Storing Onions
We never grow onions to store through the winter. We plant the type of onions that are best eaten as…
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Getting Scratched By Sawbriers
Have you ever gotten tangled up in a sawbrier? I have and let me tell you it hurts like the…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 104
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…
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You Can Save Your Flower Seeds
One day this week I came by to see Granny after work. She was waist high in her zinna patch,…
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Have You Ever Been To Suit?
Reverend William Thomas Truett (I think!) – Henry Truett’s Father – Suit NC A Place Named Suit written by John Parris…
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Happy Birthday To The Girls!
Twenty one years ago today I was laying in a Gainesville GA hospital staring at The Deer Hunter and…
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Words Of Life
Ray, Henry, Pap Paul is still trying his best to get Pap’s original music out there to the world. We’re…
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Overheard
“And after I seen that I’m telling you I looked down at my own trough.” ——————- Tipper Overheard: snippets of…
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Beards
Sam Brinkley – State Archives of North Carolina Sam Brinkley and His Beard by Kelly Agan, Government & Heritage Library,…
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Quilts and Comforts
I don’t think anyone can say the word Appalachia without thinking of quilts. I’ve spent my life sleeping under handmade…
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The Appalachian Language = Music To My Ears
Anyone who reads the Blind Pig and The Acorn will quickly figure out I’m crazy in love with the unique…
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Want Tickets To JCCFS’s 2017 43rd Fall Festival? I’ve Got some to Giveaway!
As most of you already know, the John C. Campbell Folk School plays a huge role in our lives. I…
