by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 10, 2023 | Appalachian, Food, Recipes
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...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 3, 2023 | Appalachian, Family, Food, holidays
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...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 26, 2023 | Family, Food, West Virginia
I just spent a wonderful weekend at home in WV visiting family and enjoying FABULOUS dinner at Fish Hawk Acres in Buckhannon, WV. There were rainbows two days out of three. Ahhh. My kind of vacation! My niece is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow! Home sweet...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 19, 2023 | books, Reading
Today I’m welcoming debut author Katherine Robles sharing about her love for Appalachia and her series of stories set in state parks. Take it away, Katherine!Sarah’s books make me want to travel to Appalachia. I drove through West Virginia once on my way to...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 12, 2023 | books, Reading, Writing
What an honor to be mentioned alongside some of my favorite authors in this piece that ran in Publisher’s Weekly today! Thanks Jeff! Seeing the Light on Religious Fiction (publishersweekly.com) Here’s a particularly nice snippet: If, indeed, the creation...
