Women attended quilting bees and quilting parties while none of the other household chores warranted such gatherings. Baking, making kraut,…

Pa would send us above the barn in the woods with a tow sack to gather leaves for the cow…

Peanut Butter Fudge Bring sugar, butter and milk to boil. Boil 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Add peanut butter and…

Last week Paul shared his original song “Little Heart of Stone” on our Blind Pig and the Acorn YouTube channel….

On a typical day we got up at four o’clock in the morning, whether you needed to or not. We…

Anyways, then we always cleaned off th’garden and fixed it and burnt all th’trash. We us t’have a big garden…

Grandpa had an apple tree that produced hundreds of big beautiful red apples. Papa had dug several right good-sized holes…

Many quilts, especially in the early days of “housekeeping,” were made purely for everyday use, and no pretense was made…

Summer brought a phenomenon never seen in the mountains. We awoke one morning to find the camp filled with huge…

The winner of the used book The Foxfire Book is Robin who said: “So cool that Katie found one thanks for…

And we use t’always have maypole marches. We had a big high maypole, and they marched round and round that…

The Mason jar is as much a symbol of the Appalachians as the dulcimer, apple butter, and a fog-draped August…