Two Seasons in One Day
“The morning had started out cold, but grew progressively warmer. That was how spring announced itself in the mountains. Days…
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Spring Tonics in Appalachia
Lots of folks believe in taking a spring tonic to jump start your body after a long winter of being…
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Daffodils at Old Homeplaces
I’m talking about daffodils in my latest video. I’ve always called the cheery herald of spring daffodil, Granny calls them…
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March According to John Parris
“In the hills, March is a woodpecker drumming in a new season. It’s the liquid trill of tree frogs and…
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September in Appalachia and the Dying of Summer
In southern Appalachia we’re in that weird time period between summer and fall. We’ve had a few teases of fall,…
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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…
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Evening Thunderstorms
Thunderstorms are part and parcel of summer in Western North Carolina. The storms bubble up from over in Tennessee and…
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Maypole Dance
Maypole Dance – John C. Campbell Folk School – Brasstown 2019 The tradition of dancing around the Maypole in celebration…
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Spring in Brasstown
Spring has surely arrived in Brasstown. I know there’ll be a few more cold spells before the heat of summer…
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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…
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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…
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Spring
spring A verb variant past-tense from sprung. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 283-84 In mountain vernacular the Old English strong…
