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■ft The Summerville News, Thurs., July 13, 1967
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Chattoogans Visit Appalachia
By CAROLYN PLEDGER
When you think of mis
sion work—what do you
think of—far away places
like South Africa, New
Guinea and the Azores
Islands? I always had until
a recent experience when
my aunt, Mary Jo Logan,
and I spent a week in the
mountains of eastern Ken
tucky on a mission meeting
and helping teach in the va
cation Bible School. Now, I
see that mission possibilities
are everywhere, even down
the street and over the next
ridge.
Our interesting and prof
itable experience resulted as
an invitation from E. C.
Maynard, minister, who
taught a course in mission
work and conducted a meet
ing at Trion Church of
Christ early in the summer.
We joined him, his wife,
Lee, and son, Phil, and other
helpers at a small commu
nity in the Cumberland
Mountains. Classes and
church services were con
ducted under a tent, pitched
in the largest flat area in
the whole settlement.
It was truly an interest
ing and enriching experi
ence to live and work with
these good people of another
section of the country. I
taught the kindergarten
class at vacation Bible
School. The children are so
much like children in Geor
gia. They just grow up in a
different environment. We
saw the great wealth these
children have in their won
derful surroundings.
We brought back mem
ories of rugged mountains,
stories of dodging copper
heads, seeing 65 big rattlers
near a park, drinking spring
water out of a canteen, see
ing whole mountainsides of
white daisies, fields of
orange daylillies, seeing
mountain laurel and pink
rhododendron that is so big
it is no longer bushes, but
trees.
It was a thrill to pick wild
strawberries right off the
mountain and eat the small,
sweet red fruit, to pick wild
raspberries, and tart red
cherries right off the tree,
as well as to nibble on green
apples to our heart’s con
tent.
We stayed with a lovely
family, and it was a joy to
eat the Kentucky cooking. A
brook ran by the house. It
was full of big rocks, and
sounded like a waterfall as
it lulled us to sleep at night.
The air was pure and cool.
We stayed at the third from
the last house in a hollow
known as Little Beaver of
Skull Hollow. There were
huge mountains on each side
of us.
The people in the moun
tains are thrifty. They
“farm” almost every avail
able flat spot, even a few
feet of soil may boast two
or three pumpkin vines or
four or five tomato plants.
You see very little livestock
in this section. We did see
a cow one day on the side
of a mountain grazing. She
looked like she was fixing to
turn a somersault.
We had never witnessed
such hospitality. The lady
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where we stayed served to
her family and us visitors
approximately 35 meals a
day, as well as fixed the re
freshments for the children
at the School. (There were
approximately 80 to 100 who
came from miles around).
At mealtimes, everyone
gathered around the big
table, and there was always
a long, meaningful prayer
that brought us close to
gether. We always talked
and talked and talked. The
whole atmosphere seemed
like something out of a book
a very good book.
The son of the family, who
is in Viet Nam, was always
remembered in the prayers.
On Saturday, we visited
the Breaks Interstate Park
that joins Kentucky and
Virginia and that is called
the "Grand Canyon of the
South.” It is over 5 miles
long and 1600 feet deep with
vertical walls most of the
way. Geologically of Pennsyl
vanian rocks of the late
Paleozoic Era, the Breaks
Canyon is estimated to be
over 250 million years old.
Towns nearest it are Jen
kins, Elkhorn City, and Pike
ville, Ky., and Grundy, Va.
We passed Blowing Rock,
where an early settler killed
a bear with his bare hands.
On Sunday, we visited Jenny
Wiley State Park, where as
legend has It, Jenny Wiley,
was captured by the Indians
and swam the river and
escaped.
As an example of what
happens when Christ enters
the lives of people and
changes them—one of the
helpers in the Bible School,
had a great-uncle, Uncle
Devil John Wright, who
killed 42 people and buried
them in the same cemetery.
He took us to look for the
cemetery one afternoon. We
are glad Christ has come to
the mountains!
Coal mining is the chief
industry in the section
where we were. Some of the
miners crawl on hands and
knees all day in the mines.
Knowing this and the dan
gers they encounter from
fires, gas, etc., certainly
makes me appreciate the
coal we use for heat and in
dustrial purposes much
more.
By living with the people,
we heard many interesting
legends about places we
couldn't possibly have
learned as mere tourists
passing through. For in
stance, Mr. Maynard told us
about his great-grandmoth
er. an Indian princess, going
out every fall with her horse
and spending several days
hunting. On one occasion
she was camping for the
night and heard wolves. She
got up and kept the fire
going to scare them off.
