You are listening to Appalachian Words, the show about language in Appalachia and the Great Smoky Mountains. I’m your host, Jennifer Heinmiller. I am co-author of the Dictionary of and Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English, a historical dictionary that is over 1.3 million words long and co…
Welcome to Appalachian Words, the show about language and culture in Appalachia! I'm your host, Jennifer Heinmiller. The Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English is available for pre-order and will be on shelves June 28! Get your copy here: https://uncpress.org/book/9781469662541/dictionary-of-southern-appalachian-english/ (Use code 01DAH40 for 40% off!) https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dictionary-of-southern-appalachian-english-michael-b-montgomery/1137590890?ean=9781469662541 https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Southern-Appalachian-English-Montgomery/dp/146966254X Contact: appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome to Appalachian Words, the show about language and culture in Appalachia! I'm your host, Jennifer Heinmiller. This time we're talking about traditional houses and how they were built in early Appalachia. Contact: appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome back to Appalachian Words! Drop me a line at appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com Today we're talking about early autumn treats! It's time for harvest, so settle in for a talk about beans, fox grapes, and molasses in Appalachia. Links of interest: Folk Apothic https://www.folkapothic.com/partners-and-cool-folk Fox grapes Hikers Notebook https://hikersnotebook.blog/flora/berry-plants-and-fruit-trees/fox-grape/ Blind Pig and Acorn https://blindpigandtheacorn.com/making-grape-juice-making-grape-jelly/ Glen Arbor Sun http://glenarborsun.com/making-jelly-from-wild-fox-grapes/ Molasses Northwest Arkansas Democrat Gazette https://www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/oct/04/molasses-making-time-20151004/ Books of interest: Dictionary of American Regional English https://dare.wisc.edu/ Encyclopedia of Appalachia https://www.neh.gov/explore/encyclopedia-appalachia --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome back to Appalachian Words! This episode is about some of the superstitions and beliefs that people lived their everyday lives by. Some books of interest. Please support your local bookstore or buy direct from the publisher! Harriet Arnow, Hunter's Horn: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7... Rose Houk, Quilts and Coverlets of the Smokies https://www.smokiesinformation.org/ca... Sidney Farr, My Appalachia. https://www.kentuckypress.com/9780813... Gerald Milnes, Signs, Cures & Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... Contact me at: appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome back to Appalachian Words! Today I talk about folk medicine and traditional healing in Southern Appalachia, including some of the plant remedies people used and the weird ailments that were a common part of life once upon a time. Contact me at: appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com ***** Resources: The Walker Sisters https://www.nps.gov/grsm/learn/histor... Walker Sisters Home: Historical Data Section https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/onlin... Doctor or Doctress? http://doctordoctress.org/islandora/o... Women and Healthcare in Appalachia https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.c... Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia https://muse.jhu.edu/article/183548/pdf --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Contact me at appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com ! Resources for this episode: Coe, Samuel S. Chronicles of the Coe Colony https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0979771315?ie=UTF8&tag=mystscen-&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0979771315 Montell, L. The Saga of Coe Ridge: A Study in Oral History. https://books.google.com/books?id=4j_OOzGDH7gC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false WEKU segment on Coe Ridge https://www.weku.fm/post/moment-kentucky-history-coe-ridge-settlement Coe Ridge website http://coeridge.com/ American Chestnut Foundation https://www.acf.org/the-american-chestnut/history-american-chestnut/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome back to Appalachian Words, the show about language and culture in the Appalachian Mountains. Links for this episode: https://www.nps.gov/shen/learn/historyculture/cccoralhistories.htm https://www.nps.gov/teachers/classrooms/ccc-a-new-deal-to-rebuild-a-nation.htm http://npshistory.com/publications/usfs/region/8/history/chap4.htm#:~:text=The%20CCC%20was%20disbanded%20starting,United%20States%20went%20to%20war.&text=CCC%20camps%2C%20usually%20with%20150,National%20Forests%20of%20Southern%20Appalachia. https://appalachiancc.org/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Show notes to come soon! Dictionary of Southern Appalachian English, coming spring 2021. appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome to Episode 7! This time I'm talking about ghost stories and spooky happenings in the mountains. Contact me at appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com If you would like to contribute to the publication of the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English, contact the University of North Carolina Press: https://uncpress.org/contact/ Ghosts Along the Cumberland https://www.amazon.com/Ghosts-Along-C... Foxfire books https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/se... