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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: Belfast, Virginia
- Places I've Lived: Paint Lick, VA
Tag Archives: West Virginia
Bluefield: A Wedding of Two Communities
This winter I spent some time in the Craft Memorial Library over at Bluefield, West Virginia. I found there microfilmed copies of the Bluefield Daily Telegraph from the late 1800s to the middle of the 1900s. Interesting stories. Of course … Continue reading
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Tagged Baptist, Bluefield, Bluefield College, bluestone, Bluestone river, chicory, coalfields, community, flat top, General Assembly, governors, Graham, marriage, Pin Hook, Thomas Graham, Virginia, West Virginia
Reflections on Appalachia, Part One: Mountaineers are Always Free!
I am taken with the stories of the settlement of my home region in the early history of the United States. The mountains became a home of hope for many who were getting away from something worse somewhere else. Their … Continue reading
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Tagged abolition, appalachia, Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian Region, Battle of King's Mountain, civil war, East Tennessee, free, freedom, halifax, jonesborough, Methodist, mountain, mountain people, mountaineers, North Carolina, northern, pioneers, revolutionary war, Rocky Mount, Sevier, southern, southwestern Virginia, state of franklin, Tennessee, Tipton, washington, West Virginia, willie jones
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Appalachian Lexicon
It was a symphony really, of words and sounds and inflections that made up the music that ordered our lives. Continue reading
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Tagged Appalachian English, Clinch Mountain, Encyclopedia of Appalachia, her'n, his'n, Kentucky, lexicon, lingo, phrases, sop, Southwest Virginia, sworp, usages, Virginia, West Virginia, words, you'ns, your'n
