Dixie Dew
“One of the finest food-connected advertising slogans I’ve ever encountered adorned jars of a popular brand of cane syrup, Dixie…
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I Heard that Lonesome Whistle Blow
Today’s post was written by Paul. This is our next-to-last video of this year’s train series, another Hank Williams’ song….
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Live at the Folk School
Last week’s concert at the Folk School seemed especially sweet. Maybe it was because Chitter was trying out a new…
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B Vocabulary Words from Appalachian Language
blow-down (n): area where the timber has been leveled by high wind. “There’s a terrible big blow-down on the far…
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Finding Artifacts and Relics on an Appalachian Farm
Photo courtesy of Ben Pope A few months back Ben Pope from History Hound Detecting contacted the girls to see if…
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Thrush Doctors
thrush noun A variant forms thraish, thrash. 1942 Hall Phonetics 23 thraish, thrash B A fungal infection, esp one of…
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Medicine Before Aspirin
“And when my husband was just starting out as a doctor, he was trying to get practice. They used to…
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Eating Chicken in Appalachia
“Along with pork, our most commonly served meat was poultry. Mother raised chickens, and we had eggs and chicken to…
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East Bound Freight Train
Today’s post was written by Paul. For this installment in our train song series, I was lucky enough to be…
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Riddle 18
I’m sharing another riddle from “Way Down Yonder on Troublesome Creek Appalachian Riddles & Rusties” by James Still. “Crooked as…
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Corn Shuckings
Marinda Brown: I always got th’biggest thrill out a’that—just th’children and me. Just th’very smallest children would get in and…
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Longing to be an Adult
“I looked down at the tattered toes of my brogans. That was going to be my whole destiny always,…
