Antigodlin
A few posts back Blind Pig reader Terry Stites left this comment: “Can anyone help me with a word? Antigodlin,means…
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Hard to Stop Nature from Taking Over
This summer seems to have been busier than usual for the Blind Pig Family. Our schedule was jam packed with…
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Sayings from Suzann
My friend Suzann is always sending me colorful sayings. Suzann and I went to elementary school together and as adults…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Tater Digging Time
It’s tater digging time in Robbinsville, NC, and throughout Appalachia, for folks who planted taters way back in the spring…
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Things are a Changing
The temperature has been in the high 80s and low 90s over the last week here in Brasstown, yet there’s…
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Memories of Syrup Making Days
Chitter skimming syurp “When I was young, I always looked forward to the late summer because it meant syrup-making time….
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I Still Miss Someone
Johnny Cash and his nephew Roy Cash, Jr. wrote “I Still Miss Someone.” Johnny first recorded the song in 1958…
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Reading in Appalachia
“Gertie thumbed through one of the books. Many of the poems were familiar as old neighbors who, though moved away…
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Children and Religion in Appalachia
Chitter and Chatter “A thump, thumping and smothered cries took her rushing to the stairway in time to catch Cassie…
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Strange Cars Bringing News from Beyond
Pap, his Uncle, and cousin George in New Port News VA during WWII “Gertie thought for an instant of a…
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Hills and Hollers of Appalachia are a Comfort
“She thought on Ann Liz and her farming as she reached the far end of the row where far below…
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September 2, 1945
Harshaw Road – Cherokee County NC September 2, 1945 the Japanese delegation formally signed the instrument of surrender marking the…
