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Dear Ramona,
My husband and I just moved to
Prater’s Creek from California. We have found this small town to be both
idyllic and bucolic, and
the townspeople to be quiet gentile.
Ramona, my husband and I are to have
a child in a few weeks. We already know it is a boy. We are big fans of the
bluegrass artists who have taken what was once hillbilly music and made it a
respectable acoustic jazz. We want to name our new son after one of our
favorite banjo players. I want "Tony" for Tony Trischka, my husband wants to
name him "Bela". How can we solve this problem and not be mad at each other?
"Out of Tune"
Dear "Out of Tune",
Good Lord honey! Give that new baby a
real banjo player’s name: "Earl"!
Ramona
Dear Ramona,
I think my husband loves his blue
tick hound more than he loves me. I asked him last night if this was true
and he said " of course not! Jimbo (his dog) can’t pull a plow or bake
biscuits!" What should I do?
"Playing Second
Fiddle to a Hound"
Dear "Second
Fiddle"
Bake them biscuits baby, bake 'em good
and brown!
Ramona
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Bijou
Theater To
Hold Film
Festival
The Bijou Theater will be having a
film festival to celebrate the screen work of Lon Chaney. It is not known
how many movies Chaney made, but he made his mark as an equal of Charlie
Chaplain and Buster Keaton of the Golden Silent Era. He was born one of four
children to deaf parents and he learned to express himself through facial
and body movements.
Classics such as 1919’s
Miracle Man,
1920’s The Penalty (where playing a double amputee, Chaney came up with a
harness with stumps that he used, pinning his legs behind his back. He was
in such pain he could only film a few minutes at a time!), 1923’s
Hunch Back
of Notre Dame, and 1925’s Phantom of the Opera
will be shown.
  
Classic Photos of Lon Chaney
Hot-dog
Supper To
Be Held
 There will be a hot-dog supper held by
the Prater’s Creek Volunteer Fire Department on Friday September 30. Fire Chief "Flint" McCalister said the supper was to help raise money for the
town’s first fire truck. Plates will be $3.00 for adults and $2.00 for
children under 12. The Fire Station is located on Stewart Gin Road. Chief McCalister said the supper begins at 5 PM and that his band, Flint and The
Flattops would be performing at the supper.
Mayor
Says Prater’s
Creek
Couches
Can Stay
The town of Anderson, SC recently told
it’s citizens they had to get rid of the indoor couches they had on their
front porches, saying it
was "an eyesore, beneath our standards". Responding to the recent action by the nearby city, Prater’s
Creek Mayor said the couches that adorn almost every
front porch of every home in Prater’s Creek, SC will be allowed to stay.
"Nah, we ain’t gonna try and make the folks get rid of their porch
furniture" Mayor explained. "I got me one on my front porch where me and the
missus sit and pick and sing after supper every night. We sit out there and
listen for the Southern Crescent to blow it’s horn. It makes for a fine
night."
To Book The Drovers Call Grandpa at 864-653-5562
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