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Billy Joe Fudge: Chance of Chance, KY Reunion?

Philosopher/Retired forester/visionary & poet raises prospect of an idea whose time is now: The obvious need to hold a huge reunion in South Adair Co. at Chance. It is a matter of providence, he says. CM thinks it Fantastic Proposal; anything which will bring busloads of Canadian tourists and can sell T-shirts has to be good.

By Billy Joe Fudge
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Do you suppose that by any chance and if given half a chance there would be a chance of a Chance Community Reunion? Fat chance you say? Not for me and for those who are willing to take a chance. However, I believe there is a strong chance that there is very little chance of chance but rather one of providence.

I can see, smell, hear, taste and feel it now, dinner on the ground, water troughs of iced down Pepsi, Coke, and sodas of all kinds, butcher knife bologna and cheese sandwiches, horse drawn wagon rides, saw horse and plank tables filled with history and flavor, children playing, laughter, tears of joy, Great Wooded South tours to points of interest such as the Greenbrier Ridge, Cheatham Road-Harrods Fork experience, Crocus Creek, and many others.

We, all of us, speak with reverence of cherished days gone by and lament the idea that our children, grandchildren and loved ones will not be able to experience those times of lack yet plenty. We haven't lost it. It is still here with us. All we have to do is slow down occasionally to come across it for a while.




This story was posted on 2010-05-03 06:40:58
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Scenic Adair Co., KY: Chance for a Reunion at last Chance, KY?



2010-05-03 - Photo by Billy Joe Fudge. 40 Walnut Grove RD, Downtown last Chance, KY
A head on few of the store which started it all. The Last Chance Store in South Adair County, and the last post office at Chance, KY. Billy Joe Fudge has run the notion of a Chance Reunion up the flagpole. We hope the world, as one, salutes. It is an idea whose time is now. A note on the sign at front indicates Chance, KY 42728. Did the fabled town share a postal code with Columbia and Montpelier? Is this the answer to the why of why we get circulars in the mailbox in Columbia as boxholder, such and such street number and street, "Montpelier," or "Chance," KY? -CM

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