Will You Visit Me On Sunday?
Today’s post was written by Paul. Charlie Louvin For a while now, I’ve been uploading tribute songs on the birthdays…
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Talking to Granny about Crochet
Today’s post was written by Chatter. Chatter wearing one of her crochet creations I was about ten when Granny first…
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Finding Chanterelles
I spent yesterday morning learning how to identify and find chanterelle mushrooms. A friend invited me to go with her…
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Doghobble
doghobble noun A common evergreen shrub (Leucothoe spp) having dense, tangled limbs and branches. [DARE labels this term “chiefly southern Appalachians”] 1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 124…
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Looking for the Far Blue Mountains
We recently had the opportunity to get away for a few days. For generations folks from the mountains, like us,…
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The First Corn from the Garden
We ate the first fresh corn of the year last night for supper. It was so good! It didn’t come…
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Making Red Eye Gravy
About this time last year I shared a question with you that I received from a reader who wanted to…
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I Know Who Holds Tomorrow
Pap sitting on Granny Gazzie’s front porch Earlier this week on Pap’s birthday I shared a funny story he told…
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Memories of Summer Supper
“Summer supper at Mom-Mom’s kitchen table. A big bowl of fried whole potatoes. Little new potatoes, the skin scraped off with…
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Hauling Peaches
Way back in the day Pap’s uncle Frank decided to go get a load of peaches. Some of them he…
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I Beg Your Pardon
A couple of weeks ago when I was teaching at John C. Campbell Folk School I took my class on…
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The Lay-by Time of Summer
Letter from Almond, NC published in the Bryson City Times (July 31, 1896). “Most of our farmers are done laying…
