Things are a Changing
The temperature has been in the high 80s and low 90s over the last week here in Brasstown, yet there’s…
Evening Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms are part and parcel of summer in Western North Carolina. The storms bubble up from over in Tennessee and…
Maypole Dance
Maypole Dance – John C. Campbell Folk School – Brasstown 2019 The tradition of dancing around the Maypole in celebration…
Spring in Brasstown
Spring has surely arrived in Brasstown. I know there’ll be a few more cold spells before the heat of summer…
What do You do in the Winter?
After Christmas I start thinking about gardening. I was hoping to get The Deer Hunter to turn our garden at…
The Wildness of Summer
If you’ve been reading the Blind Pig for a good long while you know my least favorite time of the…
Spring
spring A verb variant past-tense from sprung. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 283-84 In mountain vernacular the Old English strong…
The Love of Music
Music. The mountain people love it. All of it. And most of ’em love all kinds. They do a…
Spring is Chancy
“Spring was chancy, but she liked it best of all the seasons. One day would be still and soft…
Spring of the Year
The poem above is from Mommy Goose Rhymes from the Mountains written by Mike Norris. I think Mike captured spring in…
The Daffodil
When the Daffodils began to bloom, I know Spring has arrived. Over the past week I’ve noticed Daffodils blooming everywhere,…