Appalachia Through My Eyes – Cute as a Speckled Pup
The old saying cute as a speckled pup is still alive and well in Appalachia – especially when a pretty…
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Take and…
The most common definition for the word take is: lay hold of (something) with one’s hands; reach for and hold….
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Hiccup Cures
Do you ever get the hiccups? Every once in a while I do. If I have them once during a…
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Tipper and Aunt Faye’s Butterscotch Pie
After my post last Monday about Aunt Faye’s Chocolate Cream Pie, more than a few of you asked for my…
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Job’s God
Granny and I were both with Pap when he died. He’d had a terrible rough night and had prayed…
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Fire Sayings
My post earlier this week about smoke following beauty reminded me of a few other old sayings about fire-things like: If…
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Broom Sage
Broom sage (Broomsedge) has made a comeback in my area of Appalachia. Pap said when he was a boy he…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 96
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear some of the…
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Smoke Follows Beauty
Earlier this week we took advantage of one of the ridiculously warm days to do some outside work. We tackled…
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Handwrite
handwrite noun Handwriting, style of penmanship. 1973 GSMNP-83:26. They was sixty words wrote, and they was two handwrites. 1995 Montgomery…
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Cream Pies = Comfort Food
Aunt Faye, Granny Gazzie, and Granny Aunt Faye was Granny’s oldest sister. She was the second born child of Gazzie…
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Whiskey Before Breakfast
The girls learned the fiddle tune Whiskey Before Breakfast from Lynn and Liz Shaw in the spring of last year. Well,…
