Long Memory
Rainbow Bread. Logo embedded in our screen door in Roanoke Virginia; some kind of felt looking material, in color, as…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 114
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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Brasstown Blotter – Carving Room
The Brasstown Blotter was a small publication published in the late 1930s and early 1940s by the John C. Campbell…
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Horseshoes Are Lucky
Horseshoes are lucky-at least they’re supposed to be. My Granny Gazzie had horseshoes wrapped in aluminum foil above a few…
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Thunder =’s ?
Photo by Trevis Hicks Lord’s bread wagon, Lord’s corn wagon noun Thunder. Same as bread wagon. 1913 Bruce Terms from…
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NC Chow Chow
Chow chow is a vegetable mixture that is either pickled or fermented. I don’t recall Granny ever making chow chow…
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Jesus, You Helped Me Today
Pap back in the day About this time last year Paul uploaded a song he did that was written by…
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Like They do Across the River
“One of my Dad’s favorite sayings was, “do like they do across the river.” I asked him once what they…
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July in Pigeon Roost
The 1974 Winter Edition of the Foxfire Magazine contains a compilation of newspaper articles written by Harvey Miller. At the…
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Serendipity and Pap
ser·en·dip·i·ty noun the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way. ——- Chitter has been…
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The Joy of Watermelons in the Summer
The Deer Hunter enjoying a slice of watermelon I love watermelon. I always have, I mean what’s not to love?…
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The Wildness of Summer
If you’ve been reading the Blind Pig for a good long while you know my least favorite time of the…
