Meet Mossin' Annie

Gathering Moss. (The New York Times, 4/2/2014)

Moss lady.  However the writing turns out, she is an accomplished monologuist. “I come from a line of talkers,” she said. In her Appalachian cadence, which she says she likes to embellish for theatrical effect, a word like “moss” can fill two syllables, sometimes three. Put another way, though she grew up the daughter of a dentist and made a career in college media production, today she sounds more like Kathleen Turner playing the matriarch of the McCoy clan.

Mountain Moss.