The 20th Anniversary reunion of the Rosman High School
Class of 1954 was held Dec. 28 at Berry’s Restaurant. At
tending were, left to right, first row': Hazel O’Shield Burch;
Mildred Powell Dodson; Edith Galloway McCall; Pat
Bruner Fisher; Olivene Jones Lyday; Willa Beth Carter
Greenwood; Mae Whitmire Franks; Christine Jones Rice.
2nd. Frantz Whitmire; Jimmie Lee Turner; Darlene
Galloway Mullins; Mrs. Oscar Bullard (Miss Wiggins); Mrs.
La Verne Hogsed; Mr. B. E. Keisler. 3rd Perry Fisher;
Owen Daniel McCall; Shirley Galloway Petit; Odell Powell;
Vess McCall; Edward Paxton; W. 0. Galloway Tom
Mahoney; Lester Gillespie.
Folk-Ways And Folk-Speech
The Tale Of A Bob-Tail Calf
Long before I had developed
more than a passing interest
in folklore, I recall that one of
the interesting features ap
pearing in the Watauga (N.
C.) Democrat and several
other mountain papers was a
column under the heading,
News From Pigeon Roost.
Written by a man with no
great amount of formal
education, it revealed a
natural style of story-telling
and a down-to-earth manner
of relating the everyday
events in a small mountain
community. It was a column
to which I turned with an
ticipation and one in which I
was seldom disappointed.
■: Because it had not ap
peared in the local paper in
recent months, I had come to
the conclusion that the
columnist had either passed
awajpwr grown weary of the
task of rounding up enough
information to meet a weekly
newspaper deadline.
Happily I have discovered
the columnist, Harvey J.
Miller, and his column are
both hale and hearty at this
writing. In addition, through
the good offices of Eliot
Wigginton a compilation of 25
-years of the column has been
printed as an issue of Foxfire,
and additional copies have
been printed under the title,
News From Pigeon Roost.
Wigginton notes that in
selecting the columns to be
reprinted, he waded through a
>‘‘three-foot high stack of
material” and became
thoroughly engrossed in the
fives of the poeple who found
their way into Miller’s
Column:
“Holt Herrell, for example,
r 1 -
who started out as a merchant
on Pigeon Roost and wound up
preaching. Or Donald Mc
Coury, whose birth was duly
recorded, and who progressed
through the columns from a
child weather recorder to a
father of two children whose
parents were visiting him
rather than the other way
around. Personalities
emerged, grew and faded;
roads were washed away in
spring floods, then paved; and
always in the background
were the ever-present hills —
noted, reverenced, studied,
exploited and loved.”
Perhaps Folk-Ways could
perform no better service than
to offer a sample of Pigeon
Roost news as seen by Mr.
Miller. The following column
appeared in March of 1965,
and readers can judge from
the items noted why the
column has continued to be
published over the years.
“There came a new heifer
calf on Friday, February 19 to
the farm of C. W. Hughes on
Byrd Creek at Pigeon Roost
that had a bob tail of only
about two inches long.
Hughes said for one thing
sure the short tailed calf will
never have the ‘hollow tail.’
All the old timey cattle
raisers of this hill country
says when a worm gets in a
cow’s tail or any other kind of
big cattle, if their tail is not
split open in the middle and
salt put in the wound, the
cattle will die. They also said
that sometimes to pour tur
pentine on the cow’s tail will
kill the worms.
One old timer recently
reported to the writer that he
once found a cow that was so
sick that she was down and
couldn’t get up, and he got him
a short plank and held the
cow’s tail on it and split the
cow’s tail with his pocket knife
where he could tell it was
hollow.
He put salt on it and tied up
the tail with a piece of cloth
and it wasn’t long until the old
cow got up and began to eat
some corn meal mixed with
black soot from the chimney.
It was the first thing that she
had eat in two days.
It’s balm of Gilead bud
picking time again.”
News From Piegon Roost
may be seen in the current
volume (VIII) of Foxfire
Magazine or may be ordered
at $2.95 per copy from Harvey
James Miller, Box 293 —
Relief Route, Greenmountain,
N. C. 28740.
Please send all material to.
Rogers Whitener, Folk-Ways
and Folk-Speech, Box 376,
University Station, Boone, N.
C. 28608.
Arctic Specialist
On College Program
“The Library at Six”,
Br jvard College, presents Dr.
Derry Koob speaking on
“Penguins and Polar Bears
Don’t Mix”, Jan. 9.
Dr. Koob is a member of the
science faculty at Brevard
College. He was previously
employed by The Institute of
Polar Studies alt The Ohio
State University.
While there, Dr. Koob led
one expedition to the Taser
siaq-Sukkertoppen Ice Cap
area of Greenland, par
ticipated in two other
Greenland expeditions, three
Antartic expeditions and
numerous trips to Alaska and
the Aleutian Islands.
These trips were un
dertaken to conduct research
concerning the limnology
(aquatic ecology) of fresh
water lakes and ponds. One of
the primary interests of the
study was the effect of glacial
activity in Greenland and the
Antartic, and the effect of the
underground nuclear testing
programs by the Atomic
Energy Commission in Alaska
on the quality of the water and
of the life in it.
