Unknown to Me
“Unknown to Me” written by Jerry Pap Wilson Unknown to me what waits along life’s path before me The storms…
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Ode to the Chigger
Ode to the chigger: There was a little chigger and he weren’t no bigger than the very tiny point of…
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Our Precious Mountain Home
Today’s guest post was written by Dean Rathbone. Dean’s parents at the place below the Raven’s Cliff My Mother and…
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Making Do in Appalachia
My post last week about the creativity that can be found in the people who call the Appalachian Mountains home…
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Where Do Blind Pig Readers Live?
Back in April Blind Pig reader Jim Casada wondered if I knew the age of folks who read this blog…
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Trying to Lay the Garden By
Lay by verb phrase To leave a crop to mature after hoeing it for a final time late in the…
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Favorite Way to Cook Purslane
It was back in 2016 when I first learned about purslane. Although it is considered a weed and grows in…
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Loving Old Sad Country Songs
The girls most certainly grew up with the influence of traditional Appalachian music from my family and our community, but…
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June in Pigeon Roost 2
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
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Creativity in Appalachia
Granny’s canning shelves “Appalachian people are a creative bunch. They were always just trying to find ways of being artistic in…
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Galluses or Suspenders?
A little while back I received a nice email from a follower. Here’s a portion of it: “Got a question…
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Planting by the Signs June 2022
Growing melons Our garden is growing by leaps and bounds! I swear my rattlesnake beans and tomatoes in the back…
