Growing up in Appalachia Growing up Barefoot Memoirs of Connie Sweeney Murphy December 1, 2009 admin 1950, 1959, 1960, 1970, accident, barefoot, bathing, beans, beauty, birth, butter, cap, car, cheerleader, cheese, chicken, child, Christmas, church, clay, clothes, co, coal, commodity, commodity food, community, connie, connie murphy, connie sweeney, connie sweeney murphy, county, courthouse, creek, death, dipper, east, eastern, electricity, family reunion, food, food stamps, fried chicken, government, graveyard, graveyard church, graveyard meetings, grief, grow, hardship, heart attack, hog, hog killing, hole, horse, house, inez, kentucky, kermit, killing, ky, lovely, martin, meeting, memoir, mines, mother, mountain, murphy, outhouse, peanut, peanut butter, picnic, pony, poor, popcorn balls, potatoes, preach, reunion, rice, ronnie, school, school clothes, shoes, stamps, story, sweeney, swimming, swimming hole, tomboy, trading, tub, vegetables, wake, warfield, wash, wash tub, washer, washtub, wringer, wringer washer Page 1 My mother tells me that in 1959, I was born in an old wooden house up a hollow Read more