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...
A woman who relocated from the eastern United States to Evansville, Indiana, was confused when her mother-in-law there asked her to bring in some mangoes from the garden, since tropical fruits don’t grow in the Midwest. In that part of the...
calendar v.— «Ms. de Bourbon also noted that the city already requires the Buildings Department to hold permits for 40 days for “calendared” properties—those currently under landmarks consideration—so the commission has a chance to...
