Bigwig
Have you ever run into any bigwigs? Bigwigs are people who are in a position of influence…or at least they…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Baby Fox Grapes
fox grape noun A woody vine (Vitis labrusca) that bears small, edible grapes green in color but later turning brown….
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Hunting Rocks – A TVA Lake & A Civil War Soldier
North Carolina High School Seniors are required to do a yearlong project during their last year of high school. It’s…
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Planting By The Signs June 2014
We’ve hit a lull in our garden chores. The time before stuff starts coming in or producing gives you…
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I Never Shall Forget The Day
The Speer Family played a significant role in the early days of Southern Gospel Music. G.T. Speer headed up the…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – I Come In A One
The whole Blind Pig Gang gets together almost every Sunday afternoon to do a little pickin’ and grinnin’. Along with…
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Frog Strangler – Gully Washer – Frog Drowner
Brasstown has been having one frog strangler after another for the last week. If you didn’t know-that means Brasstown has…
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Jack Be Nimble
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack jump over the candlestick. —————– Researching this rhyme made me scream WHO KNEW!?…
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Growing Heirloom Tomatoes
We usually have a bumper crop of tomatoes. Maybe it’s the area, the dirt, the weather, maybe it’s because we stick…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Pissant
pissant, pismire noun A small back ant. 1867 Harris Sut Lovingood 32 I felt like I’d crowded intu a ole…
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Cherokee Legend Of The Corn Bead
Cherokee Legend Of The Corn Bead Many years ago during the 1830’s, the Real People, as the Cherokee called…
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Fallen Soldiers
Memorial Day was created to honor fallen soldiers of the Civil War-and was originally called Decoration Day. John L. Logan is…
