by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 23, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Nature
Some friends and I have been trading jigsaw puzzles back and forth. I have a pretty good collection, mostly from my mother who shares hers with me. My friends had discovered puzzles based on art by Charley Harper, a renowned illustrator and artist who specialized in...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 9, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, History
I love it when I discover something wonderfully Appalachian that I didn’t know about! Quilts play a key role in my Appalachian fiction and I love to surround myself with them. But learning about coffin quilts was new for me! I was researching Appalachian funeral...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jul 2, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, History
When my husband and I took on the family farm in West Virginia, a big part of the reason was to preserve family history. Turns out I’m pretty sentimental and I’m fascinated with history–especially my own. This land has been held by a descendant of...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 22, 2020 | Family, Love, Memories
Dad’s been gone for almost two months now. And I’m well into the year that will be marked by firsts. The first Father’s Day, the first birthday, the first Christmas, the first . . . well there will be all sorts of firsts without him. And apparently...
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | Jun 15, 2020 | Family, Nature
Today I’m in WV spending the day with my nine-year-old niece. Which means my meanderings are a little more, well, meandering! But I still got some gorgeous photos to share!
by Sarah Loudin Thomas | May 28, 2020 | Appalachian, Family, Memories
I enjoy looking at historic homes on-line and recently realized that porch swings are much more common to the rural south–including Appalachia. It finally hit me that northern homes don’t have as many swings–or porches for that matter–because...
