More Maypops Than Ever
Wild apricot noun A tall vine (Passiflora incarnata) having large, flesh-colored flowers and smooth, yellow fruit. Same as maypop, passion…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 198
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 197
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Breaking Daylight
break daylight verb phrase [with stress on both day and light] To dawn, become light in the early morning. 1937 Hall Coll (Smokemont NC) [By the] time we…
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The Time For Putting Up
put up verb phrase To put away, store.1969 DARE FW Addit (KY) = to store, put away, or put in storage as in a…
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Dark Cornfields
In ag class about 1959 one of my classmates made the statement, “If you want to walk through Daddy’s corn…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 196
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Update on Tom Tricken Tracken
A year or so ago Karen shared a childhood rhyme with me. Here’s what she said: When I was little…
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Sayings from Aunt Arie
I’m nearing the end of the book about Aunt Arie in my Friday reading series. Once you learn a bit…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 195
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Mountain Bald
Southern Appalachian Digital Collections Summer grazing on Mountain BaldPrint by North Carolina Museum of HistoryDate: 1906 baldA adjetive See citationsB…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Snake Spit
When I was a girl the kids in the holler often played outside together in a gang that ranged from…
