12,794 research outputs found
SAM and regional rainfall in IPCC AR4 models: Can anthropogenic forcing account for southwest Western Australian winter rainfall reduction?
No full text[1] Winter rainfall over southwest Western Australia (SWWA) has decreased by 20% since the late 1960s. Why has the reduction occurred in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) winter months but not in summer? To what extent is this reduction attributable to anthropogenic forcing and congruent with the Southern Annular Mode (SAM)? Using reanalysis data and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 4th Assessment Report (IPCC AR4) 20th century model experiments, we show that a SAM-SWWA relationship exists in winter and not in other seasons. An ensemble result from 71 experiments reveals that anthropogenic forcing contributes to about 50% of the observed rainfall decline. Approximately 70% of the observed trend is congruent with the SAM trend, whereas for the models it is 46%. Our result suggests that other forcing factors must be invoked to fully account for the observed rainfall reduction
Jessica, Sam and Shary Farr
No full textWinter season greetings from the Farr family - Jessica, Sam and Shary.https://digitalcommons.csumb.edu/samfarr_campaign/1007/thumbnail.jp
Oral History Interview with Rudolph W. "Sam" Winter, January 19, 2010
No full textThe National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Rudolph W. "Sam Winter. He discusses his childhood, family, growing up during the Great Depression and how he got drafted into service. He describes his experiences as a member of the US Coast Guard stationed in Central America during World War Two
2500-408339 Winter Double Lake - Sam Houston National Forest
No full textWinter - Double Lake - Sam Houston National Forest.
Photographer: Unknownhttps://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/nfgt_general/1536/thumbnail.jp
Extracting winter North Atlantic Oscillation information from a central European stalagmite
No full textThis study explores the potential for extracting winter North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) information from central European stalagmites using a high resolution calcite δ18O (δ18Ocal) time-series from a stalagmite (AH1) extracted from Atta cave in northwestern Germany. Samples milled at 25μm resolution were run through an isotope-ratio mass spectrometer in weight order. This highlighted the benefit of using a random sample order during isotope ratio analysis because drifts were identified with greater certainty than if the samples were run sequentially. The chronology, constructed using annual δ18Ocal cycles and verified by locating the radiocarbon bomb spike, hints that three isotope excursions may be related to events in the cave history: i) the discovery of AH1's cave passageway in 1985, ii) surface modification during World War Two and iii) the opening of the cave’s artificial cave entrance in 1920. However, it was not possible to locate old aerial photographs of the site and appropriate historical documentation, therefore these explanations remain speculative. A good visual correlation between δ18Ocal and meteoric precipitation δ18O (δ18Opr) cycles was established within the errors of the chronology, but a good quantitative correlation was not achievable probably because the winter δ18Opr signal was documented by too few δ18Ocal datapoints. Despite the poor quantitative correlation, the good visual δ18Ocal- δ18Opr correlation suggests an annual winter NAO reconstruction is possible using stalagmites from central Europe if ultra high temporal resolution is achieved and excellent chronological control is established. Additionally, this suggests that AH1 is amenable to detection of prolonged shifts in mean NAO state, provided trends associated with other processes are remove
"Uncle Sam" von J.W. Burgess
No full textWehler H-U. "Uncle Sam" von J.W. Burgess. Jahrbuch für Amerikastudien. 1963;8:249-266
2352-408339 Winter DBL Lake Sam Houston National Forest 1940
No full textWinter at Double Lake Rec Area - Sam Houston National Forest.
