Coves and Hollers
A few months back Garland sent me the following comment: I have seen you use the word cove from time…
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The Joy of a Swing
Veler Marcus: Daddy would make us rope swings. Tie a rope in a loop on a limb in the yard…
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On This Veterans Day
Today’s guest post was written by Bill Burnett. Let us all remember our Veterans every day but especially today. We…
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Freight Train Boogie
Today’s post was written by Paul. Guitar Man (Nephew Ben) makes a triumphant return in this train song video! If…
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Overheard
“My grandpa said when he was a boy this area was so sparse in population that he’d go up on…
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Cardinals Sent as Messengers
From the website State Symbols USA: “North Carolina designated the northern cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) as official state bird in 1943….
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Forecasting Winter by Animals
Forecasting Winter by Animals It will be a bad winter if: squirrels begin gathering nuts early (middle or late September)….
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Barn Dancing
“Now, when I built my barn up yonder, I given’em a dance. Oh gosh! That was a tremendous crowd. And…
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Toucheous
touchous adjective A variant forms techous, tetchious B 1 Physically or painfully sensitive. 1990 Cavender Folk Medical Lex 33 =…
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Mountain Makin’s in the Smokies
“The early settlers in the Great Smokies were, of necessity, a self-sufficient folk. Isolated as they were, they had to…
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On the Evening Train
Today’s post was written by Paul. In 2017 we declared November to be Train Month on our Blind Pig and…
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Sleeping with the Flu
“When I was about eleven years old and others in my family and I were in bed with the flu,…
