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get a bushel of com for their day’s work, they didn’t worry. They could raise their family.”
Community get-togethers in the mountain had community traditions. During apple butter stirring, if the paddle hit the side of the kettle, “you were supposed to get a big kiss from your friend you were stirring with," Elmer reAnd
during com shucking, “if you ran up on a red ear, you’d reach back and get you a drink of the jug you had sitting there."
The jug was filled with mountain moonshine. “Most families had a still of their own. In some hollows, they borrowed a still back and forth." Elmer said. Of the moonshine itself, “you sold some of it and you drank some of it.”
There was no special recipe. “I have made it out of apples and 1 have made it out of cherries and I have made it out of grapes and I have made it out of corn meal and sugar It was good stuff and it was always pure."
In addition to homemade liquir, the mountain people had homemade medicine. Elmer remembers his mother brewing catnip tea for the baby's sick stomach, using sassafrass root to thin the blood in the spring and mixing a little kerosene with a little sugar and turpentine for colds.
Life in what is now the Park was isolated from many of the modem intrusions. Elmer remembers the first time he saw a car. “My first reaction was to get over the fence and run like thunder...The same way with mv first airplane. I ran under a big tree to get away from it."
Strangers were few, mostly peddlers carrying a stick over their shoulder. “They’d ask to stay the night. You couldn't tell people you couldn't put them up. Couldn’t nobody do that.” called.
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