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At 98, Macon Native Links
Ages Of Homespun, Nylon
(EDITOR'S NOTE: Born on
lotli, Mr. Tallent later ? moved
with his parents to Burninc
town. In later years, he and his
wife lived on Cartoocechaye.)
JOHN F ARRIS
In AsheviUe Citizen-Times
The years of nearly a century
knock with frosty fingers upon
his heart.
He Is the last link to a pioneer
past.
And on his birthday, he could
look back down the years with
a memory bright as a red thread
on a loom and weave a tapestry
of mountain life that covers an
era from homespun to nylon.
He was born in the Macon j
County hills the year Dan Emmett j
wrote "Dixie" and John Brown
tried to play Ood.
That was in 1859. the year when
folks were hearing about a man
named Lincoln who was rumored
to have been sired by a mountain i
man over in the Smokies.
It was Valentine's Day of '50
and his folks wrote his name into
the family Bible. Wrote the name:
William Riley Tallent.
He grew up in homespun In a
time and place when this was a
land of do it yourself or do with
out.
He was two years old when the j
Civil War started down in Chariest
ton.
And now almost a hundred years
later, he measures his fabulous
memory on that conflict that
divided a nation.
Remembers Men In Gray
For he remembers, almost like
it was yesterday, the men .in tat
tered gray returning from Chick
amauga and Appomattox.
His memory is a wonderful
thing, sort of unbelievable.
And the years have neither
dimmed it nor confused it.
His brain is a cunning picture
maker and his faculty for detail
of things long vanished is a won
der to behold.
In his time, he has seen many
faces and bodies, young and then
old, so much life, so many pat
terns of death and birth.
' He has known time like the
cock of red dawn and time like
a tired clock slowing.
He has seen the horse and bug
gy disappear.
He has known the Golden Age,
the Naughty 'Eighties and the
Gay Nineties.
He has lived through the eras
of boom and bust, of want and
of plenty.
He has known hoopskirts wide
as the front veranda.'
He remembers sun-bonneted
ladies, and blsftk-shawled men.
Paid Off In Dimes
He remembers cocked-pistol men,
white-sheeted men. hoofbeats and
terror in the night, and a man
dangling from the end of a rope
on a bridge at Franklin.
He was with Col. C. J. Harris
when the first kaolin mine was
opened in Western North Carolina.
He was paymaster ,at the Hog
Rock mines near Webster and paid
off the men in shiny new dimes.
He saw the first automobile
come to the mountains.
He talked to Ford and Edison
and Firestone when they came
this way in a White Steamer and
helped them free their car when
it got stuck in the mud below
Webster.
He remembers when the whip
ping post and the branding iron
were still the instruments for pun
ishment of law-breakers.
He remembers when folks took
down their rifles and shot the
railroad train when it first came.
And he remembers the man
who sat by with his rifle and said
when the first telephone and tele
graph wires were stretched
through the section, that it was
all right to send messages over
them, but he aimed to kill the
first man that come traveling over
his property on the thin strands.
In his time he lived by the al
manac and planted his crops by
the sign of the moon.
He learned to tell time by the
sun's shadow falling through the
door on the puncheon floor.
He remembers when mountain
folks had to do their trading in
Walhalla and Augusta.
He remembers the trips there
with hams and chestnuts and
swapping them for salt and coffee
and gun-powder.
Matches $1 A Box
He knew a time when matchcs j
were scarce and fetched a dollar '
a box and how folks kept a box
of twisted paper tapers in a box
beside the hearth for lighting
their pipes or else used coals from j
the fire.
He grew up when candles and
tallow-dips furnished light.
He has known sweat and back
breaking toil.
Time wfis when he parched his
own coffee and had a coffee-mill !
to grind it.
He was born in a log cabin and
never knew a home other than
logs until he was almost thirty.
He got his fun at corn-shuckin's,
bean-stringin's, and house-raisin's.
He celebrated Christmas with
firing anvils and setting off hog
rifles.
He was a grown man before he
got his first suit of store-bought
clothes.
The spinning wheel and loom
and quilting b*ra were m familiar
as bread and aalt.
He hai known winters when
the ice was so thick In the streams
that horse teams loaded with logs
could cross without (ear.
He has knocked holes In froaen
streams so there could be a bap
tiling.
He grew up when folks made
their own shoes.
He remembers the traveling
dentist, the horse-and-buggy doc
tor. the drummer.
And now. with a century-less
two-years behind him, his mind
is as fresh as a sixteen-year-old.
and just as curious of the things
about him.
He lives In the present and It's
difficult to get him talking of the
past.
But when he does, the memories,
are a flood tide of wonders.
Television and radio have cap
tured his attention.
He would travel to the ends of
the earth, and on a moment's
notice, if he had the chance.
And, yet, he still holds to the
past in words he uses and in the
things he does.
He still carries three knives in
his pocket. One is for whittling.
One is for trading and the third
Is for "throwin" ". Throwin' being
a blind swap, sight unseen.
He has seen the last, lost wild
rabbit of a girl civilized with a
mail-order dress and his beloved
mountains slashed and torn by
saw and bulldozer.
Island fc Gone
The pioneer-island in the world
of his youth has disappeared.
The fiddle-tunes he knew as a
boy are only echoes.
He sits by the fire of a winter
night and studies the leaping
flames.
The fire still burns as it did
in his youth.
The fUmes still dance ghosts
and witches over the low, near
ceiling.
Perhaps as he sits there he
sometimes dreams.
And, yet, he knows that dream
ing men are haunted men.
The ghosts of the past never
die.
And for him they walk as bold
as life through his years.
He hears them in the wind that
blows outside and sees them in the
flames that dance before him.
But if they worry him, he never
lets on.
And for his grandson he brings
them to life.
He stirs the sleepy dust of his
storehouse of memories so that
?his grandson may know what it
was like when folks wore home
spun.
And when he does his eyes snap
from their wrinklenests.
Somehow, he doesn't seem like
an old man when they light up.
But, be that as it may, he's a
landmark.
And his years have made him
a legend, and a ballad.
ALL THIS WEEK
Register here for 100 Dollars to be given away on the town
square Saturday, February 23rd at 4:30 o'clock, by the mer
chants of Franklin.
SUITS, SPORT COATS, SLACKS, MANHATTAN
' DRESS SHIRTS, JARMAN SHOES.
Every item in store on sale this week only.
Register here for free prize.
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