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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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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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