Today’s guest post was written by Kenneth Hoffman, longtime member of Blind Pig & The Acorn. I was just leaving the house one morning in late January of 1998, when the phone rang. The call was from my Aunt Josephine in Washington state. She was quite excited and worked up about a letter from a cousin in North Carolina by name of Duane Oliver. Although my cousin was known to me, I had never met him so I knew that…
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Profiles of Mountain People
Today’s guest post was written by David Anderson. “My Father always Whistled in a Minor Key” written by: David C.…
“My Grandparents lived in Robbinsville North Carolina. In the late 1940s my family would visit and I remember; the Jersey…
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.…
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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…
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