Virgil Keene
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I'm Virgil Keene. I've spent my life working with my hands, and twice a week I put out a video on the things Americans used to know how to do — how a family kept food for a year without a refrigerator, how they heated a house when the power quit, how they held onto money when the banks couldn't be trusted, and how they kept a door shut when help wasn't coming. This isn't survival fantasy and it isn't a gear catalog. It's the ordinary work that got ordinary families through, explained plainly enough that you could go use one of them this weekend. ── About this channel ── Scripts are researched and written original for this channel. Imagery is original or licensed. Narration is produced with a synthetic voice.
12 Depression Suppers Made From 3 Ingredients
Virgil Keene · 257 views · 11 days ago
I Found a Secret in the 1800s Plow from My Shed
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 748 views · 1 month ago
10 Hobo Survival Tricks From the Great Depression Nobody Teaches Anymore
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 629 views · 1 month ago
What Mountain Men Actually Carried — According to a Surviving 1834 Ledger
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 3.5K views · 2 weeks ago
10 Steps to a Dugout — How Homesteaders Built a Winter House Into a Hillside
Virgil Keene · 886 views · 2 weeks ago
How Antique Hand Pumps Lifted Water From a Well — With Just One Handle
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 214 views · 1 day ago
15 "Forgotten" Items Every Hobo Carried During the Great Depression
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 5.6K views · 1 month ago
How 1920s Farmers Mastered the Wind (And How You Can Too)
Virgil Keene · 658 views · 3 days ago
10 Things Hobos Slept On When There Was No Bed
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 1.1K views · 1 month ago
How Cold Was an Early American Log Cabin? They Slept in One All Winter
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 583 views · 1 month ago
Why Our Ancestors Built Smokehouses Like This: A Lost Craft
Virgil Keene · 1.1K views · 7 days ago
20 "Poor Man" Root Cellar Hideouts That Make $20,000 Panic Rooms Look Ridiculous
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 186 views · 1 month ago
12 Ways They Baked Bread Without an Oven, Using Nothing but a Fire
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 2.1K views · 1 month ago
25 Depression-Era Cooking Tricks Grandma Never Wrote Down
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 560 views · 1 month ago
Found In Your Garage? This Old Tool Sold For Over $1,295!
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 445 views · 1 month ago
Why Your Modern Roof Can't Compare to This 18th-Century Technique
Virgil Keene · 460 views · 2 weeks ago
Why Pioneer Cabins Didn’t Rot — The Ditch They Dug First
Virgil Keene · 705 views · 3 weeks ago
Pioneers Knew Something About Foundations We Forgot
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 7.7K views · 1 month ago
Pioneers Knew Something About Chimneys We Forgot
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 2.5K views · 1 month ago
15 FORGOTTEN Knives Every American Man Carried in His Pocket
Virgil Keene and Medieval Wisdom · 9.7K views · 4 weeks ago