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Summer in Appalachia Means . . .

Summer in Appalachia has long meant supper from the garden for me. A platter piled high with buttery corn on the cob. Great slabs of brilliant red tomato. Green beans boiled with new potatoes. Kilt lettuce. Cucumbers and onions in apple cider vinegar. No one even...

Fourth of July Bean Supper

Back home in West Virginia there was always a bean supper at George and Lucille’s for the Fourth of July. George and Lucille were first cousins to my dad, and they had a little, white house up on the ridge above the church. Each year, Lucille would organize the event...

Spring Flower Round-Up

I ADORE spring in Appalachia when the most amazing wildflowers put on a show. While there are certainly some showy flowers out there, the ones I like best are the sweet little flowers poking up through last autumn’s leaves. Hope for another year in shades of...