just one question for you, about the ladies that wore the dresses with hoops in them.

How did they get through the doorways?

You take care.

Ian. (Banjax66)

[joernone]

@banjax66,

Ian,

Thanks. The hoops through doorways is yet another female mystery of the universe.

I watched your saugage cooking video. Very entertaining. Years ago for one of my son's grade school science projects we built a hotdog cooker by hooking each side of a power cord to two very large nails driven through a board, about 6-inches apart. A hotdog was placed across the nails and the power cord plugged in. It worked great. The class all had hotdogs for lunch.

Regards,

John

[DrOlds100]

Nice, Well filmed video, John! I really enjoyed it, And now I finally know what kettlecorn is!

[joernone]

@DrOlds100,

I, too, now know what kettlecorn is. I had no idea how it was made before stopping by that booth. Glad I did.

Thanks for dropping in.

Regards,

John

[k5cxo]

Love the memories of days gone by, I would not like to have live back in those hard days, besides I did not see one radio there.

[joernone]

@k5cxo,

I also would not have wanted to live during the pioneer days. Back then folks died of the most trivial things. An absessed tooth would have killed you. Like you, I prefer living in this day and age.

Thanks for coming by.

Regards,

John