Long time Blind Pig and The Acorn reader Ethelene Dyer Jones passed away on Friday November 26, 2021. Ethelene was 91 years old. Ethelene was one of my earliest readers. I searched the comment archives and found she left her first comment way back in 2009. And in true Ethelene fashion, in that comment she invited me to her upcoming family reunion which was held in the Choestoe section of Union County Georgia. I went to the reunion and had…
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“To me, November always evokes pleasant thoughts—they include fond memories of boyhood rabbit hunts with a bevy of human and…
“Appalachian people are family-centered. Mountain people usually feel an obligation to family members and are more truly themselves when within…
“Several years ago there came a great snowfall in western North Carolina. The Red Cross came to help people who…
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is a used copy of “The Doll Maker” written by Harriet Simpson Arnow. The book tells…
Today’s guest post was written by Garland Davis. From the time I was three until my father’s premature death when…
“Emma trudged on, as May wound down, through lonely woods. She sucked on bouillon cubes as she hiked, and found…
“In early January 1928, we moved, house and all, higher into the mountains to Mark’s Cove just below Clingman’s Dome.…
It’s time for my annual Thankful November. Every November I host a variety of giveaways as a way of saying THANK…
“There was loneliness in the dark hills when the wind stirred the withered leaves on the trees. It was music…