The Story Of The Devil’s Tramping Ground
Appalachia is full of scary stories about ghosts, witches, painters, hainted houses, etc. Religion is woven so tightly through Appalachia-that the…
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Haunt Tales
haunt tale noun A variant forms haint tale, hant tale. B A ghost story 1938 Hall Coll. Emerts Cove TN People’s…
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Cushaw Pie = YUM
This time of the year I start thinking of Granny’s Pumpkin Pie. There’s something about the cooler weather and fall…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Beautiful College Campuses And A Secret Code
Young Harris College We have beautiful college campuses in Appalachia. You’d think our beautiful campuses are top secret-I mean you…
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I’m Working On A Building
Chatter, Pap, and Paul have been fooling around with the old song Working on a Building for the past few…
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“Old Autumn In The Misty Morn”
Today’s guest post was written by Ethelene Dyer Jones. A certain aura of solemnity and sadness settles over me as…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Beggar Lice
1901 Lounsberry Southern Wild Flowers 527 Although they flare jaunty golden-heads, all the while they are preparing their flattened…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 71
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-take it and see how you do! Mush Mountain oyster Mizzle Mind Mill…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – The Creek’s Out
Weather Underground report for Brasstown @ 7:25 p.m. October 14, 2014 – 2.96 in of rainfall. The Deer Hunter leaves…
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How To Roast Peppers
My Gypsy Peppers are still producing! I figured the early frost we had would do them in. They were a…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Fall Color Is Here
“The hills are beginning to catch fire. Autumn’s glory is spreading across the land. The backroads are calling. The greatest…
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Tom Toddy Tom Toddy
Back when we first started discussing rhymes here on the Blind Pig, Ed Ammons sent me the following email about…
