Appalachia Through My Eyes – Lost Lilies
They came to an old clearing, with its log cabin long since a mere heap of brown mold under a…
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Totin Over The Mark
Totin Over The Mark is one of the oldest games known to mankind. You may wonder how I can make…
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Friday March 8, 1929 Brasstown NC
1929 – Mountain Valley Creamery truck parked outside Fred O. Scroggs store in Brasstown Friday, March 8, 1929…
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Spring
spring A verb variant past-tense from sprung. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 283-84 In mountain vernacular the Old English strong…
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Odd Names and Places
Today’s guest post was written by Charles Fletcher. ODD NAMES AND PLACES Have you ever given any thought about odd…
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Dishpan Pie
“You know, we didn’t have no cans to can nothing in. We dried our blackberries, and in the winter, we’d…
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On Heaven’s Bright Shore
Big Grandma – Carrie Coleman Elliott Wilson One of our friends will be teaching a class at the John C….
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Four-leaf Clover
Today is the day for wearing green or getting pinched, four-leaf clover, and Leprechauns. Granny gave me the pendant above. She…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Build Him Up
Papaw Wade I don’t know if the phrase build him up would be considered Appalachian or not. I do know…
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Meet Uncle Frank
Pap sitting in the chair on the left of the photo, Big Grandma lying in the bed, Uncle Henry and…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Paradise
I drive by Paradise Road pretty much every day of the world. It’s in Brasstown, just down the road from…
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We Started the Tomato and Pepper Seedlings
The Deer Hunter and I got our tomato and pepper seedlings planted and we managed to give the greenhouse a…
