Appalachian Brothers - Leonard and Jerry

all right leonard and jerry yeah you guys grew up where in this house uh thanks sarah it's been a long time and yes for me eight years been in here eighty years you've been there eight years 1941 1941. and you grew up with uh you had mom and dad my dad be gone and buried up about ashbury my mother married at the moore garden crosslanes and you had siblings you had brothers and sisters yeah yeah i'm nine boys and six sisters nine boys and six sisters some of them's gone how many of your brothers and sisters are still alive yeah there is a very similar emergency in the event huh mauricio living in it i get married i got a system down you know where i just told you how's the creek ask you to see a house on this side over here and you see that creek and the water goes up it goes out and the house set right up there on the bank that's pretty near now i met the last time i was out there one time yeah then her getting hungry she got she did all that she she's in her 60s what was it like growing up here you guys went to school and i went to school years ago do you graduate high school no how far did you guys go in school i went down i wanted to sixth grade sixth grade and how about jerry did he go to school and i went and went graduating when he quit you know when he created great great why do you think you didn't go further in school i went to the 16 i think there's something wrong there i can't remember i've been long time but being about our school you can't figure out what my mother i'll be out of school beyond screw a long time years ago i quit when i was 15 in the seventh grade yeah and i walked all the way home in nitro like in here all by myself take my time sometime i will go off the course and walk back and that besides the walk but for your heart too it's about two miles and for your help okay 15 or 16 years old now it's going to be 74. i don't feel that i got to keep my bone 80 and i feel amazed too much yet you're 79 and jerry is 79 now and you're 74 jerry i'll be 74 this coming october starting next month this might come and jerry did did you go to school yeah i was in grade school you went to grade school how far did you go not very much i i got i was 15 years old okay burned my mother over here the baby and the baby holding the baby she's 41 years old she got 9 9 boys six girls two dead so you uh tell me about growing up here what was your childhood like i can't remember it is growing up a long time ago you guys have electricity running water stuff like that and how do you get around now do you drive no have you ever driven i drive no car in a bike yeah i know how to drive on you don't know how to drive i kept the bus down in your store and pay my bills you get money from where the the railroad all of my daddy's place have you ever had jobs have you ever had jobs no i had no job for a long time i i've been working a long time ago not in the morning yeah but a long time ago what kind of jobs did you have a cat grass for people no and what about jerry i did the same thing he does got grass too have you ever traveled you ever been outside of a long time ago since out of state somebody got gone get me and i can't fake name of the face it's a long time ago what were the best years of your life your favorite memories no i can't think about what it is what was the hardest point of your life i can't remember what it is so the way it was explained to me next door is that your you're one of your sisters actually is your mother is that right that's one 17 died a long time ago yeah but but uh one heart what the neighbors told me is that i think so that one of your sisters and your father are your parents actually is that right yeah that doesn't happen very often but i guess it does happen not very often yeah oh so you're this is obviously an older sister right mary's the oldest one i got uh old sisters see i'm a little bit older than she is she did them you will um see what we call that night down the river somewhere you call it vanilla creek neck creek down here and there's a house on one side there and she live in the house but that one you have to cross the the bridge to get to to the house when it rains it gets up high i i seen it before i was down there one time before my sister's down down there i guess she's still nervous with me she's my big coach between 50 or 60 years old so she's one of your younger sisters huh this is one of your younger sisters yeah it's a big family and then if i live down i think if i lived down the river i think down here somewhere that he crossed banana creek that's where they they needed that i've been down there one time and their house said on that side you stop there you have across the creek not there to the house that's really nearby i've been living in a long time is that right have you guys ever been in love you ever have you ever been in love you ever had relationships no no no no no ladies not ever i don't want to be a part of them what did your father do for work working on the railroad for 42 years i've been talking a long time for two years and you're friends with your neighbors your neighbors are friendly here yes some some might how do you spend your days you you if you don't drive you can't really go into town i'm going to walk down to bother there and get the best you take a bus sometimes yeah did you have dreams of doing anything with your life when you were younger and i'm a long time ago long time ago what kind of stuff did you want to do no and all kind of kind of stuff a long time ago yeah do you have any regrets in your life no no regrets what do you like to do for fun do you guys get out and do things do you ever do anything together or not very much sometimes there's something i'm about how are you two different as brothers how are you and jerry different yeah my individuals jerry how are you and leonard different i don't understand about more different people if you don't pay me i don't go back that's right that's what i do too same i cut grass for people that's all i do not still though no you're not cutting grass now no no what's important to you guys what do you mean i can is it money important is is is i get many times buy groceries and pay my bills as well do you have friends your friends that come by yeah some not very often anymore yeah sometime i comment aren't coming down you guys go to church are you religious i've been in church with a long time ago yeah i can't learn nothing now yeah the world has changed a lot since you were young yeah that changed a whole lot now you think it's changing for the better for the worse it might be a worse reminder somewhere that way it works but your life has been good 80 years of uh yeah living here you say you had a good game here send me a 90 to be 80 years old 80 years i want mom nothing next time [Music] but you feel like it was a good life yeah that's how it goes and jerry how do you feel about the life you've lived yeah i need pretty good nights for people but i want to that's all i can download yeah any words of wisdom you can share what have you learned in all your anywhere any anything you've learned in life that you've you find very helpful i can't thank nathan [Music] all right leonard and jerry thank you so much for speaking with me yeah you're welcome and i wish you the best of luck living here thank you very much you

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Published: Wed Oct 13 2021