Do You Like Cornbread and Milk?
After all the heavy eating of the holidays I find myself wanting simple meals in weeks that follow. You…
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Happy New Year from the Blind Pig and The Acorn
The whole Blind Pig Gang sincerely hopes 2017 is exactly what you want it to be for you and…
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Breaking up Christmas with The Pressley Girls
The Pressley Girls – Morning Song at the JCCFS In the early 1900s, folks living in the mountains of North Carolina lengthened…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – The Girl can Crochet
Chitter made me the afghan in the photo for Christmas. I’m telling you the girl can crochet , well…
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Serenading
The Pressley Girls – Pine Log NC serenade noun, serenading verbal noun 1 A raucous, spontaneous celebration after a wedding, usu…
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After Christmas Folklore
It think our Christmas tree was the prettiest one we’ve ever had! The girls and The Deer Hunter will tell…
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From Brasstown to Vermont and Back
Pap helping Chitter tune before a show My favorite Christmas gift arrived way back in October…but no one noticed it…
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Christmas without Pap
For weeks my annoying brain has kept reminding me this would be the first Christmas in my entire life…
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Merry Christmas from the Blind Pig and The Acorn
Sending wishes for a very Merry Christmas to each of you from all of us here at the Blind Pig…
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Christmas Gift
Granny with her mother Gazzie 1963 – Ranger NC Christmas gift, interjection 2 Merry Christmas! in a Christmas day ritual:…
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The Pit of Christmas – 1953
Today’s guest post was written by John Carlton Templeton. Photo – Archives of the City of Kingsport “The Pit…
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Folklore Surrounding Christmas in Appalachia
A few weeks back I told you I’d share some Christmas folklore from one of my favorite books Dorie Woman…
