Appalachia Through My Eyes – Newly Pinned Nurses
Soon to be pinned nursing students dressed in varying shades and styles of white mill around the back door of…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 77
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. Take it and see how you do! Run: for a…
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Malinda Blalock Civil War Solider
Female Soldier and Bushwhacker in the Civil War written by Maggie MacLean Union sympathizers Malinda Blalock and her husband…
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Waspers
wasp noun See also jasper. A variant singular forms wasper, wasp. 1942 Hall Phonetics 27 wasp, 79 wasper. B variant…
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Baked Beans
Guess what? I made baked beans for the very first time a few weeks ago! I’m not sure why I’ve…
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Trying To Cheer Me On
I grew up hearing the old song Give Me The Roses While I live. Most folks associate the song with The…
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Planting By The Signs For May 2015
Click on calendar for a larger view Our spring veggies are almost ready to eat-well everything except the beets….
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Overheard
“If you ever lay an egg just back up and admire it.” —————– Tipper Overheard: snippets of conversation I overhear in Southern…
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Old Timey Toothbrushes
Most everyone used twig toothbrushes when I was a child. They’d get a small stick from a blackgum tree about…
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Vaccinations In The Confederate Army
Cedar Mountain, VA – A Confederate Field Hospital – Library of Congress HOW THE CONFEDERATE ARMY WAS VACCINATED C. W….
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Newman’s Ridge
Alex Lewis Stewart, the second of 16 children, was born in 1891, near the top of Newman’s Ridge in a…
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Ginger Cake And Homemade Whipped Cream
Several months ago I came across a small cookbook titled Mountain Makin’s in the Smokies. The book was published in…
