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Geniece Marcum shares a final thought on taste of water Geniece Leftwich Marcum remembered how they got water 75 or so years ago in Metcalfe County. At the farm, on the Little Barren River behind Bowling Park, her family carried it in from the spring on the 80-acre farm. As a student in Bellview School she would be given her assigned rotation to go to the nearby spring for water with a fellow student, usually Georgia Nell Coffey. They'd fill their bucket with cold, clear water, then hoist it on a tobacco stick from one of their shoulders to the other so the weight was balanced between the two. She remembers a lot of giggling and sloshing so that not much water was in the bucket when they returned to their one room school where the dipper shared by all awaited. This story was posted on 2016-09-03 14:43:41
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