“In the early days of beekeeping, the hives were nothing more than twenty-four to thirty-inch long sections of hollow black gum trees—a fact that has caused even modern hives in the mountains today to be called “gums,” “beegums,” or “plank gums.” Some peculiarity special to the black gum almost invariably caused it to be hollow and thus perfect for hives (and incidentally, for dripping lye for lye soap). Hollow sections of the tree would be brought home and the inside…
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Thankful November
“One important pastime for mountain people was shooting matches, and one of the most popular types was the turkey shoot.…
“We’d go out and play ball. That’s about all we had to do. It was awful fun. We played town…
Today’s Thankful November giveaway is a book written by a lady who lived in Brasstown. Eleanor Lambert Wilson, better known…
Here’s what “The Foxfire Book” has to say about drying vegetables. PUMPKIN: Mrs. Tom Kelly said, “This is a recipe…
“Now when I first come to this creek, we broke up our land with a mule and a single-footed plow.…
“The sheep which were grown years ago for wool were a smaller and hardier strain then the sheep of today.…
“One of the finest food-connected advertising slogans I’ve ever encountered adorned jars of a popular brand of cane syrup, Dixie…
Marinda Brown: I always got th’biggest thrill out a’that—just th’children and me. Just th’very smallest children would get in and…
“I looked down at the tattered toes of my brogans. That was going to be my whole destiny always,…