Harlie Creech Harlie Creech was over neat.He swept the house morning and night.He ironed his socks and starched his sheets,And…

Ma always kept a bottle of carbolic acid tied with a string and hanging from the ceiling. It was kept…

I have a few more Thankful November winners to announce. If you see your name please send your mailing address…

Sense of Humor We have a good sense of humor, although it is sometimes delivered in a deadpan fashion, in…

“Fred’s family were frequent visitors, happy to have him near them again. I still didn’t feel comfortable around them. Maybe…

To speak “point blank”—very directly—is French in origin and comes to us from the game of archery. We all know…

There was nowhere to buy seeds, so we saved them. Once we got’em, we kept’em. We’d leave a row of…

Mine and Jim’s cookbook is continuing to sell well. We’ve been so pleased and humbled by the success of the…

“Several years ago there came a great snowfall in western North Carolina. The Red Cross came to help people who…

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

In the summer many of the women like to can. It seems their season. They sit on kitchen chairs on…

They stand like gaunt, whitening skeletons among the living giants of our mountain forests. And the old man grows nostalgic…