Granny with her brothers and sisters (Granny is the small girl on the far right of the second row) I was helping Granny yesterday and we got to talking about fall of the year when she was a girl. Someone would usually give Granny’s mother Gazzie a bushel or two of apples and she’d process them for winter use. Fall was the time of the year for harvesting black walnuts too. They’d all help gather walnuts and then hull them…
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Daddy and mama purchased a piece of ground that was covered in second growth pines. In clearing a house place, daddy…
Today’s post was written by Corie. As I prepare to be married in the coming months, I have thought a…
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I remember in the 40’s going out in the fields and the edges of woods in the fall of the…
Today’s guest post was written by Garland Davis. Yellow Jackets This other fool named Junior and I discovered an underground…
I’ve had my copy of the new Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English for a couple of months. I was so…
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A comment on my recent video about making Apple Bread reminded me of something Pap and Granny always said. I…
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