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Pine Mountain Settlement School
\nSeries 09: Biography
\nSeries 30: Music and Dance<\/h5>\n

ALICE COBB STORIES Party For Logging Boys, May 25, 1934<\/h2>\n
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TAGS:<\/strong>\u00a0Alice Cobb Stories Party for Logging Boys, May 24, 1934; Alice Cobb; Pine Mountain Settlement School, Harlan County, Kentucky; logging; guitars; banjos; dancing; set-running; Henry Creech; Delia Creech; Angela Creech; Sam Winfrey; Woodrow Patterson; music; parties; set-running; dance; foodways; entertainment; rhubarb; pie-plant; Gib Lewis; Greasy Creek; Frank Turner;\u00a0Grace Lewis; Rachel Lewis; Bill Harris; Boyd Harris; Doghie:<\/p>\n

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PARTY FOR LOGGING BOYS, MAY 25, 1934<\/p>\n

Last night we had a party and asked the logging boys from Creeches to come over and play their guitar and banjo along with Winfrey’s [Sam Winfrey] fiddle. Well, news of the party got down the creek as news gets around here, and before we had finished dancing country dances, Woodrow Patterson and some of the other down-Greasy boys began to appear, gathering like clouds on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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“Set running. Maudie [Maud] Holbrook.” [front, center] 1934. Burkham School House in distance. [boarding_school_768a.jpg]<\/p><\/div>I had some nervous qualms but invited them all in cordially enough and, goodness, they streamed in so that first thing we knew it was a country party. The music\u00a0seemed to draw them like rats for the piper. There were two big circles of sets — and what sets! Real old-time country set-running* with the real hillbilly pep. Frank Turner at the fiddle, and all the older men — Silus [sic ?]\u00a0<\/em>Turner was there — clustered about the orchestra and listened. We must have had seventy-five there — Grace and Rachel Lewis and Bill and Boyd Harris and Doghie and lots of others from Big Laurel came up. They came from all up and down the creek. I believe it’s affairs like this that will help bring back what Miss [Evelyn K.] Wells<\/a> deplored losing — the close contact between school and community.<\/p>\n

Tonight the logging boys and Sam [Winfrey] played at Creeches and we went to hear. I love these evenings at Creeches. The other time was nicer than this I thought. There was just one dim lamp and we\u00a0all sat around two or three deep, on the edges of the beds (where the children were already asleep or at least Angela [Creech] was asleep, fully clothed of course). And as the music twanged out I enjoyed watching the men — Gib Lewis<\/a> and Henry and some others. They sat as though they were made of stone, never smiled, never moved a muscle, except to tap ever so slightly with one foot, and just listen, listen, listen. The Mountaineers\u00a0one reads about surely enough, bearded, tall, brawny, good-looking men, and there’s something fine and keen about Henry for example that would make a place\u00a0for him anywhere. Somehow I think it’s not the time or the place after all — but the man.<\/p>\n

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“Angela and Henry Creech.” Angela was the daughter of Henry & Delia Creech. [kingman_071b.jpg]<\/p><\/div>Maudie [Maude Holbrook]<\/a> is a lucky girl and she’ll make someone a very lucky man —\u00a0sometime. I loved to watch her make a fire — talking all the while, “If you think a fire won’t burn, hit won’t\u00a0and that’s all they is to it.” “Well, I think that’s going to burn,” I said encouragingly. “Oh, yes,” she said, “Hit will burn or hit won’t be left alone.”<\/p>\n

I had some rhubarb* to cook. Maude asked what flavor it was. “Flavor?” I asked. “Oh, yes,” she said “Rhubarb is different flavored — apple and strawberry and pineapple.” She tasted a piece of what she was cutting. “This might be apple but hit’s more like some kind of berry. I think it might be raspberry!”<\/p>\n

*Also locally called “pie-plant<\/em>.”
\n*Kentucky Running Set<\/p>\n

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Back to<\/b> ALICE COBB GUIDE TO WRITINGS, STORIES & LETTER COPIES<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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