“My Grandparents lived in Robbinsville North Carolina. In the late 1940s my family would visit and I remember; the Jersey cow, two pigs, chickens, dogs, cats and more, but most importantly, I remember the porch. It wrapped around from the front to the side kitchen entrance and seemed huge to us children. The front porch faced a main road which led to”Town” and Snyders General Store. We would sit on an old sofa, there were two, and wave to each…
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Profiles of Mountain People
Today’s guest post was written by Ed Karshner. “In The Fullness of Time” written by Ed Karshner Tar Hollow State…
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…