Meanwhile . . .
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Appalachian Spring
"Earl Eugene Scruggs was born on Jan. 6, 1924,
in Flint Hill, near Shelby, N.C.,
to George Elam Scruggs, a farmer and bookkeeper,
and the former Georgia Lula Ruppe,
who played the pump organ in church.
He attended high school in Boiling Springs, N.C."
— Today's online New York Times—
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Monday, March 28, 2011
Desire
"Desire, hearing the calendar hymn, repudiates the negativity of the mind of winter…."
Related material: Appalachian Spring at Harvard and Reba.com.
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Sunday, March 28, 2010
The Palm at the End of the Mind
"Democrats– in conclusion– Democrats in America
were put on earth to do one thing— Drag the
ignorant hillbilly half of this country into the next
century, which in their case is the 19th."
Happy Palm Sunday
to Appalachia and
Happy Birthday, Reba
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Sunday, May 18, 2008
Sunday May 18, 2008
“Well now what can I say
at the end of the day?”
— Country song lyric
at the end of the day?”
— Country song lyric
Und was für
ein Bild des Christentums
ist dabei herausgekommen?
_______________________________
“How’d yuh know deh was
such a place,” I says, “if yuh neveh
been deh befoeh?”
“Oh,” he says, “I got a map.”
“A map?” I says.
“Sure,” he says, “I got a map
dat tells me about all dese places.
I take it wit me every time
I come out heah,” he says.
And Jesus! Wit dat, he pulls it out
of his pocket, an’ so help me,
but he’s got it– he’s tellin’
duh troot– a big map of
duh whole f_____ place….”
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