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,…
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Overheard
“You might see some water dripping, but don’t fret none its just where we washed it.” —————– Tipper Overheard: snippets of…
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Fiddling George Barnes, Last of the Copper Haulers
Today’s guest post was written by Ethelene Dyer Jones. Photo provided by Polk County News Fiddling George Barnes, Last of…
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The Milk is Blinked!
blinked, blinky A adjective Usu of milk; soured. 1956 Hall Coll. Del Rio TN You cain’t drink it. It’s blinked….
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5 Things
1. Just like the rest of the country, Snap Chat has taken Appalachia by storm…at least the younger generation…
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Blind Pig & The Acorn in 2017
It seems only yesterday I was telling you about the goals I had planned for the Blind Pig & the…
