I know you’re probably saying “Tipper November is over.” It is over, but my series of Thankful November has a few more giveaways to share. “Our independence it tempered by our basic belief in neighborliness and hospitality. Survival on the frontier sometimes required people to be hospitable, to take people in when night caught them on a journey or keep them indefinitely if their house burned down. Until recent times, neighbors joined in to help build houses and barns for…
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“In the early days of beekeeping, the hives were nothing more than twenty-four to thirty-inch long sections of hollow black…
“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…