From the Archives: Oh Little Momma your Daddys got the Deep Elem Blues
January 8, 2017 After Pap passed away I couldn’t bear to watch any of the videos we’ve filmed over the…

January 8, 2017 After Pap passed away I couldn’t bear to watch any of the videos we’ve filmed over the…

Freezing temperatures have continued in Brasstown. The cold spell has us staying close to the woodstove. As I heard folks…

Every January I take a look back at what I’ve written during the course of the previous year. I’m always…

This June Miss Cindy will have been gone for three years. Hard to believe it’s been that long. Although we…

For many years we’ve got our friend Thomas to bring us a load of firewood. He does right-away clearing as…

1958 Solomon Barnett reported that he observed the big wild cat’s tracks again in the heavy snow early Thursday morning….

There is NO heat like the heat from a wood fire either in a stove or in a pile or…

Yesterday, January 6, was Old Christmas. I had never heard of it until I started the Blind Pig. Here’s an…

Today’s guest post was written by Ed Ammons. Grandma’s pasture was on a rather steep hillside along and above the…

Lazy I had an uncle over in North Carolina who was voted the laziest man in the county. When the…

Sometimes young men would get together to welcome the new year by shooting guns at midnight or discharging blasts of…
“When I was a child, hunting with my dad was a treat. I know about those hills. I have said before, we hunted and…