Black Walnut Blond Brownies & A New Nut Cracker
Over the last few days, my hands have been full of Black Walnuts. During the snowy days, I’ve been sitting by the…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 27
Granny Gazzie holding Tina and Tipper (cousins-we were born around the same time) Time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test-it’s…
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Snow Cream
My big snow turned out to be 8 inches. I’ve heard other areas of Cherokee County got as much as…
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Snow Folklore From Southern Appalachia
It’s Sunday night-and the weather reporters are in a tizz about the impending winter storm and it’s effect on the…
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1918 Flu In Southern Appalachia
The Blind Pig family has been lucky this winter-none of us have been sick much-I feel like I should say…
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Civil War Letters 10
When we last checked in with W.C. Penland it was March 23 1863. He wrote today’s letter almost exactly a…
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Every Day Of The World
When I sit down to write yesterday’s post I was thinking about old sayings that have the word world in…
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How Small Is The World?
Is the world getting smaller? Sometimes I think it is. When Guitar Man came home for Thanksgiving-he had tons of…
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Spreading December’s Love
Time to give a shout out to all the Acorns who commented during the month of December-I thank each of…
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The Best Ever Cookies
Tipper and Paul Paul was a New Year’s Baby. I’ve heard Granny tell the story a blue million times. She…
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Happy New Years
This is the time of the year most folks figure out what they need to change in their lives and…
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Appalachian Grammar Lesson 2
The subject of today’s lesson is conjunctions-I think. It’s been so long since I took an English class I’m not…
