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Dixie Divas: Simple gifts can mean the most
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When Mama was a small girl growing up in the Nimblewill Valley in the Appalachian foothills, it was the midst of the Great Depression. As she often said, “Times were hard but it’s all we knew so we didn’t know how poor we were.” Mostly, they were a self-sufficient bunch, growing most of what they ate and bartering for what they couldn’t produce on the little rented farm they had.