What Are You Listening To???

[Bill]

This song is about an event that took place on this day in 1972.

Bloody Sunday (1972) - Wikipedia

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[Bill]

 

[DeeRanger]

Gotta keep movin....

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

@Jim Oaks @Curious Hound @snoranger @Robertmangrum.rm

 

[Jim Oaks]

@Jim Oaks @Curious Hound @snoranger @Robertmangrum.rm

That song mentions Cumberland Gap. The Cumberland Gap isn't the Cumberland Gap anymore. When I was younger, the road (US25E) used to go over the gap into Virgina and intersected with US58. You could turn and continue through Virginia or continue straight and go into Virginia. There was a tourist attraction there called 'Cudjo's Cave'. It was named after a book which was about a runaway slave named Cudjo that hid out in the cave. At some point they renamed it 'Cudjo's Caverns'. The National Parks ended up acquiring the cave and renamed it 'Gap Cave'. There were a lot of accidents on this road and the federal government built a tunnel through the mountain and closed this section of road. Not only did they close it, but they dug it up and returned the area to mother nature. With the road rerouted through the tunnel, US25E doesn't even go into Virginia anymore.

My father grew up 25 minutes east of there, and my grandmother lived just under an hour east of here, so I traveled through the Cumberland Gap many times. It's actually sad when I go through here and go through the tunnel. I just did it back in September. It's like a piece of my history has been erased.

It used to take 12-hours to go from my childhood home in Ohio to my grandmothers in Virgina. Today you can do it in 8-hours. 7.5-hours if you drive nonstop. A lot of those old 2-lane roads across Virginia are now a 4-lane highway.

At 57 years old, I've seen growth and development erase a lot of memories.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

When I was younger, the road (US25E) used to go over the gap into Virgina and intersected with US58.

Was it still the only way to get from the east to the west?

The whole area is just neat, I wish it wasn't so far away. We were actually pretty close to what was the gap on the Vagabond trip, google says a little over an hour from London KY.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

That song mentions Cumberland Gap. The Cumberland Gap isn't the Cumberland Gap anymore. When I was younger, the road (US25E) used to go over the gap into Virgina and intersected with US58. You could turn and continue through Virginia or continue straight and go into Virginia. There was a tourist attraction there called 'Cudjo's Cave'. It was named after a book which was about a runaway slave named Cudjo that hid out in the cave. At some point they renamed it 'Cudjo's Caverns'. The National Parks ended up acquiring the cave and renamed it 'Gap Cave'. There were a lot of accidents on this road and the federal government built a tunnel through the mountain and closed this section of road. Not only did they close it, but they dug it up and returned the area to mother nature. With the road rerouted through the tunnel, US25E doesn't even go into Virginia anymore.

My father grew up 25 minutes east of there, and my grandmother lived just under an hour east of here, so I traveled through the Cumberland Gap many times. It's actually sad when I go through here and go through the tunnel. I just did it back in September. It's like a piece of my history has been erased.

It used to take 12-hours to go from my childhood home in Ohio to my grandmothers in Virgina. Today you can do it in 8-hours. 7.5-hours if you drive nonstop. A lot of those old 2-lane roads across Virginia are now a 4-lane highway.

At 57 years old, I've seen growth and development erase a lot of memories.

Oh our families are from a close area. My grandfather uses to tell me stories about growing up near there. Used to say the best moonshine in the world came from there haha.

 

[Jim Oaks]

Harlan Kentucky.

I've off-roaded there, and the KAT goes by there. I guess back in the day it was a wild place to go. Just north of the Virginia border.

We might need to explore the Gap some day.

 

[Robertmangrum.rm]

Harlan Kentucky.

I've off-roaded there, and the KAT goes by there. I guess back in the day it was a wild place to go. Just north of the Virginia border.

We might need to explore the Gap some day.

My Grandad grew up in what he called Piney Flats. I'm not sure of that's a city or an area haha. I know it was up by Bristol TN. The stories about getting paid to transport liquor were always great. I would love go do a trip like you did last year. To find their old homestead and graves. I would have to do a lot more digging to even know where to start.

 

[Curious Hound]

@Jim Oaks @Curious Hound @snoranger @Robertmangrum.rm

That would make a good video background track.

 

[85_Ranger4x4]

That would make a good video background track.

Ive thought that too, it has a neat flow to it.

 

[Jim Oaks]

My Grandad grew up in what he called Piney Flats. I'm not sure of that's a city or an area haha. I know it was up by Bristol TN. The stories about getting paid to transport liquor were always great. I would love go do a trip like you did last year. To find their old homestead and graves. I would have to do a lot more digging to even know where to start.

Find a Grave - Millions of Cemetery Records

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

 

[DeeRanger]

I'm stuck in the past...

 

[Bill]