Freezing Blueberries
This has been a bumper year for our blueberry bushes. We’ve made pies, muffins, and cakes, but mostly we’ve eaten…
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Just About Then
Sometimes I listen to the Blind Pig and The Acorn Youtube Channel while I work. The other day I really…
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Vacation Fun
The girls and I snuck off to the beach a while back. We had a wonderful time. The weather was…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 127
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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Calling Places by People’s Names Who Are Long Gone On
There’s something exceedingly nostalgic and at the same time reverent about place names that honor those who lived, loved, worked…
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Catching Spring Lizards
1995 Adams Come Go Home 2 We had turned over rocks in the branch so we could watch the spring…
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Spell in Appalachia
In Appalachia the word spell has more than one meaning. Of course the most obvious: to say or write out…
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Have You Ever Eaten Hacked Beans?
I recently received an interesting question about beans. —- Hi, Tipper. My great grandparents and kin moved to Spokane WA…
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Whiskey Before Breakfast – Playing with Old Friends
Today I’m sharing another song from the day the girls and Paul got together to jam with old friends Wayde…
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Overheard
“I wasn’t sure what was going on. I seen her down there by the road talking and laughing and throwing…
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Robbinsville NC 1940s
“My Grandparents lived in Robbinsville North Carolina. In the late 1940s my family would visit and I remember; the Jersey…
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Hole Rose
You may remember a few weeks back I shared the guest post “The Murder (?) of Hol Rose” written by…
