Jeff from Memphis, Tennessee, grew up in the coalfields of Southeastern Kentucky, where his coal-miner father raised green beans. When those beans couldn’t always be canned or frozen, the family threaded the full pods onto string, hung them in the...
In this episode, books for word lovers, from a collection of curious words to some fun with Farsi. • Some people yell “Geronimo!” when they jump out of an airplane, but why? • We call something that heats air a heater, so why do we call...
A woman in Virginia Beach, Virginia, says her Appalachia-born grandmother would occasionally say that it was time to string the leather britches or to hang up the leather britches. She was referring to preserving green beans. So why the leather and...
