Word: licks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...honeymoon was back again, too. Newlyweds shook rice out of their pockets at Niagara Falls, Atlantic City, Hot Springs, White Sulphur Springs, Crystal Springs, Bermuda, French Lick and Mexico City. Most stayed as long as possible, having no homes to come home...
...average family's cash income at Big Lick was $50 a year, the average house was valued at $250 to $500. For six months a year even the road to Crossville was impassable. By the time a doctor was sent for, it was usually too late. When a visiting preacher came to Big Lick, he used the schoolhouse...
...that his first job at Big Lick was to change a dispirited collection of families into a community of men&women. Their center would be the church. He started with the young folks-dances, socials, and "singing games." Then he set out to build his church...
Smathers' old friend Dr. Warren H. Wilson of the Presbyterian, U.S.A. Unit of Rural Church Work helped with the project. Big Lick's 50 families supplied labor. Smathers was the foreman. Said a grizzled Big Lick farmer last week: "That feller did it all. I seen him a-standin' out there in the sun, day after day, takin' holt of the building." By the time the church was built, the people of Big Lick and their pastor had built more than a church. They had welded themselves into a Christian community...
Since then, Big Lick, and Pastor Smathers have built other things: a small health center which now houses a resident nurse, study clubs to plan and carry out better farming techniques, a cooperative homestead plan to encourage young couples to stay in Big Lick. The state college and TVA have selected Big Lick as a demonstration area to dramatize soil conservation...