Train Series – Folsom Prison Blues
Today’s post was written by Paul. Today I’m sharing another super fun train song with the immensely talented Doyle and…

Today’s post was written by Paul. Today I’m sharing another super fun train song with the immensely talented Doyle and…

Gib, trailing his father like a shadow everywhere he went, had been up on the mountainside where Mark was cutting…

A traveler riding one evening along a country road near Brasstown, North Carolina, saw the sun rays break through the…

Jim and I were both pleased when the publishers approved our idea of adding unique Appalachian vocabulary words related to…

Consequences Don’t let your mouth write checks that your rear end can’t cash. Compliments Saying something nice makes the old…

For the people of rural Appalachia in yesteryear, beef did not figure prominently in daily diet. While most families owned…

“My uncle Carl was a medic in World War II, he served in Italy, he was gone from home 37…

Today’s post was written by Paul. I had never sung this train song before, but I’m glad that Doyle suggested…

A big thank you to everyone who has been participating in this year’s Thankful November. I have really enjoyed the…

Possum and Bear Though her house was a fixer-upper,The possum invited the bear to supper.She laid her table with Queen…

“Since most early families had hogs, it was not really essential for them to hunt wild game. Many did, however—to…

Sometime in late May, when the plantain weeds were tall enough to pull for pig feed, Dad handed my brothers…