Design Stories
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Tall Tales

If you’ve never spent a full day with TAC — The Anywhere Church — consider this your survival guide. Not because TAC is dangerous, but because TAC is… lively. Holy. Chaotic. And full of people the Lord loves enough to keep an eye on at all times. It all starts at sunrise. SUNRISE: IDA LOUISE AND THE CALL OF THE WILD Ida Louise wakes up before the sun because “the Lord can’t bless a lazy spirit.” She makes her coffee, grabs her binoculars, and heads outside to “check the sky f

The Log Flume That Sang to the Mountains A Half‑True, Half‑Lore Tale from Old Wilkes County 🌄 1. The Wooden River That Once Ran Down the Ridge Before Wilkes County had highways or timber trucks, it had something stranger — a long, twisting log flume built by hand through some of the wildest country in North Carolina. A wooden trough, greased and watered, running miles down the mountainside like a man‑made river. This part is true. Old records mention it. Old men remember it.

“Ida May’s Fair Woman in the Trees”** “Ida May didn’t raise her voice — she didn’t have to. When she spoke of the Fair Woman, even the pots went still.” The day of the bonfire always started the same way — with the women taking over the kitchen like a small, well‑organized army. Flour on the air, cast iron heating slow, someone fussing about the biscuits being too flat, someone else insisting they’re perfect because “flat biscuits sop gravy better.” Ida May Ridgely — Harlan’s

A warm, Southern‑style introduction to Mulberry Mtn Designs (MMD) and The Anywhere Church (TAC) — how we turn family stories into one‑of‑a‑kind tees and prints that belong only to you. Sit a spell. Imagine a slow afternoon on the porch, the kind of conversation that drifts from laughter to a memory so clear you can taste it. Someone tells a story only your family knows, and for a heartbeat you wish you could hold that moment forever. That’s the place we start at MMD and TAC