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With one house, a crumbling blacksmith shop, a dance hall and a combination post office-saloon, Luckenbach belongs on an MGM back lot. Its rise began in 1970 when a slow-talking rancher and raconteur named Hondo Crouch bought up half the town, supposedly because of his unhappiness with the saloon's irregular hours. Soon the place was a laid-back, beer-stocked afternoon retreat for country musicians. Among them: Jerry Jeff Walker, who brought old pals like Willie Nelson by for a visit and in 1973 recorded his Viva Terlingua album there...
...Little League baseball, and my high school in Kentucky, Walton-Verona, isn't far from Cincinnati. It was full of baseball freaks and basketball freaks. But I liked horses. They're creatures of habit and smarter than most people think. My mother trains horses and my dad's a blacksmith, and they have some acreage, so I grew up with horses and horse people. It takes me about five minutes now to get the feel of a new horse. I love New York racing. I love riding the well-bred horses, the high-grade horses here...
About an hour later, Haley discovered what he wanted. "Suddenly I found myself looking down: Tom Murray, Occupation?blacksmith,' and beneath him, 'Irene, M?for Mulatto,' and their children. The youngest was Elizabeth, age six. And that really grabbed me. That was Aunt Liz. I used to sit on her front porch and play with her long gray hair. The experience galvanized me. Grandma's words became real. It wasn't that I had not believed her. You just didn't not believe Grandma. But there was something about the fact that what Grandma had been talking about was right...
Whipping Hay. Cauthen was only two when his father Ronald, a blacksmith at tracks in Kentucky and Ohio, first put him on a pony. With a trainer/owner mother, Cauthen grew up on the backstretch, attending his first Kentucky Derby at the same age colts do -as a three-year-old. By the time he was twelve, he was perched beside the starting gates, studying how jockeys get away on the break. After he decided to become a rider, Steve and his father collected race films, endlessly rerunning them on a borrowed projector, to dissect the strategies of dozens of jockeys...
...returns to his wife and daughter in Mississippi. (Faulkner and Wife Estelle remained married from 1929 until his death 33 years later.) "The South ... was part of the rhythm of his life," says Meta. "He was really at his happiest raccoon or pig hunting with his cronies, the town blacksmith or the drugstore clerk...