Ramps
If someone ever gives you a mess of ramps-then you know you have a real friend. When I returned home…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Dancing Shoes
I noticed people’s feet at the Mountain Folk Festival in Berea KY. There were bare feet, tennis shoes, sock feet,…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 30
Time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-take it and see how you do. Name Near about Night crawler No count…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – The Consummate Dance Caller
Mr. Bob Dalsemer -The Consummate Dance Caller Bob leads our group to the Mountain Folk Festival in Berea KY each year-maybe you remember…
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Kids You Never Forget
Are there kids from your childhood that you can’t forget? I’m not talking about the kids you were best friends…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Quilt Square For Berea KY
The girls on the quilt square above represent the girls, from the John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, who…
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Spreading The Love For March
Time to Spread the Love for the month of March. I’m sending a great big THANK YOU to all the…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Dogwood Winter
Over the last week, our summer like weather has taken a hiatus, and cool damp air has took it’s place….
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Civil War Letters 13
Time to check in with our Civil War Soldier W.C. Penland. July 19th 1863 Sweet Water Monroe Co. E Tenn Dear…
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Have You Ever Eaten Soakey?
Several months ago, Vera Guthrie sent me a cook book she had published-called Vintage Vera a Collection of Old Timey…
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Appalachia Through My Eyes – Clogging For Charity
Ready to dance. The JCCFS Clogging Team (chitter and chatter included) performed Friday night for a local elementary school. The school…
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Appalachian Grammar Lesson 5
Today’s Appalachian Grammar Lesson centers around the words: good, bad, worst, and awful. The words are used to place great…
