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,…
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Thankful November 2019
Every November I host a variety of giveaways as a way of saying THANK YOU to Blind Pig and The…
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The Disappearance of David Lang
“In 1880, Tennessee farmer David Lang was walking across his field as his wife and two children watched from the…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 129
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. Today’s test is of the spooky variety. I’m sharing a few videos…
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Heebie-Jeebies
Do you ever get the heebie-jeebies? How about the willies or the all overs? They’re really all the same thing:…
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Dumb Suppers in Appalachia
“My little grannie on mama’s side used to entertain us kids with stories of young girls looking to get ’em…
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Singing Scary Songs
This time of the year folks start hunting up music to play at Halloween parties and festivals. Songs like Monster…
