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Ernestine Smith Bennett among Adair authors Ernestine Bennett has joined the illustrious ranks of Adair County authors. She is the author of The Old Country Store, a book about general stores in Adair County. The book was published in late 2003 and is available at the Adair County Library, where Mrs. Bennett is the genealogy records specialist, and at other locations. In the foreword of the book, Bennett cites her inspiration for the book. "Everyone probably has memories of some sort of country store," she writes. "I remember when I was a child my father owned such a store where neighbors would gather on Friday and Saturday nights to play Rook and checkers." The country store was part of country living. people would ride horseback or walk to the store to get their groceries. Some stores sold everything from nails to caskets, Manhy of these stores also served as the local post offices." Mrs. Bennett says that this book is not yet a comprehensive list of all the stores which ever were in Adair County, but's she's already planning another book in what may be a series of memories of Adair County. This one, The Old Country Store, offers a fascinating set of vignettes about a part of what is an ever changing combination of Adair County community centers. In the book, many noteworthy Adair Countians pictured, including a hot checker game between Jimmy Reliford and Yank Loy at Sparksville. Many of Adair County's mercantile families are remembered in this volume, including Aaron, Antle, Ashbrook, Banks, Bledsoe, Burton, Chelf, Coffey, Coleman, Coomer, Dunbar, Dutton, Eubank, Fudge, Gadberry, Giles, Goodin, Hadley, Hale, Harvey, Hayes, Hurt, Hutchison, Heskamp, Hoover, Keltner, Lemmon, Loy, McKinley, Marshall, Moss, Petty, Reese, Rowe, Smith, Spoon, Strange, Stone, Sublett Wooten. Here's a long list of stores and other community institutions touched on in this book. They include the following:
Ernestine Smith Bennett. The OLD COUNTRY STORE. Self published. First Printing, December 2003. Softcover. 32 pages plus cover. 43 black and white photos. $6.00. The book is available at the library and other locations. This story was posted on 2004-01-22 13:54:49
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