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome to Episode 6! In this episode I talk about the traditions of Decoration Day and funeral practices in Appalachia. Contact me at appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com If you would like to contribute to the publication of the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English, contact the University of North Carolina Press: https://uncpress.org/contact/ Interesting books to check out from your bookstore or local library: https://uncpress.org/book/9780807833971/decoration-day-in-the-mountains/ https://uncpress.org/book/9780807843284/cabins-in-the-laurel/ https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/comfol https://www.amazon.com/Museum-Appalachia-story-nationally-acclaimed/dp/0887401023 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
Welcome to Appalachian Words, the show about language in Appalachia and the Great Smoky Mountains. I’m your host, Jennifer Heinmiller. I am co-author of the Dictionary of and Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English, a historical dictionary that is over 1.3 million words long and covers everything from ain’t to zonies alive. Drop me a line at appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- afeard (also afeared, afeered, afyered, feard, feared, feered) predicate adjective Afraid. [Editor’s note: Joseph Hall found that in the Smoky Mountains in the late 1930s afeard was the form universally used in preference to afraid.] 1845 (in 1974 Harris High Times 47) She hugged me mity tite she was “so feered of fallin off that drated poney.” 1847 (in 1870 Drake Pioneer Life KY 82) I was ever afterward “afeard” of wild and wicked horses. 1859 Taliaferro Fisher’s River 209 I’m afeered you’ll fall from grace ef you shout too soon, Sol. 1863 Hill CW Letters (Jan 1) I am all most feard to send [the money] in a letter. 1875 King Great South 536 He volunteered to direct us to the falls, though he “was powerful afeard of snakes. 1913 Kephart Our Sthn High 288 When the mountaineer boy challenges his mate: “I dar ye—I ain’t afeared!” his verb and participle are of the same ancient and sterling rank [as Chaucer and Layamon]. 1924 Raine Saddlebags 97-98 Afeared is more logical than afraid, and was preferred by Lady MacBeth. 1929 Chapman Speech Sthn Highlands 619 “I am afeard” is quite as good English as “I am afraid.” Better, in fact—afeard being the regular participle of the verb “affear,” and “afraid” the very irregular participle of “affray,” an inexplicable variant of “affright.” 1937 Hall Coll (Cades Cove TN) I’m afeared of them copperheads. Ibid. (Kirklands Creek NC) I ain’t nary bit afeared of him. 1938 Bowman High Horizons 46 Nearly all of the older people use the Elizabethan “afeared” while the children usually say “afraid,” I have noticed. 1941 Hall Coll (Cataloochee NC) Pretty nearly all these old people say “afeared.” 1956 Hall Coll (Cades Cove TN) My mother heared them old witch tales. She was afeared she’d see a witch. 1967 Hall Coll (Townsend TN) My daddy wasn’t afeared of them hogs. Hit come up and hit stood right on his breast, looking right down on his face. 1978 Montgomery White Pine Coll I-3 They’d been feared of them. 1989 Smith Flyin’ Bullets 244 That Charles had a lot of nerve, he wasn’t afeared of them in the least bit. 2005 Williams Gratitude 476 afyered. [ultimately Old English afæred, past participle of afæran; OED3 afeard past-part/adj obsolete or dialect c1000; EDD afeard adj in general dialect use in Scot, Irel, Engl; SND afeard/afeart rare since 1700; CUD afeard (also afeart); Web3 afeard adj now dialect; DARE afear(e)d adj once widespread, now chiefly South, Midland] --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
You are listening to Appalachian Words, the show about language in Appalachia and the Great Smoky Mountains. I’m your host, Jennifer Heinmiller. I am co-author of the Dictionary of and Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English, a historical dictionary that is over 1.3 million words long and covers everything from ain’t to zonies alive. If you’re curious about that one, subscribe and tune in. I welcome your questions, comments, stories, suggestions, and zucchini bread. You can contact me at: appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
You are listening to Appalachian Words, the show about language in Appalachia and the Great Smoky Mountains. I’m your host, Jennifer Heinmiller. I am co-author of the Dictionary of and Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English, a historical dictionary that is over 1.3 million words long and covers everything from ain’t to zonies alive. If you’re curious about that one, subscribe and tune in. I welcome your questions, comments, stories, suggestions, and zucchini bread. You can contact me at: appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
You are listening to Appalachian Words, the show about language in Appalachia and the Great Smoky Mountains. I’m your host, Jennifer Heinmiller. I am co-author of the Dictionary of and Smoky Mountain and Southern Appalachian English, a historical dictionary that is over 1.3 million words long and covers everything from ain’t to zonies alive. If you’re curious about that one, subscribe and tune in. I welcome your questions, comments, stories, suggestions, and zucchini bread. You can contact me at: appalachian.dictionary@gmail.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/appalachian-words/message
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