September 2, 1945
Harshaw Road – Cherokee County NC September 2, 1945 the Japanese delegation formally signed the instrument of surrender marking the…
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Vacation Fun
The girls and I snuck off to the beach a while back. We had a wonderful time. The weather was…
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Calling Places by People’s Names Who Are Long Gone On
There’s something exceedingly nostalgic and at the same time reverent about place names that honor those who lived, loved, worked…
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Hole Rose
You may remember a few weeks back I shared the guest post “The Murder (?) of Hol Rose” written by…
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Dog Days in Appalachia
Have you ever heard of dog days? I’ve heard about them all my life. They occur in the latter part…
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Ruminations on an Old Rocking Chair
Jim Casada sent me this piece he wrote about his Grandpa Joe after my recent post about rocking chairs. Grandpa…
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Rockin’ Chairs
“Uncle Billy McCoy, who counts his years at two past a hundred, figures there’s nothing like a rocking chair for…
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A Sight Of
“There was a sight of rocks where we grew a garden. Poppa had us stack them along the edges of…
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My Favorite Ladle
I have a favorite ladle. You can see it in the photo above. On the day I snapped the photo…
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Case Knife =A Butter Knife
Ed Ammons left the following comment on last week’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. “Nowthen there’s a Case and there’s a case…
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White Clay
“You boys, take this bucket and go up to the clay pit and bring back as much as you can…
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Singing Songs You Don’t Know – Way Back in the Hills
Photo by Ron Priest I’m sharing another peek into our recent show at the Historic Union County Courthouse for today’s…
