Help Out the Hornets
If you’ve been reading the Blind Pig & The Acorn for a good while you’ll likely remember me talking about…
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Storing Eggs in the Old Days
—John Parris A Good Way to Store Eggs – Jonathans Creek “A hornets’ nest,” Mrs. Tiltha Messer said, “Makes the…
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Pretend Tobacco
“My granny dipped snuff. She washed out a snuff tin and cut me a toothbrush. She mixed cocoa powder and…
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Devil Sayings
October is the month for spookiness and if you ask me there’s nothing spookier than the Devil. There’s all manner…
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October 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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Preserving Wild Apricots/Maypops
View this post on Instagram A post shared by The Pressley Girls (@thepressleygirls) on Oct 11, 2019 at…
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Sharing Old Songs
I hope you’ve enjoyed my week long look at the song “Just a Touch of the Past.” One of my…
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Are Appalachians too Nostalgic?
Tipper Pressley – Appalachian Blogger Just a touch of the past is I’ll I’m asking Just a feeling I’m wanting…
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Days that Will be First and Last
How I wish that my heart could ever wonder in those days that will be first and last In my…
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Sadness of the Traveler
Chitter, Chatter, and their cousins on Granny and Pap’s back porch Now I know all the sadness of the traveler…
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Hard to Stop Nature from Taking Over
This summer seems to have been busier than usual for the Blind Pig Family. Our schedule was jam packed with…
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Memories of Syrup Making Days
Chitter skimming syurp “When I was young, I always looked forward to the late summer because it meant syrup-making time….
