In the last few weeks I’ve received some very nice validation for my efforts of celebrating and preserving Appalachian culture and heritage. I almost didn’t know about the first one. Ron Roach sent me a message of congratulations for winning one of the Appalachian Studies Association awards. I sent back “Good to hear from you, hope you are well! But I didn’t win any award to my knowledge.” I figured Ron got me mixed up with someone else. He went…
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In my recent video I share words from Appalachia that begin with the letter B. I used the “Dictionary of…
The Deer Hunter brought me a dandy old bottle the other day. He found it on a recent turkey hunting…
1979 was the year I turned nine. My world revolved around what Paul and I could come up with to…
Today I’m sharing another peek at the great life we’ve been blessed with in the mountains of North Carolina. You…
“In the hills, March is a woodpecker drumming in a new season. It’s the liquid trill of tree frogs and…
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
Granny wasn’t the only one who had a birthday over the weekend, Blind Pig and The Acorn turned 13. Where…
When I need to find some peace and solace in this crazy world I like to go to the top…
Back in 2017 I wrote about Kenneth Roper’s mother telling her boys March 4th was the command day of the…