Brasstown Blotter – Carving Room
The Brasstown Blotter was a small publication published in the late 1930s and early 1940s by the John C. Campbell…
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Horseshoes Are Lucky
Horseshoes are lucky-at least they’re supposed to be. My Granny Gazzie had horseshoes wrapped in aluminum foil above a few…
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Thunder =’s ?
Photo by Trevis Hicks Lord’s bread wagon, Lord’s corn wagon noun Thunder. Same as bread wagon. 1913 Bruce Terms from…
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Jesus, You Helped Me Today
Pap back in the day About this time last year Paul uploaded a song he did that was written by…
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July in Pigeon Roost
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
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Serendipity and Pap
ser·en·dip·i·ty noun the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. ——- Chitter has been…
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The Wildness of Summer
If you’ve been reading the Blind Pig for a good long while you know my least favorite time of the…
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Chicken Eggs
Eggs: The Almost Perfect Food “In the mountains, eggs were almost as important to our diet as milk and bread….
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Angels of Mercy & I’ll Be Young on Carolina Crafting
Today’s post was written by Paul. Day of filming for Carolina Crafting Back around 2008, Jackie Jentzsch asked us to…
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Garland and the Billy Goat
Today’s guest post was written by Garland Davis. There was the incident of the Billy goat. The doctor had prescribed…
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Gnat Smokes
“We never throwed away nary scrap of cloth til it got so wore out it coutn’t even be used for…
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Pant Leg Straighteners
A few years back Blind Pig reader Don Casada sent me the photos in this post. He wanted to see…
