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…
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Being Self Sufficient
Ed Buchanan, a 74-year-old farmer who farms just for himself, can survey his little kingdom back here in the hills…
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Time Has Made a Change in Me
Tipper and Paul A few weeks back a friend and I were talking about an upcoming project we’re both working…
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Pinnacle Creek Logging Community
“My grandfather and great grandfather were loggers. Little communities would build up, and after a time would just die out….
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Gawm – Gom – Gorm
C verb (also gaum up) To smear, make sticky, muddy, dirty, or greasy; to disarrange, make untidy (also used facetiously,…
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The Susan (Suda) Ellen Walker Grant Heatherly Family Line
Today’s guest post was written by Joe Mode. —- Following is some genealogical material regarding our Walker, Houston, Fox, Buchanan,…
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Where’d All the Millers Go?
The other night we were headed over to Vogel State Park for a performance. We were talking about one thing…
