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Died. Martha McChesney Berry, 75, "the Sunday Lady of Possum Trot," founder and developer of the famed Berry Schools for poor mountain children; in Atlanta. As the young daughter of a wealthy north Georgia cotton planter, she read stories to poor-folk neighbors, built (and taught in) first one log-cabin school, then another, next established a boarding school (now more than 1,000 students). She was one of the first modern educators to recognize the need for teaching crafts, one of the first to set up a work-and-study plan, saw her ideas widely copied...
...some senseless and setting matches to their gasoline-soaked bodies. He told of one band of Jews herded into a slaughterhouse, forced to kneel at the chopping blocks where their throats were cut in a grisly parody of kosher butchering. From a Jew, who miraculously escaped death by playing possum, he heard of a mass assassination of 160 Jews at the prison of Jihlava...
Audubon writings include sporadic journals, letters, accounts of his meetings with Frontiersman Daniel Boone, Naturalist-Bird Painter Alexander Wilson, eccentric Naturalist Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz. There are lively descriptions of coon, possum, bear and cougar hunts, bird biographies, racy reporting of the frontier's human fauna. Most exciting piece is The Prairie. One night Audubon asked shelter at a cabin where he found a strapping woman, her two hulking sons, an Indian. The woman admired Audubon's gold watch so much that though he lay down, he decided not to sleep. The woman did not sleep either. Writes...
...Possum In Elherton Ga. a hound named Buck incapacitated by a broke leg went hunting with Sheriff John Starke. Pushed in a wheelbarrow, he treed three possiums without once leaving his seat...
Supporting Uncle Dave in the Grand Ol' Opry Company are a half-dozen ensembles with sour-mash names like Fruit Jar Drinkers, Possum Hunters, Gully Jumpers, Roy Acuff and his Smoky Mountain Boys. Grand Ol' Opry is no ordinary hillbilly show. It is opportunity night for all the balladeers, jug players, mouth-organists, fiddlers, washboard knucklers, accordionists, comb-hummers, etc. It is a weekly fiesta, Southern style, for hill folk from the Great Smokies, croppers, tourists...