Photographer: Erwin A. Heers.https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/nfgt_general/1070/thumbnail.jp
Where do flies go in the winter time? [music] /
No full textH.D.M.P. Co. 556 (Publisher number). Caption title.; "Copyright 1919, by Herman Darewski, ... London" -- cover.; Tonic sol-fa notation.; "Sung by George Gee in Hugh D. McIntosh's new revue Buzz-buzz" -- Cover.; Portrait of George Gee on cover.; Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.mus-an5631477.Buzz-buzz. Where do flies go in the winter time
Going micro: Analysing SAM multipliers for the dairy chain on Reunion Island
No full textThis poster presents a study on the multiplier effects in the dairy chain on Reunion Island. This Indian Ocean island is one of the French overseas departments. However, it struggles with similar problems as the developing areas in its neighbourhood, high levels of unemployment especially being a major concern. The agricultural sector justifies the state support it receives by stressing its role in the creation of employment and economic activity. Our focus is on the dairy sector of the Island, which is relatively recent and highly organized. Local milk production has increased over the years and our aim is to calculate the economywide impact of this trend. We use a social accounting matrix with disaggregated accounts for the dairy sector to calculate the impact of changes in this sector.Dairy, SAM, La Reunion, Livestock Production/Industries,
Interview with Blind Sam Sutton about Caldwell Fork
No full textThis 56-page manuscript is titled “Interview with Blind Sam Sutton,” a 92-year-old former resident of Cataloochee. The 1973 interview recalls life on Caldwell Fork. The history was collected as part of the Cataloochee History Project that collected photographs, stories, and oral histories about families who lived in the Cataloochee Valley. Today’s Cataloochee Valley is within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While, in general, the Great Smoky Mountains region was sparsely populated, the Cataloochee Valley remained an exception. By 1900, the population of Cataloochee had grown to 1,000 residents living in hundreds of log and frame homes.. ""'! .- . -~----------~~
INTERVIEW with
B 1 i n d S A M S U T T 0 N
92 years old
April 18, 1973
Maggie Valley, North Carolina
George Richardson and Sam Easterby
Interviewers
Topic of Discussion
CALDWELL FORK
LIBRARY
GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
NATlONAL PARK
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INTERV lEW with
B 1 i n d SAM SUTTON
92 years old
April 18, 1973
Maggie Valley, North Carolina
George Richardson and Sam Easterby
Interviewers
Topic of Discussion
CALmVELL FOR.K
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GREAT SMO KY MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL PARK
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IN REPL V REFER TO:
Blind.Sam Sutton
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738
N-o-T- I-C-E
No part of this manuscript may be quoted for
publication except by written permission of
the Superintendent of the Great Smoky
Mountains National Park.
KEY
All material flush with the left hand margin is by Mr. Sutton.
Material in the first indentation (5 spaces) is by the interviewer.
This has been taken off on a Wollensak 3M 6020 player. The index counter
number /000/ in the body of the text indicates a place where I could not
understand what was said. The index counter number in the margin (000)
is a reference number.
This has been taken off of the tape verbatim. No editing whatsoever has
been attempted. Attempt has been made to retain on paper the diction
used by the speaker.
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Interview with Blind Sam Sutton, on April 18, 1973. Interviewers George
Richardson and Sam Easterby, in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. Topic of
discussion, Caldwell Fork.
Look it up?
Oh, Billy Caldwell» uh, liv', he moved, he settled Caldwell Fork.
Uh huh.
Billy Caldwell. An' his wife 's named Vagie. An' he 's a crippled
man.
Uh huh.
And these, uh, his wife got sick and died and 's buried there. She,
but Old Man Jess MCGhee, he made some kind of a trade with this old
crippled man, Old Billy, Uncle Billy, and he got that place. So he come
an' carried Old Man Billy out there on his back. He had a job didn't he?
Yeah.
Well he did, that's what he done. An' this, uh, his, uh, his wife had a
girl, she may have more than one girl but one is all I know about. Ah,
her name was Amy an' she married Levi Shelton. An' so this is these,
an' Elzie Caldwell» he's old Uncle Billy's boy. An' him 'n' this Levi
la'fJnq o.A- Oodq1h '
Shelton was, ah, they 's oHtlawed ~the Civil War.
They were!
Yeah.
Oh ol}.
Yeah. They 's dodgin' the Civil War. An' as you go up, ah, Catalooch
Creek, hit's on the right side where they dug 'em a cave in the bank. In
1865 now this tuk place. An' so they wuz a hiding in that cave of a
night and' a slipping as close as they well could in their-- their
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) This old Elzie Caldwell 's a livin' with a woman by the name of Susie
woods, an' he was, ah-- Well these scouts come in, they 's pranked aid
/235/ scouts from White Oak down here. An' they, they come in an' demanded
this Old Man Billy to tell 'em where the boys were at. They'd got a report
you know.
Uh huh.
An' so, he wouldn't do it. An' they whipped him but they struck him with
a strop 'n' just let, he'd, come over then 'n' hit the floor, didn't hurt
him much.
Uh huh.
