Under the Bluff

We have these phrases that we use all the time and I have a hard time knowing what’s our mountain vernacular and what’s common English. So if you told me there was a spring “under the bluff” I wouldn’t think twice about it and unless I was unfamiliar with the particular piece of land I could go right to that spring.

After the recent article about water, I was talking with a cousin who hasn’t lived on the mountain in nearly seventy years. He made that very statement about our grandparents' ol...