Do You Believe in Haunted Houses?
Last weekend-Chatter and Chitter played the role of ‘Alice’ in The Learning Center!’s annual Monster Mash Maze. It was a…
Childhood Fears
With Halloween just around the corner, this is the time of the year most folks start thinking about ghosts, witches,…
Shape Note Singing
Quay Smathers When I put the gospel music question out to Blind Pig readers-most of the comments left had something to do with Shape…
2 Mysteries Solved
Thanks to the detective work of the Blind Pig readers-I was able to solve my 2 mysteries. First up the old…
Want Tickets To The JCCFS Fall Festival – I’ve Got 4 To Giveaway
I grew up going to the John C. Campbell Folk School’s Fall Festival-most years Pap performed and I usually tagged…
Help Me Solve 2 Mysteries
A good friend recently gave me this old cast iron tea kettle. A lady gave it to him-and told him it was her Grandmother’s-and…
Gritted Bread 2
A few of you may remember Pap and me making gritted bread last year. Pap remembers 2 different ways his Mother made what…
Sinners and Saints
See the gentleman sitting at the end of the couch-that’s was Pap’s Uncle Frank-my Great Uncle Frank. He died when I was…
Craftmanship And Cultivation Of Beauty – Lingering Legacies Of Early Mountaineers
Craftsmanship and Cultivation of Beauty – Lingering Legacies of Early Mountaineers by Don Casada July, 2010 Susan and Don Casada…
Spiders
Everyone’s afraid of something, when I was growing up it was spiders for me. I couldn’t stand them. Almost every time…
How Hot Is It At Your House?
Western NC, along with other areas throughout the country, has been experiencing a record breaking heat wave this summer. The…
Ever Feed A Grasshopper?
During the summer it’s hard to walk through the yard without flushing out grasshoppers. I found the one above in a…