Overheard
“I just can’t turn off work like I used too. Seems like I can’t get nothing much done these days.”…
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Jump the Broom
jump the broom, jump the broomstick verb phrase To get married, usu without benefit of clergy. This expression has a…
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Appalachian Through My Eyes – A Valentine in the Woods
Galax is Appalachia’s own Valentine. If you go stogging around in the woods this time of the year you’re bound…
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Courtship Games – Do Kids Still Play Them?
Courtship games from The Frank C. Brown Collection North Carolina Folklore A boy and a girl stand at one side of…
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Round Robin
round robin noun 1995 Adams Come Go Home 81 [Granny] would call up and order me to her house to…
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Apple Stack Cake
Appalachia is known for its Apple Stack Cake, but I never even tasted one until I assisted in a cooking…
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Love from The Pressley Girls
The Pressley Girls The girls learned the song “Red is the Rose” five years ago and they’ve been singing it…
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Riddles 6
I’m sharing another riddle by way of Sidney Saylor Farr’s book My “Appalachia – A Memoir” with you today. “Round as…
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Slipping Off to Get Married
Pap and Granny – Wilson Holler 1964 On my recent post Slipping Off, Shirl left a comment about slipping off…
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Old Jim The Pet Crow
Today’s guest post was written by Charles Fletcher Crows in flight “Old Jim The Pet Crow” by Charles Fletcher I…
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I Hear Voices
I hear voices telling me its important to preserve the culture and heritage of my people. Sometimes the voice jumps…
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Picnic Baskets and Love
“My grandmother said that she remembered when she was fifteen or sixteen years old, maybe younger than that, thirteen or…
