Held Little Pig, Well
Rock Fences: Spooks’ Playground
BY HARVEY J. MILLER ,
RELIEF The ancient
rock fences are gone almost
everywhere now
" Rock Fences?” asks the
younger generation, “What’s
That?” It was just a pile pf
rocks that extended all the
way round the most valua
ble farm tracts.
These fences was built to j
withstand through all ages !
and they kept little pigs {
in the field better than did
crooked rail fences-
However, only the more
level farms had rock fences.
The rocks could not stick to
the mountain sides when the
spring thaws came and
loosened the earth.
Rocks were once used in
fences more than in any
other job- But it took a very
good rock mason to build a
fence-
Where are the rocks now
that stood in these old rock
fences?
They serve a very useful
purpose- A rock crusher
mashed the rocks into bits-
The roads that are not hard
surfaced have much of the
crushed stone as a base- It
has been there so long now
that you-can’t detect much
of the gravel.
The removal of rock fenc
es took away another old
pioneer landmark.
I growed up with rock
fences on Pigeon Roost,
where I was born and rear
ed, and now they are practi
cally all gone, yet, I don’t
feel like that I have been a
past of the rock fences- Any
way I am going to tell an
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anecdote about old rock
fences ...
I had to pass by a rock
fence in going to school or
_£ven going to the store- In
fact a rock fence was usual
ly beside the road in any
directions travelled near my
home.
,We got so we wouldn’t
travel oy the rock fences a
lone, and we didn’t care too
j much about going by them
when someone else was a
! long.
Vvhy was I afraid when I
was around the rock fences?
I got scared one time when
I was going to school, and
almost all of uie rock fences
was torn down before that
“afraid spell” completely
left me
lt seemed everything
scary that happened was in
and around the old rock
fences-
They got a black bear tale
going once and the bear was
always seen at a certain
rock fence.
' I first began to get afraid
of the rock fence when I saw
a copperhead snake running
toward one- Practically ev
ery wild animal that I ever
saw was making for or go
ing from the old rock fen
ces-
Brother, I didn’t know
what was lurking behind
the rock fence and once
when I heard a ferocious
growling coming from be
hind a fence my little legs
couldn’t carry me fast
enough away from there and
1 never took time to look
back to see if I could see
anything.
I was really scared and I
never stopped my running
until I got to the school
house. Books were took up
and I was afraid to go to
talking to tell some of the
children about my scare fo*
the teacher would whip me
for whispering- The teacher
was a new one and I was
ashamed to tell her that I ,
had got scared “almost to 1
death” as the saying goes in
the mountain country-
I toughed it out until re
cess time by not telling any
body, but that was the first
thing that I told my cousins
that I heard a “bugger” be
hind the rock fence- They
was afraid of the rock wall,
too, and that made them
fear the fence even more-
It was a long mile from
the school house to home,
k> but many times I would
walk it at ngon time and eat
dinner- this was one
time I didp’t go home, for
1 didn't have anyone to go
with mo an'd I wouldn’t have
gone alone for a thousand
dollars.
From then on the rock
fences was my biggest trou- *
ble in going to school be
cause I had no one to walk
with me all the time.
A one-armed man admit
ted with a big laugh years
later to my father that he
was the “bugger” who
scared me from a hiding
place behind the fence-
All my teachers after
then soon learned that I was
afraid of the rock fences,
because about every sen
tence that I had to make
about anything dealt on the
-subject or rock fences-
One time I remember that
I drew a picture of a ghost
for my teacher and I had
the ghost standing on top of
a rock fence- The teacher
thought the picture was
quite funny, but I couldn’t
crack a smile because my
little, young heart would
have stopped if l seen a
ghost at a rock fence-
East Yancey
Graduates
Are Listed
11
Scheduled to graduate at East
Yanmy High School Wednesday
(My 29) -are:
Sandra Alien, Carolyn Autrc-y,
Madelyn Autre-y, Byil BaHew,
Carcdyn Ballew, Talma:lge BaiUcs,
Robert Black, In-a Ruth Bodlo: d,
Lin-c’ia Boone, Marcella B~ore,
Mv .;aroS Boone, Sanya- Eoxie,
Ralph Blevins, Betty Bradford,
Gurney Brewer, Roger Brew.-r,
Paula Brooks, Janice Buchanan,
Carolyn Buckner, Richard Byd.
Norma Jean Carroll, Dennis Car
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i Crrisawn, Frances Colei I .a, Thm
< a Coletta, Clyd~ Dulaney, r>y j
Crlaney, Gary Fender, Gloria
G:\jgs, Janice Grindeta-ff, Gler.da'
Hall, -r.rer.da -Harris, Jarvis
(Jlairls, David Hensley. Janice
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Charles Hughes, Haoeld Hughes, I
Johnny Hughes. Ma;y M. !
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J-arrett, Patricia Johnson, -Sara
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Mahan, Paul McMahan, Sybil
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Moss, Janet Ohle, David Parsley,
Brenda Peterson, Brenda Peterson,
Denni 3 Phillips, Martha Poteat,
James Pr esc ell, Leland Presnell,
Mildred Presnell, Charlene- Rath
bone, Rebecca Riddle, Catherine
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Cane River SeniorsfAre Listed
Scheduled to graduate at Cane,
River High School Friday (May
24) are: - _
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