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The Years Ahead

The Years Ahead Robert Morgan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 40-41 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0079 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434598/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:31 GMT from JHU Libraries The Years Ahead When my grandpa took his produce down the Winding Stairs to Greenville to peddle door to door, he left the day before and camped somewhere near Travelers Rest just north of town. After cooking by a campfire he slept beneath the wagon since the bed was heaped, and listened to his horse crop grass and watched above the trees the comet fling its ghost, portending either ruin or a century of wonder ahead. Both interpretations were proclaimed. Next morning he hitched up and drove into the streets. He knew to go to sections of the poor and of the working middle class for there they paid the price he asked. The rich and servants of the rich would haggle and criticize his vegetables. But ordinary people paid more readily and more for beans and squash, tomatoes, corn and hams. He sold them frames of sourwood honey and jugs of rich molasses made the fall before. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

The Years Ahead

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Appalachian Review , Volume 32 (3) – Jan 8, 2014
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Robert Morgan Appalachian Heritage, Volume 32, Number 3, Summer 2004, pp. 40-41 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.2004.0079 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/434598/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 19:31 GMT from JHU Libraries The Years Ahead When my grandpa took his produce down the Winding Stairs to Greenville to peddle door to door, he left the day before and camped somewhere near Travelers Rest just north of town. After cooking by a campfire he slept beneath the wagon since the bed was heaped, and listened to his horse crop grass and watched above the trees the comet fling its ghost, portending either ruin or a century of wonder ahead. Both interpretations were proclaimed. Next morning he hitched up and drove into the streets. He knew to go to sections of the poor and of the working middle class for there they paid the price he asked. The rich and servants of the rich would haggle and criticize his vegetables. But ordinary people paid more readily and more for beans and squash, tomatoes, corn and hams. He sold them frames of sourwood honey and jugs of rich molasses made the fall before.

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