Soon, she saw the green
glare of their eyes, they were
closing In on her She took
flaming sticks and waved
them about. Soon all her
sticks were gone, and she
knew that they would eat
her alive But suddenly she
heard cocks crowing. She
was near a farm house! The
wolves heard the cocks, too,
and ran away, and she
escaped.
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CAROLYN AND HER PUPILS
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BEAUTIFUL CUMBERLAND FALLS
He also told of the hard
life he had as a child, and
how he and his mother
would go to the woods and
cut a popular tree, split it
and make a trough to put
huckleberries in (they didn’t
have money to buy buckets).
They would walk five miles
to a plateau in the moun
tains and pick huckleberries
and carry them down to the
town and sell them for 40
cents a gallon. That’s the
way he made money to buy
his suit for high school
graduation.
It was with a lump in my
throat, as I took the last
swallow of spring water, sat
for a minute under the
shade of the apple tree and
soaked in the beauty and
serenity of the hollow and
walked across the little foot
bridge to the car and bade
this section of the world
adieu
We stopped in Preston
burg for a brief visit with a
minister there, and then
traveled on to Lexington for
the night with relatives of
the Maynards. We drove the
beautiful Mountain Park
way Then our host led us to
U. S Highway 27, and we
headed home. Beautiful
Kentucky continued to un
fold before us, presenting
breathtaking landscapes —
huge old Southern planta
tions with vast fields and
pastures were around every
curve We passed some of
the prettiest rivers and
lakes I have ever seen.
Wo felt like we were al
most home when we spotted
a sign: "Chattanooga 223
miles!”
We took highway 90 for
12 miles and spent a couple
of hours at beautiful Cum
berland Falls, said to be the
largest waterfalls south of
Niagara and east of the
Rockies.
The foaming cataract pro
duces mist which is a requi
site for the picturesque
rainbow they saw at the foot
of the Falls. Also, it is said
that a moonbow is often
visible at night The drop
from the lowest lip of the
Falls to the river below is 55
feet The photo at bottom
right shows the Cumberland
River, rock formations, cave
and mountain below the
falls The huge rock forma
tions are said to be millions
of years old, and the tops
of some are encrusted with
small rocks and shells. Up
above the falls, people were
swimming or sunning on the
big flat rocks Below’ the
falls, they were fishing.
There is also a beach and
golf course on below’ the
falls We ate delicious cat
fish at the rustic I.odge
This is In the Daniel Boone
National Forest.
There are cottages and
motels as well as the Lodge
for tourists. It would be a
wonderful place to vacation.
In fact, Kentucky, would be
a wonderful place to spend
a vacation We learned of a
number of big pageants that
sound interesting. At Big
Stone Gap (in eastern Ken
tucky) is "The Trail of the
Lonesome Pine.” (There has
been a book written by that
name' At Harrodsburg, not
too far from Lexington is
"The Legend of Daniel
Boone.” (June 17-Sept. 4).
The most famous one is
about 40 miles off our route
home, “The Book of Job.”
It has had favorable re
views in many publications
throughout the world and
has performed at two world’s
fairs—Brussels and New
York—and made two inter
national tours of Europe
and South Africa.
We saw much interesting
scenery coming through
Tennessee and stopped at a
fruit stand in the country to
get peaches to bring home.
This trip was certainly
enlightening to me because
I caught a vision of how
much needs to be done in
the advancement of the
cause of Christ here in this
country as well as through
out the world.
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JORGE BIRD
. . . Lions president
Lions Elect
International
President
Jorge Bird, of San Juan,
Puerto Rico, was elected
president of Lions Interna
tional at the association’s
Golden Anniversary conven
tion in Chicago, July 5-8.
Serving as the 51st presi
dent during the Golden An
niversary year. Mr. Bird
heads the world’s largest
service club organization
with 835.000 members in 137
countries and geographical
areas.
Lions International is best
known for its aid to the
blind, sight conservation ac
tivities. youth programs and
its many community service
projects.
"Better World Under
standing Through Llonism,”
and development of a
stronger friendship between
North and South America
are the goals of Bird’s pro
gram for his 1967-88 presi
dential year.
It takes something other
than wages to hold good
employees: and it takes
something other than low
prices to hold a good custo
mer.
The girls who have a wide
range of choices always seem
to pick the wrong man.
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