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The Two Women's Bet
This week’s poem is a reworking of an Appalachian folktale which I first heard as a youth from my pastor, a Methodist minister named Joe Ervin.
Preacher Joe introduced me and dozens of others to Richard Chase’s collection of mountain tales titled, Grandfather Tales, as he read them to us as campers siting around a campfire during summer trips to a US Forest Campground called Carolina Hemlock on North Carolina Hwy 80 which runs alongside the South Toe River near Busick, NC.
Preacher Joe grew up in the area near Mt Cielo, NC which is just between Busick and Burnsville. Busick has been in the…
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