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Mrs. Grieg’s Cuddy: Lemon Meringue Pie

Wi’ the coomin’ in o’ summer, ’tis time to prepare for haymakers. Besides Glenlochie’s own men, neighbors and their helpers gather from one farm to another till a’ have their crop made. The girls and women likewise help the hoosekeepers prepare enough hearty food for hardworking men. Oft I’m askit to make the pies. When …

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AQUILA’S EYRIE: QUEEN OF THE WILD FRONTIER

I like to call myself this not only because we share the back yard with an occasional mountain lion and frequently with elk, deer, coyotes, and foxes, but also because I’ve evaded the 20th and now the 21st century whenever I can, out of delight in the 19th century. I’ve lived in cabins in the …

Abercairn…
Haven and new beginning for the Scots who founded it.
Cradle, matrix, nourisher of her sons’ spirits ever since.
Home place, heart’s home, dearer than life to her defenders.

Abercairn is an imagined county in Virginia. The reader glimpses it a decade or so before the War Between the States and shares its story throughout the War and for some years afterwards. Contemporaries consider it a frontier area, compared to the long-settled Tidewater region of the state. It has its rough characters and its cultured ones, and its County Court which acts in legislative and executive matters as well as judicial ones. Residents make their livings from both cash-crop and mixed agriculture, manufacturing on a small and domestic scale, and, in the backcountry, hunting. They are Godly people, though a few don’t always act accordingly.

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