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Memories of Cotton Durham By Ralph Roy Waggener After reading the caption under the Town Square drawing by Patty Sandusky with Cotton Durham in it drinking a Coke, I was reminded of another photo that he was almost in! Back in the good old days of J D Harper's Circle R, where a lot of serious talking took place and history would come up often, Cotton told of a turkey drive he helped on that was going to drive 300 turkeys to market. Well as things would usually go, everyone there got on his case about this turkey drive he helped on. A few days later, Cotton brought in a photo of all the turkeys when they were in Cane Valley, and proceeded to prove his point of being in on the turkey drive. After everyone had looked at the photo, one wise-a** asked Cotton where he was in the photo. Without any time wasted, Cotton told them "that was him, just out of the picture on the left!" Now Cotton was one of those special people who everyone had to ride about something every morning and get him laughing. He would come in down in the dumps about every morning, and we would ride him and get him going, then he would be back to his same ole happy self! One morning he came in and told us that he could not get his arm any higher, and proceeded to hold up his arm about half way. He proceeded talking and a few moments later told us, "I used to get it all the way up here," and put his hand over his head! Cotton was a lot of fun, and he could take the ribbing and seem to love it as much as dishing it out! Another time, Cotton came in and was really down, and told us that all his friends were dying, and he was not going to have any friends left to be his pallbearers. With that said, the mostly-radio-famous Bean Pole Willis told him that he would. Well, Cotton, almost in tears, thanked Bean Pole and told him how happy that made him, to which Bean Pole said, "If you will pay me now." Old Cotton went to laughing and was back happy again! I sure miss my many years having breakfast at the Circle R, where the food was great and the company was even greater! --Thanks, Ralph Roy This story was posted on 2019-02-05 14:49:11
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