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How I Got Caught
Today’s poem is inspired by an Appalachian mountain story collected by Richard Chase, and included in his book of folktales, titled The Grandfather Tales. Before the advent of the television and the internet, story telling was both an art and the preferred entertainment when sitting with family or neighbors after dinner or around the fireplace in the evening. This poem is a re-telling of one of Chase’s Grandfather Tale titled, “Skookin’ Huntin.” One genre of tall tales, are hunting story which are not unlike a fishing story about the “one that got away” The key to this story is that it’s…
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