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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A Story for Memorial Day
Yesterday I was reminded of a guest post Jim Casada wrote back in 2012. I decided to reshare it today….
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Memorial Day 2025
Back in 2009 the Moving Wall Memorial exhibit came to Murphy. The girls’ school had a field trip planned to…
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Happy Mother’s Day from Appalachia – 2025
Chatter, Tipper, Chitter Being a mother has been the greatest pleasure of my life. From the first time I held…
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Happy Resurrection Day
Legend of the Dogwood At the time of the crucifixion, the dogwood had reached the size of the mighty oak…
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Easter Memories from Blind Pig Readers
Ed Karshner: I remember the oatmeal box baskets. We would make them in Sunday school the week before Easter and…
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Planting Taters on Good Friday
We’ve already got our taters planted, in fact many of them are coming up already. Recently Granny told me that…
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Happy New Year 2025
All of us here at Blind Pig and The Acorn sincerely hope the new year of 2025 is exactly what…
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Happy Thanksgiving 2024
Today as all of us are eating good food and fellowshipping one with another I’ll be thinking of all the…
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Thankful November – Veterans Day
“My uncle Carl was a medic in World War II, he served in Italy, he was gone from home 37…
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Happy 4th of July 2024
When the Glorious Fourth Was a Rip-Snorter written by John Parris. Joe L. Hartley, The 90-Year Old Apostle of Grandfather Mountain,…
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Father’s Day 2024
Corie, Matt, and Katie On Father’s Day I always think about Pap, but truthfully I think about him pretty much…
