Gouging Wasper Nests
Wasper Like most mountain boys I got eat up with waspers, gaugeing their nests off old barns and houses lookin’…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 168
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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Go With and Stay On
Yesterday Andy Davis left the following comment on an old post. A dear friend just passed away in NC. On…
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Butter Beans
butter bean noun A small lima bean.1949 Kurath Word Geog East US 73 Butter beans is a common expression for…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 167
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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How Hot is it?
It has been hot in Brasstown! Seems like only yesterday I was wondering when summer and hot weather would ever…
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Volunteers in the Garden
Volunteer cabbage plant volunteerA nounOften used attributively: an unsown plant or crop of vegetables or grain that comes up from…
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What Does Grabbling Potatoes Mean?
grab, grabble, gravel verbTo dig up with the hands, esp a potato early in the season, and smooth back the dirt around the…
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The Jewels of Summer
Our tomatoes are coming in like crazy for us, especially the tommy-toes. If you’re unfamiliar with that type of tomato…
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Warnings about Dog Days
Dog days started on July 3 and I’ve been hearing folks talk about them. Day before yesterday Granny asked me…
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The Truth Will Stand When the World is on Fire
If I’m a lying, I’m a dying!He’s a bald face liar and the truth ain’t in him.Mammy used to say,…
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What Went With My Keys?
“Mom don’t know what went with her keys, but I found them!” A few days ago someone left a comment…
