Tag: Reta Winebarger

It was Christmas and the little girl was sick. Sick enough to warrant a doctor’s visit on Christmas… Read More

Our Appalachian people held to time honored superstitions and traditions regarding the Christmas season. The Old World traditions… Read More

The week of Christmas has always been a busy time for the Appalachianwoman. Parents, aunts, uncles and cousins… Read More

My mother’s family never had a Christmas tree. Momma would tell me about how she used to see… Read More

It’s summer in Ashe County. The little girl is up early, her blond hair in a rat’s nest… Read More

Appalachian women are some of the smartest women I know. Quick witted and sensible, when left to their… Read More

My mother was born on a farm in a very rural area here in the mountains in 1924…. Read More

Preface: This is a fictional account of how death and burial were handled in our mountain communities years… Read More

The Old Ways, superstitions, and healing came along with our foremothers on the ships from Ireland, Scotland and… Read More

Great-great aunt Ida was very different from all the other young ladies that lived in the early part… Read More