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What a woman. This is so awesome. This is such a pretty lady, standing in front of her door I guess, and she is wearing her Sundays best, lol. To have your picture taken back in these days was a real treat. She is a perfect example of the everyday housewife back in them days. She probebly had to run milk the cows and didn't have a chance to dress up when the traveling photographer offered her a great deal. I was told she was a member of the Walker family, one of the first settlers in the Appalachian region of east Tennessee. I have owned this since I was knee high to a grasshopper and am now an old lady, so I know it's very old. Back in my hippy days I wore this to the womens Lib activities I attended, LOL. We've come a long way baby........I've listed this under jewelry instead of antiques in Hopes that a woman wins it.

Questions & Comments

Great pin, I found one at a garage sale last summer similuar to this one. I like the uniqueness of them!

Feb 19th, 2012 at 5:19:25 PM PST by

I know, so much history with a story, wished I knew them all. fanned ya

Feb 19th, 2012 at 5:26:36 PM PST by

Don't forget to count me in on the adventure I would feel honored and privileged to hear your stories and be taught some of the things you have learned. Once your gone all those things will go with you if you don't pass them on. I would treasure every moment and never forget a word spoken and one day I would be able to pass them on to someone who would treasure the wisdom you taught me, as much as I did. I make my own work schedule, car and the funds to travel whenever you would be willing to share I would be there. Its only about 12 hours to Tennessee I have driven through it many times on my way to Ohio to visit kin folk.

Feb 25th, 2012 at 5:31:56 PM PST by

yeah, and the last time you wanted to go rob a yellow jacket nest I was the one left holding the empty bag with all those pesky b@$tARD$ after me and you running off laughing your ar$se off hollering "RUN SAC RUN." Yeah. You got get them. They are already out and about. Lady locally done got a dose of them already.
Naw, too fat to run and not going to fight any more of them and loose.

Feb 25th, 2012 at 2:38:42 PM PST by

LMAO brings back fond memories. You did cut a pretty nice trail that day, LOLOL. Sell that lady some of my jewelweed soap, it's good fer that too, ha ha ha ha.

Feb 25th, 2012 at 3:32:04 PM PST by

See there Two Feathers.......Ole SingingBird51 ain't crazy after all.

Feb 25th, 2012 at 2:15:23 PM PST by

Yep, met a bunch of nice old ladys like me on here, lol, surprised at how many want to come join me for an adventure.....I'd take em all snipe huntin but they mite be on to me, LOL

Feb 25th, 2012 at 2:38:31 PM PST by

You ladies have made my day. Really takes me back. I never had a plastic trash bag (didn't know they existed back then) to use when camping. Just some stick matches, an old quilt and tens of thousands of stars in the sky for light. I usually had to camp alone because my brothers didn't want a girl hanging with them. I would use old tin cans to cook onions in for my dinner. Just stuff the onion in the can and sit the can in the fire, mmmm good. By the way, love the pin. I have Cherokee and Seminole blood and love the outdoors, fishing, skinny dippin, picking wild berries, finding fools gold, etc. We should all get together and have a real adventure, lol.

Feb 25th, 2012 at 6:51:16 AM PST by

oh my, you're my kinda people, few and far between. Yeah, the plastic garbage bag was added in our later years, easy to pack for rain and bedding. Im out scrounging this spring looking for a big yellow jacket nest to make some good ole yaller jacket stew with, I'll holler at ya when it's done.....mmmmmmm. Ha , just noticed your the NC I just purchased from, lol. Home folk, my favorite kind. Thanks for the auction

Feb 25th, 2012 at 7:09:49 AM PST by

You better take it a little slower there.....Two Feathers......that way you can continue to do all these things you have loved all your life......our ole bodies can get kinda tired at times........so listen to what it is saying to you and then you will around to teach me and my friend all that you have learned.....you can't just take all that with you..........to have to drop the mantle to somebody! Maybe it will be ME!

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 1:00:41 PM PST by

cant slow down, time is limited, gotta make the most of it, do it while I can, lol. I'll go out like I came in........in a blaze of glory......

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 1:08:51 PM PST by

Sorry, my phone sent to fast. This is such a great piece of jewelry and the picture looks like it has a story to tell. Can you tell me what it's made of? I love vintage pieces and I agree that listing it in antiques might not get her to a home where she would be appreciated. It would be fun to find out who she is and her story. I'm watching and bidding. Love reading your story with your friend. It would be a great book. ~Jenn

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:24:02 AM PST by

It appears to be a photo snapped into a metal enclosure. At one time plastic covered the photo, but is so old the plastic has brittled and come off, I too would like to hear the story, wish I knew who she was. My friend and I have been considering writing a book, in fact I kinda started one. We have run together for most of our lives and spent half of it in the woods collecting herbs, camping, floating the rivers, eating what we could find, drinking what we could afford, lol, and chasing the critters or being chased by the critters. We are both getting old, and still, we find the time to hobble to the creek for an adventure. In our younger days, our camping equiptment consisted of a plastic trash bag and a lighter, now we sleep in our vehicle or sometimes even a tent, which I hate. She's getting soft in her old age, Im, getting wilder, lol.

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 7:44:15 AM PST by

What a wonderful piece of Americana

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 6:13:13 AM PST by

thank you, i agree.

