Why Did I Leave The Plow In The Field?
The Old Homeplace It’s been ten long years since I left my home In the hollow where I was born…
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Overheard
“If it goes down one of them holes it’ll be ruint!” Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern Appalachia
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The Gunter Cabin
The Gunter Cabin – Fontana Village NC Welch Cove Pioneers: The Gunter Family Jessie Gunter was born in the Stecoah…
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Did You Ever Play Blind Man’s Bluff?
According to the Frank C. Brown Collection of North Carolina Folklore, the game Blind Man’s Bluff is as old as…
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The High Sheriff
Photos courtesy of the Cherokee County Historical Museum high sheriff noun A sheriff, the chief law enforcement officer of a county,…
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The Angel of Brasstown by Jim Casada
A few weeks back I told you I was featured in the February/March issue of Smoky Mountain Living. Blind Pig Reader…
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Pam’s Cubed Steak
I didn’t used to be a fan of cooking cubed steak. I always fried it like Granny did and like…
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Little Debbies and The Pressley Girls
Back a few years ago the girls learned the Dolly Parton classic Jolene. I shared the video of them doing…
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When You Get in the Habit of Saying the Same Thing
Have you ever been around someone who used the same word or words in every sentence? Years ago, I…
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Words for Love in Appalachia
In Appalachia… courting = dating sparking = dating sweet on = means you like someone he-ing and she-ing =…
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Mingledy = Mingled in Color
mingledy adjective Mingled in color. 1997 Montgomery Coll. (Adams, Bush, Cardwell, Norris, Oliver, Weaver). Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English ————————–…
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Kissing Games
Did you ever play any of the embarrassing games designed to instigate contact between the opposite sexes when you were…
