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A Fairplay Christmas: A scene ready to come to life in the movies 2010-11-25 . Fairplay, Adair Co., KY It appears to be a title scene ready to be animated in a Christmas movie. All the figures are alert in reverent or expectant waiting: The madonna and the Christ Child, the angel figure and the little children, Emmitt Otter's mother Alice, white stockinged tabby cat, and the black dog. Something big is coming down. On the left, Ladybug, the only fully alive creature in the scene, guards the little band. There may be another storyboard for the scene. It's the artwork of Twila Phillips. The Alice Otter figure has invaluable provenance. It was given to Twila's husband, by Myrtle Jessee, the long time USDA supervisor in Columbia for whom Darrell worked before her retirement. Miss Jessee now lives in Glasgow, KY, Twila Phillips said. There's been a major change since the picture was taken, Twila said. "Ladybug is not as alert as she was then. Age has slowed her down." Clicking Readmore accesses a mostly unrelated story, but one Ladybug seems destined to illustrate, Chuck Hinman's "Thank God for Pets." Read More... | Permalink | Comments?

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