Riddle 13
I’m sharing a riddle from Blind Pig Reader Ann Applegarth. Railroad crossing! Look out for the cars! Now can you…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 125
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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Will Clock Folklore Disappear?
The other day Granny, Paul and I were talking about a clock she used to have that a man down…
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Appalachian Words about Cooking
I’ll be teaching my Mountain Flavors class next week at the Folk School. I’m super excited! I love teaching others…
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The William Jasper Houston Family Line
Today’s guest post was written by Joe Mode. —- Adam Fox (Peter) was born in Pennsylvania on 11 March 1776…
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Eating Spinach
Do you like spinach? I was too picky to even try it when I was a kid, but once I…
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Father’s Day 2019
I was getting ready to write something for today and decided I’d look back through the last few years of…
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Drinking Water from Grapevines – Smoking Grapevines
Water from grapevine by the creek “When we were kids I remember the water dripping out of the grapevines when…
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Memories of Swinging on Grapevines
The other day I noticed a grapevine just at the top edge of a long slopping bank deep in the…
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Tennessee Has Some Odd Place Names
The other day I was reading one of my favorite blogs, Tennessee Mountain Stories and I just loved one of…
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Plumb
Chitter is plumb foolish about the creek In the last few weeks two readers have emailed me with the suggestion…
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5 Things
1. You never know what kind of stories you’ll hear at a Pressley Girls performance. You’d think after all this…
