If anyone is interested. The Old Hickory all the way to Norton and the old chevy place will soon be coming down.Walgreens will be building there.If you want to take a picture for memories.Another part of history replaced by progress.
DD

Reminds me of the song by John Prine called Muellenburg County...I got an email from John a few months ago. He's coming to King Center in Melbourne and wondered if I was coming to his concert. Dang right I am...

Paradise
©John Prine

When I was a child my family would travel
Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born
And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered
So many times that my memories are worn.

Chorus:
And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay
Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River
To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill
Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols
But empty pop bottles was all we would kill.

Repeat Chorus:

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.

Repeat Chorus:

When I die let my ashes float down the Green River
Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam
I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin'
Just five miles away from wherever I am.

Repeat Chorus:

Hey, everyone. Just dropped by to see what mischief you all are getting into, and danged if Lather didn't drop another name. Lather, you are the luckiest man in the world to know all the people you do. John Prine is one of my all-time favorites. He's got a sound I love. Please tell him he has a fan in Boulder City, NV, out where the buffalo no longer roam, 'cuz we've got progress, too. Buffalo, heck. We're lucky that there are still a few mountain sheep hanging around town. The herd is decreasing because of land encroachment. They have to go to one of the city parks every day, just to find grazing land. They're beauties, I'll tell you.
Take care, and bless you all to pieces.
Lathan >

Jan, It is good to see you dropping by and sharing. You must do it more often. ES had us all make a New Year's resolution that we were to try and say something on the board every day....even if it was "hi". Want to join the party?
Good morning everyone!
Who all is going to be watching the Super Bowl and who are you rooting for? We are pulling for the Seahawks.

Lathan, John Prine was the first singer/songwriter to be interviewed and perform at the Library of Congress.
Link below will get you to the interview if you are interested. Go to the page, go down to March 9.
Ted Kooser is interviewing him...he's the Poet Laureate.
http://www.johnprine.net/exclusives.html

Gonna watch the game, Karen, but gonna be rooting for the Steelers.

Actually, Jan I know more famous people than Lather does --- it's just that not many of them know ME!

HAR! HAR! HAR!

Just to let you in on a secret - not many of them remember me.
I'm working on a song right now that kinda gives my secret away. Here are the lyrics to the first verse. The song is called:
WE STILL LOVE OLD TOM T. HALL

WE STILL LOVE OLD TOM T. HALL IN OUR HOMETOWN
I HEAR HE'S WRITING BOOKS/
THEY SAY HE LAID HIS GUITAR DOWN
I MET HIM ONCE - HE SHOOK MY HAND -
TOM T's A FRIEND OF MINE
WISH I HAD HIS RECIPE FOR WATERMELON WINE
I'D GIVE HIM FORTY DOLLARS IF HE'D COME ON BACK AROUND
WE STILL LOVE OLD TOM T. HALL IN OUR HOMETOWN...
BTW, We sure got away from Pig Leaving Town, didn't we?

My memories of the "Pig" go back to the times before it was The Pig...

In 1942 I remember going by there on Saturday nights after we had closed the Ritz and have a hamburger steak..One that covered the plate cost eighty-five cents and with tax and coffee only came to about a buck..

Mr Smith owned the place at the time and it was called the Home Plate...

Hey, Fogey. C'mon out to San Antone sometime and we'll go down to the Jailhouse Cafe. They gotta chicken-fried steak down there that hangs off a platter all the way around.

As I recall, though, it costs a little MORE than a buck.

Hey! I might make the trip with Old Fogey, That steak sounds good to me, that is if it comes with mashed taters and lard gravy. Jimmy, hope y'all get to come by the camp this summer and us go to EZELLS and eat up on some fried dill pickles and fish.
I wish I could sit down with Old Fogey and pick his brain about old times, I could get a world of information about when Sylacauga and Mignon was in the early stages. Bet y'all didn't know my Grand Daddy S.M. Cast once owned Busy Corner. Yep, he did. Swapped it for ten acres at the end of twin st. where we all lived. He was a wheeler dealer in his time.
I want the Seahawks to win but I got a feeling they won't, too much Bettis and crew. Hope Shawn shows out, then maybe they'll have a chance. MVB ES

Seahawks 31
Steelers 24

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