Shooting Contests in Appalachia
Do they ever have turkey shoots where you live? Every once in a while I hear about one happening around here….
Do they ever have turkey shoots where you live? Every once in a while I hear about one happening around here….
Chatter, Tipper, and Chitter Over the years I’ve learned to be wary when one of the girls run up to…
Pap was born in 1937. He spent the first years of his life on the Harshaw Farm in Cherokee County…
After Pap died I was worried about dreaming about him. Sounds silly I know. I was afraid if I dreamed…
When Pap was a boy, corn was the most important crop folks grew-I guess it still is for many…
Grief is a funny thing. Some days I feel so distant from Pap that I wonder if he was really…
Papaw Wade blowing his fox horn course verb To trace or follow (esp bees to their hive). 1926 Hunnicutt Twenty…
From house to house he goesA messenger small and slight,And whether it rains or snows,He sleeps outside at night. ~Riddle…
All my life an old homeplace up the creek has been called The Pear Trees. No pears there in my…
Pap 1970 something. A few days ago The Deer Hunter and I were watching some silly reality tv show, I…
It’s hay cutting time in Southern Appalachia. Over the last two weeks I’ve watched the hay mature and ripen in the…
Chitter, Pap, and Chatter spitting image = looks just like someone There are lots of folks who can’t tell the…