Growing up in a secluded mountain valley in Southwest Virginia everybody talked alike. I never knew there was… Read More
Sulphur Springs by Karen Lim
Just up the road a piece from Gray Station, Tennessee, is the Sulphur Springs community. Sulphur Springs, in… Read More
Appalachian Memories on the Christmas Tree by Karen Lim
I love the holiday season and decorating the Christmas tree with ornaments that our family has collected over… Read More
Aunt Edith by Karen Lim
I’ve shared a few memories about my Great Aunt Edith already—including one about her volunteer work as a… Read More
I Am Thankful by Dana K. Harrington
For this Thanksgiving week’s article I started going through old pictures which always send me sailing down memory… Read More
Treasures in a Notepad by Karen Lim
Happy Thanksgiving! I thought this would be a good week to share an old notepad I came across… Read More
Granddaddy, Part Two: Warts and All by Karen Lim
Driving down Shadden Road in Gray, Tennessee, will bring you by a neighborhood development called “Cargille’s Crossing.” The… Read More
Clothes (and Chickens) On The Line by Dana K. Harrington
Ahhhhh…..that feeling of crawling into bed with clean sheets that have been dried on the clothesline. They smell… Read More
Swinging On A Grapevine by Dana K. Harrington
Recently I saw a picture on social media of a kid swinging on a grapevine. The writing on… Read More
Three Churches by Karen Lim
When I was growing up in East Tennessee, my family wasn’t a regular church-going family. We were more… Read More