der, one side of my mom's family were farmers located outside of dothan, al...and the other side, also farmers, were from around chipley, fl, just south of there...
remember hearing depression era stories from elders of both tribes...
including about the shortage of meat...
hoover hogs, aka armadillos, along with mostly any other mammal, became table fare...
hoover hogs an possums were captured live and kept penned and fed a diet of sweet potatoes...
in order to make erm fit fur the table...
back in the fifties, my cuzin Addison still kept ah possum or two for special occasions, like when I showed up...
he also taught me how to chew...
an udder thangs of importance...
later, in 1960, ah got kidnapped by Yankee gypsies an taken north...
landed in ah whole new world...
the Hudson river valley of New York state...
but, then that is the beginnin of ah nutter story...
Last edited by ed good; 09/26/25 04:55 AM.
