Fain House Radio Interview
I was recently featured on Fain House Radio. The host, Annie Fain Barralon, interviewed me last week and the podcast…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 151
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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5 Things
1. Chatter’s room smells like a trapper’s cabin! No she’s not been running trap lines as a side hustle 🙂…
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Modern Dentistry
“Thank the good Lord for modern dentistry! When my mom was a little girl she had a relative, Reinhold Hoffman, who…
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School Memories from Haywood County NC
Sue Cole 2009 As my mind worried about the folks suffering in Haywood County yesterday I was reminded of a…
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Collecting Rocks from the Creek
I’ve always loved creek rocks. I’d like to think Chitter inherited her love of the creek from me, but I…
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Internet Woes
My internet provider has experienced a major outage. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that by the time you read this…
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Rubber Inner Tubes and Summer Storms
“Today’s read conjures up a plethora of memories of thunderstorms from my youth and into the present, but I will…
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Watching Westerns with Granny
Back in June I left my full time position with John C. Campbell Folk School to focus on my passion…
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Using Outhouses and Slop Jars
“I was born in the early 1950’s and until my sister and I were around 5 and 6 years old…
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5 Things
1. It’s been an exciting summer around the Blind Pig and The Acorn house! Chatter’s boyfriend proposed to her and…
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Doghobble
doghobble noun A common evergreen shrub (Leucothoe spp) having dense, tangled limbs and branches. [DARE labels this term “chiefly southern Appalachians”] 1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 124…
