Thankful November – The Almost Perfect Food
“In the mountains, eggs were almost as important to our diet as milk and bread. Our family ate eggs just…
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Silver Ghost
Several years back Paul declared November the Train Month over on the Blind Pig and The Acorn YouTube channel. Today’s post…
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Thankful November – Hard Livin
I was born an’ raised on Hic’ry Knoll ’til I was eight years old. It’uz a hard livin’. I don’t…
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Thankful November – Copperhead Bit
“Granny Jane Watson was bitten on her right hand by a copperhead one summer, when she was scratching potatoes out…
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Thankful November – Rooster Can’t Crow
Rooster Can’t Crow Littlety low,And cocklety coop,The rooster can’t crow,He’s down with the croup. Blickery blust,And slickery sloop,There’s no eggs…
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Thankful November 2023
It’s hard for me to believe the month of November is here. I don’t know where in the world the…
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Trails to Tombstones
Today’s guest post was written by Jim Casada. Color me morbid, ghoulish, or simply strange, but I have always been…
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A Taste of Fall – Pumpkin Cream Cheese Danish
A couple of weeks ago I was hankering for a taste of fall of the year. My mind immediately went…
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From the Archives: Let the Lower Lights be Burning
January 10, 2016 Pap and Paul have been fooling around with the old song “Let the Lower Lights be Burning”…
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Appalachian Vocabulary Test 170
It’s time for this month’s Appalachian Vocabulary Test. I’m sharing a few videos to let you hear the words and phrases….
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Names from the Newspaper
When Daddy came home after serving in the Army during World War II, he and Mama rented their first little home…
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Gaelic influence in Appalachia?
I received the following question from Jarrad Holcombe. This may seem like an odd question. Have you ever heard anything…
