Christmas Spirit
Do you have your Christmas tree up yet? I don’t. I usually put the trees up on Thanksgiving Day-or at least the…
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2 Mysteries Solved
B. Ruth suggested I contact the Museum of Appalachia about the old piece of pottery The Deer Hunter found. I did-they put me…
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Gritted Bread
After Pap showed me how to parch corn-he told me about gritted bread. Pap recalls 2 types of bread being called…
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November Was Full Of Love To Spread
I’m not sure where the month of November went-it seems to have taken place in warp speed. As I drive along the curvy…
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Domestic Incident
Do you like surprise songs? You know-songs that lead you to believe you know whats coming-only to slip in a…
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Thanksgiving
As I think of things I’m thankful for this Thanksgiving Day-seems I keep coming up with Fs: faith family freedom…
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Parched Corn
Parching corn was yet another way folks made use of the dried corn they had gathered from their fields to feed themselves and…
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Pumpkin Roll
After I posted the Oatmeal Dinner Roll recipe one of my friends said “What you should have told them about is your pumpkin roll.”…
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Thanksgiving Rolls
With Thanksgiving only a few days away many of us are thinking about food and family. I find it interesting-how folks become connected…
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A Go Devil & A Mystery
I found it surprising that many of you-who usually know all the vocabulary words, were in the dark about go devil. A…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 13
Time for this month’s Vocabulary Test: Gall Gander Give out Give in Go devil Gall-nerve. “The gall of her to…
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Hominy
Making hominy is yet another way Appalachians used dried corn for food. While it was a time consuming process-it added a little variety to their daily diets….