An' so he wouldn't tell 'ern. They couldn't get it out of him. They went
on these old wirnrnen an' they wouldn't tell 'em 'n' they whipped them. And
so they played gone these scouts did. They left and got out of sight 'n'
wirnrnen like they thought they were gone. An' the men too. And so the men
come to get 'ern some·ching to eat. 'N' these scouts jumped out 'n' captured
'ern. An' they tuk 'ern up on Fork Mountain 'n' they killed 'em. Ah, at
White Branch. That's the place they killed 'ern. An' then they went over
to Big Catalooch an' they told the Old Man Jess Palmer that they had left
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two burglars~here. An' Jess he come to see about it, 'n' he brought old
Aunt Susie Caldwell, she's the only woman I know of, but she was -there.
An' they brought these men blankets 'n' buried 'em up there. An' this
boy Riley, Riley Shelton, hit 's his daddy 'n' his uncle. Ah, who the men
wuz. An' when he got grown he went up there 'n' tuk the bones of 'ern 'n'
buried 'em in there with old Uncle Billy's wife. She-- they're all buried
together there. So that's how come the nam~, th' place being named
Caldwell Fork. An' so you can take that if you want to. 'N' I can tell
you. Old Uncle Jess he lived there, Jess McGhee.
Uh huh.
He lived there. An' died. Him 'n' his wife an' the girl. And I don't
remember that girl's name. I, I never met her. It was before my time.
I never met the girl, but his wife was named Amy. Amy McGhee. An' her
'n' Jess 'n' the girl 's all buried there. On Caldwell Fork. Ah, right
across the branch, an' out in the field. I've got, uh, four brothers
buried there in the same graveyard.
Huh.
Yes sir.
How large a family did you come from?
Ah, it fif-- they 's 14 of us 'n' we had a sister, one, one sister. An'
they're all gone now but me 'n' her 'n' one boy. Ever one.
Now where does she live now?
She lives right around the road here.
Well, how about that.
Yeah. She lives on, uh, the same road I do.
Well that's good.
Yeah. And she married Thurman Evans.
Now where was he from?
He, well he was raised on, uh, Cove Creek mostly. Uh, he finally got
in this country when he got to be a pretty good sized boy, his daddy
moved in this country.
Uh huh.
An' his daddy still lives, Old Man Jim Evans. He stays at Maggie above
Maggie with one of his sons. And wife.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Have you heard any more tales about the Civil War?
Sir?
Have you heard any more tales about what happened during the Civil
War in Cataloochee?
No. No. That's about all. That ever, I ever knowed about. Ah, they 's
ah, several people you know the scouts come in 'n' killed. They killed
two, two Grooms boys. And this, they 's on this side of the gap at Mt.
Sterling, an' they made 'em play the fiddle 'n' pick the banjer 'n' then
when they heard all the music they wanted to they shot 'em.
Huh.
An' that's called today the Grooms Boys Branch. It was right, a small
branch an' it goes by that name. The Grooms Boys Branch. It's on this
side of the gap.
Well, tell me something.
up on Cataloochee.
Yes sir, they played. Yes sir.
Who was it?
Me, for one.
What did you play?
Ah, banjer.
Do you still pick awill?
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I heard ~ /266/
pla~~d
just plaY- the music
I do, uh, but I've, I've been married 32 years 'n' had a new .banjer to
start with an' I've never had it inside the house. I jest-- I quit. I
took rheumatia in my hands.
Uh huh.
An' I went to Dr. Bob Medford for a good bit, 'n' he told me that death
cured it, 'n' that's about right.
How about that.
Yeah.
Well, who else played with you up there?
Th' Old Man George Sutton he played the fiddle. And, uh, let's see.
An' guitars like they have now wasn't the size you see nowadays, wasn't
many people owned 'em.
Uh huh.
They didn't have 'em banjers and fiddles what they wanted.
How about that.
Ha, ha, ha.
How about a dulcimer?
Ah, they didn't have one.
That's something.
Yeah.
Well
Yeah. They, they went the sound of banjer and fiddle.
Hmm. You remember some of the tunes you used to play?
Yeah. Ah.
Pol- I e.9
We, I know we 's playing one time over here in Eirepla~e-/275/
on Hemphill. Ah, we 's pickin' the banjer 'n' playin' the fiddle an' we
got pickin' "Down the Road." And Old Man Cal Parton was there 'n' he
was awful high tempered, he said (Here Mr. Sutton used a high pitched
y'n t M4o
voice) /277/ "All those jim gingered jews that is just down low, down
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L~-..• .• ~ d J II sez, "that's all I've heered tonight."
