Brown County Stories

<P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center align=center>BROWN <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags /><st1:place><st1:PlaceType>COUNTY</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName>STORIES</st1:PlaceName></st1:place></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: center align=center><SPAN style=FONT-SIZE: 10pt>Some Personal Recollections<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office /></SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt> </SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>The purpose of this book is to share some of the fun and interesting things that happened when I was growing up in </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>Brown</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>County</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>The stories offered here were told to my five daughters around campfires and at many bedtime sessions as they were growing up.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>They requested that I tell them over and over again.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>They heard these stories and many others like them so many times they said they felt like they actually grew up with Cobweb and Virgil and Hazel and Sis and Bobby and Stretch.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>After many retellings I was once obliged to let my youngest daughter know that I had told her everything I could remember or even make up.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>To which she replied OK then just start over.</SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt> </SPAN></P><P class=MsoNormal style=MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>The various accounts of these uncommon experiences were reinforced for my daughters when they visited their grandmother who lived in </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>Nashville</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt> the County Seat of Brown County and were able to explore the territory where they took place. All of these stories are based on things that actually happened to me and other live people in the good old days in </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>Brown</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt> </SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>County</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN style=mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt>.<SPAN style=mso-spacerun: yes> </SPAN>They are as true as creative memory will allow.</SPAN></P>