Appalachia Through My Eyes – Greasy Back Beans
greasy back bean, greasy bean noun A crescent-shaped green bean with a shiny shell. Same as creaseback, turkey bean. 1996…
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Aprons In Appalachia
My Granny Gazzie always wore an apron. I suppose Mamaw did too but I don’t really remember hers. Granny Gazzie’s…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Cold In July…What?
Brasstown was a chilly 49 degrees yesterday morning. We also had a chilly morning or two during the week of…
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How Big Is A Mess?
In the last week, a few Blind Pig readers have been wondering exactly how big a mess of something is?…
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Sow True Seed – Lemon Cucumbers
One of the new varieties I’ve tried growing this summer is a heirloom cucumber-Cucumis sativus or Lemon Cucumber. The seeds…
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Nanette’s Favorite Dilled Beans
If you’re trying to figure out a way to preserve a few extra greenbeans this summer I’ve got the perfect…
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There Ain’t A Thing For A Poor Man In This World
A few weeks ago at our weekly pickin’ & grinnin’ session, I told Pap and Paul I needed a song…
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Washington County Tenn Feb 16th 1863 – Letter 4
Interior views of Fort Sumter, S.C. taken by a Confederate photographer in 1864 [i.e. 1863] (Library of Congress) ————– Washington…
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Porches
So many good ‘porch’ comments were left on the post Appalachia Through My Eyes – Of An Evening that I…
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Grabbling New Taters
grab, grabble, gravel verb To dig up with the hands, esp a potato early in the season, and smooth back…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 68
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-take it and see how you do! Lope Leastways Lastingest Love bump Lopper-jawed…
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Meet The Blackberry Pickers
We’ve been playing the part of Mr. & Mrs. Blackberry Picker this summer. Here in Cherokee County the blackberries have…
