“No account of food habits in East Tennessee would be complete without a discussion of the role of dried beans. If there was a single staple when I was growing up, it was dried beans. They might be white, pinto, or mixed, but they were always there. Every two or three days beans would be cooked, usually seasoned with fat salt pork; they were much better if cooked with a country ham (or shoulder) shank. Then they were reheated each…
As you might imagine, there’s all sorts of times I get lonesome for Pap. Sometimes I get something on my…
“I just can’t turn off work like I used too. Seems like I can’t get nothing much done these days.”…
jump the broom, jump the broomstick verb phrase To get married, usu without benefit of clergy. This expression has a…
Galax is Appalachia’s own Valentine. If you go stogging around in the woods this time of the year you’re bound…
Courtship games from The Frank C. Brown Collection North Carolina Folklore A boy and a girl stand at one side…
round robin noun 1995 Adams Come Go Home 81 [Granny] would call up and order me to her house to…
Appalachia is known for its Apple Stack Cake, but I never even tasted one until I assisted in a cooking…
The Pressley Girls The girls learned the song “Red is the Rose” five years ago and they’ve been singing it…
I’m sharing another riddle by way of Sidney Saylor Farr’s book My “Appalachia – A Memoir” with you today. “Round as…