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The Lexington Herald from Lexington, Kentucky • 40

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Lexington, Kentucky
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40
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0 i 'A: ft'fjE The Ltnsbm Herald Lexington Ky Granny Saliy Thursday September 30 1965 meant But one 40 night1 Jake had befriend- ger than Jaks a Indian Pan I ed come to our hoi headman yelled probably hiding enough gold in that basket to toed the whole Keb Army a week of the men ran after me and grabbed me and tore the basket out of my hand you I yelled grabblpg it year-old fists You have my treasure eaptain rod up in time to her this her up to me he commanded But I hung on for dear Me so the men handed me up to him basket and alL have you got here in tealing voice os he iuse end told They're a-coming many ig men Hide your things any you want stole Mr Caudill So nap and the boys up all the bosses bogs gathered up i Granny's Little Plaid Shawl Was For chickens and other valuables pun it and twitsed it the stuff had to be dyed Some of it waa dyed in the wool before it waa spun and sometime It wu dyed in the thread If you used fotch-on dyes all right- but mostly we used homemade dyes made out of barks and flowers and roots If you used them you had to gather up the dye stuff in the fall of the year if leaves or bark or ig the spring if flowers Some of the dyes had to come from yan side of the world like mather or cochniel then you double bytoe handle and healing -at them for dear life with my four- and beating -at lectlar basket made for me not a pint eup looked up and thar they rid into the bend below the house Chris grabbed the hi basket and run to the gai and hunghit in cedar tree afore the men lit down from their horse They were the men ever seed In their blue ekitoes and had the biggest coal-black bosses -and more of them more than lived in the whole state of Kentucky I thought Mammy went -to the door when the be ad man hollered sire we got no boss she told them -Nil We JSHflt iISL'LJS! lhddin out to us (MTOM well My sister Christlanne was a big girl six years old did enough to go the church or had school had they been ery vmn Mr in HmM Mr On HnlM Tsny Ninr IwtM Nrl How to entertain 6 people graciously on church or school to go to nigh enough for slx-year-oild legs to get to So Mammy decided to weave a web of doth plaid in for the red or indigo from the South for the blue The natural and took to too hills with them and hid them deep in the laurel thickets and Christlanne and me waa all that wu left in the house when the soldiers come riding in tooner to an they i expected next morning We had Just gathered up tome of our clothes to hide end put them in a little hand-made basket Granny Sally my mammy? had made the before new it Iinsey for the pants our dresses and all but my shawl and two quilts Granny Nance bad give us for a wedding present My own shawl I had a the family color and to make us all a dress with a shawl to Serve thrifty terihpjeustaf Noodle and Ground Beei Bake Crispy golden on top and Julcyteh with savory sues underneath -tra a tempting one- dish dinner LOOK AT TUB BACK OF THE PACK- AGX for the easy recipe -''I a little white soapstone looking rock mad stone my Uncle Jim McIntosh beired from his father who got it out of a belly acrost the sea in Scotland whore the deer run free in the heather on the moors It will cure a mad dog bite or either ratdesnake bite Lastly she would' puli' out little' paper wrapped bundle she would explain bold ing out to us a small triangle of doth "is your little plaid shawl This I want wrapped around my shoulders when I lie in my' coffin 1 feel lonesome Granny Tells About Shawl us about it we would all cry sir when I' was four years old my mammy Nance Caudill wove me this here little plaid shawL I remember it Just have any feed victuals'' Fled With Bask she talked to them I edged around the door post and ran toward the barn with my little basket in my hand 'Stop Jwr stop her7 tor Delmonico By BERNIECE HISER Granny Scytha used to get down her little treaswe box from out of the loft plaea and one by one' tenderly take out her little keepsakes of a long lifetime and iww them to us children' There were the little stone crosses her mother had picked up on the mountainside as she crossed from Old Virginity 'nto Kentucky after having sailed the deep blue eea from the Ould Coun three Ireland as a girl to marry my greater an sire from the tears of the leperjohna shed at the dear Christ crucifixion" she would assure us gravely she would explain match her and me and Sister Christlanne She said little piece banded down in her leneration to thread a loom up and make our plaid pattern come from the old country County Kildare: a 1 light blue turkey and white I mind her Just as well a -saying that A big chuffly rosy woman with reddish brown hair and eyes pime blank the color id a new buckeye Sister Christlanne me uset to say it over like a little song as wo went about playing color id our wool wis white Then you had to wind your warps and thread up the loom and tie it all up in harness you can see she held the little piece of ckith close -to our eyes threads of dark blue four of light blue-three of turkey red and 'thirty of white wove the same way so it is a plaid Just in time far Christmas gifts for Christmas in 1862 it was that Mammy got them all done I tell you there never was a prouder gang of women in this world man waa that blessed dnr Christi-anne was a pure picture the dear little souL I can see her yet much plainer than she is now bowed with age Women come for miles around to that cloth1 remember well ton helping Mammy cut toe doth for this shawl catercomered often the piece she used to make min and outea i unraveling for this fringe Warned Of Soldiers passed and hit wu summer I mind I knowed in a pale way they wu a thing called a war going on off yander in the low country though babes hardly realize what such I Year Te Make Dies children begin to gun how Jong it took to make dress back then Nothing like nr you do now go to the the cloth cut out ana put it 4 Ifrjjrou eep Then and picked it to loosen let the bui i burrs and dirt out of it Then you cyarded to rolls Then you had to it into thread first you TO TRY ANY TWO OF THESE NEW EXOTIC li 3 DAYS ONLY! 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