Spring of the Year When Granny was a Girl
Granny The other evening I asked Granny what she remembered about Spring of the year when she was a girl….
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The Roads Were Bad
Sled at Foxfire Museum “Somebody wrote, “The roads are not”—now don’t blush—”the roads are not passable, not even jackassable.” They…
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Katherine Sudderth Interview 1982 – Part III
Katherine Sudderth Interview June 29, 1982 I was brought up by a very religious family. My farther was deacon of…
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Katherine Sudderth Interview 1982 – Part II
Katherine Sudderth Interview June 29, 1982 “I always loved to cook and I still do like to cook. I learned…
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Finding Four-Leaf Clovers
“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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Katherine Sudderth Interview 1982 – Part I
F.P. Cover and Sons Tannery Andrews NC – The second major industry in early Andrews (Photo from “Marble & Log…
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Aunt “Becker”
Today’s guest post was written by Garland Davis. Aunt “Becker” written by Garland Davis A couple of times a year…
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December in Pigeon Roost
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
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Lemonade in Choestoe
“My first memory of lemonade was at Grandpa Collins’s house. My mother’s sisters, India, Avery and Ethel were what we…
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Foundered Rooster
My Dad got in deep trouble one time when picking ‘baccer worms off the tobacco. He said they were walking…
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Gnat Smokes
“We never throwed away nary scrap of cloth til it got so wore out it coutn’t even be used for…
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Hoeing Corn
Today’s guest post was written by Kenneth Roper I was about 5 or 6, don’t think I had even started…
