December in Appalachia
December in the Hills – John Parris December in the hills is a sprig of berry-bright holly, a spray of…
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Making Christmas Ornaments from Nature
Several years ago I learned how to make snowflake or snowball Christmas ornaments from the book A Foxfire Christmas. One of the…
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Sugar Cookies for Christmas
Every Christmas since I was big enough I’ve made Granny’s recipe for Christmas Sugar Cookies. I started out making…
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Tidings of Comfort and Joy
Funerals are sad anytime of the year, but they seem especially sad during the joyous season of Christmas. On Friday…
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My Favorite Christmas Ornaments
Most of my Christmas ornaments are handmade by Granny. The girls’ elementary school was big on ornament making so…
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More about Moss
After reading my Gathering Moss for Christmas post earlier this week, B.Ruth left the follow comment and she also sent…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 95
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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Gathering Moss for Christmas
We never knew about Gallackin but we did gather moss and boxwood cuttings to sell to florists. Way back in…
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A Christmas Story from Days Gone by
Today’s guest post is written by Celia Miles and was originally published in the anthology Christmas Presence: from 45 Western…
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Easy Christmas Candy
Granny has been making Seaside Candy Roll at Christmas for as long as I can remember. It’s super easy and…
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Thus Every Beast by Some Good Spell
Steve and Tipper – Christmas 1970-something I grew up hearing Pap sing the Christmas song The Friendly Beasts. He said…
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Overheard
“He’ll be so excited he won’t be able to sleep.” “He’ll worry me to death is what he’ll do!”…
