Old Decoration Day Photos
Decoration Day at Bryan’s Graveyard Decoration Day at Bryan’s Graveyard. Cate’s Crossroads, Kodak, Tennessee. The photographer, Carlos C. Campbell (1892-1978), was a…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 184
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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Plumb Wore Out
Recently we worked all day in the big garden. There was much to do. We hoed the corn and fertilized…
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Sweet Bubby Bush
Almost two years ago we had the bank above the big garden cut back. The trees had started shading the…
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I Heared Tell
My brother Steve (in red hat) with some of his coon hunting buddies 1980 A recent email correspondence with Blind…
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Old Sayings from an Old Book
—Word-Book of Virginia Folk-Speech written by B.W. Green I love all the old sayings! I wish I could remember to use…
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Beautiful Spring Skies
green up, green-up time noun Springtime.1976 Dwyer Southern Sayin’s 23 = springtime. “It’s comin’ green up.” 1991 Haynes Haywood Home 56 Springtime, just at green-up time, was the time for making popguns…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 183
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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Spring Rain and Little Winters
I noticed the blackberries in my mountain holler are beginning to bloom. We’ve had rainy weather this week and I…
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Cold Temperatures Right On Time
The cold weather we’re experiencing is right on time for Dogwood Winter. Last week we had a couple of days…
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Chicken Feathers & Passing of Time
chickens today, feathers tomorrowA saying among hillfolk roughly equivalent to “here today, gone tomorrow,” or life is short. “He shook…
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Spring and Children’s Competitions
Rooster fight-A children’s competition of various kinds, esp to pull the stems of violets against one another to determine which…
