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…
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Hoeing Corn
Today’s guest post was written by Kenneth Roper I was about 5 or 6, don’t think I had even started…
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What it Was Like to Grow up in WNC
Today’s guest post was written by Lewis Kearney. After reading one of your daily blogs, the thought hit me of…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Playing for More than Money
Paul, Chatter, Chitter, Tipper – June 2018 Martins Creek These days The Pressley Girls get paid to play music. When…
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Of an Evening
Pap and Granny sitting in their shady backyard of an evening evening adverb The afternoon, the time between the middle…
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Revolutionary War Patriot
Revolutionary War Patriot John Ingraham (about 1755-September 16, 1828) written by Ethelene Dyer Jones. The parentage of John Ingraham of…
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Planting by the Signs for July 2018
July is typically the time that gardens in my area are laid by which means folks have pretty much done…
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Good Water
A spring Pap used to feed our gravity water system when I was a child “Mountain people…highly valued a cold,…
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Come Go with Me to the John C. Campbell Folk School
Blind Pig Gang getting ready to play at the John C. Campbell Folk School – 2011 The Pressley Girls have…
