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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Going down Lacon Mountain 20 miles out of Decatur, the five cars carrying prisoners and officers came suddenly to a halt. Later there was no agreement as to how and why the affray started. But. in sum, Negro Ozie Powell leaned forward and sliced a deputy sheriff in the neck with a knife. The sheriff then shot off a portion of Ozie Powell's forehead. The deputy was rushed off to a physician who closed the wound with twelve sutures. Ozie Powell, still conscious and still chained between two of his fellow prisoners, was driven 70 miles...
...finest antelope in Africa, the Giant Sable, an animal with the lines of a thoroughbred horse, is nearly extinct. The Nyala, once abundant, the Mountain Nyala and the Barbary Stag, have been shot down to scattered survivors...
...remainder of the Convention's 21 proteges: Abyssinian ibex. Northern hartebeest, wild ass, mountain zebra, whale-headed stork, bald-headed ibis, white-breasted guinea fowl and all elephants with tusks no heavier than five kilograms...
...veil. I saw God walking toward me on a white path. There was a veil between us. I saw little Jimmie Kilgore [son of Doss who died six years ago]. He was dressed in white and had white hair. He seemed to be picking flowers on a mountain pathway...
Among his books of poems have been, "A Boy's Will," "North of Boston," "Mountain Interval," "New Hampshire," "West Running Brook," and "A Lone Striker...