Friends, I ain’t never seed nothin’ lack hit an’ your humble reporter wuz raised so fur out in the kountry that we had to go t’oward town to hunt.
A wider woman out c’here in the county sent your humble reporter a fine receet to cook possum. Hit makes me so hongry that my tongue flaps so hard hit nearly beets my brains out.
I kan’t tell you’ins who this good woman is. She thurtened to sot up a shoe shop in my hind end if’n I put her name in the paper. Bein’ able to cook up a fine meal ’uv possum lack that wud have hafe the crippled-up ol’ men in the county tryin’ to put their feet under her table, she sed.
“I had one ol’ man an’ I shore don’t need no more,” she deklared. “All he ever did wuz sot ’round an’ burp an’ skratch. He wudn’t hit a lick at nothin’. All I did wuz wait on him.”
A’bout kookin’ that possum, she sed the furst thang is to ketch the possum. If’n you’ins wanna brang out the best flavor, don’t git m’patient. Put the possum in a pen an’ feed hit on milk an’ cereal fur ’bout 10 days.
Then, a’cordin’ to this wider woman, you’in scald that possum jest lack you’ins wuz killin’ a hawg. Take hit outta the hot water, scrape an’ pour cold water on hit.
“Take out them red glands in the small ’uv the back an’ under each foreleg,” the wider woman sed. She din’t say whut the red glands ’er fur an’ your humble reporter wuz ’fraid to ast. Jest do as she sed.
“Parboil the possum fur a hour and then bake hit jest lack you wud a piece ’uv pork,” she sed.
Turnip greens tastes awful good with possum, this wider woman sed, but your humble reporter wud much druther have a good mess ’uv sweet taters. The harder times git the better a mess ’uv possum an’ sweet taters taste.
Times ’er hard, friends. Thar ain’t no question ’bout hit. But hit ain’t as bad as them talkin’ heads on the tellyvision say. They say hits just lack the Great Dee’pression.
Friends, that jest ain’t so. Your humble reporter lived thru the Great Dee’pression. Most ’uv us still gits our check an’ the givermint has promised us sume ’uv that bail out money. We din’t have no money a’tall when I wuz growin’ up. A nikel looked big as a wagon wheel.
Talk ’bout feedin’ milk to a possum, the only milk we’ins ever had wuz blue john an’ we krumbled cornbread in that an’ eat hit. We wudn’t give no milk to no dang possum.
I ain’t had no mess ’uv possum an’ sweet taters in I don’t know how long. Thar ’er so many new four-lane an’ six-lane roads ’round c’here that most ’uv our possums kan’t make hit a’crost the road. They becume road kill under a 18-wheeler.
Friends, I ain’t nockin’ road kill. Hit don’t taste bad a’tall if’n you gather the ree’mains a’fore they lay thar too long. Road kill tastes better on cloudy cool days when the sun ain’t shinin’.
Penny Starnes sed he lacks snipe better’n possum. If’n any ’uv you good wimmen out thar has a receet fur kookin’ a snipe, send hit to me an’ Penny. We’ll put hit in the paper if’n hit sounds good.
By the way, Penny sez he’s feelin’ better. He’s outta the hors’pistal now an’ sounds more perky than he did.
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Lindsey Horn competes at IMTA
A group of aspiring actors and models from Lexington recently returned from Los Angeles where they attended the International Modeling & Talent Association Convention (IMTA) at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites.
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Quilters support local veterans
The Pedal Pushers Quilt Club, a group of quilters meeting at the Pulaski County Public Library, are making quilts for American veterans residing in the county’s nursing homes.
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Five Generations
The Rev. Lloyd Sewell attended the final session of the annual Cumberland River Baptist Association meeting on September 10, 2011.
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SHS Class of 1956 holds reunion
First row, from left, are Sue Crawford Roth, Pepper Marcum, John C. Moore, Wanda Linkes Moore, Peggy Starkey Cain, Jane C. Adams, Edward Adams, Audrey Tanner, Glenn Tanner, Ernest Evans;
Second row, Susie Phelps Marcum, Harold Corder, Gerena Corder, Dixie Linnville, Linda Baugh Purcell, Gail Creekmore, Fred Creekmore, Frankie Waddle McDonald, Terry McDonald, Diane Bourne, Mike Bourne;
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Shopville High School classes of 1970-71 hold joint reunion
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SHS Class of 1976 holds 35th reunion
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Second Annual All Eubank High Reunion
Armed Forces veterans were honored at the Second Annual All Eubank High Reunion on October 8, 2011, held at the Eubank City Park.
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Homemakers attend proclamation signing
Somerset Mayor Eddie Girdler met with several members of the Pulaski County Extension Homemakers, signing a proclamation that the week of Oct. 10 be observed as KEHA Homemakers Week in Pulaski County.
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Alpha Delta Kappa Tau members attend Fall Leadership Conference
Local Tau members attended the Kentucky State Alpha Delta Kappa Fall Leadership Conference September 23 and 24 at Rough River State Resort Park with representatives from over 32 chapters from across Kentucky.
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IGA of Somerset helps American Cancer Society ‘Bag Cancer’
IGA of Somerset will join the American Cancer Society to help ‘bag’ cancer during its Grocers Fight Cancer Day on Wednesday, Oct. 5, and will donate a percentage of the sales for the day to the American Cancer Society.
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