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Home of My Youth
IN GOING BACK TO MY OLD HOME
PLACE, I SEE THE OLD COUNTRY STORE STANDING IN THE FOUR WAY ROADS(
ROME,TAYLORSVILLE,SENEY,S PRING CREEK), WHERE WE TRADED EGGS FOR SUGAR
BABBIES,JAWBONE BREAKERS,MILKEY WAYS,BABE RUTH BARS,PEANUT ...
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| 1919
1969 | |
Margie and I Journey Home
I WAS A UNATTACHED YOUNG
MAN,IN THE SPRING OF 1940,MY COUSION CECIL MORRIS WONTED ME TO GO WITH HIM TO
SEE HIS GIRL FRIEND AND MAYBE THEIR WOULD BE SOMEONE I COULD SEE ALSO.THERE WAS
A YOUNG GIRL "MARGIE" WHO HAD COME HOME ...
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| 1940
1978 | |
Cornbread and Hog-Killing Time Makes a Heap of Eating...
YOU HAVE READ ABOUT POKE
"SALIT",CORN BREAD AND MORE GOOD EATIN'.CORN BREAD COOKED IN A
CAST-IRON SKILLET,ALSO HOECAKES,FLAPJACKS,COOKED OVER THE EYE OF THE STOVE THAT
WAS JUST SMALLER THAN THE SKILLET.USEING LARD TO KEEP ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
Mama Started a Sunday School that Developed into a Church
ONE DETERMINED LADY DECIDED
THE WAX COMMUNITY NEEDED A SUNDAY SCHOOL. THE ONLY FEASIBLE BUILDING TO MEET
WAS THE HARMONY SCHOOL HOUSE.I KNOW NOT HOW SHE GOT PERMISION TO USE IT OTHER
THAN MY FATHER WAS ONE OF THE TRUSTEESES.ANY ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
The Most Wonderful Person I Ever Knew
the most wonderful pearson i ever knewit started off on a sunday afternoon,my couson had a date and did not have a way to go,so he asked me to carry him to his girl friends home and we would see if she could get me ...
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| 01/01/1941
06/17/2006 | |
What My Grandfather Would Say
Something I remember about my self and others.
When I was a babby and Flint Hill Baptist Church was having a Revival the mothers would place their babys aroung the pulpit as they was aseep.no the preacher
Rev Smith was a quite ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
Pine Trees
PINE TREES,LOB LOLLY,LONGLEAF OR SCRUB,THEY ALL MAKE A DIFFERENTS.WE WILL START OUT BY REVIEWING A 8 TO10 YEAR OLD BOY WITH FRIENDS WHO HAD MADE HOME MADE WAGONS,FINDING A HILLCOVERED WITH YOUNG PINE TREES,WITH SPACE FOR US TO ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
Tongue Wont Switch
TONGUE WONT SWITCH.ITS CORNPONE,RED NECK,COUNTRY
AND JUST DUME IT JUST AIN'T UPTOWN GOOD ENGLISH
THE FACT THAT I AMSPASMODICALLY BILINGUAL (WHAT EVER THAT IS) AND MARGIE IS NOT HAS LED TO AOCCASIONAL DIFFERENCE OF OPINION ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
Adventures Takes Time
ADVENTURES TAKES TIME,ITS GOODSCHOOLING,EVEN
IF ITIS DONE GOING TO AND FROM SCHOOL
I SUPPOSE IN MY YOUTH THISIS WHAT I WAS DOING WITH ALL OF MY TIME.I WOULD SET ON A OLD WOOD SPLINTERINGBRIDGE,SWING MY LEGS AND LOOK AT THE ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
Porches and Porch Swings
PORCHES AND PORCH SWINGS
THE LIVING ROOM RATES A POORSECOND TO THE PORCH FOR THE FARM FAMILY GATHERINGS.
THE PORCH IS A ARCHITECTURALELEMENT THAT PREMONITION THE SOUTHERN LAND-SCAPE SINCE COLONIAL FARMERS BUILTTHEM INTO THEIR ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
Playing Baseball
PLAYING BASEBALL
WHENI PLAYED BASEBALL,SCHOOL YARD BALL,YARD BALL AND COW PASTER BALL WE WERE TAUGHTTO ALWAYS HOLD THE TRADE MARK UP TO KEEP FROM BREAKING THE BAT.BY HOLDING THETRADE MARK UP MENT THAT THE WOOD GRAIN OF THE BAT ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
Life, Retirement
LIFE,RETIREMENT
GOD'S DO KNOW HOW TOCRY.THEY WEAR THEIR EMOTIONS DEEP INSIDE UNTIL,THE MOMENT COMES WHEN THE ONEGREAT SCORER GENTLY TAPS YOU ON THE SHOULDER AND SAY"SORRY,OLD MAN,ITSTIME TO SLOW DOWN,AND HANG IT UP".
AS A ...
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| 01/01/1919
08/08/2007 | |
June Bugs
Alene and I growing up
I hope you have had a good month of June as I have! The older I become the more important time becomes.
Prayer changes things!
I have been made aware of the many things and people I have taken for ...
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| 01/01/1926
01/01/1928 | |
Moving On
Well its time to down size as we could not look after one another,2003 was the year.Danny had carried me for treatment for the cancer that Dr.Murry had operated on me for.I was not able to drive and in fact not able to set up ...
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| 01/01/2003
12/31/2003 | |
Boys Growing Up
Boys growing up
Being a boy was my thing I guess as Oscar ''cute'' Kay,Walter Poole and me would get into any thing boys would do. Chewing Tobacco was one of the thing we did,and each time I would get sick.Mama knew that I got ...
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| 01/01/1945
01/01/1970 | |
Boys Growing Up
Boys growing up
Being a boy was my thing I guess as Oscar ''cute'' Kay,Walter Poole and me would get into any thing boys would do. Chewing Tobacco was one of the thing we did,and each time I would get sick.Mama knew that I got ...
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From
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| 01/01/1945
01/01/1970 | |