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Day Trip Travel: Another visit to Forbus General Store Because nothing on this earth is ever the same twice; different expressions, different lighting, differing amounts of time to pay attention, different weather and different aromas can spotlight areas of the same setting missed the first time around -- and that's the reason for looking at the same places over and over again. Click on headline for complete story with photo album By Linda and Ed Waggener It all started with a shared Saturday schedule and a long lunch hour. We left Columbia heading south, down Hwy. 61, for barbecue and a visit with Burkesville friends we hadn't seen in many months, Pat and Norman Hamilton. After finding them well and enjoying a robust business, we were on our way with picnic sandwiches and a question -- back home to work -- or make it a round trip? It was unanimous -- a round trip which innocently turned into a way-round trip. We headed across Hwy 90 which offered options in all directions. This first day of winter 2013 was a strangely warm/chilly 65 degree day and it just made sense to wander. Once in Albany, where we passed the Grinch strolling around the Clinton County Courthouse, it seemed right to follow the blue hills to the south and east rather than head north so we chose to go south on Hwy. 127. Cedar tree lined roadways and houses with chimneys sending smoke into silver gray skies make for great photos we reasoned. We agreed on a stop at the Forbus General Store, inspired by the shared account of a visit to the area by Casey Countians Lee Murphy and Tony York and Anthony, cousins of Sgt. Alvin C. York in an account posted in ColumbiaMagazine.com on November 21, 2013. (See story and photos: Lee Murphy: A visit to Pall Mall on Veterans Day). It turned out to be more than we expected because nothing on this earth is ever the same twice; different expressions, different lighting, differing amounts of time to pay attention, different weather and different aromas can spotlight areas of the same setting missed the first time around. If there is a regret it would be that not enough time had passed to allow us, in good conscious, to have another meal because the hamburgers looked as old-fashioned-good as did the store and its contents. Tables set up in back around the stove beckoned. What looked like a Rook game was in progress but it turned out the back room/dining room is the "Pig" central, and the world championship of "Pig," a card game created in Fentress and Pickett Counties, is decided there each February. And everywhere around the patrons, collectible stuff to remind us of yesteryear filled shelves and lined walls. When we'd entered the store, the clerk, Kay Wood Conatser, made us welcome. We felt even more at home when we spotted Adair Countians in a photo, the stars of Backyard Oil - Rascal Haskell, Jimmy Reliford, Brent Yates, and Travis Coomer, who she said were as popular at the store as in Adair County. After shopping and as we were checking out, she shared that she had authored a book and it was on sale, the story of "Billy Dean Anderson, A Criminal Life." She said the subject of her book, a celebrated fugitive who lived like an animal in the wilderness around Pall Mall for over four years, was a relative on both sides of her family. While we'd shopped and visited a fellow named Roosevelt Upchurch from "just up the hill" had taken up his position on the front porch and was whittling. Even in this bastion of preservation, he among the few who practice this rural combination of art, meditation and relaxation. We couldn't help but think of slower days when whittlers lined the benches at the Adair County Courthouse; couldn't help but remember John Shelley's famous poem, "The Whittlers," or the promised - still to be fullfilled - intentions of Hill & Jones to re-establish the honored practice in Columbia, and Wid Harris' manifested standing offer of free cedar whittling sticks at Town Barber Shop - and the sadness that no one is taking them. In Forbus, with devotees like Roosevelt Upchurch, the institution seems safe. It seemed only natural from there to head over the river and through the woods to Monticello and there it seemed like work in Somerset needed checking on, so the final leg of the journey was across the familiar LBN Cumberland Parkway home. It was a fine Saturday lunch break. This story was posted on 2013-12-22 11:14:44
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