Planting By The Signs For May 2015
Click on calendar for a larger view Our spring veggies are almost ready to eat-well everything except the beets….
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Overheard
“If you ever lay an egg just back up and admire it.” —————– Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern…
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Old Timey Toothbrushes
Most everyone used twig toothbrushes when I was a child. They’d get a small stick from a blackgum tree about…
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Vaccinations In The Confederate Army
Cedar Mountain, VA – A Confederate Field Hospital – Library of Congress HOW THE CONFEDERATE ARMY WAS VACCINATED C. W….
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Newman’s Ridge
Alex Lewis Stewart, the second of 16 children, was born in 1891, near the top of Newman’s Ridge in a…
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Ginger Cake And Homemade Whipped Cream
Several months ago I came across a small cookbook titled Mountain Makin’s in the Smokies. The book was published in…
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Jolene
Most everyone is familiar with the Dolly Parton classic Jolene. According to an NPR article, the song is Parton’s most…
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Civil War Surgery
Top Ten Surprising Things About Civil War Medicine written by Carole Adrienne 1) There wasn’t an ambulance to be found….
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Appalachian Sayings – If You Sup With The Devil You Need A Long Spoon
If you’re going to sup with the Devil you need to use a long spoon. In other words: you better…
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Survival Lessons From The Civil War
Today’s guestpost was written by Leon Pantenburg, who blogs at Survival Common Sense. I ordered by inter-library loan a book named…
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Green Up
A few months ago I received the following email: Dear Ms. Pressley – I have enjoyed browsing your blog because…
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150th Anniversary Of The Civil War
James Jasper Scroggs Confederate Solider “Two-thirds of all Civil War deaths were a result of disease, not battlefield injury. Most…
