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Travel, Forbus General Store: Barrels of bagged candy
2013-12-22 - 3902 N York Hwy, Pall Mall, TN - Photo by Ed Waggener.
Wooden barrels of old timey bagged candies line the aisle to the dining room and social center at the Forbus General Store. On the right, in the center of the photo, is a fast emptying box of "Billy Dean Anderson/A Criminal Life," by Kay Wood Conatser. She said the subject, a celebrated fugitive who lived like an animal in the wilderness around Pall Mall for over four years, was a relative on both sides of her family. The back room/dining room is the "Pig" central, and the world championship of "Pig," a card game created in Fentress and Pickett Counties, is decided here each February. - Ed Waggener
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Travel, Forbus General Store: Clerk & Author Kay Conatser
2013-12-22 - 3902 N York Hwy, Pall Mall, TN - Photo by Ed Waggener.
Fifteen minutes before this photo was taken I knew there was something very special about the woman on the left (and 48 years before the photo on the right was taken, I knew the woman on the right was the most special in the world). When I had entered the store, Kay Wood Conatser, the head clerk of the day at the Forbus Store, had made me feel as welcome as I'd ever felt. "Take any pictures you want to take," she said, and later caringly scolded me for still wanting to buy some of the sugar filled homemade fudge they had after I told here I was diabetic. When this picture was taken, we were buying the hot-selling book she, Kay Wood Conatser wrote, "Billy Dean Anderson, A Criminal Life." She's already sold 2,000 copies of the book, at the store. Linda is looking at the signed copy of the copyright 2013 book we bought. The inscription was "Kay Conatser, Ecc 3:1-8" the verses popularly called "A Time for Everything." Adair Countians can easily recognize the photo in the center, the stars of Backyard Oil - Rascal Haskell, Jimmy Reliford, Brent Yates, and Travis Coomer, as popular at the store as in Adair County. The jar above the photo is "Tips for the Cook" - a quite wonderful idea, too.
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Travel, Forbus General Store: Whitting man, Roosevelt Upchurch
2013-12-22 - 3902 N York Hwy, Pall Mall, TN - Photo by Ed Waggener.
Couldn't help but think of back home - Slower days, better days, when whittlers lined the benches at the Adair County Courthouse. Roosevelt Upchurch, the lone whittler Saturday, December 21, 2013, offered to let me sit and whittle with him. Even in this bastion of preservation, he among the few who practice this rural combination of art, meditation and relaxation. Couldn't help but remember John Shelley's famous poem, "The Whittlers," or the promised - still to be fullfilled - intentions of Hill & Jones to re-establish the honored practice in Columbia, and Wid Harris' manifested standing offer of free cedar whittling sticks at Town Barber Shop - and the sadness that no one is taking them. In Fobus, with devotees like Roosevelt Upchurch, the institution seems safe.
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Travel, Forbus General Store: Famous and Infamous
2013-12-22 - 3902 N York Hwy, Pall Mall, TN - Photo by Linda Waggener.
Wooden statuary lines the front porch of the Forbus General Store. Down the line by the standing bear are the famous Terry Ford of Byrdstown, TN, and the infamous Ed Waggener of ColumbiaMagazine.com. I think the statues may be for sale. The stones with the pictures of Jesus lining the exhibit are free - but donations are appreciated, the sign says. Each stone is unique, and each has a different verse of scripture. -EW
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