Our Mother’s Day Meal
Yesterday we cooked a Mother’s Day supper for Granny and Miss Cindy. As I was cooking, I wondered if there…
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Mother’s Day in Appalachia
Tipper and Chitter In Appalachia Mother’s Day is bouquets of flowers for the kitchen table and hanging baskets and…
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Granny Sue’s Mother
Today’s guest post was written by Susanna Holstein. Mom, always the English lady. “Marigolds are pretty, but they have…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – The Theatre
Over 1200 elementary students recently watched a professional theatre show at a college in Appalachia. Tipper Appalachia Through My Eyes –…
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Jacob’s Onions
Jacob’s onion noun A green onion. 1975 Purkey Madison Co 53-54 A variety of vegetables grew in long neat rows;…
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Guess what? Chatter and Chitter Graduated from College!
Last weekend the girls graduated from college. They can barely believe they made it through…I can barely believe I have children…
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The Old Mill in Pigeon Forge TN
Chuck Childers – Miller of The Old Mill Last year was my first time attending Wilderness Wildlife Week in…
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Soupy Taters
Like most everyone else in Appalachia potatoes, or more commonly called taters, make up a large part of our diet…
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Blackberry Blossom
With the blackberries blooming behind the chicken house and Blackberry Winter making me wish I hadn’t put up all…
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Blackberry Winter
1962 Dykeman Tall Woman 14 And after the cold spell, when dogwoods bloomed, there would be whippoorwill winter and…
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Garden Update – Lettuce Trial and A New Bed
I planted my trial set of Sow True Seed Lettuce Seed on April 2. In a little over a…
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Snow in May
Pap is the boy on the right of the photo in overalls – he’s standing with his parents and…
