25 LOST Appalachian Mountain Secrets They Don't Want You to Know!

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• EZ

  @EzraCage · 1 month ago · pinned

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• KA

  @KathrynTanner-t8f · 1 month ago

  Beans, greens, and cornbread? &nbsp;Looks like a perfect meal!

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• RI

  @richardkautz2947 · 1 month ago

  My grandpa probably knew a lot of these things but he passed when I was 4 or 5 years old. I miss my &quot;Grandpap&quot; .

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• EO

  @EofBrokenSilence · 1 month ago

  We ate poke salad and eggs my whole childhood. It was my favorite greens! Mom washed it and boiled it three times just like her mom did

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• CH

  @charlesmoffitt4811 · 1 month ago

  Grew up doing all of it! &nbsp;Warren and VanBuren counties in Cumberland mountains in Tennessee. &nbsp;I&apos;m 80 now and my kids butcher hogs, have trap lines, hunt sang, bees, garden, can, etc. &nbsp;Several grand children are following. &nbsp;I still hunt with a flintlock rifle and a wooden bow made of bodock.

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• DW

  @dwayneoliver1659 · 1 month ago

  Is it me?, or does this gentleman voice sounds like popcorn Sutton?

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• JI

  @jimmieblue6262 · 1 month ago

  My dad was born in 1911 and he told me when he was young he used to split rails all day long from daylight to dark for 10 cents if he was lucky sometimes he would make 12 cents a day

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• KE

  @KevinCordell-v8s · 1 month ago

  I&apos;m 57 and grew up in the northeast corner of Alabama. I grew up doing many of these things. We butchered hogs and scalded, scraped, and cured the meat. Picked and ate Polk every spring ( still do) Ive split shingles. Collect lye from wood ashes and made soap. Hung leather britches beans up to dry.

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• GW

  @gwendolenking3366 · 1 month ago

  I love these stories! I was raised in the city but I had a much loved brother in law who was a country boy and man thru and thru. I&apos;m sure he new all this stuff as his family was raised poor. He moved to the city but never forgot the country

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• JA

  @jacquelinegibbs9483 · 1 month ago

  I am reading this a second time to catch how to stay healthy.

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• LI

  @lindajohnson4570 · 1 month ago

  My dad knew alot of these. He was raised in Rice Cove, Marshall, North Carolina. That was far back in the Appalachian Mountains. He taught my brothers how to do many of these, but they didn&apos;t practice them. Now, dads knowledge is gone, and that&apos;s sad 😔.

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• TH

  @Tha9ballwizard · 1 month ago

  I miss Polk salet. My grandmother used to make it for me. She would fold it into scrambled eggs. So good! It is one of my favorite dishes.

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