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The Flatwoods is mobilized to find missing pet At first, a landowner's natural worry was that a stray hog would tear down all the fencing on the cattle farm, and Miss Victoria naturally succumbed to to that fear; she arose from her sickbed to survey the land for the errant hog, even had help from neighbors "Colonel William Casey" and "Mr. Nathan Montgomery, Jr." but to no avail. Late last evening, the mood changed from concern for property to compassion for the tiny stray, when it was learned that the animal is a mere 40 lb. pot-bellied pet, surely more frightened than intent on fence-busting mayhem. Click on headline for full account, thus far, and a few pictures By Ed Waggener When Miss Victoria sent out a plea for help yesterday for someone to round up the pot bellied pig reported to be at large on her little field across from Jimmy Woody's estate because she was too sick to handle the roundup herself, her concern, at the time, was that this was big pig which might tear up her well tended fences. Today, those fears are allayed. it is now known that this was far from being another 800 pound wild boar, the like of which scared the wits out of a neighbor woman who was planting watermelons. That was an incident which incited the woman's spouse to outrage and husbandly acts of chivalry and more than a tiny bit of bluster. No, this animal turns out to be just a little pet, and the concern is now for the welfare of the 40 pound pet pig, which belongs to Craig and Stephanie Feese, who dwell south in the suburbs, in The Flatwoods. Bravely soldiering on Yesterday, however, Miss Vickie, despite her temporary frailties, rode out on her cattle spread across from Jimmy Woody's Estate, with her mother - who was ready, able and willing to do the heavy lifting, opening gates at her side - to facilitate the search for the pig. They combed all the usual hiding places a roving pig might favor, but the hog was nowhere to be found. Help from menfolk soon arrived in the form of "Colonel William Casey" and his sidekick, young "Nathan Montgomery, Jr." who came from their Longhunters encampment to do a search in addition to the women's windshielding survey. (It wasn't really Colonel Casey and Natham Montgomery, Jr. But they weren't to be told. That would have been mean. It was only Kenneth Hill and Garry Pike, but neither can flip the time switch to transform themselves from re-enactors to real life, so everybody humored them. It was an entertaining moment to see the two so happy. Ken Hill seemed especially pleased with himself, said he'd stolen the show from Mr. Richard Phelps the last time he and Garry Pike ran the Pelham Brothers out of the county. The first time was in the graveyard for the 5th Annual Silent City performance; the last for the benefit of the Adair County genealogical society. Ken Hill said and that he should be referred to as Mr. Ken Hill, the way CM refers to Mr. Richard Phelps and Mr. Joseph Cotten, such was the thunderous applause of those assembled for the encore. (More on Ken Hill at this Hardscratch County Store site) None of the search party saw even a hair of the pig. But a lot was learned. It was learned that there is great reason to be concerned when a pig goes wild. Deeply imbedded into the collective memory of all in the area is the time Mike Ingram's wild boar got loose and scared so many with its monster size and its long tusks - turshes which could have skewered any house dog with ease, and maybe could have impaled one portly human, perhaps two very skinny ones at any time; and it had nauseatingly inelegant manners. That ogre swine weighed over 800 pounds. When the late Herbert Graves captured it and was given permission to take it to a market in Campbellsville, KY, the market saw no more value than 2 cents a pound. Mr. Graves hardly recovered his gas bill to Taylor County with the $16.00 check he was issued for the animal, much less pay for his valuable time. But he found it all worth it, Miss Victoria said, because he derived such pleasure in retelling the tale, which he honed to a masterpiece. "Herbert was one of the great storytellers of the neighborhood," she said, "He told the story of the wild boar often, and every time he'd laugh so hard tears would roll down his cheeks."So there's reason, remembering the wild boar scare, to worry about fractious animals at large in this neighborhood. Along the hunt, more was learned about the fabulous sinkholes And we learned more about the fabulous sinkholes in this Karst country. About how, one day as Bobby Graves (Herbert's brother), longtime overseer on the Browning/Pike spread, was cultivating the hill being searched. As he worked and was looking back at the harrow, the tractor he was driving nosed down into a fresh sinkhole. Mr. Graves wasn't hurt, but it took a large wrecker to retrieve the tractor from the pit. We learned about the futility of trying to fill up a sinkhole And we learned from Colonel Casey, in a brief memory recovery moment when he morphed to Ken Hill, of the futility of trying to fill up a sinkhole. They're common in Hill's Glens Fork Road/Yellowhammer/Hardscratch home area, too. Out there, when folks stuff rock and dirt into subsidences, they find the materials are headed down a virtual bottomless pit. Best of all, we learned more about Bud Mullins and his sinkhole hideout And we learned, a little bit more about the Bud Mullins sinkhole. That it's located between the Browning manor house and the Dorothy Shelley place. Bud Mullins is the booger man created by Callie Moran. His purpose was to frighten bad children into proper behavior. "If you don't change your ways, Miss Victoria," a then pint sized Vickie Pike often heard after being bad, "you'll end up in the sink hole with Bud Mullins." Such was the dread of Bud Mullins that the warning, delivered with authority, was enough to get even Miss Victoria to be good. Often for a long spell of up to a half-day at a time - or more. Once, she remembers, she was good for three whole days after she and a neighborhood playmate had left the water running in the bathtub with a whole box of Supersuds poured into it. Her mother, she says, hired someone to dress up in a scary black outfit to appear at the door, and when he arrived, her mother told little Vicky that someone was at the door to see her. The man at the door looked at her and said, "Miss Victoria, I'm Bud Mullins, and I'm here to get you." Hearing that, she ran as hard as she could, and hid. When she finally came out, she was scared into angelic goodness for three whole days. But then she says, she went back to her usual mischievous ways. Miss Victoria and her aides still have not, to our knowledge, found the little pet pig. But a big hearted Burkesville Road community is pitching in look for it. Everyone is hoping for a happy ending. This story was posted on 2011-12-31 12:31:05
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