Deviled Food
Recently I read about serving deviled food at Halloween parties. You know things like devil’s food cake, deviled ham, deviled…
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Appalachian Murder Ballads
Tom Dooley is a song I’ve heard all my life, I even used to be able to play it on the…
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Ghost Stories and Appalachia
Almost every year since I first started the Blind Pig and The Acorn I’ve tried to share spooky things during…
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Overheard
“Make yourself at home. We’ll treat you so many different ways that you’re bound to like one of them.” ——————-…
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Appalachian Sayings – Stacked up Like Cordwood
Folks were stacked up like cordwood on Saturday at the festival. The local paper said over 16,000 people visited the small…
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October in Appalachia
An Ode To October by Jim Casada (copyright 2010) Not long ago, in one of her daily blogs Tipper mentioned…
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5 Things
1. I think I’ve harvested the last of the Seminole Pumpkins. I say I think because they did so good…
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How to Make Gritted Bread from Dried corn
Two weeks ago I showed you how Pap taught me to make gritted bread from fresh corn and last week I…
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Day 2 of the JCCFS Fall Festival
At 2:00 p.m. today The Pressley Girls will be performing at the John C. Campbell Folk School’s Fall Festival on…
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Today at the JCCFS Fall Festival
I was thinking about how I wish I could take all of you along with me to the festival today…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Beans and Mop Handles
Granny will plant seeds anywhere she can spot an empty piece of ground, which results in things like greenbeans growing on her…
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Brasstown – A Wide Place in the Road
If you’ve never been to Brasstown you might miss it as you drive through if you’re not paying close attention….
