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A memory of Joe A. Turner, my grandfather Metcalfe Co. author Geniece Marcum is a grandaughter of J.A. Turner, the Adair County writer who is being popularized all over again, 100 years after his first writing fame as "Paul Revere," by "Jim." The following written after reading The Moon Meteorite of Crocus Creek, 1809 reported by "Jim." By Geniece Leftwich Marcum Writing under almost all of her real name Grandpa, Joseph Turner ran the Cave Ridge store, at one point in his life. He would buy chickens , and put them in a coop behind the store. One day a man came in and sold him a rooster, which he immediately penned up. A little while later in the day, the same man came in, sold him a chicken, and Grandpa put it in the coop. The same day, the same man came in and sold Grandpa a chicken. When Grandpa went to put the chicken in the coop this time, he noticed that there were no other roosters in it. He realized, then, that he had been hoodwinked, that he had been buying the same chicken over and over that day. Mama would tell this story and laugh, but she always reminded us that J.A. Turner was really a smart man, that he was well known for his correspondence in Metcalfe, Adair and Barren County newspapers, when he wrote under the penname of Paul Revere. I want to thank "Jim," whoever he is, for his discovery of many of the old articles Joe Turner wrote. I still have them as humorous as when Mama told them to me. This story was posted on 2010-12-14 11:38:29
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