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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
- Remembering the Schoolhouse(s) Known as “Bell Ridge” in the Morrison City area of North Kingsport, Tennessee
- Robert Sayers Sheffey, Mountain Preacher and Man of Prayer
- Compromise Church
- Appalachian Lexicon
- Remembering Vacation Bible School in the '60s and '70s
- A Barony in the Mountains of Southwest Virginia
- Places I've Lived: Paint Lick, VA
Tag Archives: mandolin
A Sojourn Among Pine Trees: My Time at Duke
Nine generations of the family lived in the lap of mountains. Like doting grandparents they watched over us, protected us from whatever was beyond and taught us lessons in silence. The sounds of our stories and songs echoed from the … Continue reading
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Tagged alaa abdelnaby, appalachia, Appalachian, chapel, cigarette plant, dirt path, Doyle Lawson, Duke, Duke Basketball, Duke Divinity, Duke family, Durham, family, gospel music, gothic, grandparents, guitar, home, mandolin, mountains, North Carolina, pines, shaped-note, singing convention, southern gospel, tobacco, Virginia
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The Crooked Road
I recently became aware of why my friends no longer visit me. It seems that in my earliest days out of seminary several of them came to see where I was living and what I was doing. One of my … Continue reading
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Tagged back roads, banjo, bluegrass music, cattle guards, coal fields, coal mines, coal trucks, Crooked Road, crooked roads, Cumberland Gap, curvy roads, Dr Ralph Stanley, fiddle, Floyd, green pastures, hills, hollers, mandolin, Music Heritage Trail, pastures, Recreation, Roads and Highways, Virginia
