Feeling like Fall
Late summer days make me long for the first heavy frost. The cool air the mountains of western North…
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Labor Day Labor
The Blind Pig family spent Labor Day laboring. The girls have several landscaping jobs in Brasstown. They maintain the…
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5 Things
1. The other day Chatter and I was out on the back deck when we heard a large rock roll…
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Corncob Jelly
Corncob Jelly – Mountain Cooking by John Parris 1978 Highlands Elizabeth Edwards, who operates a business with a strictly mountain…
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Love and Laughter from The Pressley Girls
The Pressley Girls – Appalachian Night at the Hinton Center July 2017 As you might guess Chatter and Chitter are…
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Making Apple Butter 1892
Excerpt from Snowbird Gravy and Dishpan Pie written by Patsy Moore Ginns During the Depression, you had no money to…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 103
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear some of the words and…
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Deputizing Blind Pig and The Acorn Lettuce Reporters @ Large
This year Sow True Seed has graciously donated extra lettuce seed so that I can deputize @ Large Lettuce Reporters during…
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How To Make Grape Jelly
Our grape vines did very well this summer and its a good thing since there was no blackberries to make…
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Rock Salt And Nails
The first person I remember hearing sing Rock Salt And Nails was Tony Rice and I immediately fell in love…
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Overheard
“Do you remember that time that David cut his head in the woods and Hoyt put pine-rosin on it?…
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The Kudzu Man
The Kudzu Man The Kudzu Man is dead asleep, But soon he’ll stir, and move his feet. His skin will…