Feb 23rd, 2012 at 7:45:10 AM PST by

you might want to put info on this on a message board see if you can find out who she is...i do a lot of genealogy and that is indeed a treasure

Feb 22nd, 2012 at 3:02:00 PM PST by

would be interesting to know who she really is, fanned ya

Feb 22nd, 2012 at 4:50:08 PM PST by

Fanned & watched.....hi Charlie!

Feb 19th, 2012 at 7:20:25 PM PST by

good to see you here,

Feb 19th, 2012 at 7:47:25 PM PST by

OK, after reading all that, I can see why your husbands had such a hard time!!!!! LOL LOL LOL!!!

Feb 19th, 2012 at 6:44:57 PM PST by

he could leave at any time, lol

Feb 19th, 2012 at 8:16:00 PM PST by

I knew the Walker family of Roane County. Let me tell you something. Grandma Walker would chew you up and spit you out if you offended her or any member of the family. Old Cherokee woman she was and as good a person as I ever met. Most people back there in those mountains were good people unless you were an outsider or a Yankee. You might get shot for being one or the other. I was only accepted because I married into the family. The woman on that pin is typical of all mountain women of that era. Make my day sweetie. They were tough, good women.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:09:25 PM PST by

What makes you think we accepted you? LOL, we just tolerated you. I think grandpas moonshine clouded our reasoning, lol.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:12:19 PM PST by

You girls crack me up.......I am a country girl, but mountain girls have a different "grain" or "stock" as my mother used to say. Bye the way have you every heard of a tobogan being called a "suggin"? My mother had Indian in her and used poltice, some herbs, and sweet gum to make tooth brushes, and odd ideas and words which didn't make much sense to us children years ago, but now I am researching my heritage and have found NA in both my mother and father.......trying to get everything together to document everything. I expect to meet and ole white haired lady with a shawl around her one day......who will mentor me and I will present her with presents. I do not know who she is.....but I willl know her when I see her. It is so strange....I never even wonder or worried about all this stuff until I got older and then it was on my mind so much I had to begin the search......not that I care who or what I am......I just want to KNOW. Naskapi is another NEW word to me......I had a dream and in the dream I saw a document with my mother's name on it .,...it stated her name "Violet Violene Goss" Naskapi Indian. I had never heard of Naskapi Indians before, but got up and started researcding and foun d out the Naskapi's were the first to encounter the Europeans when they sailed to ther new world.......interested....huh.....still trying to put it all together. Any information you might have would be greatly appreciated......SingingBird

Feb 16th, 2012 at 11:04:24 PM PST by

afraid I can't help much but will ask my friend two hawks what he mite can tell me.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 11:07:54 PM PST by

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Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:36:16 PM PST by

nite sac

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:59:26 PM PST by

Smart people would stay away from mountain women cause they can get you drowned, lynched, shot, and/or tarred and feathered all in one day if you mess with 'em much.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:34:56 PM PST by

Life is an adventure, lol, now go to bed, get off my site, get some rest cause youre gonna need it for tomarrow. We can fish in the quarry. And then take a dunk, LOL.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:38:50 PM PST by

Yeah, and I'm staying the h#** away from the river with you since my last dunkin' in January when I fell in and nearly drowned on one of your adventures....

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:32:56 PM PST by

Your gettin soft in your old age there

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:35:29 PM PST by

I'll go skinny dippin' with you in July when the water is not 50 degrees, but I will go bass fishing with you tomorrow if you have a mind to. I got night crawlers frozen in my freezer and if that don't work we can go picking wild strawberry leaves for another herb order.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:31:00 PM PST by

why, aint nothin gonna shrivel on you, it's already shriveled, LOL

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:34:47 PM PST by

Whomever gets this pin should wear it in remembrance of all us women, strong mountain women who would wear it proudly.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:28:58 PM PST by

LOL< go to bed, the chickens are already roostin. I'll holler at ya in the morning.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:32:46 PM PST by

Yup and she's part mountain goat and smells like it and I'm the one that eggs her up rock bluffs to pick one type of lichen that only grows at 5,000 ft. plus. You would not believe the adventures we've had and come through it with less hair and hide than most people would. Only the tough survive. You go girl I gotcha back.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:26:51 PM PST by

even more reason to hit the quarry, lets go get our monthly bath.......

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:29:32 PM PST by

Yeah I know you accepted me cause when your brother and I got divorced, you divorced him too and kept me and the kids. Yup, I'm still here and he's run off to Mexico to get away from all of us mountain women. I guess we are just too much for most men, but hey I love it that way.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:24:31 PM PST by

you still up, lol? feed the cow early and lets hit the rock quarry and go skinny dippin since the weather has turned, llllllllllll

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:26:41 PM PST by

Marie is my ex sister in law and we have remained best friends for over fifty years now. We spend out springs, summers an falls tramping through these hills collecting herbs.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:23:28 PM PST by

You mean the jug he kept in the fork of the oak tree out front that Grandma didn't know about? Yeah, it was good shine.

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:20:56 PM PST by

dang it all, I KNEW you were the one sneakin into that jug. All us younguns knew of that hidin spot but gramps would get so wasted he never noticed..........

Feb 16th, 2012 at 6:28:17 PM PST by

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