NEW APPALACHIAN MOMENTS BLOG POST!!! From Scott Ballard Nope, it’s not the 7-year itch, perhaps a topic for a later podcast (!!!), but the Itch we’re talking about is something caused by a tiny little bug called a mite which ran rampant not that long ago. Funny how something almost…
NEW APPALACHIAN MOMENTS BLOG POST!!! From Scott Ballard Have you ever been driving out in the countryside and you pass an old farmhouse and notice…cedar trees, sometimes massive, growing just off the front porch or somewhere close by in the front yard? Or seen big cedar trees in old family…
NEW APPALACHIAN MOMENTS BLOG POST!!! From Scott Ballard Is there anything we take more for granted today than electricity? Especially as our phones, cars and homes get smarter, meaning more connected to computers, the internet and even more reliant on steady power. Even though Thomas Edison invented the first power…
NEW APPALACHIAN MOMENTS BLOG POST!!! From Scott Ballard Can you imagine how different school was in the early days of Appalachia? My great grandfather would ring this bell… to call the kids to their books several times a day. Why? Because during breaks in the learning they might be outside…
Where to begin? For example, as a former classroom teacher, one of the first things I did was get connected with my students because only after that could we begin the authentic and real process of getting connected to the material. How do you get connected with your students? You…
Back in the day before hospitals and certainly before there was a pharmacy on every corner, the pharmacy was…well, either outside in the woods or in your grandma’s kitchen…There is nothing like grandma’s cooking, but turns out she had MORE than cornbread and beans to cure what ails you… Many…