He wanted to hear something else.
(Laughing)
Oh yes. Yeah. He wanted the tune changed. We sawed no more. (Laughing)
What else did you play?
Ah, you mean of music?
Uh huh.
Ah, "Shout Lou," that was one of the dancing tunes. Ah, "Arkansaw."
That 's one of our tunes. An' "Cripple Creek."
"Cripple Creek."
That was one •
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Then, oh, I don't know how many tunes we did, we'd take a 0 I J
1~ 'n' play. Yeah.
((tJYl What, did you ever ge oot into any of the musicians from any of the
other places around there?
Ah, you mean in this country?
Uh huh, right up in here and everything?
ptc.l(~'t.
Yeah. I done some, could pick a little. But I was a real banjer /283/
when I could pick-Q
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~ 'n' never pick the same tune.
'fore's I got rheumatiz in my hands I, I could pick
Well how about that.
Yeah. Yes sir.
That's a lot of tunes.
Yeah, that's right. An' they'd dance. I used to, uh, pick at Maggie a
lot. And they 's a woman up there. She was a Ray, and she was awful
good friendly woman. An' she 's lonely she used to dance then, I'd dance
for some of the rest to pick. An', pull my heavy shoes off 'n' get her
shoes to dance in. (Laughing) I've done that a many of a time. Many be
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the time I've talked to her /287/ ra€-fter thau mauiing me over the phone.
She's gone now, the woman is. But she 's a friendly woman.
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How about that.
Yeah, I done.
"Down the Road" and "Cripple Creek"
Yeah. "Shout Lou." And "Arkansaw." Ah, that's a good tune. "Arkansaw"
is.
Well, where did you play up in Cataloochee1 Where did everybody get
together for the dance?
Well, they 'd, ah, first one, maybe it'd be where I was at. And maybe
somebody else's house.
How about that.
An' they was old Messer man, one of them Messer people. They 's all
musicians. They could pick 'n' play the fiddle. An' we'd go 'n' just have
a time running old country round-up. That's the way we done.
Did you ever have any /292/ banjos?
Sir?
Did you ever have any banjos, see who could last the longest?
No. Nub uh. No.
I bet you would have been the grand champion.
Yeah. I, I guess I'd won cause I, I could pick a whole lot 'n' without
picking the same tune. I guess I could. I've no idea, but that's the
way it 'd have went.
Where did you live on Caldwell Fork?
Ah, about two miles from the top of this Purchase Mountain. You know
about it?
About where it is.
Blind
Well, I lived two miles down from the top. On Caldwell Fork.
How about that.
Yeah. That's right.
Beautiful country up in there.
Yeah. And some of the largest timber. They 's timber there that, uh,
well it was in sight of where we was at. They 's six trees would have
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made anybody a good r~ng tlouse. A good un.
How about that.
The trees would
One tree would make a house. Huh.
Yeah. Yeah, they'd made a real house 'n' they 's poplars.
Whew. That's big.
Yeah. They 's some of the largest timb~in that section of country
they is in the state of North Carolina. Yes sir. They 's some of the
largest timber. We had one oak tree that 's in what they call the Den
Flats, an' they 's an old fellow by the name of Will Tate cut the
timber in there. An' I knowed him well. And he left that tree because
he didn't have stock an' men to handle it. It was 30 feet around.
Whew.
And that 's 10 feet in diameter.
Uh huh.
That was a large tree. But somebody told me that that tree had fell.
And I guess that's right. They said it had, I haven't been to it in
well, in 40 year I don't guess. It's-- but since that somebody told me
it 1 d fell.
Now, when did you leave Caldwell Fork?
Well the park, uh, uh, give orders fer people when they bought 'em, was
then I left.
Uh.
That 's in '32 I believe. I think it was.
So you had been, you had been up there for quite a while?
Ah
When they had you leave.
Yeah. Yeah. Well you see the way it was. My brother owned 90 acres in
what they call the Turkey Cove.
Now I'm not familiar with that.
Sir?
I'm not familiar with that.
