Snow Folklore From Southern Appalachia
It’s Sunday night-and the weather reporters are in a tizz about the impending winter storm and it’s effect on the…
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1918 Flu In Southern Appalachia
The Blind Pig family has been lucky this winter-none of us have been sick much-I feel like I should say…
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Every Day Of The World
When I sit down to write yesterday’s post I was thinking about old sayings that have the word world in…
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How Small Is The World?
Is the world getting smaller? Sometimes I think it is. When Guitar Man came home for Thanksgiving-he had tons of…
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Hunting The Perfect Christmas Tree
When The Deer Hunter and I were first married we used a real Christmas Tree each year. We usually bought…
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An Ode To October
An Ode To October by Jim Casada (copyright 2010) Not long ago, in one of her daily blogs Tipper mentioned…
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Craftmanship And Cultivation Of Beauty – Lingering Legacies Of Early Mountaineers
Craftsmanship and Cultivation of Beauty – Lingering Legacies of Early Mountaineers by Don Casada July, 2010 Susan and Don Casada…
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Spiders
Everyone’s afraid of something, when I was growing up it was spiders for me. I couldn’t stand them. Almost every time…
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Drinking Water From Wild Grapevines
One evening last week, we helped Pap cut a few trees and scrub that had grown high enough to shade part of the big…
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January the 23 the 1870
Several months ago, Peggy P. asked me if I’d be interested in reading a letter that had been handed down…
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Pickin & Grinnin With Silver Wings
I grew up in a family of Merle Haggard fans. How can anyone deny the man’s musical genius? I believe…
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Gritted Bread
After Pap showed me how to parch corn-he told me about gritted bread. Pap recalls 2 types of bread being called…