While in the polar regions,
Dr. Koob took extensive
Kodachrome slides and
prepared many colored
movies of the native plants
and wildlife, his research, and
the surrounding landscapes.
His presentation on Jan. 9
will include a brief com
parison of the Artie with the
Antartic regions, a tape
recording of the sounds of
Antartica, and color slides and
movies taken on the Antartic
continent during his par
ticipation in “Operation Deep
Freeze”.
“Penguins and Polar Bears
Don’t Mix” will be presented
in the J. A. Jones Library,
Brevard College, Thursday
from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Residents of Transylvania
County are invited to attend
this program.
Planetarium
Offers Show
On Energy
CHAPEL HILL — The
Morehead Planetarium at the
University of N.C. is offering a
new production of one of the
earth’s critical problems, the
energy shortage.
It is entitled “Energy
Unlimited”, and will run from
Jan. 7 through Mar. 3.
“In a universe pulsing with
incredible energy, earth faces
power shortages,” said
Planetarium Chairman, R. S.
Knapp. “This program takes a
look at what future sources
might be tapped.”
The Planetarium also offers
free art and scientific
displays.
“Energy Unlimited” can be
seen every week night at 8
p.m., on Saturdays at 11 a.m.,
1, 3 and 8 p.m. and on Sundays
at 2, 3 and 8 p.m. In addition, it
will be offered at special
week-day times duirng the
Planetarium’s two-week
festival of science and man,
Jan. 13 - 26, entitled “Once
Upon a World”.
Featured NASA and UNC
^ectures, and special ac
tivities, events and exhibits
will be open to the public
without admission throughout
the festival. A complete
agenda of these activities is
available from the
Planetarium upon request.
Admission is charged only
for Planetarium programs,
and is 75 cents for children
through age 11 or grade 6, $1
for students through college
and $1.25 for adults.
One adult is admitted free
with each ten members of
organized school and youth
groups Clergymen are ad
mitted free at all times.
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Human Condition
Preparing
For Ski
Slopes?
By
DR. JEROME M. COTLER
CLINICAL PROFESSOR OF
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY
JEFFERSON MEDICAL
COLLEGE
THOMAS JEFFERSON
UNIVERSITY
A man writes, “1 am 35
years old, and haven’t skied
for several years. I’m in
terested in getting back on the
slopes, but with a minimum
risk of injury. How can I best
prepare myself for winter
skiing?
A multi-faceted approach
should be taken when
preparing for a season on the
slopes. Retrospective and
prospective data suggest
three areas—equipment,
physical conditioning, and
environmental and climatic
conditions —which deserve
attention. These three broad
areas are not all-inclusive, but
they do offer an overview of
the problem.
As far as equipment is
concerned, the newer rapid
and multi-directional release
bindings have helped greatly.
These bindings, coupled with
higher and lighter plastic
boots, have helped decrease
ankle and lower leg strains,
fractures and dislocations.
Shorter skis allow better
maneuverability and more
rapid progression from a
beginning to intermediate
class skier. “We. Look’’
clothing, which reduces
friction and limit’s one’s
ability to stop a sliding fall,
should be avoided.
Physical conditioning
should include building
muscle tone and strength
through jogging, isometric
and resistive weight-lifting
exercises.
A very good exercise in
volves standing with your
back to a wall, and then
squatting down slowly until it
seems you are sitting in a
straight-backed chair
(without a chair of course).
Hold that position for 30
seconds, and repeat the
exercise three or four times a
day.
Fatigue should be avoided.
Most of us should not spend
more than four hours on the
slopes per day. Recent studies
have shown that 60 per cent of
all fractures and dislocations
occur between 3:30 and 5 p.m.
So, remember the fatigue
factor when thinking about
that last run. The effect of
excessive food and or alcohol
intake may also slow reaction
time and might possibly result
in serious injury.
Environmental and
climactic conditions should be
as close to ideal as possible.
An individual should
remember his or her
limitations and stay away
from excessively difficult
slopes.
And as a final thought,
remember that even the most
expert skier respect (and
avoid) ice, slush, and bare
areas,__
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Insurance
Agency
39 W. Jordan St.
Brevard, N. C.
C. W. ARNOLD
JERRY M. ARNOLD
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Navy Seaman James T.
Broughton Jr., son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. T. Broughton Sr. of 12
Ulvda Court, Connestee Falls,
Brevard, has graduated from
recruit training at the Naval
Training Center, Orlando,
Fla. He is scheduled to report
to Communication Technician
“A” School, Great Lakes, 111.
Chappell
Rites Held 1
PICKENS, S. C. - Word has
been received here of the
death of Mrs. Fannie Hudson
Chappell, of Greenville, S. C.,
formerly of Pickens. She was
a frequent visitor in the home
of her son, Fulton, who sur
vives, and his family when
they lived in Brevard, and she
made several friends in this
area.
She is also survived by a
daughter, Mrs. Cecil Year
wood, and a son, Berlen, both
of Greenville, nine grand;
children and one great
grandson.
Funeral services were held
on Friday in the Chapel of
Thomas McAfee Funeral
Home in Greenville, with
interment in Graceland
Cemetery.
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