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  1. J

    The Duel...........

    It began just after sunup on a fall morning at Alvies store in the Bigbee Fork community, just north of Liberty church. A Lee county deputy sheriff stopped to buy a plug of tobacco and was talking to two other customers when a wagon loaded with cotton passed by. The deputy said with a laugh...
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    Box suppers and Cakewalks....

    From the time I started school in 1949 until it was consolidated in 1958 I attended Pine Grove school. Pine Grove was a backwoods redneck country school and was a tough place for anyone who wouldn't stand up for themselves. All of the students except 4 or 5 were sharecroppers kids and it was...
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    Shooting weddings.........

    The redneck wedding photo Royal linked to in a post below brought to mind a wedding I shot about 20 years ago. I ran into some rather odd situations at weddings but that one takes the prize for being strange. A lady came to my house on the 29th of May in 1986 and asked me to do photos of her...
  4. J

    An April Fools day joke gone wrong............

    There's a couple of guys who work with me at True Temper, in a different department with a different supervisor, who used to play an April fools joke on their supervisor, Hosea Bogan, every year. The supervisor is a great guy, as nice as can be, but he's slow as Christmas and is constantly...
  5. J

    Ghost Stories...............

    For two years, when I was 5 and 6 years old, the Johnson's lived a few hundred yards across a big field from us. Mr. Johnson's name was Lutie, I thought that was an odd name, and he was a small man, not much over 5 feet tall if that much. His wife was at least a foot taller, weighed at least...
  6. J

    Poison Pond murders.......

    Charley Marshall lived on Poison Pond road just north of Amory. He was a well liked, nice looking young man, who was always willing to lend a helping hand and almost everyone spoke well of him. The only person who said bad words about Charlie was Bob Miller, a sharecropper who lived on...
  7. J

    Watch this 2....do unto others..........

    In 1956 the state built a new highway through Bigbee bottom and dug a huge pit a quarter of a mile from where we lived to get dirt for the embankment. The pit was about 100 yards long, 75 yards wide and 25-30 feet deep. The state stopped getting dirt from it when they reached the water level...
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    "Watch this".....redneck's last words..............

    In 1966 I bought a house in the country a few miles from here that had a big, real high, hill about a quarter mile northeast of it. I went up there one day just looking around and discovered an old cemetery on top of it that had some early 1800's death dates, the earliest death dates I've seen...
  9. J

    Lecil and Floyd, a couple of short happenings....

    Back when we were still sharecropping there was a family name Kennedy that lived about a half mile east of us. They sharecropped on the same land we did and continued sharecropping until I was grown. Mr. Kennedy had a houseful of kids, none of which ever went to school, that included Lecil...
  10. J

    A short Tabernacle story............

    <img src="http://jb-ms.com/images/Pics2/tabernacle.jpg" width=110 height=135 align="left" vspace="0" hspace="1"/>Y'all may remember a couple of stories I posted about going to the holy rollie revivals at the old Tabernacle, here's another short story about going to one of the revivals in...
  11. J

    Something happened today.......

    I bought, traded and sold used metal detectors from late 1990 until a couple of years ago and still get an occasional call asking what I've got for sale. Had a call a little while ago from a guy looking to buy a detector and something came up that reminded me of a detector deal a few years ago...
  12. J

    A small tribute..........

    <img src="http://www.imageuploading.com/ims/pic.php?u=2342rG1OJ&i=55046" height=200 width=150 align="right" vspace="2"hspace="1"/>NEW ALBANY - Bettie Rutherford "Ma Ma Bettie" Wilson, 115, died Monday, Feb. 13, 2006, at her home. She was born Sept. 13, 1890, in Benton County to the late Solomon...
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    Boogie Bottom...............

    About 35 miles from where I live, down in southwest Clay county, MS, is a place called Boogie Bottom. You won't find it on any maps, it isn't listed in phone books and isn't acknowledged by any politicians or the law, but it's there. It's not as wild, or nearly as dangerous, as it once was but...
  14. J

    The day we killed Fred.........

    I have a cousin, same age as me and actually a double cousin as our fathers were brothers and our mothers were sisters, who was very acrobatic when he was a kid. His name is Fred and although he eventually grew to be near 6 feet tall and well over 200 pounds he was short, small and very limber...
  15. J

    Sit, spit and whittle club................

    When I was growing up there was a country store, Roberts Store but everyone called it Rob-burr-dee Store, just down the road that had two long, rough hewn wooden benches on the porch. There were usually a few old guys sitting on the benches talking, whittling, chewing tobacco or dipping snuff...
  16. J

    I probably shouldn't post this......

    However, Ron Hyer, the one and only Mayor from good old Magnolia Springs Alabama, and I discussed it briefly online about this time last year so here goes. There has been a drug ring operating in this area since the end of the Vietnam war, a lot of people have been arrested, a lot of money...
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    An eye for an eye.......................

    He showed up in the Liberty community in the fall of 1880, just one of many drifters who wandered through looking for odd jobs or free meals, and no one knew where he came from or what his name was other than Miller. He initially hired on to do chores for an elderly farmer in northern Lee county...
  18. J

    Another short Hamp story...............

    Hamp and his family lived in a small four room house and still used a wood cooking stove. The stove was near the back door and they kept the firewood stacked beside the door. If the door was open the firewood was behind it. The closest house to them was only 40 yards or so away and was...
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    Hamp and his homebew...........

    When I was a teenager a family by the name of Wren moved in a house just down the road from us. His name was Hampton but everyone called him Hamp, his wife was Eljeanie and their daughter was Dorothy Jean. Hamp and Elgenie were mentally slow, not really retarded but not very bright either...
  20. J

    Going to the movies............

    I mentioned in a previous post that my father liked western movies and when I was a kid we almost always went to see one every Saturday night. Our community was mostly made up of sharecroppers, as were we, and there wasn't much money for stuff like movies but dad did mechanic work for the public...
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