Appalachian Vocabulary Test 54
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-take it and see how you do. Ease around Eating table Epizooticks Everly…
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Playing Telephone
Have you ever played the game telephone? It’s a fun game to play especially if you’re in a group of…
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Roosters and Violets
This post was originally published here on the Blind Pig in April of 2010. Since it mentions a game I…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – May Waters
According to folklore I found in Frank C. Brown’s Collection, if you wash your face in the dew on May…
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Drop The Handkerchief
Drop the Handkerchief is a game I remember playing in the gym of the old Martins Creek School. The game…
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Planting By The Signs May 2013
I’ve been dreaming about fresh tomatoes, bright yellow squash, and eating a cucumber still warm from the sunshine sprinkled with…
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Mumbly Peg
Mumbly peg (or mumble peg) is a game I’ve seen boys play during my lifetime. I’ve even seen grown men…
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Choices
If you haven’t heard, George Jones passed away on Friday, he was 81 years old. Most country music fans loved…
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Blowing Bubbles
Blowing bubbles is a right of childhood. At some point, either at home or at school, children experience the joy…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – A Great Circle Of Dance
Last weekend, me and the girls made our annual trek to Berea, Kentucky to participate in Mountain Folk Festival. The weeks leading…
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Pretty Girl Station
Angie and Tipper – Martins Creek Elementary School Pretty Girl Station is a game I remember playing in the grassy…
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Unique Baby Dolls
When I was a little girl my favorite thing to play with was my dolls. There was a doll on…
