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THE OLD GOOSE ' I '

We lived of a small farm outside of Dothan, Alabama, in the area called “Cottonwood” it’s off of County Road 55 about 8 miles back in the woods from highway 84 which runs from Dothan to Bainbridge, GA.

There was my mama we called her Maw‘me, there’s a picture of her over the fireplace on the mantle, it was taken before she and Diddy, that’s what we call my daddy, got married, she was a very pretty girl back then but she was only 15 years old and Diddy was seventeen.
There’s Maw‘me’s brother Uncle Robert, my two twin sisters, Lucent and Lunette and my older brother, Elwood.

1928 was at the Heart of the Great Depression that was caused by the failure of Wall Street, I heard all of my life about the “crash of Wall Street, but I never knew what or where Wall Street was, till I got much older.

We had grandparents, Maw’me’s mother and father, but they wouldn’t talk to Maw’me since she run off and married Diddy, they was the Myers’ and they lived in Dothan.
Grandmamma Myers would send us presents at Christmas, but Granddaddy Myers wouldn’t even recognize that we was his kin and didn’t like Robert none too good either.

Diddy’s Paw, was dead, he died in ’16 in France during the war and Diddy’s Maw lived in Andalusia, Alabama; where ever that was, with her new husband; his last name was Hughes, but Diddy referred to him as Justin, they came to visit once when I was just a baby.

Diddy didn’t have much of a job, since all we had was the “Dirt farm”, but Diddy worked as a Turpentiner when there was work and when the weather wasn’t too hot. Turpentiners go out in the “piney woods” and do several things; they cut the “cat face” on the tree, and install the cup that catches the sap that’s used to make turpentine and they go out and empty the cups and replace them. This is really hard work, you got all sorts of bugs to contend with, plus you got snakes, rattlesnakes, copperheads, and it you get near the swamps you got cottonmouths, plus it’s long hard days, just you and a mule, in the woods from before daylight till after dark.

Diddy says, "you work from can til can't"

WORKING TURPINTINE