Overheard
“I bet that about killed her momma and daddy. They always thought they were a little better than everybody else,…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 115
Playing at the Hinton Center in Hayesville NC – Summer 2018 It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m…
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Silly Songs
Chatter and Chitter love nonsense songs so much that sometimes they make up their own. In fact Chitter has an…
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Hand Clapping Games
Chitter and Chatter trying to remember the hand clapping games they knew – if you look close you can see…
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Jump Rope Songs
The old Martins Creek School – Photo courtesy of Susie Swanson I loved to jump rope when I was in…
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Lemonade in Choestoe
“My first memory of lemonade was at Grandpa Collins’s house. My mother’s sisters, India, Avery and Ethel were what we…
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Dream of the Miner’s Child
Pap and Paul – Picking on a Sunday evening under the trees I always enjoyed hearing Pap and Paul’s music…
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Chickama, Chickama, Craney Crow
Today’s guest post was written by Charline Venturini. Chatter being silly – not sure if she was making herself a…
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Reciting Poetry
Ruby Sue As I sat in the back row in second grade, I enjoyed every learning experience. Two of my…
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Other Ways to Decide Who’s It
We’ve already talked about counting taters to see who was it in a game, but today I wanted to share…
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Blind Pig and The Acorn News
Next summer I’ll be teaching my Mountain Flavors class at the John C. Campbell Folk School again. The class is…
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Summer Imagination
Summer was such a great time and, like you said, it seemed to last forever. During the day, I helped…
