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File Identification:Watson-106 | Date Scanned:Feb 2009 | Source of Scanned Image:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | |
| Original Source of Image:Christine W. Outlaw | Digital Archiver:W.H. Outlaw Jr. | Image Restorer: | ||
| Original Image Size: | Scan Resolution (dpi) (Reduced files=200 dpi):300 | Exact Date of Original Image:Mar 25 1935 | ||
| Estimated Date of Original Image: | Basis for Date Estimate: | Unreduced File Size(px):2032 x 1640 | ||
| Location:Alapaha, GA | Background:- | Activity:document | ||
| Unreduced File Size(MB):4.4 | Reduced File Size (px):800 x 646 | Reduced File Size (KB):205 | ||
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| Subjects:M.L. Gaskins (= Mark Gaskins, Granny Betsey's second husband) Mark A. Watson (= Mark Watson) |
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| Comments:"I have on yesterday found plenty of tobacco plants. . . . ." I do not know whether this shortage of tobacco plants is related to another that I remember that Mama told me about: One morning about daybreak, Mr. Gaillard, a black tenant farmer who lived on the place, knocked on the door. An unexpected freeze had killed all the tobacco plants, obviously devastating news since tobacco was the cash crop. (fyi--the practice then was to clear new ground every few years (to avoid fungi???). At least of the places that I remember, the areas were near or in pines (as a consequence of its being new ground or from the knowledge that radiant heat would be reflected?). The soil was tilled until it was soft and smooth. Pine logs, about 8-10 inches in diameter, lined the beds, say 10-12 feet wide and of various lengths, some very long, >100 feet). Small nails were tacked into the top of the logs and served as stays for the cheese-cloth-like material that was stretched taut across the top of the beds. Altogether, the logs on the edge and the cloth covering protected the tender plants from whatever. Seeds (tiny and mixed with sand to facilitate equal distribution over the bed) were sown mid-to-late December and transplants were pulled and planted toward the end of March (some used the last full moon in March as the time to plant). Carolyn was fond of remembering that Granny Betsey had told her several times that she had been lucky to marry two fine men (referring to my ggrandfather and to Mr. Gaskins). As I was growing up, we treated this set of Gaskins like family. We were back and forth as Granny Betsey split her time mostly between two of the Gaskins "boys" and Grandpa and Aunt Georgian. Interestly, the stories I heard from Mama about the Gaillard children (blacks and whites playing together as equals in the deep South long ago more-or-less parallels what Jimmy Carter wrote of his early experiences). Decades more passed, of course, until the adults played together as equals. I think, but cannot be sure, that the Gaillards--and I hope I have spelled the name correctly--lived on the Grandma place. |
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