Valentine's Day Archives | Blind Pig and The Acorn

Happy Valentine’s Day
February 14, 2025February 13, 2025 Valentine's Day
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At the Blind Pig house we’ve never celebrated Valentine’s Day very much. There’s been the occasional candy, card, meal, or…
Courtship Games from Days Gone By
February 16, 2022February 15, 2022 Folk Dancing, Holidays in Appalachia, Valentine's Day
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Several interesting courtship games can be found in The Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore. These games were…
Valentine’s Day Memories
February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 Holidays in Appalachia, Valentine's Day
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Sherry: Well, I was almost my Mom’s Valentine…I was born on the 12th so she was still in Oak Ridge…
Shivaree
February 12, 2020February 11, 2020 Appalachia, Appalachian Dialect, Valentine's Day
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Curtis and Bonnie Mease – Miss Cindy’s parents charivari noun [pronounced shivaree, with stress on both first and third syllables;…
The Ballad of Kidder Cole
February 11, 2020February 10, 2020 Appalachia, Music, Profiles of Mountain People, Valentine's Day
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Cole-Tate House courtesy of the Laurel Magazine Cashiers Valley Kidder Cole was the belle of the mountains. A boy in…