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Welcome to welcome to the Nutmeg Tavern I am Jon Townsend we are on location here we
go I'll prove to you see the Nutmeg Tavern we brought it with us we are at Martin Station
in Ewing Virginia at uh Wilderness Road State Park and I've got lots of great reenactors
around me we're gonna bring them up and talk because I don't know what I would say if they
weren't here because it's just such a wonderful site I always love in coming and visiting
and this is a great weekend if you are in this area and you want to check out a cool
historical event and see a great site we're right here close to the Cumberland Gap area
at the kind of Western tip of Virginia right here where Virginia Tennessee Kentucky come
together so if you're in this area come check it out Peter let's have you up let's go clockwise
let's bring this um we have this wonderful guest here and
What is your name again? Peter?
Peter (indistinct)
there we go and you're visiting from?
Why do you reenact? I've liked it since I was a kid
until I saw the movie Black Robe
so how long you been reeancting?
okay that's a long time good um you do a lot of collecting over in Europe
yes I've been collecting 18th century stuff.....everything
yeah everything I bet you a lot there's a lot more neat stuff to find in Europe than
there is here yeah it is it is it is because you was much
more older than I am really good right I've always wanted to go on a shopping trip to
England for neat stuff
yeah you can find very neat stuff over there
Maybe I'll ask you for a tour of the bets places
so do you come over for just to this event? um also it's been for us to Wyoming okay
last year 2019 right hit us yeah a few minutes
wonderful thank you okay thank you
Okay we've got Peter Kelly and you will find which exactly
I need you guys to step closer and speak up they are saying the audio is too low
Ok we'll talk louder
Peter Kelly, you've got a YouTube channel too
we do yeah it's called The Woodland Escape uh my wife and I started at uh two and a half years ago and uh
looks like it's going strong
yeah we're having a lot of fun with it right we uh yeah
we sort of immersed ourselves into the 18th century living kind of live it okay what kind
of stuff are you doing on the channel so they know
Well we build birchbarck canoes uh we've built settlers cabins, shop,
blacksmithing, gun building
right basically we you know have reenacted for years but uh I figured if I really wanted
to learn how they did things and that's what fascinates me about it
right is they had to immerse myself so so it's more
living history and you thought you'd bring people along on the trip on YouTube
I did yeah sharing it like you haven't you've been a great inspiration actually so yeah
I've watched a lot of your stuff it's been a neat share
so what's your most recent video what did you do?
(it is How to Tan a Buffalo Hide) uh oh boy the last one I think we've produced one a
week for two and a half years I think we missed one week so I think it was hard making
okay great and what's the name of your channel again?
It's called The Woodland escape The Woodland Escape so you can and somebody
will probably find it put it in the chat for you so you can check it out
yeah it's in there right now okay I already did it
Pleasure meeting you yeah thank you come on Michael Michael's here
so Mr Dragoo he can do it all right
We need to talk like we're like like we're yelling at each other Okay how are you Michael
Dragoo is here he always comes down here The Nutmeg Tavern, not too shabby
yeah this is beautiful
right speaking nutmeg taverns out you can come and buy Ryan's coffee it's coffee here
at the event so anyway look at this
I know, its great What are you doing at the event this weekend?
I am smoking beef I'm smoking some trout and then trying not to get in the Higgins uh tent over there I'm
gonna stay alive so
Make sure to check out what was the last film we did when we talked about your cookbook
can't remember the episode (the episode is Make Medieval Cookies) check out Michael's new cookbook it's right here here we go it's
Michael's new cookbook you can find it on one of those episodes so yeah search Michael
Dragoo you didn't even remember we had a great uh
school day today we're looking forward to a busy weekend it's uh it's just beautiful
great event got a lineup of people wanting to meet you it's funny just to watch
okay all right is that it we're gonna have Mr Higgins yeah see ya thank you great job
good job good job Michael thank you
come on up
Am I next?
So who are you this weekend?
This weekend I am Humphrey Higgins and I am the proprietor of a pawn shop and Undertaker
service so if you need to borrow money in this Century you've got to come to see Uncle
Badger and he will take care of it. I charge a very reasonable interest rate, its only
25 percent and uh you you come you you come see me I'll even I'll even loan money for
a business like this um you have goods for sale?
I I have I have some things that I've pawned you know people have pawned and the next auction
will be in in two weeks in Fortnight right so nothing for sale I've got a really nice
Cannon I've got several fire locks a nice quiver with arrows and things like that but
it'll be two weeks before they're for sale
and Maggie's along with us she's not here right now thank God thank God she's over she's
over there working with folks so if you want to see Maggie or
and Parson John will be here on Sunday oh yeah Parson John
but if you want to catch things happening here on Sunday you got to come early
yeah yeah yeah yeah and I've been watching people talking in in this in this this this
video on the other side of the
on the other time vortez thing and and and and we apologize that that we're kind of working
under less than optimal conditions because because Ryan couldn't figure out how to work
the thing could he? nope it's all Ryan's fault
all right I'm gonna go now okay
many times a couple times on the channel many times uh you have seen Simeon he's been actually
we did a couple videos here where we talked about bear hunting and everything else lots
of fun stuff Simeon what are you doing this weekend?
