Blind Pig Readers Talk about Easter
Pap and Granny’s grandkids at Easter Ed Ammons: Does anybody remember Easter baskets made from round oatmeal boxes? The boxes…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 110
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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Fascinating Online Resource
I wanted to share a fascinating online resource with you today. Those of you who read comments left on posts…
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Hanging Dog – Cherokee County – NC
The community of Hanging Dog is located below Murphy which is the county seat of Cherokee County, NC. A few…
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Amish Fruit Cake
On a regular basis my computer desktop get so cluttered with files that I can’t find anything. Eventually I get…
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Spider Web Canyon
I’ve been thinking a lot about Brasstown over the last few weeks. You could probably tell from my recent…
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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…
