Earlier this year, I got to check two items off of my bucket list in one night when I heard Fiddlin’ Carson Peters play at the Carter Family Fold. In case you’re not familiar with Carson Peters, he is a fiddle-playing prodigy from Piney Flats, Tennessee. That just happens to…
Living in the melting pot that is Atlanta, I miss regularly hearing the “mountain talk” of home, which is Northeast Tennessee. I love it when I am talking to my children and some mountain slang or a good old-fashioned Southern saying comes out of my mouth. Sometimes they understand and…
Growing up in Northeast Tennessee, the third full week in August brought excitement to the air. School was starting. It was the week of my birthday and my sister’s birthday. And the Appalachian Fair was upon us. Clara Mae, my mother, was the ultimate Appalachian Fair connoisseur. She bought the…