I'm demonstrating blacksmithing and I'm presenting uh what day is?
tomorrow is Saturday I'm presenting tomorrow on uh militia down
by the fort yep so today was school day I had a bunch of kids out there and right learn
about Virginia from uh Frontier in 18th century stuff so So what what does a miltiaman need?
He needs his weapons and so by law he's required to own a gun the powder the lead a knife and
a tomahawk out here on the frontier because he's in the army
but it doesn't matter what he's wearing or anything
it doesn't they don't require you to wear wear anything its your normal clothes
you can fight without clothes too As long as you've got your gun and your knife
and your tomahawk that's right yeah you never know when you
need a diversion but anyway this is not a suggestion this is this is law you're required
to own this stuff because you're getting ready to fight and there's not there's not a person
on the on in colonial America that does not know about militia and militia law
okay right so and if they come tomorrow you'll tell them about it
That's right And if they come too late they can watch you
blacksmith that's right
what do you what are you blacksmaking tomorrow? Knives and Strikers things like that some
small projects okay it's a very neat historical Forge down there
You strike while the iron's hot Right
Strike while the iron's hot yep hundreds of kids learn that's today
yep is that it?
yeah did I talk loud enough Ryan?
Yes sir okay I appreciate you
Do we have anybody else I don't I don't see I don't see Mr Gatliff he didn't make it over
here that's all right uh wow uh I'm telling you when you come to an event like this full
of characters always always have a fun time Ryan do you want to come you want to come
over and talk about selling coffee Do I want to?
He would love to okay somebody had to hold the time Vortex
device I see Hello
see he was here he's here you're gonna you gotta tuck in here yeah
There you go
Ryan what are you doing this weekend we're selling coffee yeah Blue Line Coffee www.bluecoffeecompany.com
wow those mountains are beautiful yeah I look really good with this coffee in
front of them here we go look at that camera man whoa whoa
uh oh you're gonna find people
so question can you see whether there are any questions for people on the live stream?
you don't know? I can't get far enough away from the screen
to be able to read it actually I saw a lot of comments I saw a lot of regulars in there
thank you guys for tuning in and Ashleigh LeCount said this is on her Bucket List
It was there was somebody said they lived two hours from here and they might just have
to come you better you better get in your carriage and come on down
Yeah it is an extremely beautiful site, you can't even see the best part the best part
is the fort in fact the thumbnail image is the fork image or the station itself a lot
of great reenactors a lot of demonstrators uh Gary Carroll is here doing uh baskets you've
seen a video of him on the channel it's been a couple of a couple of years ago but just
a lot of I've done a lot of videos here because it's where so many great reenactors and demonstrators
come uh oxen are here what else is what else is here um people yeah one one thing about
Martin station is they do some incredible scenarios and so there we have we have some
things including my pawn shop that'll be but they'll be in in a scenario and you've got
to be here to to witness it it's it's it's it's going to be fun it's witnessing I'm I'm
often asked where where is the where's our favorite place to come and and and this is it
There you go
so if anybody's got any questions uh glad to field them for you and I've got lots of
people that can answer them uh if somebody else can be on the chat box if not I'll chat
for another few minutes and then I'll get back to having fun and we'll have another
live stream next Friday what do you think? I'll I'll chat for a while so uh yeah the
normal nutmeg Tavern is about eight hours north of here, if you come in a really fast carriage
but it is a really this area is great because it's not it's not built up around here and
as you can see you know when you come to a site like this you're not filled up with this
you know modern world right around you uh Tesla Ranger says is blacksmithing 90% horseshoes
No, no blacksmithing in the 18th century and in fact we we're going to be working on a
video um it might even be the next one after Mondays or Sunday
it's supposed to be
oh yeah and you know check for notifications on Sunday because we've moved our main video to Sunday
instead of Monday so uh you can find that main video on Sunday when most people have
lots of time to watch in the afternoon
um but we've got a video coming up what's the most important job in the world? blacksmithing
because we get the baker so blacksmithing is coming up and blacksmithing is something
that basically every person's life is touched by the blacksmith everybody's job one of their
tools or or the things they're doing has to involve the blacksmith so he's incredibly
important person in a community so yeah not just horseshoes that's for sure
Eric F thanks so much for jumping in today it's good to see you it's your speed and style
Tony is asking where exactly is Martin's Station? so Martin station is where can I say Martin
station is south of is it in Middleboro it's east of Middlesboro Kentucky it's uh
the the closest town is is Ewing or the mailing address is Ewing Virginia right so the Cumberland
Gap if you just search Cumberland Gap area we're right just to the east of that where
the Wilderness Road is Wilderness Road State Park
oh uh Jamie Tyree we miss seeing you here yeah it's good to see you why aren't you here
Jamie? oh they got other stuff that they got to do
he's blacksmithing yeah yeah Jamie if you want to answer some more blacksmithing questions
in the chat you go for it
somebody's asking is there Pony Express here Pony Express no not yet no no people are coming
in on the Wilderness Road and the mail is probably as low as it could possibly be
okay guys we are gonna wind this up um make sure to tune in on Sunday uh for the next
episode what's it going to be Ryan it's going to be another feast episode so uh
the frontiersmans the poor frontiersman's Feast great episode coming right up yeah and
we're going to do our best to have a another live stream next Friday and keep watching
the channel thank you guys so much for your incredible support! thank you guys all for
being on the channel! we'll see you next Friday