Ever Been To A Dumb Supper?
A few days ago, Mel Hawkins left a comment on the Blind Pig asking if I knew about Dumb Suppers….

A few days ago, Mel Hawkins left a comment on the Blind Pig asking if I knew about Dumb Suppers….

I thought it would be fun to use spooky words for an Appalachian Vocabulary Test. But when I started trying…

Appalachia is full of scary stories about ghosts, witches, painters, hainted houses, etc. Religion is woven so tightly through Appalachia-that the…

haunt tale noun A variant forms haint tale, hant tale. B A ghost story 1938 Hall Coll. Emerts Cove TN People’s…

This time of the year I start thinking of Granny’s Pumpkin Pie. There’s something about the cooler weather and fall…

Young Harris College We have beautiful college campuses in Appalachia. You’d think our beautiful campuses are top secret-I mean you…

Chatter, Pap, and Paul have been fooling around with the old song Working on a Building for the past few…

Today’s guest post was written by Ethelene Dyer Jones. A certain aura of solemnity and sadness settles over me as…

1901 Lounsberry Southern Wild Flowers 527 Although they flare jaunty golden-heads, all the while they are preparing their flattened…

It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-take it and see how you do! Mush Mountain oyster Mizzle Mind Mill…

Weather Underground report for Brasstown @ 7:25 p.m. October 14, 2014 – 2.96 in of rainfall. The Deer Hunter leaves…

My Gypsy Peppers are still producing! I figured the early frost we had would do them in. They were a…