Well, hit's right straight from the Caldwell Fork country, you go right
through there, ah, hit's jest a trailway. An' you pass the Robert Palmer
place, 'n' so on, to go through it. And my uncle made a road when they
's in there in this Den Flat country they bought that. And this Old
Man Will Tate he cut it. He cut it 'n' sawed it. And he had my uncle to
make a road. So they could haul, haul it out. But they never hauled it
out. Hit was burned. 'n' you know what fer (Laughing)
Go ahead and tell me about that.
Well, it was, ah, ah, fine yard of lumber, an' one night hit just got
on fire. And so he, that was to get insurance without work. (Laughing)
Yeah. You know how that goes. (Laughing)
Comes in handy in the winter.
0 h B 0 y! That of all times. It saved him, you see he had this road
made in there and he didn't have it like a road orter be. But then he
IS' uh, his lumber yard went ashes 'n' dust.
Were there any lumbering companies in there or were there was it
just a private individual?
Well, hit 's more of a private individual 'n~ anything else. Yeah.
Well did he have, did he have his own sawmill? Or did he take them
Up to Cataloochee?
The Old Man Tate? Yeah. Uh huh. Yeah he had
Was that right on Caldwell Fork?
They 's right next to Caldwell Fork. There, Den Flats was. Yeah.
Was it a good sized mill?
Yeah, it 's pretty good size mill. It 's jest a, jest a common circle
you know like they have. And it wasn't like a band outfit. It, but they
could cut lots of lumber out of good timber like that.
Let's see, when the park came along about how many people were over
there on Caldwell Fork?
They 's, well, I'll tell you, I'll name 'em 'n' you count 'em.
OK
Uh, they 's, not counting myself now. Cause I wasn't married then. Uh,
they was Houston Sutton, 'n' John Caldwell, 'n' Bobby Caldwell. And Jim
Sutton. And we're, we're counting right next to the park now,
Uh huh.
Jim Sutton. Lijah Messer. And, uh, Carson Messer. An' Mack 'n' Bob
Barton.
Hnnn.
And that's, then this Robert Palmer I 's telling you about, he lived
back in there next to the Den Flats. His brother Frank sold this Old
Man Tate the Den Flats. An' he got the timber. An' he bought it at that
time for twelve hundred.
Whew.
And they 's trees in there that two of 'em was almost a /328/ (Laughing)
He, he, now I'll tell you a joke on, uh, Robert. Ah.
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He '4 go to school
Big Catalooch. When he 's a young man like. An' the teacher said, "Class,"
said, "Everybody, uh, as I call the names," sez, "ever, you stand and tell
what you want to be when you get older." All right. So they 's some told
this 'n' some told that 'n' some told the other. Like young uns '11 do
you know.
Uh huh.
Girls 'n' boys all. And Robert he stood up. An' they asked him said
"What do you want to be." Sez, "I want to be the boogerman." (Laughing)
He wanted to go around and scare everybody.
Yeah. They said, "Don't you want to be something else besides the
boogerman? 11 "No, 11he said, "that's what I want to be." And he went by the
name of that as long as he stayed there. The park finally run him out. He,
they bought his property 'n' run him out. And, but I, I didn't finish my
joke. One time Bobby Caldwell's wife come up there, right, it was real
late, hit 's in the summertime, and she wanted me 'n' all that she could
git to go ·with her. Uh, Robert had-- that 's her man but we always called
him Bobby Caldwell. And so she said he 'd went to cut some hay for Robert
Palmer 'n' hadn't got . in. And she was afraid he'd got hurt or something
with the machine.
Uh huh.
He had a mowing machine. Well, we all bunched up and went with this
woman. And we 's going round the road next to Messers, Lige Messers.
And I heard 'em. I said, "People stop and wait til they get a little
closer, fer," I said, "they're coming. I hear 'em." We waited and they
come, 'n' they was both pretty high. And we went on to the-- we went on--
we had to cross the branch. It 's called the Long Branch. And so they 's
two little old poles like that and you had to walk them. That was all the
way they was toccross it. And Robert he decided he 'd pull one on me and
he got up on it, was a going to crawl. And he was drunk you know, and he
rolled off, in the branch. (Laughing) I jumped in. And Bobby he'd done
got his, his machine through 'n' so on ' , and he jumped in there 'n' he was
drunk too 'n' he fell down. That was some kidding about when to back up.
