Today’s guest post was written by Ed Karshner. “In The Fullness of Time” written by Ed Karshner Tar Hollow State Park, in Southeast Ohio, has been the site of the Fisher Family Reunion for my entire life. The Fishers are my Mom’s people. They go back to the original settlers of Western Virginia, who took advantage of land grants doled out by President George Washington. With the Civil War, Putnam County became part of West Virginia, and the Fishers remained…
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Profiles of Mountain People
Granny The other evening I asked Granny what she remembered about Spring of the year when she was a girl.…
Sled at Foxfire Museum “Somebody wrote, “The roads are not”—now don’t blush—”the roads are not passable, not even jackassable.” They…
Katherine Sudderth Interview June 29, 1982 I was brought up by a very religious family. My farther was deacon of…
Katherine Sudderth Interview June 29, 1982 “I always loved to cook and I still do like to cook. I learned…
“I started collecting four-leaf clovers about 1930 when I found the first one. I started up here the other day…
F.P. Cover and Sons Tannery Andrews NC – The second major industry in early Andrews (Photo from “Marble & Log…
Today’s guest post was written by Garland Davis. Aunt “Becker” written by Garland Davis A couple of times a year…
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
“My first memory of lemonade was at Grandpa Collins’s house. My mother’s sisters, India, Avery and Ethel were what we…