We Survived The Heat
We survived the heat and had a great day at the Cashiers Music Festival yesterday. There was good food-and course…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Burnt Slap Up
Was it hot at your house yesterday? It was hot in Brasstown-as you can see 103.5 at just after 4pm….
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2 Knitters Moved In Last Week
The calm of daily life in Brasstown was interrupted last week by John C. Campbell Folk School’s Little Middle Folk…
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It’s A Cymling – I Think
One day when I was looking up a word in my Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, my eye fell upon…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Way Back In The Hills
I’m sure I’ve told you at some point-but just in case you missed it-the Blind Pig Family is not made…
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4th Annual Planting By The Signs Test – Update 1
It’s been a few weeks since the 4th Annual Blind Pig & the Acorn Planting by the Signs Test kicked…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – My Favorite Summertime Breakfast
My favorite summer breakfast: sliced tomatoes with salt and pepper; fresh baked biscuits with sorghum syrup and butter. Sigh… actually…
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Grooms Tune
Ever heard Bonaparte’s Retreat? It’s an old fiddle tune. In 1950 Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart penned words to…
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Pap Is My Silver Haired Daddy
I originally published this post about Pap on Father’s Day back in 2008. I still feel the same way about…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Black Eyed Susans
Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan written by John Gay (1685-1732), British poet. ALL in the Downs the fleet was…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Phlox
Carolina Phlox Polemoniaceae (Phlox Family) A few weeks ago, when we were talking about Thrift growing on my basement bank,…
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Appalachian Writers
A few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure of reading Marilyn Sue Shank’s new book Child of the Mountains….