Guess what? Chatter and Chitter Graduated from College!
Last weekend the girls graduated from college. They can barely believe they made it through…I can barely believe I have children…
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The Old Mill in Pigeon Forge TN
Chuck Childers – Miller of The Old Mill Last year was my first time attending Wilderness Wildlife Week in…
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Soupy Taters
Like most everyone else in Appalachia potatoes, or more commonly called taters, make up a large part of our diet…
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Blackberry Blossom
With the blackberries blooming behind the chicken house and Blackberry Winter making me wish I hadn’t put up all…
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Blackberry Winter
1962 Dykeman Tall Woman 14 And after the cold spell, when dogwoods bloomed, there would be whippoorwill winter and…
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Garden Update – Lettuce Trial and A New Bed
I planted my trial set of Sow True Seed Lettuce Seed on April 2. In a little over a…
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Snow in May
Pap is the boy on the right of the photo in overalls – he’s standing with his parents and…
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The Smathers of Haywood County
Photo courtesy of The Shook Museum – Clyde, Haywood County NC A few weeks back the girls and I attended…
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Planting by the Signs Calendar – May 2017
Our spring garden is coming right along. The green onions, radishes, and lettuce are starting to come in and…
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Green Onions and Salt
Ethelene Dyer Jones sent me the following piece about her memories of eating from the spring garden as a child: A…
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In That Morning
Quay Smathers Excerpt from the Quay Smathers Memorial Singing School Website: “Quay Smathers was born in Dutch Cove south of…
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A Child of the Mountains
A Child of the Mountains I am a child of the mountains, Running barefooted where wild honeysuckle and mountain…
