Appalachia Through My Eyes – Yellow Jewelweed
The orange colored jewelweed grows all over my mountain holler, but I’ve never seen the yellow variety until this…
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Harricun
hurricane nounA variant forms harricane, harricun, herrycane.1942 Hall Phonetics 42 [harik’n].B1 A severe windstorm.1834 Crockett Narrative 150 In the morning…
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Overheard
“All I had to play with was a stick and a pile of dirt and that was enough.” ——————-…
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Feeling like Fall
Late summer days make me long for the first heavy frost. The cool air the mountains of western North…
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Labor Day Labor
The Blind Pig family spent Labor Day laboring. The girls have several landscaping jobs in Brasstown. They maintain the…
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Adam’s Needle
Miss Cindy’s blooming Adam’s needle Adam’s needle noun A yucca plant (Yucca filamentosa or Yucca smalliana). Cf bear grass. 1940…
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5 Things
1. The other day Chatter and I was out on the back deck when we heard a large rock roll…
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Corncob Jelly
Corncob Jelly – Mountain Cooking by John Parris 1978 Highlands Elizabeth Edwards, who operates a business with a strictly mountain…
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Love and Laughter from The Pressley Girls
The Pressley Girls – Appalachian Night at the Hinton Center July 2017 As you might guess Chatter and Chitter are…
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Making Apple Butter 1892
Excerpt from Snowbird Gravy and Dishpan Pie written by Patsy Moore Ginns During the Depression, you had no money to…
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Skipping Rocks
I learned to skip rocks at an early age. There was a pond just below Pap and Granny’s house, I…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 103
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear some of the words and…
