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Pat Bennett adds mature account of Bliss Blizzard of 1960 She was one thousand times older than fellow townswoman Victoria Pike on that day; and vividly recalls the treacherous times in the Claycomb Holler neighborhood in the storied Adair County Village, especially the difficulties ascending Bliss Hill, an Olympic challenge with the lightest of snows. Comments re article 49748 Local History Big March Snow of 1960 met by new Blisstonian written by a recollections of historian who was hours from being born when the Bliss Blizzard of 1960 calamitized the well laid plans to get her expectant mother to the hospital in Campbellsville. By Patricia Holladay Bennett Bliss, KY, historian specializing in Claycomb Holler I was a mere 3 years old in March 1960, but I remember the blizzard well. We lived way back in the Claycomb Holler above my grandparents house going up the Bliss Hill. My father walked one mile to feed - to save his little black trucks tires - twice a day - but during this he rode one of Grandpa's four mules who unwillingly drug a big wooden post behind it to break tracks. My mother got nervous fearing that my brother or I would get sick; she was a hard worker, but never well herself, so she wanted out of the Holler. Dad and a truly good man, Mr. Ed Montgomery, who worked for my Grandpa, took two of the mules and dragged the road down eight times before they could get Mama and Jimmy and me down to Grandma Patterson's place. Dad picked me up and let me drop into a flat place of snow (dressed like a mummy) and I remember not being able to see above the snow even though he left me only less than a second. I have many pictures if I can find them. Jimmy's mother, Mary Ritchey Lowe Bennett, reports that her husband, Glenn Bennett, now deceased, and Mr. Arnon Loy, a much beloved but also deceased neighbor, wore themselves about out grading Loy Cemetery Road. --Patricia Holladay Bennett Thanks, Patricia Holladay Bennett: We hope you find those photos to share. And, if you and Miss Victoria don't write many separate books, we hope you'll collaborate on at least one tome about the epic history of Bliss, the town whose name is a State of Mind, a serendipitous fact, even though it was named for a school teacher, a Mr. Bliss, as incontrovertably revealed by the Honorable K. Scott, Mayor, who bought the town's business district for $600 once upon a time. -EW This story was posted on 2012-02-01 20:17:06
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