Ole Paul:::::now you are talking about "down home" stuff. Rock is in Rock
District, Mercer, WV. Sure nuf Rock is within a few minutes of Lashmeet,
Spanishburg, and the horse-shoe(like the Burma Rd.) curve at Kegley. The
long gone Shawnee Lake Amusement Park, down the road, but north of Kegley,
at Clover Bottom, was the main recreational site back then and there. My home
town of Montcalm is only about two and one half miles from Rock. That's the
winding road route, not the way the crow flies. Use to be some moon shiners
down in them parts, that just might beat the crow. A guy by the name of
Crumpecker, right after WW2, that was elected Sheriff, running on the slate that
he was going to find all them thar' stills. He followed up by using airplanes to
locate the smoke. But, shortly after he took office, a miner's strike at Goodwill,
developed into a shoot em' up party. Mr. Crumpecker succumbed of an
un-natural cause, before he got to the mine in Goodwill holler. Anyhow, Giatto
area was where some of my Father's sibs were born, between Matoaka and
McComas. Some of these surrounding areas have been repossessed by Mother
Nature. Most difficult to find evidence of once thriving communities, in some of
this home territory. What is your connection for having been seen in them parts?
Are you from Wyoming County?

Ol'Arthur

Ole Arthur - I remember Shawnee Park with great fondness. Our family rented
a cabin there in the summers for a couple of weeks with my father coming out
for weekends from Princeton where we lived. One summer we took a ride (my
first) in small airplane with a barnstorming pilot. We made cigarettes from
dried cornsilks and swam in our wool bathing suits. I'm probably older than
you and Ole Paul and Ole Clyde all togethter.

Mary Ellen

Mary Ellen...you cant be older than me & Ole Clyde..wouldnt be able to
punch those computer keys..I have hunted for arrowheads in that bottom
at Shawnee Park..still have kin in Lashmeet and Kegley..have kin buried
in Bluewell..
Does anyone remember fishin' with a bamboo pole?.. we used to pay 10
cents for them at the hardware store.
Ole Paul

Paul, my three daughters learned to fish with bamboo poles, and they're only
43, 41 and 40 now. I didn't use one of those as a kid, we just cut a sturdy
but limber sapling or sucker to use.

Earl
Earl B. Akers, Sr.
Puyallup WA

That's all I ever fished with with the exception of a long branch we would
cut to make a fishin pole of.

Kansas John

We used to cut a pole to use, too..when we finished fishin', we wrapped
the line and hook around the end of the pole and broke the end off and
stuck it in our pocket..easier to carry back home..


keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul

Did ya' ever "grovel" for fish by running your hands under big rocks?
got one every once in a while that way..


keep the mail comin' to Ole Paul

We boys had to cut our own fishing pole, when we arrived at the creek or river.
Other times, we used the pole with a dynamite cap, attached to two wires,
and touched to the poles of a battery, to shortcut our fishing time, when we
were hungry. Being 80+, some of these details may be a little fuzzy.

Ol'Arthur

Yes up on the south fork of Roanoke River near the bridge at Hickmon
Hollar road and Crockett Springs Hotel property was a good place to
grovel for red eyes and of course horney heads, turtles or what ever.

Edgar

Hi Ol' Arthur!

Wayne thought you might like to see an old picture of Giatto, WVA