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- Remembering the Schoolhouse(s) Known as “Bell Ridge” in the Morrison City area of North Kingsport, Tennessee January 31, 2020
- A Song of Unity from Long Ago August 19, 2019
- Beautiful Hills of Home August 16, 2019
- When Your Family Tree Becomes All Hung Up July 22, 2019
- “The Storms are on the Ocean” as a Metaphor for Homesickness June 15, 2019
- “Excuse Me, May I Look Inside Your Biscuit?” May 3, 2019
Top Posts & Pages
- A Barony in the Mountains of Southwest Virginia
- Remembering Vacation Bible School in the '60s and '70s
- The Flood of 1977
- Disappearing Towns: Morrison City
- Robert Sayers Sheffey, Mountain Preacher and Man of Prayer
- A Sunny Day in Sharon Springs
- A Conversation that didn't Go Well
- History of a Part of Weber City, Virginia
- Places I've Lived: Paint Lick, VA
- Ode to Soup Beans and Corn Bread
Tag Archives: Bread
Communion Chronicles
I don’t know when I first took communion. I have since learned that whenever it was, it was done improperly. My home church didn’t always do things by the book. And thank God for that. My earliest memories of church involve … Continue reading
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Tagged altar, Bread, Church, grandfather, hoc est corpus meum, holy, Holy communion, intinction, juice, kneeling, knees, minister, rail, wine
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Ode to Soup Beans and Corn Bread
What is it about Soup Beans? Most Appalachians can tell you what soup beans are: dinner. A lot of us have eaten them throughout our lives, as a staple of the mountaineer’s diet. They’re cheap, you can leave them stewing … Continue reading
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Tagged appalachia, Appalachian, attic, Baking and Confections, beans, beans in leather britches, Bread, chutney, Cook, corn bread, Cornbread, Fruit and Vegetable, home, homesick, ketchup, leather britches, milk, National Storytelling Festival, octobers, pinto beans, pintos, porch, recipe, relish, soup beans, sweet pickle relish
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