From the Hollers by Stephanie Woodie

Every year somebody asks me what to get the person who has everything except a little piece of home. So I put together this list of gifts from right here in Ashe County, North Carolina. Some are signed books I mail myself, and some are printables you can download tonight and print at home.

For mountain kin who moved away

If you have family who grew up in these hills and live somewhere flat now, these are the ones that make them laugh and miss home a little.

• The Holler Handbook: A Dictionary of Appalachian Language, signed copy, $14.99. Over 100 mountain words with how to say them and how we used them. I can sign it to whoever you are giving it to; just add a note at checkout.
• The Holler Handbook Pocket Dictionary, ebook, $7. 326 words and 287 sayings, A to Z. Only sold here.

For the cook in the family

• Holler Kitchen: Family Recipes from the Ashe County Mountains, printable cookbook, $14.99. 117 pages and over 250 old-time recipes, including my own grandmother’s and aunts’. Print it, punch it, and put it in a binder for a gift that looks homemade because it is.

For folks who love a good haint tale

• The Holler Handbook Volume 5: Superstitions, Spirits and Old Ways, signed copy, $16.99. Signs, omens and haints of the mountains.
• The Holler Handbook Volume 4: Appalachian Tales, signed copy, $16.99. Stories told on porches and around woodstoves.
• Appalachian Folklore Superstition Cards, printable deck of 27, $7.

For the gardener

• 2027 Printable Calendar: Appalachian Mountain Almanac, $12. Moon phases and planting-by-the-signs days for the whole year.
• Native Plant Field Cards: 38 Medicinal & Wild Plants of Ashe County, $8. How to know each plant, where to look and how mountain families used it.
• The Holler Handbook Volume 3: Medical Herbalism of the Appalachian Mountains, signed copy, $14.99.

For whoever keeps everything running

Every family, church and small business has one person holding it all together. These planners are for them.

• The Holler Homekeeper: chore charts and seasonal home upkeep for the house, yard, barn and vehicles.
• The Mountain Worship Planner: a church record book for treasurers, pastors and ministry leaders.
• The Holler Business Keeper: a record book for market vendors, makers and small shops.

Stocking stuffers

• Holler Christmas Gift Tags, 12 designs, $4
• Ashe County Wallpapers, 18 phone and desktop backgrounds from my own photographs, $4
• Ashe County Sightseeing Guide, for anybody planning a trip up here, $7

Send your Christmas cards the mountain way

The Holler Christmas Bundle has everything in one download for $30: 4 Ashe County Christmas cards, 8 Holler Words Christmas cards, 12 gift tags and a Christmas planner. Bought separately, those come to $36. Print as many as you need for your own family.

Thank you for shopping small and shopping local. Every order helps a mountain writer keep telling these stories. Merry Christmas from our holler to yours.

Stephanie Woodie, Ashe County, North Carolina