So I got 'em out. Next morning I went down there and Old Man Robert 'n'
Bobby 's setting on the porch. I sez, "Well, I come down to tell you
fellers. I se~ I'm going to do whatever I want to, don't make any
difference how many they is or what is causes," I sez, "I'm going to do
that." Robert sez, "How's that." I sez, "Boogerman got drunk." {Laughing)
Then he caught on to me. He laughed, I never heard a man laugh so yet.
As that old man did about that. {Laughing) Yeah, I told him I 's out of
danger, the boogerman got drunk. (Laughing) He 's Robert the menace.
They 's all good to me though. Ever _place. And their men, go over the
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mountains, they have to you know the rangers stalk. And they'd, these
women, children 'd all bunch at one place, and they'd put me in the front
room, and so if any boogers come they'd git me first.
Break 352.
They'd get you first.
Yeah. They 'd git me first. That's right.
How about that.
They'd do that. They 's, well, we'll never have it agin of course. In
one ways it 's a good thing the government took it over. Because by now
most apy ef those people I 8 /354/, no ./.til IV>' Whet+ p ecJpJ~ I c) j) t~el').
Uh huh.
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Yeah. But making, drinking, and selling,
Huh.
That was their way of do-- and, uh, Big Catalooch was as bad as we was.
Hmm.
Yeah.
Was there a lot of stills up there?
Oh yeah. They 's plenty of 'em. Yeah.
You think there were more stills in that area than in most of the
other areas in these hills around here?
They's not so many there now. There, uh, they aint nobody, no people.
Uh huh.
Much. No.
How about around ~920?
Yeah. It was too bad. It was, it was rough.
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That's right. They had 'em. Ah, the funniest thing. Me 'n' my brother
went one day. We had some beer up but it wasn't ready to run. And we
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just 'cided we'ij j~t go~· borrow us a gallon 'n' drink on til this got
ready an' cured enough to run it.
Uh huh.
Ah, we went to an old man by the name of Ralston Smith that lived there
at the time. An' this old man Ralston, ah, we, we run into him at Bobbys
1n' they 's three corn mills there. Ever the-- they had things as
convenient as they could. They'd grind their corn, their own corn, an'
yours, 'n' everbody looked after each other.
Uh huh.
They, they done that. And we, we found old man Ralston at Bobbys. And
we called him out 'n' told him what we wanted. He sez, "All right,"
said, "I'll just go in here and git my meal and go with you. And get it
fer you." Well, he had a big sack of meal, 'n' he was old 'n' I carried
it fer him 'nl I tuk it 'n' carried it. And so we went up there an' from
the baby up he-- he come in 'n' he first give us a drink of the whiskey,
and tuk a drink hisself, and then from the baby up he give likker.
Huh.
And that was the funniest thing to me. Them little old young uns just
drink that the same as I wuz. Yeah. And come to his wife she drunk it.
And, then, that 's the way they was about it. Yeah.
Was there ever a church ever on Caldwell Fork?
A church? No. No. They was a school but no church.
Now did most of the people over on Caldwell Fork go to the Palmer
Chapel or did they go up on Little Cataloochee.
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No, they never went most of 'em /369/ They never went nowhere.
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So most of them didn't go to church?
Yeah. That's right.
Well now would, did the women go to church?
No.
Hmm.
No. They didn't go. That's right.
What was, what was the big day? Now was Sunday the big day?
Yeah. We'd, ah, everbody would respect Sunday. But they wouldn't go
out. You see it was across the mountain from Caldwell Fork to Big
Catalooch and, and hit's a long ways to go 'n' .they just didn't do it.
Hmm.
That's all. Yeah.
Would you mind if I smoke a cigarette?
No, sir. Go ahead.
/373/
No.
I see, then where was the, where was the main market?
The-- now you mean the store?
Uh huh.
The store that they
Where did the folks take their crops? If they wanted to sell them
or trade them off for other goods?
Well they, they always traded each other. They never traded much out.
Uh, now, many 'd go town, tuk two days, uh, to go to town. They 'd buy 'em
some flour 'n' sugar 'n' coffee 'n' stuff like that. Something that they
couldn't raise you know. And come back in.
What town was that?
Waynesville.
Did they ever go up to Knoxville or
No. Nuh uh. No.
How about Big Creek? Did t
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