After making a real mess of a sweet potato ball recipe from the 1957 Mountain Eagle cookbook this week, I moved on to this peach pie recipe and was very pleased with the results. I used crushed … more

WEST JEFFERSON — The West Jefferson Alumni Festival of Trees is coming back for an 11th season.The holiday event that draws hundreds of people to West Jefferson Town Hall to see over 100 Christmas … more

About a year ago, we had a contractor come out and talk to us about redoing our bathroom.This wasn't purely for aesthetic reasons. We had some real problems to address.However, when he asked, "What … more

Our street was shrouded in fog on the morning of Oct. 1.  I stood on our front steps, enjoying just the hint of cool air, and noticed a spider was spinning a web in one of my green bean … more

Two weeks ago I spent three glorious nights on top of Long Mountain, TN with five lifelong girlfriends. My friend, Penny, has a beautiful place nestled in the trees on a bluff and it is serene and … more

DeGloria Vaughn doesn't look like an adrenaline junkie. However, if she had not spent nearly 40 years with Bell Atlantic (later Verizon), working her way up from switchboard operator to engineering … more

This is the first recipe I tried from The Mountain Eagle cookbook from 1957. I wanted to choose a recipe from page 1 and my eye was drawn to this one because of its matter-of-fact title, Dinner. … more

I was in the middle of handling the dozen little things that have to get done in the mornings before work and school earlier this week when I heard a strange sound in the living room.It was a song of … more

Recently I went back to Columbus, MS for a meeting. We had not met in person in a while and so the hostesses decided to have a potluck. The theme was to bring something from your hometown. From … more

When we rebranded our Lifestyles section as Homefolks earlier this year, I mentioned in a column that I wanted to bring some recipes back to these pages.Longtime readers will remember that we used to … more