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Pine Mountain Settlement School<\/strong>
\n Series 09: Biography<\/strong>
\nSeries 12: Land Use<\/b><\/p>\n

ALICE COBB STORIES\u00a0 Visit to\u00a0Jasper Cornett’s\u00a0Place June 1, 1934<\/h2>\n
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TAGS:<\/strong>\u00a0Alice Cobb Stories – “Visit to Jasper Cornett’s Place”; Alice Cobb; Pine Mountain Settlement School, Harlan County, Kentucky; Jasper Cornett; Mrs. Jasper Cornett; Winfield Cornett; Puncheon Creek; kitchens; foodways; cabins; Granny Creech<\/p>\n

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VISIT TO JASPER CORNETT’S PLACE, JUNE 1, 1934<\/p>\n

Sunday at Jasper Cornett’<\/strong>s place. The lane from the road about a mile to the house is beautiful — more beautiful than any I have seen even in these incredible hills. On the one side a woody cliff, on the other a narrow valley and across that a mountain wall so high and steep one wonders how any man dared find his way beyond it to this perfect little gully. The line winds about,\u00a0then through a thicket of rhododendron one leaves it and goes a way up the creek (Puncheon Creek) and then reaches the house suddenly. What\u00a0an eye for a site Jasper Cornett must have had! The house sits up on a little jut of one hill, and looks down the valley, so that from the porch, which is V-shaped, one sees the mountain walls rising high and straight on either side, and then down the valley until that too is closed with another wall at the end like this [drawing –\/——————-\\] The house had a cement porch unusual for these parts, and a board floor in the kitchen except for the large surface in front of the stove which is a perfectly flat stone. The kitchen, also the dining room, contained the stove, a cupboard, and the table and chairs. On one side was a door leading upstairs — the door papered with magazines. The windows were cut in the walls\u00a0 — no glass. We had dishes, also a luxury, and such a dinner — cornbread that one breaks off in hunks, which I love although it must be hard to digest — white rolls equal to any baker’s, cracklings, beans, white butter, fried apples, cabbage, greens, a variety of jellies and syrups, cooked dried apples, blackberries — it all tasted like nectar and ambrosia to me.<\/p>\n

Winfield [Cornett]<\/strong> was the city boy home again. As Mrs. Cornett said, “He said when he come that he weren’t a mind to do ary\u00a0lick o’ work and he hain’t!” But oh the pride, and the affection in her voice.<\/p>\n

Out in the yard, the baby chicks and baby turkeys ran about and the bees buzzed about the bee gums. I wish I had stayed to help rob them in the evening but that is an adventure which still awaits me.<\/p>\n

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\"Angela

Angela Melville Album, II. Part lI. “Granny Creech – Little Laurel.” [melv_II_album_090.jpg]<\/p><\/div>Granny Creech<\/strong> came in today bringing comforts\u00a0 — lovely wool puff comforters. She is a connoisseur of quilt patterns — told me about her “bowknot” cushion top and her rainbow and Dutch girl patterns. She had on a hat as large around as a good sized parasol — came on her nag and hurried off to get home before the rain would start. “I’m willin’ to take it if that will bring the rain, but I’ll try if I can get home afore the clouds breaks!” she said\u00a0in parting.<\/p>\n

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