Final Round Up of Thankful November Winners
Here’s the round up of the last several winners from my Thankful November Giveaway series. The winner of “Appalachian Values”…
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Christmas Folklore from the Great Smoky Mountains
“Many legends and superstitions came to the mountains with our ancestors. One legend says that on Christmas Eve the animals…
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Christmas in Haywood County NC 1933
We would start getting ready for Christmas in the late fall when the chinquapins started opening. We would gather the…
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Remembering Ethelene Dyer Jones – A Friend to the Blind Pig and The Acorn
Long time Blind Pig and The Acorn reader Ethelene Dyer Jones passed away on Friday November 26, 2021. Ethelene was…
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Making Gravy
Come mealtime one would often find gravy on Granny’s kitchen table when I was a growing up. She fixed sausage…
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Playing at Shady Grove
A couple of weeks ago we played at Shady Grove Baptist Church’s Thanksgiving Dinner. We always have a good time…
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Thankful November – Christmas Songs
In 2008 Pap and Paul released their first printing of “Songs of Christmas.” Here’s what I said about it way…
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Stog Around
I wrote about the word stog back in 2015, but so many folks commented about the word in yesterday’s post…
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Thankful November – Smoky Mountains
“On one of your visits to the Great Smoky Mountains, take time to visit the remains of a true hardscrabble…
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Thankful November…Not Over Yet
“On Christmas morning our brothers would get up around three or four o’clock in the morning, long before daylight. They…
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Thankful November – Note Cards & Winners
Blind Pig reader Allison Britt is a wonderful artist. A few years back she sent me an amazing hand drawn…
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Thankful November – Hog Killing Day
“I always had to stay out of school on hog-killing day to help out, of course. What I enjoyed most…
