5 Things
1. The Deer Hunter made his first knife. He used an old saw blade and a piece of rough lumbered…
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Memories and Food
Each of us have memories that are connected to food. Typically those remembrances are directly related to our childhood,…
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Recent Grannyisms
If you look at the top of this page in the menu you’ll see a link to my Grannyisms-page. I’ve been collecting…
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How About Some Chocolate Gravy?
A few weeks ago Granny called me one Saturday morning to tell me she had sausage, eggs, biscuits, and chocolate…
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Wilson Holler
JCCFS Dance Musician’s Week – David Kaynor standing at mike; Chitter and Chatter at far right of photo It…
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Overheard
“Was it crowded?” “Lord yes it was so thick you couldn’t stir them with a stick. They was just a…
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Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English
On my last Appalachian Vocabulary Test Blind Pig Reader Ron Stephens asked if I might share the various sources I…
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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…
