Comments on: Trace Road leads to folo

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 13 May 2008 09:59:26 +0000

Aha, John Vines, welcome to folo. I’m so glad you found and enjoyed this thread. Seems quite possible to me that, though neither of us would remember, you and I saw each other in Brook’s Store. I’d have been an auburn-haired baby or toddler, you probably a dusty kid in overalls, and both of us crowding that candy case (though in summer, I also liked to crowd the sweaty, cold-smelling Co’Cola bin — remember that?).

In my living room today, I use as a coffee table an antique display case that reminds me of Daddy Brook’s — only, instead of Butterfingers and Baby Ruths and such, it shows off New Smyrna Beach and Sanibel beachcombing finds.

By: john vines Florida

john vines Florida — Tue, 13 May 2008 06:56:57 +0000

i was born in smifille in 1938,left in 1950.i just read your article and remembered some of the names mentioned.i remember buying candy in brookes store.thank you for a wonderful read.

By: cookie

cookie — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 01:45:22 +0000

What a great read!

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:21:54 +0000

Yes, he did, rnb 24 — spring flood-time of ‘48, not long after he gave me that locket. My folks didn’t get over that for a very long time.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:20:30 +0000

I’m tellin’ ya, rnb, I got me some ROOTS. (Not related to the Hadaways or Leeches that I know of, but my granny mighta corrected me on that one.)

By: redneckerbubba

redneckerbubba — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:19:03 +0000

Didn’t chicken Pickle drown in the Tombigbee River?

By: redneckerbubba

redneckerbubba — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 21:16:54 +0000

Tommy Crook is a great guy and so is his son Neil.

good gosh–you are a true Monroe Countian–kin to the Crooks, Hadaways, Brooks–now if you were kin to the Leeches you would have all of the major families covered in the estern part of the county

You could never serve on a jury because you would be kin to all of the participants–

In Monroe County all of the lawyers, defendents, judges and prosecutors are related. You don’t ask for justice , you just ask for mercy.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:51:21 +0000

Just thought y’all mighta drafted the Colonel to manage or be water-boy or sumpin, NMC.

By: NMC

NMC — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:48:32 +0000

These were baseball players, Lotus. I know there was a mustard (and salt) but they don’t immediately come to mind.

By: lotus

lotus — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:45:28 +0000

Pish, you didn’t know the real Chicken Pickle, NMC.

(Col. Mustard in there anywhere?)