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Latest Additions Listed below are the latest articles added to The Mountain Laurel web site. Apple Pealing Time - A wonderful old photo from a reader. The Slave Meadow - Gravestones were removed from slaves' graves during the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway over 60 years ago - it's time to put them back. Grape Pie and other old fashioned recipes from a reader. The Face That Wasn't and Granny Was A Ghost Buster by Steven D. Lefler are a couple of stories about growing us in Draper Valley, Virginia. Cat Head Biscuits by Sandra Bennett is a story of continuity and memories of generations of women through cooking. Click here for recipe. My First And Last Trip To The Pinnacles - Miss Wash Pot Memories - Recollections of washday. Read about a few winter activities in the Blue Ridge in the new addition, Old Fashion Taffy Pull Parties and other molasses recipes. A Tribute to "Skinny" Rowland. Skinny was a cowboy poet, a contributor to The Mountain Laurel in the 1980s and a friend we never met. John Hassell Yeatts - A Legacy of Memories. A mountain gentleman who shared his memories and love of the tiny mountain community of Mayberry, Virginia and left a legacy of timeless beauty for generations to come. Christmas In John Hayes Hollow by Hazel P. Hedrick A Gift Of Love Never Ends, by Wm. Axley Allen Christmas Treat Trees and a new family tradition Thanksgiving story - We Gather
Together Harvest Recipes! Visit the mountains and
buy produce fresh from the orchards and fields - cabbage, apples, pumpkins - and
here's recipes you can use to "put-up" this bounty - Kraut, freezer
slaw, persimmon pudding, molasses pudding, pumpkin bread and apple brown betty. The Poor House Farm (1858-1957), Wythe
County, Virginia Watermelon Rind Pickles/Preserves A Tale About Bootlegging Possession Is 9/10 What I Miss Most?
Company That Stayed To Long My First Chaw The Flybush and Other Stories by Hazel P. Hedrick Pretenses Not Yet Cora Lee Beatrice Allen Heafner Recipes - Southern Sweet Chow-Chow Mayberry Wood - The community of Mayberry,
Virginia The Mailbox - Letters from our readers Backroad Tour - From Meadows of Dan to Kibler
Valley Caleb & Henry An Old Logging Photo taken in vicinity of Blue Ridge
Parkway in Virginia, circa 1905-10. Recipe - Easy to make - Crock Pot Apple Butter by
Susan Thigpen, editor Gerton, North Carolina by Bonnie Moore Floyd Hawks, Grain Cradle Champ by Imogene
Turman My Childhood Days by Olyer Turner
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