Jim Casada’s Smoky Mountain Christmas

winter cabin

Jim Casada has another story up at The Tuckasegee Reader. This is how it started:

Virtually everyone of my generation who grew up in the Great Smokies, and for that matter most anywhere in the readily identifiable if somewhat geographically ill-defined region known as Appalachia, knew something about hard times.

In the 1950s and 1960s, young [...]

Appalachian Home Cooking: History, Culture, and Recipes

Mark F. Sohn’s classic book, Mountain Country Cooking, was a James Beard Award nominee in 1997. In Appalachian Home Cooking, Sohn expands and improves upon his earlier work by using his extensive knowledge of cooking to uncover the romantic secrets of Appalachian food, both within and beyond the kitchen. The foods of Appalachia [...]

Blue Ridge Mountains 2011 Scenic Wall Calendar

 

Gorgeous photographs featuring the natural wonders of the Blue Ridge Mountains fill this wall calendar and keepsake. Below the stunning views of endless mountain ridges and majestic waterfalls, all major holidays and moon phases are marked, and there's plenty of room to keep track of appointments, meetings, and special events.

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It was three years ago today…

Inventing the Myth as I Go

Where am I heading and how will I get there?

You are welcome to come along for the ride. Try not to fall off as we round the curves…

I have tried to do this blog thing before and haven’t managed to develop the discipline to make it work…Blame [...]