Bum Bread
bum bread noun 1980 Smokies Heritage 63 And by and by, storekeepers started selling loaves of white bread, too. Folks…
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The Unclouded Day
I’m still listening to my usb drive full of jumbled up music. This week I was surprised to hear Pap…
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Overheard
“I’m zonked!” “That’s what happens when you lay out with the dry cattle.” Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 133
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Loon
Photo courtesy of kariannlovessushi A few months back Miss Cindy sent me an email and told me there was a strange…
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Sayings from Suzann
Here’s the most recent sayings my friend Suzann and her mother sent me: plagued or plauging = worrying. “Something’s been…
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February in Pigeon Roost 3
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
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Cooking with Fat Back
Laurel Branch Salt pork plays a fat part in mountain cookery. Many of the old-time recipes call for it. Some…
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Don’t Laugh and a Funny Story about the Song
My car has a usb port and more often than not I listen to music through it. I’ve pulled the…
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Riddle 21
I’m sharing another riddle from “Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek Appalachian Riddles & Rusties” by James Still. “It’ll bite…
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Calendar Folklore
Granny’s got so stooped over she can no longer reach up to do a lot of things. As I flipped…
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Cross Questions and Crooked Answers
cross questions and crooked answers noun phrase A guessing game played in some Smokies homes in the 1930s and observed…
