Puppy Love
Today’s guest post was written by Garland Davis. From the time I was three until my father’s premature death when…
Today’s guest post was written by Garland Davis. From the time I was three until my father’s premature death when…
jump the broom, jump the broomstick verb phrase To get married, usu without benefit of clergy. This expression has a…
Galax is Appalachia’s own Valentine. If you go stogging around in the woods this time of the year you’re bound…
Courtship games from The Frank C. Brown Collection North Carolina Folklore A boy and a girl stand at one side of…
Pap and Granny – Wilson Holler 1964 On my recent post Slipping Off, Shirl left a comment about slipping off…
“My grandmother said that she remembered when she was fifteen or sixteen years old, maybe younger than that, thirteen or…
Did you ever play any of the embarrassing games designed to instigate contact between the opposite sexes when you were…
I recently read a most unusual love story in the book My Mountains My People written by John Parris. The…