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Ividently I missed some critical episodes of "the beverly
hillbillies"-- otherwise I would have known what a coon dog is when I saw
one at the Ferrum folklife festival.  I was in the midst of
a huge smile at what I learned frommy friend--it has nothing to do with
racial epithets.  I am in the bible belt, and it
seems that I was missing a thing or two regarding your neighbors.  The
folk that I have encountered in roanoke were swift to tell me that nothing
was likely to happen around there.  It
is a funny term, but some of my friend's wife's older relatives have
talked about
hunting and fishing and wouldn't you know it, coon hunting.  One more
reason
us city folk are ever grateful to be so.
There are some really crude terms that are racial epithets.  "Coon" alone,
is one, but i do not know if that is so in that neck of the woods.  I
would likely have to dig a little deeper for the folklore.  There is an
episode of the twilight zone about an old codger and his dog, not one of
the
better episodes, but, hunting dog and all.
It reminded my friend of the time he went to a county fair.  It was
weird, he said, oxen pulled sleds or something in contest.  Isaw the same
contest with horses pulling those things.  I had no idea those
animals were so huge!  Dray horses that do this are even bigger than the
largest work horses I ever saw in any show.  My friend saw kids sleeping
with pigs---there, he said, you can be a
meatatarian with little to inconvenience oneself.
I remember that at the folk life festival, Bush was supposed to show up.
Amazing that the presidential candidate did not show up. I am still
feeling the snub so many years later.  Speaking of "coon
dogs".  I remember that there were many folks that solicited nader not to
run.   I intended to vote for nader.  I could not stomach the other
two.  I did do not care if bush won, i felt that his winning would become
an
anethema to white folks and until that happens, nothing will happen here in
america.  Maybe we are on the verge.  Even his perceived Saddam victory,
arising from the conviction of Saddam to die by hanging somehow has not
heated up the voters as much as one would think.  The hanging does not
redress anything that hurt anyone in US directly except perhaps folks who
lost family in the war.  That's the closest, but you would think this
would fuel folks to vote democratic in this mid term instead.  Something
like how nader talks about prison reform--there will be
none until such time as
white collar crooks wind up in jail.  Them first before Saddam and maybe
Bush and his party would do better this year.  Any fool knows that Saddam
will appeal til he is dead of natural causes.  His trials and appeals will
cost us a lot of money.  This tracsk the Milosevic deal perfectly.
Another thought on the folklore.  I think that a lot of those folks would
define "hobby" differently than you or I.  Or even a bunch of other
yankees.
I am still smiling at finding out about the true nature of the coon dog.
If I ever
get up to a coon dog race again, I will bring my 30 06.  We'se fixin' to
have a rat hunt ....
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