Have you ever heard of the Seagrove Owens? They're world-famous potters - and my cousins! My mama is a great-great-granddaughter of Big John Chrisco and…
Art
23 Oct 2021
Amazing Grace In Palmer’s Chapel
In Cataloochee sits a little old Methodist church called Palmer's Chapel. Built in 1898 on property donated by Mary Ann Palmer, it was the only…
While scrolling through my Feedly account, I realized it looks a lot like a who's who list of North Carolina bloggers. I make no apologies; NC…
Though Myrtle Beach claims creation of the shag, the Crystal Coast of North Carolina has just as much right to that claim as our Southern…
21 May 2021
Traditional Appalachian Music
My great-Papaw Cochran playing the banjo is one of my earliest and foggiest memories. The memory is so faint, sometimes I wonder if it happened…