This site will become the new home for our film collection. Below, we’ve begun with our first film, recorded in 2010 and featuring Marcelle G. Ledbetter at work making her dough-bowl biscuits. This is the original film most of you first viewed from our site on Facebook, first posted in 2014. A memorial edit, at bottom, was produced when she passed in 2017 at the age of 86. Until all films have been added, view more of our films by visiting us on Facebook, here: Mtn. Roots Revival  – where you can like and follow us there, too.

May 22, 2014

Growing up, one thing in the kitchen was always mesmerizing to me…watching my mother make biscuits in a unique, old-fashioned way. If you’ve never played in a dough bowl – no fork, no rolling pin, no biscuit cutter – you might just be inspired to give it a try…after you watch Marcelle Ledbetter’s practiced hands at work. It’s a style of biscuit making that’s been passed down over generations.

Now, through Mtn. Roots Revival, we want to pass it along to you…to keep it alive! I hope you’re inspired to give it a try and to share this post with others on Facebook too! PLEASE VISIT THE MAIN PAGE, “Mtn. Roots Revival” on Facebook and “like” and “follow” us there too. Do that here: https://www.facebook.com/mountainrootsrevival.

What does your loved one do today – keeping an age-old skill alive – gardening, canning or drying vegetables, making homemade jelly, curing hams, piecing a quilt block? Please CAPTURE YOUR LOVED ONES’ SPECIAL, MOUNTAIN-WAYS SKILLS in dozens of step-by-step, digital photos and message Mtn. Roots Revival. We’ll chat by phone or text in Facebook messenger or by email with your parent/grandparent, etc., for details and, hopefully, share their skills and tales here, too. Thanks so much!

Recorded: Northeast Georgia, 2010 (standard definition video…expect lower resolution online).

Below: “In Memory” edit, Marcelle G. Ledbetter, 1931 – 2017