"No matter the circumstance, particularly in the Southern literary tradition, encounters between rattlesnakes and humans are nearly always a zero-sum game. Someone will always end up dead—sometimes a person, more often the snake." —Elsa Pearl for Oxford American

https://oxfordamerican.org/oa-now/rattlesnakes-at-my-door

#Snakes #TimberRattlesnake #Appalachia

So, I just finished reading DEMON COPPERHEAD by Barbara Kingsolver. It was utterly unputdownable, I got mad at my family for speaking to me while I was reading it, and when I read the final sentence and closed the book all I could say was "DAMN."

Highly recommend, y'all. HIGHEST OF HIGHLY.

#BarbaraKingsolver
#DemonCopperhead
#UPDA
#books
#amreading
#ILoveBooks

#Appalachia
#OxyContin
#addiction
#OpioidEpidemic
#CoalMining

You ever used an acorn whistle or have any idea what I'm referring to?

No one I've ever shown it to IRL has ever seen or heard of it. Is this some lost #Southern #Appalachian #folk wisdom?

#TVAC #Acorn #Appalachia