The Dutch Oven Mystery
Back last summer, me and Pap made a trip to visit Charles Fletcher. You might remember I interviewed him for…
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Little White Washed Chimney
Have you ever noticed chimneys are often the last vestige of old home places? The one in the photo is…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – I Say Daffodil Do You Say Jonquil?
I say Daffodil. Granny says Jonquil. An older lady I know says Easter flower. And my Dictionary of Smoky Mountain…
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An Innocent Moonshiner
Today’s guest post is written by Ed Myers (Bryson City, NC) AN INNOCENT MOONSHINER By way of background and to…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – The Drive In
The film building is all that’s left of our old drive in movie. Since it’s on the way to town…
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Making A Mess
On the recent vocabulary test, someone mentioned the word gom. I knew I had written about it before, but once…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Swinging On Grapevines
You can see what’s about to happen. She’s thinking it over-deciding if it’ll hold her weight. Have you ever…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 29
Time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-take it and see how you do. Never mind Nice Turned Nary Nature Nubin…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – The Dancing Has Begun
In only few short weeks we’ll be making our way back to Berea, KY for the 75th Annual Mountain Folk…
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If You Play In The Fire…
All the great comments about burning the garden made me think of a few old sayings about fire things like:…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Time To Burn The Garden
Our recent Spring weather has encouraged folks to start gardening. Seems like everywhere I go I see people out and…
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Biscuits
Since we’ve been talking about make do foods many of you have mentioned biscuits. When I was growing up Granny…
