Want To Know A Secret?

Last week when I was writing my post about the Our State Photo Contest winners I went to their store to see if they sold back issues of the magazine…They don’t. While I was there I stumbled across their clearance items. There were two items that caught my eye one was a Grandfather Mountain Christmas [...]

Ron Rash receives writing honors

I have been a fan of Ron Rash ever since I read his poem “The Exchange” a few years back…I have a few of his books and read everything of his I come across. So far  I haven’t been disappointed. So I was oleased to see this in my email notices…

Ron Rash, the Parris [...]

It's Friday the 13th of July and I am NOT in the mountains…

But if you are, check out the Watauga Farmers’ Market. This weeks email newsletter has my mouth watering… Summer’s heat has arrived in Boone and the surrounding farms, and with it comes the payoff of traditional warm season crops. Brenda Powers has added a nice harvest of yellow squash and cucumbers to her selection of [...]

Friends in the Mountains

I think it was Marie at Blue Ridge Blog that first pointed me to the Hillbilly Savants Blog. Since her tag line is…”All I need is an outhouse and a dream….” I thought this link back would be appropriate.

The shack out back

Tennesseans called it the “la-la.” Elsewhere known as the john, the [...]