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The Scary Animals at Keltner: A childhood school days memory The woods along the one-mile walk to Keltner School on the Adair-Metcalfe County line were fraught with frightening sounds, especially for a imaginative six year old when the courageous trek was taken all by herself As related by Linda Waggener Who heard the delightful story first hand in Greensburg; unfolded by CM Ella Lee Oliver Wilson, remembers how scary the one mile trek to grade school at Keltner was when she was a child. She remembers that every school day, all along the wooded way to the schoolhouse for fourth grade classes, there would always be scary sounds, sounds of animals much more horrid than the Big Bad Wolf. A big bear. A huge bird. A big snake with huge teeth. All kinds of creatures. Sometimes, in the 10 year old's imagination, the forest sounds made her heart beat so fast it would nearly jump out of her body; and her steps would quicken to the safety of the one room school. Sometimes she would even run - always do whatever it took to avoid the danger of the creature making he sound in the woods. The worst day was when she heard an elephant. She said she'd shared this with her Sunday School class. To avoid being trampled by the it, she says, "I climbed a tree and waited and waited and waited until my parents finally came and rescued me." She survived all the perils along the path to the Keltner schoolhouse and the forest animals soon ceased to be a worry at all. It was of course, in memory, a humorous transitional phase - though all too real at the time. Fast forwarding from those frightening childhood moment, she is now the wife of Forrest Wilson of Metcalfe County, KY, and the mother of Metcalfe County Judge Greg Wilson. She's a member of the Metcalfe County High School Class of 1966, and a regular at their mini-reunions. The last was held at the Long Hunter's restaurant in Greensburg, KY, where she stole the show with this childhood recollection. Footnote: We imagine others may have similar stories of 'pooks and bad 'piders, and peckings at the window, imaginary siblings and friends. Kids from Jamestown Hill who walked a mile to the Old Columbia Grade Center can all recall the band of savage Indians which lived the the Woody Woods by the Rogers place. They were there in that 30 tree deep 100 acre forest. Sometimes heard by the younger kids; only a few saw or "almost" saw an Indian. But they were there, the same as the Keltnertown Elephant was for Ella Lee Oliver (Wilson). Some of us were 14 years old before we found out that Michael Campbell had been using his own brand child psychology to instill wariness and survival instincts needed by younger kids in real life. Anyone who would like to share similar memories may do so by submitting with the Comments button with this story. If you need help, just call 270-384-2730. This story was posted on 2014-11-03 04:11:50
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