Playing with Dynamite – The Bunker
Today’s guest post was written by Ed Ammons. Beanie’s dad Luther worked for a time at a quarry over in…
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Blind Pig and The Acorn in 2022
Every January I study on what I’d like to accomplish on the Blind Pig and The Acorn in the coming…
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Crawdad Purging
Today’s guest post was written by Stephen Taylor. Tales from Kathy Campbell There were lots of wild things where we…
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Blind Pig & The Acorn – 2021 In Review
Every January I take a look back at what I’ve written during the course of the previous year. I’m always…
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Planting Calendars and a New Year
The planting calendar I used back in 2020 Every January I publish a post looking back on the things I’ve…
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Archives and Sickness
In all the years since I started blogging it’s a rare occurrence for me to feel too sick to post….
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December in Pigeon Roost 2
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
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Remembering Ethelene Dyer Jones – A Friend to the Blind Pig and The Acorn
Long time Blind Pig and The Acorn reader Ethelene Dyer Jones passed away on Friday November 26, 2021. Ethelene was…
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Thankful November – November Nostalgia
“To me, November always evokes pleasant thoughts—they include fond memories of boyhood rabbit hunts with a bevy of human and…
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Thankful November – Winners and Family
“Appalachian people are family-centered. Mountain people usually feel an obligation to family members and are more truly themselves when within…
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Thankful November – Self Reliance
“Several years ago there came a great snowfall in western North Carolina. The Red Cross came to help people who…
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Thankful November – The Doll Maker
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is a used copy of “The Doll Maker” written by Harriet Simpson Arnow. The book tells…
