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...SKEETER says he lives in Hall, Georgia, up near the Tennessee line. But Hall, Georgia isn't on any maps and a curious stranger might spend an entire afternoon driving through the area without ever finding...
Only after Skeeter says he knows you well enough will he let on that Hall, Georgia is no more. In the thirties, it was flooded over by a T.V.A. damn and the townspeople have moved into the surrounding hills, only to regroup on Saturday nights in Mountain City for the square dance and country music shows...
...Skeeter and his friends start down late in the afternoon to buy beer (hard liquor isn't sold in north Georgia after sundown because of the region's astronomical murder rates) and then stop to eat supper at the Brazier Burger. After eating Skeeter gulps down several cans of beer and begins to smile, "Gotta get loose, so I can daince ever' daince," he says...
...What did Skeeter Davis do as a follow-up to "End of the World...
Last week on Michigan's Lake St. Clair, William R. Perrigo, 46, climbed into the cockpit of his 24-ft. Thunder Jet and rocketed around an eight-mile course to win the International Skeeter Class championship. A printing-company president, former commodore of Wisconsin's Pewaukee Ice Yacht Club, Bill Perrigo sails a 38-ft. Inland Scow in the summers, is an expert on both water and ice. But stepping from one to the other, he says, is a little bit like a glider pilot learning to blast off in a jet. While he was practicing three weeks...