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Memories of June Apples
Growing up in Goshen Valley in Northeast Tennessee, my Grammie Yankee had a cluster of June apple trees…
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Mountain Bald
Southern Appalachian Digital Collections Summer grazing on Mountain BaldPrint by North Carolina Museum of HistoryDate: 1906 baldA adjetive…
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Fighting Weeds
We’ve been getting rain fairly often and it sure has helped the gardens. All the vegetables are doing…
- Appalachia | Customs | Graves
For Decoration Day
decoration, decoration day noun An occasion on which a family or church congregation gathers on a Sunday to place flowers on…
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Elderberry Fritters
Mix a sweet pancake batter in a bowl large enough to cover a flower head of Elderberry. Holding…
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The B Minor Bounce
Today’s post was written by Paul. Last week’s instrumental in B 7th deserves a follow-up instrumental in B…
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Spice Bush & Birch Tea
I’ve never been a fan of hot tea. In fact I downright disliked it. The only person I…
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Planting Peas
We used to try to grow spring peas ever year. There might have been once or twice that…
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Natural Bug Repellants
The dreaded squash bugs have already found my cucumbers! I picked several off yesterday. I’m going to have…
- Appalachia | children | Music
Making Slingshots
Ila helping Mary with her slingshot I registered for the nature studies class months ago. I didn’t tell…
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Jewel Weed Seeds
I’ve written about jewel weed often over the years. The lovely orange variety grows prolifically throughout my mountain…
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Foraging for Food
Part of my payment for being the guest presenter for the John C. Campbell Folk School’s Appalachian Heritage…
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There are tons of things I could tell you about myself, but all you really need to know is I’m crazy in love with my home in Appalachia-the people, the food, the music, the colorful language, the sustainable lifestyle, the history, the soaring mountains, and the deep dark hollers. I hope you’ll join me as I do my best to celebrate and preserve Appalachia.