Cold End to May
We’ve had cool weather over the last week. I was surprised by the airish temperatures the first morning I went…
Memorial Day 2023
Pap raised my brothers and I to fully understand that our freedom didn’t happen without great loss. Memorial Day always…
Marbles
My brother was a CHAMPION marble player. The superintendent of our school (grades 1-12), had to make a rule against…
Pretty Roses
Miss Cindy’s rose bush There’s a rose bush just outside Miss Cindy’s front door. It’s put on a spectacular show…
Pap & Paul Sing about Whippoorwills
Pap and Paul sung several Delmore Brothers’ songs. The Delmores wrote some mighty fine songs so it’s easy to see…
Country Stores
Had a little country store up there. You’d take the eggs up there. He made one trip to Canton every…
Turned Around by Honeysuckle
I had an aggravating morning. Nothing really wrong just a series of events that prevented me from getting to do…
Logging and Deep Hollows
When I was 9 or 10 years old, I was allowed to accompany and help a professional forester buying logs…
Relishing the Call of the Whippoorwills
Most springs we have one lone whippoorwill that makes its presence known early in the morning and late in the…
From the Archives: Grateful in Appalachia
“Louisa had never been grateful for anything, but from Corie she learned gratefulness and thankfulness for all things: dry wood,…
Living Close to the Land for Generations
Here in the Blue Ridge, we are either on top of the mountains looking down into sprawling hollers covered with trees…
Determined Mountaineers
Photo courtesy of Western Carolina University Southern Appalachian Digital Collections Aden A. Carver, Smokemont, N.C. “Uncle” Carver at age 91 years…