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Once again the holiday season has snuck up on us, as the years seem to pass faster and faster, and with Thanksgiving next week we look forward to spending the day with our family and friends enjoying a fantastic meal,
then move to the living room, sitting in front of the TV with BlueHighways. BlueHighways TV is your new family tradition…well, it should be!
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 As we give thanks this season also remember to support our troops who are around the world protecting our freedoms. In support of our troops
BlueHighways TV is proud to continue to air the In the Fight monthly specials. Be sure to catch this month's special that airs on November 27th at 7:30pm.
 On Thanksgiving tune into our classic television series The Loretta Young Show at 9:30am and 1:30pm for a special Thanksgiving episode.
 The first week in December, on the 11th at 7 and 10pm ET, we will be showcasing new episodes of the Brumley Gospel Sing featuring Primitive Quartet,
The Whisnants and the historical Blackwood Brothers Quartet.
 Also on December 11th at 7:30 and 10:30pm ET, tune into a new episode of Pro Roughstock Rodeo featuring competition from the Black Hills Classic Bull
Riding Challenge which was held during the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota.
Later in December we will be showcasing several Christmas episodes from Heart to Heart Classics, Reno's Old Time Music Festival and Old Country Church. Check for programming news and updates
here.
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Recipe
Giblet Gravy
From Tommie Sandlin
My Husband says that my recipe for this rich and flavorful accompaniment is so good he can eat it like candy.
Ingredients
Giblets from one turkey
(neck, tail, heart, liver, gizzard and any fat that you trim from the turkey before baking)
1 onion, coarsely chopped
2 stalks of celery, coarsely chopped
1 small bell pepper, coarsely chopped
3 hard boiled eggs, quartered and cut into pieces
1 tbs. corn starch
1/2 cup drippings from roasting turkey salt and pepper to taste
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It is time to get fired up again…I do mean the oven!
In our household the major cooking season begins this next week, as I am sure it does in many other homes along our blue highways. And those who don't cook are given kitchen chores with perks that include licking beaters and testing the
"first fruits" of the pan, hot from the oven.
I've taken a break from baking gingerbread houses for four years, but have gotten a wild hair and committed to going into the cookie construction business again. This year I will have my mother, Marci, around to help me. The cast iron
mold I use is one she passed on to me about 20 years ago, made by The John Wright Company of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania (www.jwright.com), America's oldest, continuously operating manufacturer of cast iron products.
Over the next few weeks multiple log houses will rise from flour and molasses and be constructed on sturdy cardboard slabs ready for the candy trim to be frosted into position. That last step of decoration is the fun part, and the
privilege of the family who gets the house as a gift.
Merry Christmas from the Hitchcock's – See you along the BlueHighways!
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View From The Front Porch
by Stan Hitchcock
 View From The Front Porch...got to thinking this morning, this far down the journey, what have I really learned? "White bread tastes best, water from an
Ozark hand dug well pulled up on a rope and pulley and drank right out of the bucket can't be beat, a 1954 J45 Gibson, that was stolen my first week in Nashville, January 1962, was the best guitar I'll never find, no friend will ever be as
faithful and forgiving as a good Collie dog, Chevy made a good truck in '57 and all the parts were made in America, sitting beside a pure mountain stream, running over limestone rocks is better than any blood pressure medicine, a young man
can be a fool for love, but a mature man learns to savor the very essence of the woman he loves, that goodness is better than glamour, purity better than beauty, that age is not relevant if you are happy and doing what you love, that Marty
Robbins, Ray Price, Red Foley and Vern Gosdin were the greatest voices I ever enjoyed, the pleasure of catching a 5 pound smallmouth bass is better than any CMA award, there will never be another studio to get the sound of Owen Bradley's
Quonset Hut, on 16th Avenue, for Music Row was really not a street...it was a special happening contained in the minds and talent of the musicians, singers, songwriters, engineers and producers that lived for the music in the
50's-60's-70's and which may never surface again in such brilliance.
All in all, I reckon I haven't learned too much, but, after all, I'm not through yet.
Stan
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Country Recordings from 1972 - 1976
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Christmas In Dry Holler
by Bob Bilyeu
Host and producer of "Old Country Church" was born and raised deep in the Ozark Mountains of Southwest Missouri and has been involved in Gospel Music his entire life.
It's just the middle of November, but I'm already seeing Christmas trees and hearing Christmas music everywhere I go. It really is "beginning to look a lot like Christmas." I guess that's fine, but there's something in me that longs for
the simplicity of the Christmases of my childhood in Dry Holler.
We were nine people living in a three-room house. Were we poor? Maybe so, but we were just like all of the rest of the people living in Dry Holler. Electricity hadn't come yet. We heated with wood, Mom cooked on a wood stove. She
washed clothes with a washboard and a galvanized tub with water that Dad carried from a spring a hundred yards away. Birthdays went by largely unnoticed unless your schoolmates found out and gave you as many whacks as your years. I don't
remember any parties or presents for birthdays in Dry Holler, but I do remember Christmas.
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