church – Appalachian Folk

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

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Appalachian Memorial Mining Memorial

In Memory of the Sago Mining Disaster

November 5, 2009 admin 1 Comment accident, alva, alva marty bennet, anderson, bennett, church, david, david lewis, died, explosion, fred, fred ware jr, george, george hamner, george junior hamner, groves, hamner, helms, jackie, jackie weaver, jerry, jerry groves, jesse, jesse jones, jim, jim bennett, jones, lewis, marchall winans, marshall, martin, marty, marty bennett, mccloy, memorial, mine, mining, prayer, randel, randel mccloy, sad, sago, terry, terry helms, toler, tom, tom anderson, tragedy, ware, weaver, winans

I remember it as if it was yesterday.Â Although I did not know the men involved, their families, or evenÂ been

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Christy's Favorite Charities ETC. Mountain Living Uncategorized

Mission Of Hope: Sharing Hope in Rural Appalachia

June 6, 2009 admin 0 Comment Add new tag, appalachia, assist, back to school, book, Books, business, c ollection, campaigns, champaign, charities, charity, children, Christmas, church, churches, civic, civic group, civic groups, clearing house, clothes, clothing, collect, collection, collections, construction, contribution, contributions, distrubute, donate, donation, education, event, events, families, family, financial, financial donation, financial donations, food, furniture, general public, group, groups, healthcare, help, hope, hygiene, impoverashed, item, items, kentucky, knoxville, mission, mission of hope, mountain, need, non-profit, nonprofit, not for profit, organizaiton, organization, organizations, poor, profit, public, purchase, resourse, resurrection, rural, school, school. back-to-school, schools, spring, spring resurrection, support, tenn. tennessee, tn, toy, toys, www.missionofhope.org

http://www.missionofhope.org/index.htm Mission of Hope is a charity/volunteerÂ organizationÂ who’s goal is to help impoverished children and their familiesÂ in rural Appalachia. Currently, the

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Appalachia in Pictures ETC. Growing up in Appalachia Mountain Living Poems Uncategorized

I Am From Canning Jars

May 26, 2009 admin 4 Comments appalachia, appalachian, bare, bare feet, be kind, bean, beans, biscuits, bread, bridges bridge, brother, brothers, burned, buscuit, butter, camp, camping, can, cannan, cannan's, cannan's land, canning, carolina, charles, church, clay, corn, cornbread, cross, cutter, cutters, dark hollers, day, day-lillie, day-lillies, dirt, do unto others, dogwood, dogwoods, driver, drivers, empty, empty pockets, feet, gazzie, gibson, gibson guitars, good, good night sleep tight, goodnight sleep tight, gravy, guitars, gutitar, hand, hands, hard, hard work, hay, heart, hearts, help, helping, helping hands, holler, hollers, hollow, homemade, ireland, iris, irises, jar, jars, jerry, just as i am, kind, land, lillie, lillies, louzine, love, loved, marie, marine, mown, night, north carolina, old rugged cross, peonie, peonies, pocket, pockets, pulpwood cutters, raise, reared, red, red clay, ridge, ridges, rugged, rugged cross, sea, sleep tight, song, steep, tennessee, the old rugged cross, truck, truck driver, truck drivers, wade, word

I am from canning jars, bare feet, and Gibson Guitars I am from steep ridges, dark hollers, and burned bridges

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Easter Chicks and Bunnies

November 6, 2008 admin 0 Comment backet, baptist, basket, baskets, bow, bunnies, bunny, Candy, chick, chicken, chocolate bunnies, chocolate bunny, church, coloring, creek road, dinner, dress, dresses, Easter, easter basket, easter baskets, easter bunny, easter dinner, egg, egg hunt, eggs, fort, fort gay, fort gay west virginia, fort gay wv, gay, hunt, hunting, mamaw, marshmallow, marshmallow peeps, mill, mill creek, mill creek rd, mill creek road, missionary, nephew, old pleasant, peeps, plastic, plastic grass, pld pleasant missionary baptist church, sunday, west virginia, wv, wva

I grew up on a farm just outside of Fort Gay, WV in a hallow named Mill Creek.Â Easter was

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