Word: coons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mahal of the bayous" at a time when he had a record $73 million deficit, insisted that all this Greek Revival splendor is just not for him: "So far as I'm concerned, all I need is my bedroom with a rocking chair, a flashlight and coon dog." As for pictures, said Davis, "the only ones I'd want would be a picture of my mother and father and a picture of the Bach Springs leap frog team, and go with that...
...said, as he handshook his way through the hillmen. "I'm Wilson Wyatt . . .I'm Wilson Wyatt ... I'm Wilson Wyatt . . ." He climbed a rickety ladder to a platform on top of a shack, grabbed a microphone and told a story about a coon dog that ran into a barbed wire fence and got cut up. A vet put the dog back together, but got the head at the wrong end. "Now," shouted Wyatt, "that dog is like my opponent. He can bark at both ends and run in both directions at the same time." The crowd...
...motorcycle toward the funeral of a Negro friend. "Just with his body and from inside like a snake, leaning that black motorcycle side to side, cutting in and out of the slow line of cars to get there first, staring due-north through goggles toward Mount Moriah and switching coon tails in everybody's face was Wesley Beavers, and laid against his back like sleep was Rosacoke Mustian who was maybe his girl . . ." There is nothing wrong with this, or with the other two-thirds of the sentence still to come, except that Faulkner holds the patent...
Folk songs are too big to be tied down to one meaning. A striking example was Seeger's opening selection, a simple little banjo piece called Little Birdie, which he collected from Coon Creek, Kentucky...
...generations in the Kentucky hill country his family had been farmers, moonshiners, preachers and feudists. His father was an impoverished and illiterate coal miner. But young, log cabin-born Jesse Stuart, who often went coon hunting with a lantern and a volume of Robert Burns, was determined to go to college (Said a neighbor: "He's a plum fool. If he was a young'un of mine, I'd whip his tail with a hickory"). Although hiring out to farmers for 25? a day at the age of nine, and working full time from ages...