The Mystery of The Hare in The Holler, and The Easter Blessings

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They say just ’fore sunrise on Easter Sunday, when the dew clings like lace to the dogwood blossoms, and the whip-poor-wills hush their call, a long-eared shadow slips through Bean Creek Holler. No sound but the soft thump of paws on pine straw, no witness but the mockingbirds and the moon.

Out behind Auntie Lou’s house—past the henhouse, past the clothesline that always smells of lye soap and lavender—you’ll find a basket sittin’ like it sprouted from the earth itself. Woven of cane and honeysuckle vine, it’s filled with eggs—painted in swirls of butternut, pokeberry, and mustard seed yellow.

Folks whisper it’s the Holler Hare, a creature older than Easter sermons, born of spring magic and long-ago moonlight. Auntie Lou just chuckles when the children ask. She tells ‘em, “Baby, that bunny don’t need no chimney. He slips in through cracks of kindness and leaves behind a little joy where sorrow once sat.”

Mr. Rhymes says he seen it once—just a flicker behind the sassafras tree—and wrote this:

“In the dark of the night ‘fore the rooster can crow,

A rabbit runs quiet where the wildflowers grow.

He don’t speak a word and he won’t leave a track,

But he’ll drop you a blessing in a little brown sack.”

So today on Cornbread & Buttermilk, we’re settin’ the table with sweet Easter stories, old-time traditions, and maybe even a spring recipe or two. Pull up a chair, pour yourself a glass of mint tea, and let’s follow them rabbit tracks wherever they lead.

Rockabilly style

Song about the time Cornbread was weaning two fillies for him and Doc Johnson.  In Hiram.

Sweet Truffles Ballad, inspirational

Ballad 

Harper and Michelle tributes 

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